24-Hour Comics Benefit for Seattle Public Library
From the "If Bumbershoot Isn't Your Thing this Year Dept."...
Cascadia Con, a sci-fi convention taking place Labor Day weekend at the SeaTac Hilton, is hosting "Spawns [sic] of Insomnia", a 24-hour comics event (whereby masochistic cartoonists create a 24-page comic in only 24 hours) to raise funds for the graphic novels section of the Seattle Public Library. Local cartoonist David Lasky is just one of at least 24 local cartoonists contributing to the fund raiser and had this to say:
"I'll be there Sunday and Monday. I'm taking pledges to help the Seattle Public Library purchase graphic novels (seems silly in light of the horrors going on down South, but it was planned long in advance). $5 basic sponsor level gets you a copy of the 24 hour comic I produce. $20 super sponsor level gets you the comic, a sketch, and online credit as "SPONSOR" of my story on the CNW website. Anyone can paypal me money, but you should do it before Saturday night (9/03/05). But really, send your money to the hurricane/flood victims."
Liftport, the Bremerton, WA company building the world's first space elevator, will sponsor cash prizes to cartoonists who finish their comic in the alotted time, and a $250 prize to the comic deemed the "best." Seattlest recommends that Lasky scrap whatever James Joyce strip he's probably thinking of now and just devote his comic to a really bitchin' space elevator!
