Comics By Request: People, Places In Need Of Funding

By Tom Spurgeon

* count Joe Chiappetta among the veteran cartoonists seeking a financial boost straight from core fans via a Patreon account. Chiappetta's strip might be ideally suited for that platform. Silly Daddy was part of a 'zine-culture comics mini-movement in the mid-1990s; he was a strong presence at the early SPX shows and once fell into a fire ass-first in San Diego in what may have been one of the ten great moments in SDCC history. As an evangelical Christian whose work I believe focuses on his family in a very different way than his older work did, Chiappetta makes comics that might have their best chance of finding support this way.

* didn't see a lot of names that I recognized in the Kickstarter comics category, which means I need to get off of my ass and introduce my eyeballs to more artists that fund through there. The names I saw that were familiar: Tyler Page, Matt Houk and Patrick Kain. I will do better next time.

* Zanadu Comics still has their gofundme going, and there are still recent donors. Their goal seems a long way off but I imagine every bit helps and maybe among you is a white knight that can make -- and wants to make -- a more significant outreach than most of us can.

* a designer of a popular image from this weekend's marching writes about not wanting or being able to profit from the image directly, but floats the notion that designers and providers of imagery like that do provide a service that might be rewarded. There are some delicate issues in there, so forgive me if I got that wrong.

* Gabrielle Bell has a Patreon focused on support of her diary comics.

* finally, the Clallam Bay Comicon has launched a small art-for-cash fundraiser to get guest Diana Kennedy to the show.
 
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