After last year’s massive success (they raised $10,000), the Comic Creators Alliance is launching their second annual fund-raising drive to raise funds to fight against Human Trafficking. This year they hope to exceed not only the amount of money raised, but the number of artists working on the project. This year, in addition to a special downloadable picture, they’ll also be offering a print version of the collective piece available for purchase as well as the digital download. “Artists have until the end of the year to contact project creator Lora Innes at comiccreatorsalliance [at] gmail [dot] com to contribute artwork. The donation drive starts on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, which is 11 January 2011, and ends 24 January 2011. The official website for the drive is comicalliance.weebly.com.”
Comic artists already scheduled to participate include Adam Withers & Comfort Love (The Uniques), Crystal Yates (EarthSong), Lora Innes (The Dreamer), Billy Tucci (Shi), Scott Sava (Dreamland Chronicles), and Alan Evans (Rival Angels).
All of the donations will be split between Love 146 and Grace Haven House.
Innes organized the endeavor “after being particularly moved at a seminar on the issue. There are currently 27 million enslaved people worldwide—more than double the number of enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children every year are sold into slavery, most of it sexual. The US Department of Justice estimates 16,000 victims of human trafficking are brought into the United States every year. With this many people being affected I just couldn’t sit there and not do something.”