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9.04.2005

Hurricane Relief Anthology

The Baton Rouge Cartoonist Society is taking submissions for an anthology to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

While our families and friends in the New Orleans and Mississippi areas are safe with family, there are thousands that are in desperate need and that will require extended help throughout the coming months. Every penny from sales will go to the Red Cross hurricane relief efforts.

This is extremely late notice, but our plan is to have the anthology available for sale at this month’s Small Press Expo. Due to the short turn-around time, we will need any submissions by Friday, September 16th.

We’re not asking for lengthy stories, but if any creators can contribute a short story, a page, a strip, a panel, or pin-up, we would be extremely grateful.

While we are all frustrated and angered by the initial ineffectiveness of our state and federal government’s response to this tragedy, we are not looking for political statements. Art and story celebrating the New Orleans and gulf coast region, or that touches on the tragedy, or expresses your feelings would certainly be welcome. If you already have completed art that you think would be appropriate, we would welcome that as well.

Format:
Our plans are to stick to a 4.25 x 5.5 page size.
If e-mailing, please keep file size within reason.

Please send art to:

hurricane@redcitycomics.com

or:

Robert Bienvenu
9364 N. Parkview Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA.
70816

Thanks for your help,

Robert Bienvenu
bienvenu@redcitycomics.com
225-278-2979

Dembicki at 8:10 AM  |  link to this     

6 Comments

These guys are really cool folks. I was thinking, maybe next weekend at our meeting, we could do a jam and send it on as one piece?

If y'all are for it, bring a piece of your favorite drawing paper next week (proportion to the dimensions for the anthology) and we'll do the pencil jams at the meeting. Then, we'll take our panels home, ink them, and get them to me by Wednesday night. I'll format everything and send it to them. How's that sound?

Dembicki at 9/04/2005 8:47 AM   

Best part i nmy opinion is that sales is going to Red Cross, not profit. Someone's putting up the dough making it an honest to God charity effort and not some people going for the publicity. We should totally put something together.

Jason at 9/04/2005 2:09 PM   

If we want to some up with something with some continuity I'll volenteer to ink the whole thing... just a thought.

Jacob at 9/04/2005 6:13 PM   

Laura (my fiance) lived in New Orleans for 6 years before I talked her into moving to Pennsylvania with me three years ago. She's had a pretty rough week to say the least. I just told her about this and she wants to do something, so hopefully I'll have that DONE by the end of this week to send, and then I can help with whatever we end up doing on Sunday. Laura will likely be there with me on Sunday, and we'll bring the work we banged out this week. Thanks for letting us know about this. It'll be great to contribute something. Being almost constantly broke makes you feel worthless when something like this disaster comes along.

Jacob at 9/04/2005 6:56 PM   

S0 is anybody submitting to this?

Deb at 9/07/2005 7:56 PM   

I talked to the organizer and he said it'd be cool if we submitted a story as a group. So, if you want to participate in the jam, bring you paper (right size, please!) and pencils Sunday (and read the my initial response up top).

Dembicki at 9/08/2005 8:29 AM   

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