THE TOM THE DANCING BUG FOR JUSTICE FUNDRAISER
Tom The Dancing Bug Blog 2020-06-04
Hello, friends.
It's easy to feel helpless in these very dark times.
But we're not helpless, and fighting through that feeling is essential to our ability to get through this crisis.
Among the many ways you can help, making financial donations to organizations with infrastructure and expertise, if you are in a position to do so, can make an impact.
In the past, I've set up fundraising campaigns for various causes, encouraging people to give, and offering meager, silly prizes, and the support these campaigns received has not only contributed to those organizations, it's helped me to feel a little less helpless and less alone. And I hope it's helped the participants feel a little less helpless and alone.
So today I'm launching this Tom the Dancing Bug for Justice Fundraiser. Because ever since my comic strip first featured a giant nap-taking alien, people have been saying it's For Justice.
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You can participate by making your donation directly to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund through a donation page I set up:
https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/tom-the-dancing-bug-for-justice-fundraiser
But watch out, you just might get a meager, silly prize: a Tom the Dancing Bug original illustration, drawn just for you.
Three donors will get a Tom the Dancing Bug illustration sent to them:
--> The top donor to the Fundraiser (multiple donations from the same donor will be aggregated); and
--> Two random donors to the Fundraiser regardless of size of donation, $25 minimum.
To be eligible for the prize, be sure to not to check "Don't show my name" on the donation page.
You can have me draw:
A pen/ink recreation of the cover of the Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse book, coming out in August; OR
A pen/ink recreation of (almost) any Super-Fun-Pak Comix (apx. 6 inches x 2 inches); OR
You can tell me what you'd like me to draw (subject to the boundaries of law and propriety), or we can come up with something in collaboration. God-Man fighting Charley the Australopithecine, Hollingsworth Hound in a tutu, Percival Dunwoody riding a Giant Wombat... whatever you want. (pen/ink, single panel, apx. 6 inches x 8 inches).
The deadline for prize eligibility is 11:59 pm ET, June 30, but why not donate now.
Winners will be announced HERE on this blog post on July 1, so check back to see if you won.
Thank you, everybody. Hoping you are fortunate enough to be in a position to help in any way.
Yours Indeed,
Ruben Bolling
CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION AND PARTICIPATE IN THE TOM THE DANCING BUG FOR JUSTICE FUNDRAISER.
(Note: I made a $200 donation to start things off and to defray the transaction costs of using gofundme.com to manage this campaign.)
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Oh, and by the way, this Friday, June 5, 3:30pm ET, I'm doing a short online cartooning workshop for kids in support of Wear Orange Day.
Info here.
To print a comic strip template so you or your kids can play/draw along, download here.
This cartooning workshop event has been canceled by Everytown for Gun Safety, I understand out of respect for the protests.
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