Ben's charity auction update

A list of participating artists, for those interested. (More are always welcome, so bug your favorite artists, professional, amateur, in-between, and please keep spreading the link around.)

NEW ADDITIONS!

Jim Muniz is the artist for Marvel's Last Defenders and worked on Marvel Knights 4, which was a really good book that I actually miss.
Jim MacQuarrie draws strips about geek stuff. I find that very cool, cause I'm a geek.
Paul Salvi draws weird cartoons. Cool weird, not just weird weird.
Eric Stettmeir's art makes me smile when I look at it.
Sarah Shemilt is a photographer. She also seems very nice.
Erin Jameson made something she called "girly" and informed me you should tell your girlfriends about it. She probably didn't mean it if you're a straight girl or a gay guy, though. In that case you should tell your boyfriends.
Matt Hansel loves Adam West.
Marcus Kelligrew may love Adam West as well, I'm not certain. He does like Captain America though. All of 'em.



And thanks to a very generous donation by Larry Young, original art from these awesome fellows will be raising money to help out-
Brian Wood of Channel Zero, DMZ (my favorite work of his) and tons of other cool stuff.
Darick Robertson co-created Transmetropolitan. He did lots of other stuff, but Transmet was awesome so I'm pointing that out.
Charlie Adlard has been a part of two of the coolest comics going, Astronauts In Trouble and The Walking Dead.
Manny Bello, of Dugout and Hench with Adam Beechen. This piece is awesome. Seriously guys, I'll preview this one soon.
Jeff Parker is amazing. He's doing all kinds of stuff for marvel these days.
Judd Winnick is famous. He was on TV, writes all kinds of stuff for DC and his own projects. You may have heard of him.
Tony Talbert drew First Moon. And We have a stunning page from it.


Marty Allen Marty Makes really cool sock puppets.
Richard Basey doesn't have an online portfolio. Get on that!
Tommy Allison is an amazingly talented sculptor.
Tom Beland is the creator of True Story, Swear To God currently published by Image Comics. He's more open and forthright in one issue than I think I could ever be. That's brave.
J Scott Campbell of Gen 13, Danger Girl, Wildsiderz, and is one of my favorite artists ever.
Evan Dorkin is the man, having created Milk and Cheese, Dork, Bif Bam Pow and a ton of other things.
Brian Denham did Iron Man, Hypervelocity, worked on Thunderbolts, Nova and a lot of other things.
Joe England draws Zebra Girl, which is all kinds of creepy cool.
Ryan Estrada is an outstanding cartoonist and adventurer. Adventures are awesome and I recommend you have one.
Jesse Farrell is an amazing sculptor and a very good friend.
Gary Fields simply draws some of the coolest cartoons I've ever seen.
James Figueiredo is my friend and one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. Plus he draws up some awesome cartoons.
Chris Haley is cooler than me. Not that that is a huge accomplishment, but it's true. He's a really talented artist, and I'm glad SIB allowed me to meet him.
Erin Jameson, who has promised something girly. Which is cute and hilarious.
Matt Linton kinda smells, but that's okay. He draws Monk and Shadowtown. He's also my friend.
David Mack is famous for Kabuki and Daredevil. His stuff is amazing.
Alex Maleev drew my favorite run on Daredevil ever and is a nice guy. Can you believe some of the names I'm getting for this?
Adam Murray draws drastic comics and is Irish.
Wyatt Owens didn't link me to his work. But he did volunteer to share his time and efforts, so I think links are overrated.
Chet Presley loans me comics all the time. He's also an artist. Both of those things are very cool.
Declan Shalvey does awesome things with stark black and whites. If I could draw I would want to draw like him.
Dean Trippe is one of the best artists I've ever seen do comic related material.
Thom Zahler draws Love and Capes and has alway been very kind to me. He's also written for this blog. Try to not hold that against him.



Details continue to be hammered out, and as things are now, it's going something like this-

You do a piece or offer a commission, I stick it on ebay. You can then send the piece to me or directly to the winner of the auction. Ebay has a system in place specifically for charity auctions to keep everything on the up and up.

What kind of piece you do would be entirely up to you; subject, medium, what have you, or up to you and the buyer should you offer a commission. The time frame would be some time before the end of April for pre-done pieces for auctioning the first week of May.

And if you wouldn't mind, I'd also like permission to publish your name on my blog with other participating artists and a link to your portfolio if you don't mind.

I feel like I should mention this:

This is in no way affiliated with DC Comics or Time Warner. I'm just some dude. My silly little fansite about my favorite character was just the best way i knew how to get the word out.