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Peter David is crowdfunding a dire financial situation

03/31/2017 1:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Peter David is crowdfunding a dire financial situation

Peter David just launched via a plea for fan donations due to an $88,000 tax bill that stems back to some TV work he did many years ago. The IRS has been understaffed for a while, but they still have time to harass someone over a 20 year old tax debt. While my immediate advice to David […]

Filed Under: Benefits, News Tagged With: Crowdfunding, irs, Peter David

Steve Bissette is sending you some swell Swamp Thing art when you help Loren Coleman

01/06/2017 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Steve Bissette is sending you some swell Swamp Thing art when you help Loren Coleman

If you look on the categories of the Beat (I know, unlikely) you’ll see one for Cryptozoology – in the early days of this site, sightings of weird critters was one of our little hobbies and we often referred to the work of Loren Coleman, one of the world’s foremost cryptozoologists and the founder of […]

Filed Under: Benefits, Cryptozoology Tagged With: loren coleman, Steve Bissette

DC and IDW team for LOVE IS LOVE anthology to honor Orlando shooting victims

09/21/2016 12:15 pm by Heidi MacDonald

DC and IDW team for LOVE IS LOVE anthology to honor Orlando shooting victims

      DC and IDW are teaming up for LOVE IS LOVE, a project spearheaded by writer Marc Andreyko intended to honor the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting. The result is an anthology with more than 100 stories and 200 creators on board, with all the proceeds going to victims, survivors, and their families […]

Filed Under: Benefits, DC, IDW, News Tagged With: LGBTQ, Marc Andreyko, Orlando

Artist Genevieve Castree could use some help

06/03/2016 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Artist Genevieve Castree could use some help

Last year, cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée Elverum was diagnosed with inoperable Stage Four pancreatic cancer just four months after giving birth to a daughter. She is only 34 years old. You can read about her case and what you can do to help at this GoFundMe organized by her husband. The campaign has already […]

Filed Under: Benefits, Cartoonists, D&Q Tagged With: Cartoonists, Geneviève Castrée

The CBLDF is moving to Portland, OR

02/18/2016 12:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

The CBLDF is moving to Portland, OR

At the ComicsPRO meeting this morning, it was just announced that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is moving it’s offices from New York to Portland this year. The CBLDF, which is run by executive director Charles Brownstein, has been located in NYC for a decade, after moving from Northhampton, Mass. As with many people […]

Filed Under: Benefits Tagged With: CBLDF

Benefit: Artist Don Perlin could use some help

12/24/2015 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald Leave a Comment

Benefit: Artist Don Perlin could use some help

Don Perlin drew a lot of great bronze age comics, including Ghost Rider and many more. And now, the artist, who is 86, is experiencing some health problems and could use some financial aid, as Clifford Meth reports. The campaign is already nearly reached its goal, but in this season of giving, you might want […]

Filed Under: Benefits Tagged With: don, perlin

Chris Pratt brings along Baby Groot to visit children’s hospital

12/24/2015 10:30 am by Heidi MacDonald Leave a Comment

Chris Pratt brings along Baby Groot to visit children’s hospital

I know you have bette rthigns to do on Christmas Eve than read the internet, but here’s a feel good story about actor Chris Pratt, who went along with singer Ciara and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson to visit Seattle Children’s Hospital, and he brought Baby Groot with him, and at least one sick youngster […]

Filed Under: Benefits Tagged With: Chris, Pratt

Chip Zdarsky auctions rare Vader Down variant for Syrian refugees

12/03/2015 2:41 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Chip Zdarsky auctions rare Vader Down variant for Syrian refugees

The above Vader Down #1 variant with a Chip Zdarsky over, referencing the forbidden memory of Jaxxon the rabbit is one of the rarest of Marvel variant covers—one was available for every 4,999 issues ordered, so only a handful exist. One recently said at $3,739 eBay so it is apparently a legitimate rarity. On his […]

Filed Under: Benefits, Top News Tagged With: chip zdarsky, Top News, Vader Down

Help cats AND freedom of speech and get some art with just one auction!

12/02/2015 1:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Help cats AND freedom of speech and get some art with just one auction!

A new auction that runs until tomorrow features some tasty comics art and benefits both The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization. You get some great art and help free speech AND cats? How is this not the win of the year?
Dynamic Forces has teamed with the auction house Comic Link for the auction.

Filed Under: Art, Benefits, Top News Tagged With: art auctions, CBLDF, comic link, Dynamite, saved whiskers

New Jersey Comic Expo adds Cassaday and cosplayers AND helps kitty cats!

11/17/2015 2:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

New Jersey Comic Expo adds Cassaday and cosplayers AND helps kitty cats!

I’ll be a guest at this weekend’s New Jersey Comic Expo, returning to my homeland for a roots journey deep into Middlesex County, so consider this a bit of hype. They’ve already added Jim Lee, Adam Kubert and Garth Ennis as guests, and now John Cassaday will also be there. None of these guys do many shows, and with NJCE being a smaller show it’s a great chance to meet some of your faves.

Filed Under: Benefits, Conventions, HYPE!, Top News Tagged With: Conventions, John Cassaday, Top News

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