I need to air out a thing or two for the sake of transparency.
A while back – specifically, around Awesome Con time – I sent an email out to my newsletter subscribers asking for donations. These donations were to help cover parking fees in Washington, DC, which I forgot to account for in my budget.
Holy dang, I’m surprised it took this long to publicly say where that funding went.
Because in chatting with my table buddy at the event, Carlos, we both decided it would be easier to take metro bus and train into the city, instead of trying to drive in DC traffic and find parking.
So the money raised for the parking fees went into metro tickets into and out of the city during that weekend. Any that was left over helped to cover food for Carlos and me.
Even though the money raised didn’t go towards parking, like I said it would, it still went towards making the weekend run more smoothly. For that, I want to say thank you to my peeps who helped with that.
“Wait,” you might be saying, “Does that mean any money I give through KickStarter is equally not-going-to-things-I-want?”
KickStarter funds go towards fulfilling KickStarter rewards. That’s that.
This blog post was just to clarify what happened with the impromptu fundraiser I did a few months ago for Awesome Con.
That said, fundraising is partially why I’m doing commission pre-orders for Feminist Zine Fest Pittsburgh weekend. (This was mentioned in the previous blog post)
Because here’s the situation:
I’ll be in Pittsburgh June 23rd and 24th for different events connected to the zine fest. While Friday does happen to be my payday from one of my gigs, I don’t expect it to be big enough to cover my bills, let alone bills plus food and gas for the weekend.
So I thought, “Hey, I’ll open up for commissions for a few days and see if anybody would like some character art. And any cash raised can go towards covering food and gas for zine fest weekend.”
And that’s why I’m open for commissions for a few days. I’m offering to draw a full-body, black-and-white character of your choice for $25.
You can get a commission even if you’re not attending any events during zine fest weekend. However, attending any events (from the Big Idea Bookstore appearance to the zine fest itself) means you can pick up a physical copy of your commission from me.
Hit me up at kelci@kelcidcrawford.com if you have any questions or anything.
That’s all for now. Thank you for reading!
You. Are. Awesome.
P.S. If you want to make a small donation instead, just send it at paypal.me/KelciCrawford.