They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Gee, you think maybe the following picture is worth a thousand BUCKS, too?…

Probably not, I’m guessing, and that’s a bit of a shame. Y’see, I contributed the above drawing to a charity auction being held out at Portland, Oregon’s Excalibur Comics this coming October 29th, where their gala Wonder Woman Day event is hopeful of raising much needed funding for several local women and children’s centers. Okay, so the pic’s unlikely to score a grand, but I’m happy that whatever it DOES bring in will go towards a worthy cause. Big tip of the tiara to organizer Andy Mangels for including moi amongst an impressive – and ever expanding roster – of cartoonists he enlisted to conjure up their own renditions of the Amazon Princess: Joe Staton, Roberta Gregory, Jim Mahfood, Howard Cruse, Don Perlin, Jim Mooney, Michael T. Gilbert, Jaime Hernandez, Alex Robinson, Donna Barr, Steve Rude, John Romita Sr., Terry Dodson, Gilbert Hernandez, Colleen Coover, Jay Stephens and many, many more!

But if you don’t believe me, check out the Wonder Woman Day page at the Wonder Woman Museum site, and you’ll get a gander at all that delicious Amazon goodness! New stuff is being added all the time, but the single drawback seems to be that the art can only be viewed at a comparatively small size. That mostly works, true, but in the case of my particular drawing, since it was difficult to make out the (ahem) witty dialog I included, I felt motivated to share it with you folks here at a larger size, while at the selfsame time getting the word out about such a worthy cause. Better hurry, though – you have little under two weeks to make your ticket reservations on Invisible Robot Plane Airways out to Portland, so book your flight now!

Good luck, Andy!

Oh, and by the way, here’s ANOTHER, totally unrelated drawing I did recently…

This was done for ANOTHER, perhaps not nearly as noble, charity, yet one that’s close to my heart: Keep Fred Fed!

Yes, friends, this is where I remind one and all that we do indeed take on commissions of all manner at your behest. All the pertinent details can be found here. Christmas season is almost upon us, so get your orders in NOW! After all, ANYBODY can pick up the latest video game down at the local mall – how many people can boast a genuine Brother Voodoo illustration by Fred Hembeck under their Christmas tree come this December 25th, hmmm? It’s yours for the asking, folks! (…and, um, for the cash – let’s not forget the cash, okay?…)

Not many words this episode, huh? But hey, when you stop and add in the two thousand the above pair of illos compensated for, well, wow, we’re just overflowing! Time to go until next week!

Until then, I leave you to ponder this question – just WHY was Sappho suffering anyway? Didn’t she get a proper serving of succotash, or something?…

Hembeck.com – it may not be Paradise Island, but I invite one and all to visit anyway! Hola!

-Copyright 2006 Fred Hembeck

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