Please Consider Including Stan & Sharon Sakai On This Year’s Post-Thanksgiving Holiday Shopping List



The writer and comics historian Mark Evanier has some more detail about the situation in which that lovely gentleman of comics, Stan Sakai, has found himself regarding the health situation faced by his beloved wife Sharon. He and Sharon are insured but they are feeling the pressure of a shortfall regarding time and money necessary for full-time homecare. As someone that's been sick in the past and is still paying bills over and above what my insurance covered, I can sympathize with this much more tragic situation facing one of our great comics professionals.

This is a day when we usually orient ourselves towards holiday shopping, and there is a ton of great and worthy stuff out there, a lot of which will be included in this year's Shopping Guide, arriving on Sunday. Steve Morris is doing us all the favor of posting about sales that start today and if you have a favorite comics creator you might check in on them individually -- like Ryan Cecil Smith and his original art pages sale here. A lot of the shopping that we'll be doing this year is advocacy buying, helping out folks with a need for a successful business season above and beyond simply maximizing profits.

What I'm hoping is that maybe we can start with Mr. Sakai, or at least make some room for him in the midst of everything else we're doing. There's going to be an art auction -- details here -- and I hope if that applies to you you'll consider participating. I hope that you'll also donate cash. All I could afford is a small amount, but I figure every bit helps. CAPS -- which is a small industry group of comics-makers of which Sakai is a part -- put up a way to donate directly here that I used. I guess it's down, though, and I'm not sure why. I know how frustrating that is, and if you want to do something right now you're welcome to paypal me at [email protected] and I will send the money to CAPS. I've done that in the past and I know it's not perfect but it's something.

You can also send money directly to Tone Rodriguez, 5740 Craner Ave, North Hollywood, CA 91601 via the old-fashioned way of check or money order. Anyway, thanks for considering it.

Update: Pat McGreal at CAPS tells me they won't have their paypal fixed for weeks due to the explosion of interest. If paypal is the only way you want to go here, or can go, please feel free to do it through me at the e-mail address above; I've done it before for old-timers with no Internet access, so it's not a new thing for me. Thanks again.
 
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