{"id":7995,"date":"2009-06-16T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2009-06-16T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:39:38","slug":"star-wars-muppet-health-care-mashup-original-art-being-auctioned-to-help-pay-for-connies-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7995","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Muppet Health Care Mashup Original Art being auctioned to help pay for a stranger's health care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s my cartoon from this past April’s issue of Dollars and Sense<\/em><\/a>. (Click on the cartoon to see a larger version.)<\/p>\n

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To tell you the truth, I can’t draw Darth’s helmet to save my life. So I turned to the awesome Bill Mudron<\/a>, who could easily draw Darth’s helmet with a crayon clenched between his butt cheeks, although in this case I’m pretty sure Bill used his hands. I wrote and penciled the cartoon, and Bill inked it, drawing Darth and the backgrounds pretty much from scratch.<\/p>\n

Since this is a health care cartoon, I thought it would make sense to auction it off to help someone pay for health care. Somewhere on the internet I ran into Connie Parrott<\/a>‘s case; Connie is a type 1 diabetic who is trying to raise funds for needed medical equipment through the internet. Although I still haven’t met Connie, she and I have emailed, and she was willing to let me do the auction thing. Connie’s friend Ed Brayton<\/a>, who blogs at Dispatches From the Culture Wars — a blog that, coincidentally, I’ve been reading for years (sometimes the internet is a very small place) — volunteered to help organize it.<\/p>\n

So, anyway: The original art is being auctioned here on Ebay<\/a>. You can find details (paper stock, image size, etc) over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s my cartoon from this past April’s issue of Dollars and Sense. (Click on the cartoon to see a larger version.) To tell you the truth, I can’t draw Darth’s helmet to save my life. So I turned to the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}