“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead

Wednesday, January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. To participate, we formed the Comic Creators for Freedom– a group of over 100 comic book creators who volunteered our artistic talents to raise money and awareness for this cause. You may not know it, but there are currently 27 million enslaved people worldwide- more than double the number of enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children every year are sold into slavery, most of it sexual. The US Department of Justice estimates 16,000 victims of human trafficking are brought into the United States every year. Unlike slavery in the past, what is happening today is happening in secret. It won’t end until awareness is raised, and people like you and me take a stand.

So here’s what we did: each creator contributed an original drawing of one of our own female characters, and combined them into a single wallpaper image! The wallpaper features characters from all over the web, including Girls with Slingshots, The Dreamland Chronicles, Kukuburi, Earthsong Saga, Looking for Group, Love and Capes, The Dreamer, and tons more! Donate today to download this unique, once-in-a-lifetime wallpaper.

The Donations Drive will last for two weeks, from Monday January 9th – 20th. All proceeds will be split evenly between Love 146 and Gracehaven House- two organizations working on rehabilitation of victims and prevention of this crime.

To learn more about the CCA visit www.comiccreatorsforfreedom. To learn more about the problem, visit http://love146.org/slavery. (Note: contains adult themes and actual accounts of sex slavery.)

This year the event is split over two halls and you’ll find us in the Royal Armouries Hall. So feel free to pop by for a chat or to pick up your very own copy of Fera.

In other news, I’d like to apologise for the recent intermitent comic updates. As some of you may already know, I’m currently organising myself for the end of this month when my contract at my day job comes to an end along with my lease on my home. Which means that I’m going to be moving house again soon.

In the meantime I’ll do my best to get whatever updates I can completed and posted, but I don’t expect to get back to a steady schedule until after 30th November. Please bear with me for now.

Thanks, and hopefully I’ll see some of you this weekend.

Davy

Manchester was great fun, as were the other events that we’ve been to this year so thank you to everyone who came out and stopped by the table. And hopefully we’ll see some of you in London in October or Leeds in November. Photos from our events so far can be found on the Fera fan page on Facebook.

Issue 3 will be returning to a weekly schedule, most likely updating every Monday barring anything unexpected and I’ve been working on a page buffer so that even then it shouldn’t affect updates to any real extent. And starting from 1st October I’m going to be posting my warm-up sketches as incentives on the Top Web Comics voting portal, so feel free to vote for Fera daily and encourage your friends to check the comic out.

For those interested I will be taking commissions as of this moment, so if you would like any artwork etc. created email me your request and we can discuss it. At present I’m going to limit commissions to a queue of no more than 4 at any one time. In all circumstances I’ll respond to requests but please understand that depending on demands on my time there may be a short wait. All commissions will be 100% digital, if you would like a print, feel free to ask but the price may need to be adjusted due to shipping and printing costs.

Below are some example pricing based on what I offer at events:

angelKat Sketch ……………………………………………………. £ 2.00
Digital Sketch (Portrait or Full Body) …………………………….. £10.00
A4 Portrait (inked) …………………………………………………. £20.00
A4 Full Body (inked) ………………………………………………. £25.00
Full comic page (to the specs of a regular Fera page) …..……. £40.00 (discounted to £30 per page when commissioned in bulk i.e. batches of 10 pages)
A4 Character Reference Sheet  ………………………………….. £30.00
(full colour, full body – Front/Back/Side/3x portraits)

Extras;
+ colour ……………………………………………… £ 2.00
+ background ……………………………………….. £ 2.00
+ 2nd character …………………………………….. £ 5.00

I also do written word commissions such as articles, reviews, scripts, etc. due to the nature of these projects, you’ll need to note/email me with the details before I can offer an estimated price.

Tickets are either £8 (early entry) or £5 (standard adult) and £3 (standard child). To view the currently announced guests and events (such as the promo of the new Space Marines game etc.) take a look at the MCM Expo website.

So feel free to come and say hello, get a sketch or a signed copy of issue #1 and/or #2. We’ll be at table A8 in the Comic Village, rubbing shoulders with some great artists and some of our good friends such as Donna Evans, Helen Trifourki, Alice De Ste Croix (Destiny Blue), Dr Geoff Banyard (Fetish Man), Matt Dyson (Moo & Keo) and George Beedham (Jambo)… and many more!

As always we look forward to seeing you there!

T III