Comicon.Com Auction Raises $15,000 For CBLDF!

After four weeks of offerings, the Comicon.com benefit auction for the CBLDF has raised over $15,000 for this year's casework. Over 40 pieces of original art and rare merchandise were auctioned during the event, which was the Fund's most successful auction initiative of the year!

"The work that Steve and Rick did made Comicon.com the Fund's best earning convention of the year," observed CBLDF Director Charles Brownstein. "Because of their effort and the concurrent Jim Lee and Mile High auctions, the Fund should be able to pay off its outstanding legal debt for the year. Considering that we've spent over $50,000 on attorneys this year alone, that's quite a feat."

Comicon.com founders Rick Veitch and Steve Conley were ecstatic about the auction's results. "Steve and I are thrilled that people were so generous during the auction," Veitch says. "We pulled this auction together to help the Fund out in a time where it needs every dollar to fight the Texas case in the Supreme Court and to pay for the King VelVeeda defense. We're glad that the Comicon.com community was able to make a difference."

Veitch and Conley aren't content to rest on the well-deserved laurels of this auction: they're already planning one for next year. Veitch reveals, "When the idea for this auction hit, Charles told me that even in a slow year the Fund pays at least $25,000 in legal bills for its retained counsel. Next year they'll be more fees in the Castillo case, not to mention the bills that could come if they're needed on a new case. The goal of this auction was to help build the Fund's War Chest, and we won't stop until we're able to accomplish that."