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Since you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance that you know my buddy, John Beatty<\/strong>.\u00a0 That’s not really John<\/strong> in the photo above.\u00a0 John’s<\/strong> actually a little more intimidating.\u00a0 Ah, but I kid.\u00a0 I kid because I care.\u00a0 The truth is I do care.\u00a0 John<\/strong> is my oldest and closest friend [outside of my wife who is actually a little older and much closer], but I think you get the idea. Anyway…<\/p>\n John’s<\/strong> cat, From time to time, I join John<\/strong> when he’s sketching for fans on U-Stream<\/strong>.\u00a0 John<\/strong> always likes when I show up to “co-host” because it allows him to spend more time looking at what he’s drawing since I moderate the typed in questions and can interact with the fans.\u00a0 There’s always a lot of laughter, convention stories, trivia, movie, tv and pop culture talk.\u00a0 And it’s always interesting to see who pops in to join the fun — other artists, friends, and strangers… not to mention [but I’m going to] John’s regulars<\/strong> aka The Corduroy Mafia<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n So I suggested to John that we do a “Bellathon”<\/em>.<\/strong> “What?” was John’s<\/strong> response and probably yours too.\u00a0 I explained.\u00a0 We’d do a U-Stream <\/strong>sketch session to help raise money for Bella’s<\/strong> trip to see her family.\u00a0 At first John<\/strong> was hesitant.\u00a0 Some fans had already purchased sketches<\/strong> [and even donated some bucks] when they first heard about Peepers<\/strong> being sick.\u00a0 I countered that the Bellathon<\/strong><\/em> would simply be another U-Stream<\/strong> session with me, but the proceeds would go towards Bella’s trip<\/strong>.\u00a0 Fans would still get great deals on art and they’d know the money was going to a specific cause.\u00a0 I felt it was a win-win<\/strong> for all involved.\u00a0 John<\/strong> thought about it and agreed.<\/p>\n So here’s the broad strokes – John<\/strong> and I will be U-Streaming<\/strong> our BELLATHON<\/strong><\/em> this Saturday<\/strong>.\u00a0 John<\/strong> will be offering a variety of sketches.\u00a0 All the details can be found at John’s site<\/strong>.\u00a0 I hope you can attend, even if you don’t plan to get a sketch.\u00a0 It’s going to be a blast… and for a great cause!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance that you know my buddy, John Beatty.\u00a0 That’s not really John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25936,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/25936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Peepers got sick<\/strong><\/del> not too long ago.\u00a0 The medical bills were unexpected and fairly expensive.\u00a0 The good news is\u00a0Peepers got better<\/strong><\/del>.\u00a0 The bad news is that John<\/strong> and Bella<\/strong> [John’s wife <\/strong>for those keeping score] had to dip into money that they’d been saving for Bella<\/strong> to take a trip back to the Philippines <\/strong>to see her family.\u00a0 They did it without second thoughts and figured that they’d both work a little longer\/harder to make up the money spent.\u00a0 And that’s exactly what they’ve been doing.<\/p>\n