By Request Extra: Chip Zdarsky Donates Comics To Benefit Syrian Refugee Family

This is a nice thing, which is good because I completely missed running something when running something could have driven traffic to the auctions in question. Anyway, the cartoonist and writer Chip Zdarsky put a wildly popular variant-cover comic to use in benefiting a charitable effort, with a more standard signed book as a secondary offering. Over $4000 was raised, which is great. Comics people don't get enough credit in specific circumstances or in general for how generous they can be with their time and their work, so I'm happy that the weirdness of the variant cover angle brings some attention to such a circumstance.

I would expect if comics start to settle into more and more of the real-world patterns for consumption that the charity efforts will start to mirror how a lot of people give, too. That will mean some attention to year-end giving, which beats the shit out of the news we were reporting 20 years ago, which was people being fired. In addition to general giving, I hope that everyone out there has a comics charity they favor and a non-comics charity that's special to them as well. It's a strategy my dad suggested to me once (one in his field, one that was personal), and it always worked well for him.
 
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