Comics By Request: People, Projects In Need Of Funding

By Tom Spurgeon

* no more important crowd-funding effort to comics than this one from SAW, for as long as it runs. I hope you'll consider giving.

* Melissa Mendes recently put up a very direct plea on her Facebook site about her ongoing Patreon campaign. It was marked as friends-specific, but it's a reminder that Mendes' campaign is here, and finding a way to make comics is very near and dear to her heart. Contributing to someone's support like that might be an interesting thing for some folks to try in the new year, if it's never been something you've done.

* the CBLDF has launched different campaigns every week this month. There's no comics-related charity I know of with their solid track record of putting money to use behind important causes.

* the Hero Initiative doesn't seem particularly oriented to holiday-period fundraising, but that group has a store here, where purchases go to help that organization's work with comics professionals facing unfortunate economic circumstances. I am grateful for all of the good they do in that area. I don't know that I'd ever read that $700K figure before.

* I spent some time just randomly looking at entries related to comics on GoFundMe.com -- that's a site that's better known for straight up charitable contribution than the kind of hybrid of "help me out" / "invest in this thing" that you get from Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, say. One thing that's slightly different there is you seem to see more retailers seeking assistance. That's established retailers and people that hope to be shop owners. Mostly, though, the range of requests seems approximately the same.

* this Kedzie Avenue journalism-in-comics-form effort is getting down to its last, most important days.

* finally, this column usually tries to limit the number of project-based request links during the holiday season, but the previous entry is one of those, plus a pair of CR readers suggested this Ellen Lindner crowd-funder for its modesty and pedigree.
 
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