# 819 Cradle to the Grave

Amelius on Oct. 19, 2009

You're not helping yourself there, Zerlocke.

Thank you everyone for the support, well wishes, and just plain everything wonderful that you've done. I'm working on all sorts of goodies for you, one such is another book that I'm having help with inking on (I'm on pencils!) since I can't do a million things at once. What is that? An origin story of one of the characters! I'll tell you more about that later. First I need to get some important stuff out of the way, since I said I'd explain more on Tuesday and here it is. I'll let Nick take over here for a moment since I seem to be forgetting some things:

Fund Raising Goal: We're shooting for about 1,000 dollars a month. So far we've gotten about half that and while we have had a few big donations mainly it is from people giving 5-20 dollars. Amy & myself both agreed that if we go over our goal any month we'll put the extra money aside to hire some guest artists to do some bonus stories among other things to reinvest that money in the fans.

Raffle: Here is the way the Raffle will work. For every 1 dollar donated you'll be put into a raffle we're having this month. We would like to give fans more than just a wall paper when they donate, but we can't afford to mail stuff to everyone so this is the compromise we came up with. The prizes for this month will be:

1. A hand colored and signed copy of the donation wall paper.
2. A pipe cleaner figure of Tony.
3-5. A custom CTV Pin.

The drawing will be held at the end of each month.

Donation thank you: This month the donation incentive is a CTV wallpaper. In future months we plan to mix it up with some bios, one shots and other things as a thank you to people who donate.

Donations over $100: $100 is a LOT of money and we really appreciate it, so anyone who donated $100 or more will get a drawing of their favorite CTV character.

Meeting our goal: Lastly if we meet our goal each month Amy will get to keep doing CTV instead taking on freelance so that will mean less stuff getting in the way of CTV and less erratic updates.

Back to Amy again:
Whew, that's a lot of stuff. I just want to let you know that even the littlest bit goes a long way, and thanks to you guys who helped out we won't have to pay for stuff using pocket change like we did this week. While I don't like having to do this as a long, ongoing thing, it just seems necessary at the time until CTV becomes a little more self-sufficient. I'm just sorry it has to come to this, but like we said we're trying to do as much as we can to make up for it.

By the way, finally updated the twc vote incentive, it's the last panel without the word balloons and stuff all over it.