September 13, 2005

First Day's Estimated Total: $17,210!

Posted By Chris Crosby at 9:01 PM

The webcomics community has raised $17,210 in the first day of the Telethon, which has now been expanded to three days! My own contribution (the first SORE THUMBS/SUPEROSITY crossover strip) ran at 11:40pm EST, and you can see it right here. To see Owen's half of the crossover, you'll have to watch the ADULT Webcomics Telethon, as that contribution was understandably deemed "too spicy" to run in the all-ages Telethon.

Watch both telethons for some fun free webcomics entertainment, and then open up your e-pocketbook for the worthiest of causes.
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4 Comments:

I'm glad that the webcomics community is coming together to raise money for such a great cause. It's good to see people actually doing something without a political agenda during these times.

Now, I'd like for you to focus your attention on this article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/11/wkat11.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/11/ixnewstop.html

I really want every single politician to die right now. They're tearing this tradgedy up into a fucking GODDAMN POLITICAL WAR.

Democrats are on the "political offensive"? "Republican strategists hope that some of the Democratic leaders will share some of the blame"??

What the FLYING FUCK?!!

When will people stop thinking about their jobs all the fucking time?

I don't watch the news anymore because all I ever see them talk about is "who's to blame"? News Flash! No body really wants to talk about it right now! The only thing that I care about is helping out those people hit by the hurricane.

And I'm also pissed off at some of the locals. Shoplifting and raiding property... they're only degrading themselves and their honor. THIS ISN'T ABOUT RACE, EITHER. What the hell does ANYONE have to gain by "ignoring" the African American population? God, I don't know how many times I have to repeat that shit!

Thank you, Kanye West, for proving to the world once again that you love to hog the camera! First the VMA's and now this! Excellent, I've been looking for an excuse to not listen to your shit music.

Goddammit, I'm so pissed off right now.

-Angry Georgian

(college is really getting to me right now. It makes me rant uncontrolably.)

By Anonymous, at 10:45 PM

Every aspect of my life makes me rant uncontrollably, not to mention most things on the news. I really wish some of these fucking reporters would stop trying to scoop each other by finding the best sob story they can. The least they could do is bring these people some water or food while they're exploiting them for a quick buck. As for the blame game, I'm quickly becoming convinced that the debate over who gets the most blame is a clever smokescreen so that people forget about the actual reality of the fallout of Katrina. The fact is that untold numbers of people are still suffeing and living in squalor, and that blame should only be discussed or assigned once all the facts are in and the last chord of corpses is accounted for. Not only will it take months before these people can have some sense of normalcy in their lives, but there'll be months beforehand where they have to drudge-up bodies from the muck that used to be downtown. Trying to find someone to blame just takes attention away from the actual tragedy, which is what we should be focused on right now. A good example is how 9/11 came and went without much fuss this year. Not that we should forget, but it shows at least some ability to focus on the part of the nation.

$17,210? I hope it gets to be at least ten times that much, considering the amounts donated to some other webcomics every year. I also hope that these efforts are at least recognized in the news at some time. Me? I'm down to one meal a day, so I don't really think I'm in a position to help right now...

Always assume nothng.
Always question everything.
Always believe in something,
just not me, and
always remember Katrina '05.

- Infamous 370

By Anonymous, at 7:27 AM

"When will people stop thinking about their jobs all the fucking time?"

When they've been hit by a hurricane.

"I really wish some of these fucking reporters would stop trying to scoop each other by finding the best sob story they can."

It's their job. They are not in the business of supplying people with a service, they're in the business of supplying them with entertainment. Sugar and spice and everything nice, not necessarily the truth. Unless more people want the truth, but they don't. So in a capitalistic society, the news that gets the most attention is what people will get, whether it's healthy or not.

So you might as well hope that people in general would stop paying attention to sob stories in the first place. Or that journalists get paid by some other method than by how many people they can get to pay attention to them.

Even hoping that journalists would grow consciences seems futile, because the journalist who doesn't perform will be exchanged for one that does, because their employer is responsible for bringing in money for the shareholders. So capitalism has some nasty side effects - live with it.

By RGE, at 12:16 PM

Well, yeah, as Ani DiFranco said if I have it right, 'capatilism is the devil's wet dream.' I don't expect the reporters to do these things, because money is ALWAYS the bottem line. I wish it wasn't so, but it is. I live with it, but I don't eat shit and call it ice cream, either, and neither should anyone else.

- Infamous 370

By Anonymous, at 5:15 PM