Dreamer-Friday updates are back! I hope you all had a great holiday! New Page #11 this week! Poor Ben might decided Bea isn’t worth all the drama after all…
Tuesday is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Come back–we’ll be kicking off the 2011 Comic Creators Alliance: Fighting Together to End Human Trafficking drive. If you donate, you’ll receive a wallpaper featuring drawings of over 100 artists! The submissions have been pouring in, and there is going to be some fantastic work featured on that wallpaper again this year!
Please consider donating next week. The drive will run for two weeks. Human Trafficking became personal to me a few years ago when a young middle school girl I was mentoring was nearly kidnapped in a textbook case of this. She was smart enough to run away, but a lot of girls aren’t so lucky. You can read about my reasons for starting the CCA here. Or listen to me talk about it in a short segment that was featured on TGT Webcomics here. Love146 has a great flip book that discusses the problem here. (It is tastefully done, though warning, the subject matter is horrific.)
I am so proud of what we accomplished last year, and hope that we can match last year’s total. I know it meant a great deal to the two organizations we raised the money for: one global–Love 146, and a local shelter trying to get up and running–Gracehaven in Ohio. (Toledo, Ohio is one of the largest trafficking hubs in the U.S.) Both organizations were able to expand their particular fights against this heinous problem in 2010. Love 146 is setting up Task Forces around America, local groups of concerned citizens bringing the fight and awareness to their own corners of the nation. Internationally, Love 146 set up the Cambodia Borders Officers Project. This is total prevention: officers patrol the border crossing, looking for possible victims and the kids they rescue will never know the horrors they might have. Gracehaven used our funds in the ongoing renovations that are necessary to bring the house up to code–plumbing and air conditioning were installed, along with two new bathrooms. They hope to be up and running soon but must first have six months of operating expenses in the bank. They are currently at one fifth of their goal–let’s see what we can do to help them!
A lot of your favorite names are participating: Scott Sava, Adam Withers & Comfort Love, Barb Jacobs, Alan Evans, Bridget Underwood, Sarah Ellerton, Crystal Yates, Tina Pratt, Thom Zahler, Beau Smith, Billy Tucci, I could go on and on! Check out the full list of participants here.
I’ll meet you back here on Tuesday when we kick it off live! For now, VOTE to see the drawing of Bea I did that will be on the CCA wallpaper.
It’s like when you talking about one of your teachers, and they’re standing right behind you. :O Eek.
BBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*headdesk*
Awkward turtle.
And I like the wallpaper pic. If only I had $ to donate…maybe I’ll get lucky. >.>
Haha! No, D’Artagnan wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that. Porthos on the other hand… Sorry, I’m a huge Three Musketeers fan, and I mean the book when I say that too. ;-)
Of course! Books are always better!
oh Bea, way to go! I think the friend make-up talk just got set back. Poor Bea and Liz! I hope things get sorted out soon ^_^
Maaaan . . . Bea fail . . .
Man oh man, Ben’s just a bit sensitive isn’t he?
I like how Bea neglects to mention that she was a bit rude to Liz and deserved the chewing out she got.
Wow, I’m totally with Ben on this one. Talking about getting a new date twice in one conversation sounds like a Freudian slip to me. The present time is not too kind to Bea of late!
Cute picture of Bea for the wallpaper! What’s her silly band of? A drama crown?
Oh Bea. what are we gonna do with you? I know, lets go into dreamland!
@Nicolette: There is no way to get out of a situation like that. Except to grovel. Or hide under a giant petticoat…
@Caera: Just like last year, even small donations are accepted!
@Hazel: It appears Bea is as savvy with her literature as she is with her history!
@Rae: Or it might accelerate it. There’s no hiding now.
@Christina: It’s hard to see things from other people’s perspectives when we think we were wronged. I also think she would have told that story differently if she’d known who was behind her… ;)
@Ginny: I like that, so yes! A drama crown! And Ben’s a sharp young man, he’s starting to add things up that maybe she’s just not that into him. The averted kiss might’ve been a tip off, too!
@JeweledFaith: I think Bea would agree with you that that is an excellent plan.
From the glimpses I’ve seen around the web, the CCA wallpaper is going to be amazing. I can’t wait, and hope it’s more successful than last year.
Poor Lizzie! I’m such a mark, but I’m loving this drama with Bea. On the one hand, she’s kind of a disaster because whatever she does affects someone else. On this page, she managed to affect two people without even thinking! But, I guess that’s why we love Bea so.
I did my part by submitting my favorite gal. :)
Your Bea drawing for the wallpaper is totally cute!
Love the last panel of today’s page too. I’ve done that more times than I can count. XD
not loving our main girl right now, I hope things get better. But go Ben! and poor Liz, i have a feeling John is going to be mad . . .
:( Bea better think before she speaks, or she’s going to lose some friends in the ‘real world’….
Uuurgh, I wish Bea would have a bit more sense in her interactions with people sometimes! But then, she wouldn’t be interesting at all if she were a perfect angel.
@Trevor: When I opened your submission up for the CCA I laughed so hard. I LOVE it.
@Diana: Bea definitely is more of an act on impulse kind of girl than a thinker. Maybe she’ll grow up along the way, though…