COMMISSION FOR ALICE’S KIDS

To raise money for Alice's Kids, I'm offering to re-draw one of two comics for $1,100 ($1,000 to Alice's Kids, $100 for my expenses including shipping).

You can choose one of these two comics, and I'll re-draw* it on 11×14 bristol board, pencil/pen/ink (so black and white line art, not color), and sign it however you like:

Lucky Ducky, in "Red Flags"

1534cMC lucky ducky - commie ceos

or It's the Great Storm, Charlie Brown

1522cMC great storm charlie brown

Alice's Kids' mission is to "enhance the self-esteem of children in need by providing them targeted financial assistance that will facilitate their participation in scholastic, recreational and social activities."

"Over the years we have built a network of hundreds of teachers, social workers, police department personnel, homeless shelter staff and others who, upon identifying a child with a specific need, send us a request form for assistance. The child might need a winter coat or glasses, They might hide in the back of the classroom as others are exchanging senior yearbooks that they could not afford or cannot attend school because they cannot afford the school uniform. The teacher asks for help and we process the request within 24 hours. In the case of a gift card (e.g., the child needs track shoes), we might send the teacher a Dick's Sporting Goods gift card. The teacher prints it out and presents it to the parent who then can proudly announce to their child that they are going shopping for those shoes! All of our assistance is provided anonymously to help preserve the dignity of the child."

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Email me at tomdbug at gmail dot com to let me know you'd like to purchase this commission and help Alice's Kids!

Thanks, Rb

*Because I'm re-drawing the comic, it may not look exactly the same as the published comic; I'll be doing my best to re-draw to it as faithfully as possible, but there will certainly be small differences.

 

5/1/21 UPDATE:

Many thanks to @cdsaether who purchased this commission! (Thanks go to Patton Oswalt, who inspired the commission because of his work in helping and publicizing Alice's Kids.)

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Uncle Cap’n’s Nifty NFT!

Uncle capn nft

 

Okay, ya filthy landlubbers.  As I told ya in this week's "Uncle Cap'n's Nifty N.F.T.s," you can actually bid on this here picture I drew of myself, as an NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN.

A few things:

  • The varmints at Rarible don't seem to allow a real auction: they only allow an auction that takes bids forever, and it's up to me to accept one, or not.  So to make this more like a real auction, I'll take the highest bid as of Friday, April 16, 11am ET or thereabouts.  I'm told that because I'm not going to accept a set Sale Price, I pay the "gas fee" (?) on the sale instead of you, so take that into account when ya bid, ya stingy skinflints.

  • I'm also sendin' the winner a 2 inch by 2.5 inch drawing of the NFT image, by actual physical mail, drawn by me, yer ol' pal Uncle Cap'n.

  • Tom the Dancing Bug, that low-down, do-gooder, tree-hugging' comic strip, is taking 50% of the dollar amount I net out of this thing, and is donating it to The Carbon Fund.

You can bid on this NFT of my glorious mug, a real piece of Digital Art, RIGHT HERE, ON RARIBLE.COM

The rules are up to me, so don't be a bellyacher.

-Uncle Cap'n

 

UPDATE: This here auction has been switched over a straight-up sale of the NFT.  Anybody wants to pony up 0.10 ETH (something like $240) can just buy the damn thing.