On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I've been reminded over on TrekBBS that there's ongoing medical fundraisers for two writers whose work on comic books and on Star Trek I've enjoyed reading and re-reading over the decades.

Mike W. Barr

Peter A. David

That blog is now on hiatus. Details here:

https://www.artofthetitle.com/news/editors-note-2024/

Also, their syndicated feed to Dreamwidth has now been taken by what looks like a Vietnamese footwear company...?

Sorry for not noticing until just now. I missed this for six months!

Following up a bit on local comics creators and suchlike.

One friendly acquaintance of mine from the long-dissolved Orléans Comic Jam sessions, Dominic Bercier, has a Kickstarter fundraiser/project going at the moment. Timing might be tight for you if you're interested, I understand that...

Anyway, here's the link.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaissancebp/exclusive-holiday-card-delivered-by-santa

If you're interested in Dominic's published work to date more generally:

https://www.bercier.ca/

The local publisher that Dominic's more recently tying in with:

https://pressesrenaissancepress.ca/

Shelley "TSivia" Rabinovitch is a friendly acquaintance of longstanding from as far back as the early years of Can-Con's relaunch as a convention for writers, illustrators and editors of speculative fiction and their fans. We were both on the organizing committee together for a couple of years.

TSivia is currently in need of some support herself at the moment. Details are in the link. Some of you will have already heard of this through other channels and already acted upon that, I suspect. If you haven't, please have a look:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/human-rights-tribunal-hearing-legal-fees?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp_guide_do&member=24246407

...you might want to look at this posting and then make a decision if you can spare some cash:

https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13479545.html

Taking a break from Pirate Day stuff because one of my friendlisters needs help covering their eye care.

Douglas gridlore Berry has some post-cataract surgery complications that surprised his finances, and so there's a GoFundMe now active to cover those extra costs. Details here. If you can donate, please do. If not, please spread the word as best you can!

For background:

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/help-craig-hamilton-of-aquaman-fables-spectre-pay-his-medical-bills/

To support Craig's recovery fund:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/craig-hamilton-emergency-medical-fund?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

That's the word I got this morning via Twitter. Hayden Trenholm bought that publishing company from Virginia O'Dine about a decade ago, built it up into one of Canada's independent SF&F powerhouses as far I could see. I have a few of the books put out by Bundoran across the years, and it's going to hurt in several ways to lose them as a company.

Among their titles that I own:

- Defining Diana by Hayden himself.
- Right to Know by Edward Willett
- Strange Bedfellows, an anthology about alternative versions of Canadian history.

Can-Con is going to hurt as well. Bundoran has been part of the core support of our little literary SF&F convention here since it re-started. As if anyone's going to cope with the Time of Pandemic unscathed.

At any rate, if there's any kind of good luck that can befall Bundoran between now and the announced October 30th shutdown date, this post is the start of my effort to invoke it. I hope I'm not alone, and I hope it works.

For a longish time, my main art supply shop - aside from some stuff I needed from the campus store at Algonquin College and a couple of other venues - has been Wallack's. They're locally owned and operated, and have been here since well before I moved to Ottawa-Gatineau.

They've had a rougher go of it in recent years, and this latest pandemic has been one more kick in the teeth to them. But despite having to close up their storefront to walk-in traffic for the duration of this crisis, they're still game for sales over the web for either pick-up or delivery. Please check their website as linked above for the rules of the process, e-mail them any questions you might have, and if you see something you like and can afford....?

Whether or not you tell them where the suggestion came from is up to you.