Last month, a friend of mine, Carla Hoffman and her husband Lance were both burned severely and lost their home and all their possessions in the Californian wildfires. Currently, they’re still in intensive care in hospital, and the doctors just started to let them come out of their comas (which were induced to treat their second and third degree burns). They’re still expected to remain in hospital for several months.

With the help of a few friends (and big props to John Parkin) I started to hold eBay auctions to help raise money for them. A few items are up right now, including some original Archie art from the 1960s, some hard-to-find graphic novels, and a few other things:
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/toyangel

This is just the start, I have more items to post and even more coming in from other artists, publishers, and comic fans around the industry.

Please take a look at the list and bid to your heart’s content.

If by any chance you have something kicking around your place you’re not using and wish to donate, please drop me an email at stephc@comicbookgirl.com or drop me an AIM at StephChantastic, and I’ll give you further details.

At the very least, if you can spread the word about my auctions, I would much appreciate it. You can link to our blog at http://letshelpcarla.wordpress.com. This site was set up by John to keep people up to date on Carla and Lance’s condition and to post new auction items.

Thanks very much.

While shopping at Kingsway Garden Mall in Edmonton, I walked into a store called Alexis. They had a huge, awesome variety of costumes in stock such as sexy firefighter, sexy police officer, sexy pirate, sexy geisha, sexy strawberry Shortcake, and sexy Care Bear. (Note: I thought the selection in-store was better than the website).

It reminded me of this great College Humor fake commercial for Girls’s Costume Warehouse (sic). Word for word, I think this commercial describes Alexis’ inventory: