Webcomic Charity project

[Yamino]

Gah! Sorry for the late response.  But I finally posted the official Webcomic Charity page!

Be sure to apply, and tell all your other webcomic friends. =)

As for a due date for the postcards, I haven't set one yet, since I'm not even sure how I'm going to handle the bidding or what the charity will be.  feel free to offer suggestions.

[operationremie]

looks awesome. wish i could participate! lack of a site and nothing to show doesn't help haha good luck with it all tho!

[Rob]

Yamino,

you should let Gary Tyrell of Fleen know about this:

http://www.fleen.com/contact/

And if you want to write an article about what this is all about with links to the site you've set up and charity it will be benefiting I'd be happy to run it as a front page article.

Up to you. Either way very nice of you to do all this. My new artist is still scrambling to catch up with all the stuff I've sent him already but if he seems like he has any extra time I'll definitely run this by him.

;)

[Gibson]

Uh, okay, so...I didn't make the cut to be an artist on this?

[wendyw]

If you still want a front page article on the Webcomic List send me a PM with what you want it to say and I'll get oppy to put it up.

[Yamino]

Don't get paranoid, Gibson- I haven't gotten to adding the folks who replied to this thread yet.  ;) (Except for those who already applied through the website/IM/etc.)

I'll be doing that this morning.  Also, I'll send you that PM soon, wendy! <3

Also, good idea with contacting Fleen, Rob! I'll do that today. =)

[Gibson]

Might not have been the worst idea to let us know that.

[Yamino]

There's no need to be rude. I'm doing quite a bit of work for this, and paying money out of my own pocket for it too. Your patience would be appreciated.

[Gibson]

It's not about patience, it's about information. I understand you're doing a lot of work on it, but there are other people involved and they're going to be doing work for it too and the more information you provide them, the less confusion like this there's going to be. A simple sentence in that post letting everyone reading it know why their names aren't up there yet isn't much.

And I wasn't being rude, I was being curt.

[Yamino]

Sorry, the English teacher in me has to object- By definition "curt" is "rudely brief or abrupt." But that aside, I'm sorry you misunderstood what I said, didn't mean to imply that by replying to this your name would instantaneously be added.  I originally made this thread just to let people know I was starting this project, and since then I've taken all the applications through the site itself. It makes it a lot easier for me to have everyone's emails in one folder, that way I can make a mailing list to send out messages reminding people of when the postcards are due, send them the paypal payments, etc.

To everyone:  I have recently posted an update with more details on what the artists will need to do. Please review it:
http://yamiloo.com/charity/instructions/

If you still wish to participate, it would be helpful to me if you applied through the form on the site:
http://yamiloo.com/charity/apply/

EDIT: I forgot to mention, we are also currently voting on which charity to donate to. Please cast your vote! =)

Thanks in advance. =)

[Gar]

Have you notified The Comics Journal or The Daily Cartoonist about this? Probably a couple of bigger-name cartoonists on there who'd be happy to do some limited-run postcards for the sake of charity if they knew it was going on.

[Yamino]

Thanks for the suggestion! I just replied to them. =)

[D-Ballz]

I've already signed up for this, (Jason and Jenny on the artists page) but I would just like to say, this really, really looks like an awesome idea.

Although my comic has not yet started, I don't see any reason to not sign up and show some support, at the very least.

[Gar]

Any further word on dates etc. for this? Are the auctions going to be done through a central webcomics charity site with payments going straight into the charity account or will we need to set up our own auctions?

[Yamino]

I've been contacting a couple charities, but like Kiva, all of them said they can't accept the donations AND handle the shipping/printing (which would have made things easier for everyone) so it looks like we're completely on our own.

Fortunately, I've formed a team with JGray (MOTA) and OnyxSparrow (WAGON) where JGray will oversee the financial stuff, and (hopefully, still waiting for confirmation on this) Onyxsparrow and his printer who does the Webcomic Trading Cards can handle the printing/mailing.  I'll keep doing the organizing as I have been.

I'm thinking of ending submissions tomorrow, we already have quite a long list and people have had a very long time to submit.  I've even gotten some finished cards already. =)