Comics By Request—People, Projects In Need Of Funding



I'm going to push back some of the other projects usually discussed in this column until Monday to give a bit of an extra spotlight to a short documentary planned on David Boswell. There's a fundraising campaign here, a Facebook page for the project here, a twitter account here and a web site under construction here.

For all I know these guys are the worst documentarians on planet Earth and all the money sent them will go right to their local meth dealer, but I doubt either thing is true and I'm super fond of David Boswell's work and I want to see the movie. I'm also sort of generally concerned about the legacy of all the great cartoonists that made my life in the Reagan-Era American midwest a bit more bearable, and I figure anything that adds to the historical record is worth trying to see happen. $10K doesn't seem like a lot of money asked for a short film according to my not-exactly extensive experience of watching my older brother raise money for his films. The incentives look pretty good to me, too.

I don't know, I'm a shitty salesman, which is one of the reasons I run this column as a column instead of using whatever tiny pulpit this site gives me to enthuse over things. I don't need any more stuff. I'm over 40, I get comics for free and they put the BBC on the Internet now. I can sit right here in this chair and not buy a single consumption-item for the rest of my life. But doesn't a little film about David Boswell sound nice? That guy's comics were funny, and that Heartbreak Comics issue in particular is super-pretty and accomplished. Anyway, maybe at least go look at the stuff through the links or watch the video (I haven't yet). Thanks.
 
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