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Post by bobalmond on Aug 24, 2009 13:44:56 GMT -5
Bob Shaw has uploaded the first of the Dave Simons Inkwell Memorial Scholarship auctions to raise money for the newly-created fund for students of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art: shop.ebay.com/merchant/theinkwellawardsFor more info on the scholarship: inkwellawards.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=news&action=display&thread=149Please bookmark the page and check regularly for our various fundraising efforts commencing now and running through the fall and winter for both the scholarship and the organization operations expenses. And if you have something cool to donate in order to help out our cause please email Bob at bobandkimshaw@aol.com Thanks for looking! The Inkwell Awards Committee
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Post by bobalmond on Sept 17, 2009 15:08:48 GMT -5
We have initiated a scholarship fund annually for students in financial need at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art (http://www.kubertsworld.com) in the honor of Dave Simons, Inkwell Awards committee member and friend who passed away last June after a long illness. This fund is approved & supported by Dave's sister Bette and we are running fundraising auctions for it with several excellent pieces of art generously donated by artists throughout the comic book community. This week the auctions end on Sunday the 20th and items for bid include pieces by MICHAEL GOLDEN & LAURA MARTIN, TONY HARRIS, DAN BRERETON, ERIC POWELL, ANDY PRICE, DON HILLSMAN II, BOB BURDEN, GREG (DARK ONE) WILLIAMS, and a donated HUMBERT RAMOS sketch. Within the next couple of weeks (new auctions start every mid-late Sunday) we have pieces by POP MHAN, JAMAL IGLE, GW FISHER, BILL TUCCI, ALLISON SOHN, WAYNE FAUCHER, LOUIS SMALL JR., CHRIS MORENO, MIKE LILLY, ED COUTTS, DAN FRAGA, PATRICK OLLIFFE, RON FRENZ, TOM FLEMING, DAVID MICHAEL BECK, MIKE GRELL, ZEKE SAVORY JR., WAYDE CALLENDER, TOMMY CASTILLO, TIM VIGIL, JAY FIFE, SCOTT MCDANIEL, GLENN KLIMECK, STUART SAYGAR, NORM BREYFOGLE, a signed & remarked Mice Templar: The Prophecy tpb by Bryan Glass, a CGC 9.8 graded Ultimate Spider-man # 1 signed by STAN LEE as a rare Pittsburgh Comicon Exclusive, and many more items in the works!! Once the annual goal is reached the auctions will revert to our non-profit organization's annual fundraising for trophies and operational costs. So please bookmark this ebay page and check often for updates: shop.ebay.com/merchant/theinkwellawardsFor more info you can check out our site at www.inkwellawards.com and our forum at inkwellawards.proboards.com/index.cgi?Special thanks to Renee Witterstaetter of Evaink.com and new member Nathan Massengill for acquiring items at Dragon*Con, and last weekend at the Pittsburgh Comicon Con to Renee George (&family & staff), Scott Kress of Catskill Comics, IA contributor Tom Schloendorn, Allyn Bergstrom, members Jimmy Tournas and Danny Best, Bill Cox, Bob Shaw who runs the auctions, and anyone else I may have inadvertently missed, for their appreciated assistance. See y'all at the New England Comic Con September 20 and the Boston Comic Con October 24 & 25. Reps will also be around unofficially at the Baltimore Con October 10 & 11. Bob Almond
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