Pop Culture Community raises money for Disaster Relief Effort

PARTIAL-EVENT-PRESS: Comic and Toy fans put their money where their hearts were last weekend for the first ever Heroes Give Hope charity auction. The Live Online Auction event featured dozens of custom made action figures and works of art specially commissioned for the event, and raised nearly $1000.00 for the Disaster relief agency ConvoyofHope.org.


Sponsored by internet Auction House TheBigToyAuction.com, the first of its kind event showcased the talents of both professional and amateur artists from a broad range of fields. Each artist was asked to create and donate a piece in the theme of "everyday heroes." Pieces ranged from a tongue-in-cheek GI Joe based custom "bootleg" figure by Suckadelic Toys to UK Illustrator Dave Williams' original print featuring dozens of minimalist interpretations of Comic, TV, and Movie heroes arranged to form the word "Hope." The big item of the night, selling for $125.00 was a watercolor painting of the Iconic He-Man and Battlecat Figures by artist Jonathan Reincke. Other works included versions of Batman, Transformers, the X-Men, Micronauts and Star Wars as well as a number of original creations.


Plans are currently underway to make this a recurring event. As well plans are currently underway by TheBigToyAuction for a charity auction for the Wounded Warriors Project to be held on Veteran's day. Those interested in creating or contributing to the Live-Auction event can contact TheBigToyAuction at admin@TheBigToyAuction.com or through their website at http://TheBigToyAuction.com. Those wishing to donate directly to Convoy of Hope can do so through their website at http://donate.convoyofhope.org.

(Cheers for the headsup, Christopher)