March 20, 2012
Comics’ Giving Heart: People, Projects In Need Of Funding
* I asked Brad Mackay if he knew the status of
the cartoonist Rick Trembles, who was evicted earlier this year from his long-time apartment in dubious fashion. Trembles had hoped publicly someone could help him find a job and maybe even a new apartment. He still hopes. "It goes nada. Need a steady job (of any kind) before I can proceed with looking for an apartment. Apartment hunt's been bust as well. As I recently posted on my Facebook status update: 'I've been losing my shirt wallowing in the pipe-dream that is the Montreal arts/music "community" for three-and-a-half decades. Are you telling me outta all the people I'm supposedly connected to here, there isn't a single one of you that can hip me to some dumbfuck job for me to get back on my feet after this ilegal eviction the city just put me thru?' Frustrating to say the least."
* the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
has a window-within-a-window on their front page talking about the costs incurred during the recent Canadian Customs Manga case and how you can donate to help.
* Keith Knight is hoping to prod
his ambitious Kickstarter campaign over the $20K mark this week.
* speaking of sturdy comics veterans with current fundraising projects, we are always interested in updates from
Batton Lash and
Jim Woodring. Lash's looks like it's making progress although a bit more slowly since the halfway point. Woodring still needs around $100 a day for the month-plus remainder of his project's plea-assistance lifespan.
* finally, Chris Brandt
has launched a Kickstarter campaign in the hopes of repacking the creator interview from his
Comic Book Independents documentary about comics and the creative process into a series of unexpurgated interviews.
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