The Rewriting Extinction campaign gathers pace with another new comic offered online to promote tackling climate change and the biodiversity crisis
Charity Comic
Artist seeking artists for charity comic
Brain aneurysm survivor Siike Donnelly is aiming to share his love for comic books, and his writing ability, to recruit artists for a very personal project that he hopes will save more lives like his. 30-year-old Siike (Seek) Donnelly, an… Read More ›
Thought Bubble convention to publish charity anthology
(Spotted on Broken Frontier): This year sees the Leeds Thought Bubble Festival (14th-20th November) celebrate its 5th birthday, and to mark this momentous occasion they’ll be publishing the first ever Thought Bubble Comic Anthology. On sale in October, the comic… Read More ›
‘Spirit of Hope’ charity comic anthology launched
Britain’s Comic Book Alliance will publish Spirit of Hope this month – a stunning-looking anthology featuring work by almost 100 comic creators in aid of survivors of the Tsunami and earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand which happened earlier this… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Spring Conventions – revealing nore about Sprit of Hope
Continuing radio show and podcast Panel Borders‘ month of shows about anthologies and collectives, they have a trio of interviews recorded at two recent comic book conventions in London. Recorded at Kapow!, Islington Design Centre (April 2011): Alex Fitch talks… Read More ›
Kapow breaks world records, announces 2012 return
Kapow ComicCon. Photo: Stereo @rtist. See Original on flickr Guinness World Records, the official authority on record-breaking, has confirmed that two new Guinness World Records were set at the Kapow Comic Convention over the past weekend. Comic book artists from… Read More ›
Comic creators rally to help Japanese disaster victims
(with thanks to The Emperor over on the downthetubes Forum): Regular readers will recall our announcement about a Charity Comic organised by the Comic Book Alliance to raise funds for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami (see news… Read More ›
Neill Cameron’s ‘Awesome Japan’ project begins to raise funds for tsunami victims
Top comics artist Neill Cameron has begun a comics project on his blog to help raise money for Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims. Describing the ‘Awesome Japan‘ as “my small bit to help”, Neill will be drawing and posting a… Read More ›
Comic Book Alliance puts out charity comic appeal to help earthquake victims
Britain’s Comic Book Alliance is putting together a fundraising comic to help raise funds to help earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan and New Zealand – and has put out an appeal for contributions. “I’m sure, like me, you’ve been horrified… Read More ›
Comic Creators Alliance launches 2011 Fund Raiser against Human Trafficking
We don’t often cover US-based comics events, but this campaign goes beyond borders. The US-based Comic Creators Alliance has announced that their second annual fund-raising drive to raise funds to fight against human trafficking goes live today, 11th January 2011… Read More ›
Charity comics project hopes to count the cost of war
“Caging the Snow Lion” by Sean Duffield and Lawrence Elwick, just one of many comics in the War: The Human Cost book. It tells the remarkable true story of Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan Monk imprisoned and tortured for 33 years… Read More ›
Draw the World Together gets a Makeover
Draw the World Together, an organisation of creatives who have been raising huge amounts of money for street children around the world for the past four years, aiding the work done by the UK based charity EveryChild, has a new… Read More ›
Red Cross Charity Comic Launched
Available now from lulu.com is a downloadable book, Flood, created to raise funds for the Red Cross. Initiated by Adam R. Grose, publisher of Clown Press, and with the help of John Freeman, a wide selection of writers and artists… Read More ›