Tom and I have donated a piece of art to Andrew Wildman's Draw the World Together project. Comic book artists, mostly from the UK, gave pieces for an online auction to take place October 17-23, with the proceeds going to EveryChild's Child Development Project in Cambodia. Artists include David Lloyd, Brian Talbot, Dave Gibbons, Ian Gibson, John Higgins, Mike Ploog, and Pablo Marcos. I got involved when Tom told me about it.
For information on Draw the World, go to:
www.drawtheworldtogether.com
To see the list of creators and art, got to:
www.drawtheworldtogether.com/thankyou.html
Draw the World Together
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Sounds like a really great project to raise money for a very worthy charity.
Not only will the original pieces of art be auctioned off, there will also be five signed copies or prints of each piece auctioned as well.
Before I forget, the Usagi Yojimbo piece looks fantastic (as always).
Not only will the original pieces of art be auctioned off, there will also be five signed copies or prints of each piece auctioned as well.
Before I forget, the Usagi Yojimbo piece looks fantastic (as always).
WELCOME.
Wanna be part of something big?
The aim:
To create a body of work that expresses who we are as a comics community and by doing that raise funds for the children in the world who will probably never have the opportunity to grow up in the comics world that inspired us as children and enabled us to express that as adults. A way of uniting the whole global comics community in a virtual event that will raise funds for those children less fortunate than ourselves.
The Structure:
There will be two simultaneous virtual events that will coincide at a given time. One will go out to the creative community with a request for artists (and possibly writers) to produce a piece of work. That piece of work will then be emailed back to me where it will be placed on a website. The original plus 5 signed copies will be posted to me. The other part will be a viral email campaign that will go out to the fan community. This will be to raise awareness of the project in hand and to spread the word/create a buzz. Online newsgroups and websites will publicise the project. These two campaigns will then align with two events:
On Monday 26th September pieces of work submitted will start to appear on the 'Draw the World Together' website where it will be available to view by way of potential viewers making a donation to a given charity.
On Monday 17th October a one week auction will begin (through eBay) of all the pieces of original artwork and the 5 signed copies. All funds will again go to the given charity. All news and results will be available on the site in the last week of October.
The Charity:
The designated charity for this global event is EveryChild. EveryChild is an international development charity that works with the most vulnerable and marginalised children in many of the world's poorest countries to enable them to grow up free from disease, poverty and exploitation as valued individuals within strong communities.
EveryChild. Registered charity: #1089879 www.everychild.org.uk
NEWS:
Watch this site for breaking news on the artists that are currently working on their submissions
Many thanks
Andrew Wildman
info@drawtheworldtogether.com
www.andrewwildman.net
Wow! that is outstanding! Im really going ot look into that......