Last year I was approached by Troy Wilson to donate my artistic skills for Mark Shainblum’s writing for a charity project. I was quite tickled by Mark’s story which is an exceedingly clever mash-up/parody of Curious George and the Superfriends and as a fan of DC Comics, the Superfriends cartoon and monkeys I was happy to contribute.
It’s been a long road but the work is finally done and on May 4th the story will go live on act-i-vate.com. Over the past week I have been showcasing some behind-the-scenes character design for the story.
When the big day comes and the comic goes online I’ll post a direct link to it, but in the meantime here is the lowdown:
What is Panels for Primates?
Panels for Primates is a charity anthology of primate comics that has been updating every Wednesday at ACT-I-VATE (http://act-i-vate.com) since October, and will be winding up on June 1st. The ever-growing Panels for Primates archive can be viewed absolutely free, but if readers are encouraged to swing over to http://www.primaterescue.org/ and make a donation.
International effort
The project features work by creators from the U.S., Canada, Israel, Britain, Mexico, Germany and Indonesia.
Loads of Canadian contributors
- Lower Mainland – Toren Atkinson, Colin Upton, Jonathon Dalton, Scot Ritchie.
- BC – The above Lower Mainland creators, plus Troy Wilson, Gareth Gaudin, and Simon Roy (all in Victoria).
- Canadian – The BC creators, plus Mark Shainblum, Jeff LeBlanc, Clayton Hanmer (Toronto, ON), Kari-Lynn Winters (St. Catharines, ON), and Faith Erin Hicks (Halifax, NS).
Some other coverage of the project
- http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2011/02/panels-for-primates-combines-comics-with-charity/1
- http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/50023
Stats so far [ie. As of the Bleek story running.]
- 31 stories
- 50 creators
- 105 pages (not counting the cover or the donation reminder pages)
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