Have a heart

A friend of a friend has been in training for his first ever marathon - the Snowdonia marathon no less - and is aiming to raise funds for a very good cause: the British Heart Foundation. He's trying to spread the word so after sticking my name down I said I'd do my good deed for the day and post a link here to his page on JustGiving, a site to let people raising money for charities take donation securely online, so if you are feeling generous please swing by and see if you can help.

French comic art auction to help the homeless

Mark Ajdarc of the Brazilian comics site Neorama dos Quadrinhos sent us a good item to put up on the FPI blog and since it involves A) good European comics art and B) raising money for a good cause I thought I'd repeat it on here too. 95 press cartoonists and comics artist are contributing their work to auction to raise money for the homeless charity Droit au Logement in France. Some of the top bandes dessinées artist are involved, with names like Bilal and Jacque Tardi (who did the poster for it).

I found it interesting that this came at a similar time to the 'red tent' happening in Paris, where les Enfants de Don Quichotte (how could I resist a story with a name like that?) distributed red tents to the homeless so a tent village sprang up, rapidly covered by the European media and shaming Parisian authorities into acknowledging the problem. You can look through the art on offer in the auction here.