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February 11, 2012


Please Considering Lending A Hand To Gary Friedrich

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There's an article here on the situation facing Gary Friedrich. There's a page here through which to donate a few bucks to the writer if that's what you would like to do. I donated the amount of an adult movie ticket because I feel that's fair, and because I don't have a lot of money to make a bigger donation.

It doesn't really matter to me at this stage to come to some sort of merit-based appraisal of Gary Friedrich's recent lawsuit against Marvel, let alone his entire professional life. I frankly never quite understood the former and I think engaging the latter invites madness and an appreciation of the trees when it's the forest that's maybe more important. Right now it just sounds to me like the guy could use a hand, and for whatever reason -- justice, the timing of history, God's will, stupidity, a lack of grace, boiling-cauldron evil, gremlins -- the way that he was able to do his work in the comics industry was not rewarding to him in a way that would forestall such trouble. I'm willing to risk a few bucks in that I may be eventually proven wrong somehow in extending that very modest hand.

In the end, I see a guy who could probably use a tiny bit of a cash cushion, and for me it's worth the small amount of money to be part of maybe helping him out. Thank your for at least maybe considering it.
 
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