Broken Frontier

After covering the comic book industry for over two and a half years, Broken Frontier still lacks a major sponsor to provide us with some financial backing and to help us cover the costs of running this website. Even our sales of individual banners and buttons have been sparse at best.

Since the site was launched, BF has always enjoyed a steady growth, indicated by our switch to a larger server in January 2004 and our upgrade to a fully database-driven system last November. As our audience continued to expand, so has our focus on daily, useful and intelligent comic book coverage. Our staff keeps on garnering critical acclaim for its solid articles, reflected by the fact that BF quotes continue to grace comic covers and interiors. 

In reality though, BF needs to find a way to cover its expenses in order to get by. Without a premier sponsor, the only means to do that is by holding a Broken Frontier Fundraiser. The goal of this donation drive is to raise a total of $3000 , which will helps us get close to a break-even point.

Of the proceeds, Broken Frontier will be donating 20% to UNICEF , the United Nations Children's Fund, in support of children in need around the world. Should total proceeds earned topple $3000, 50% of the extra amount earned will be donated to the organization, while the other 50% will be saved for future expenses.

If you wish to support BF through our Fundraiser, you can do so by making a Paypal donation or by bidding on one of our art auctions.

Art auctions

To help BF raise the needed $3000, several artists where kind enough to donate a total of 11 original art pages, which went up for auction on eBay. Three artists were even kind enough to create a piece especially for this fundraiser!

The first round of art auctions netted us slightly over $600.

Here's an overview of the artists that have donated some original art to the BF Fundraiser:

Andy Runton
Juan E. Ferreyra
Kazu Kibuishi
Keu Cha
Luke Ross
Nicc Balce
Paul Harmon

The second round of art auctions went up on ebay on June 5. Below is an overview of the contributing artists together with the original artwork they donated and a link to the respective auctions.

1) Alfonso Ruiz

(Ezra) Arcana Studio Presents #2 pg. 8

2) Casey Maloney

Children Of The Grave #2 cover

3) Claude St. Aubin

Smoke & Mirror #1 pg. 3

4) Ian Churchill

Robin Pinup

5) Jack Lawrence

   

Lions, Tigers & Bears #2 pg. 17 - Lions, Tigers & Bears #2 pg. 21

6) Josh Howard

The Art of Josh Howard - Tattoo Girl

7) Luke Ross

           

Green Lantern #181 pg. 7 - Meridian #37 pg. 17
New Gods #6 pg. 17 - Spectacular Spider-Man #255 p. 13

8) Mario Gully

   

(Ant) Arcana Studio Presents #1 pg. 1 - (Ant) Arcana Studio Presents #1 pg. 9

9) Michael O'Hare

   

Marvel Adventures #2 pg. 4 - Marvel Team-Up #1 pg. 15

10) mpMann

Lone and Level Sands GN pg. 46 & 48

11) Norm Breyfogle

Of Bitter Souls #1 pg. 17

12) Paul Harmon

Mora Pinup

13) Phil Hester & Ande Parks

Green Arrow #43 pg. 20

14) Theo Bain

   

Gimoles #1 pg. 3 - Gimoles #1 pg. 4

Paypal donations

A second option for you to support the Broken Frontier Fundraiser is by making a Paypal donation through the Paypal buttons you find at the bottom of the message boards or below the left navigation menu on each page of the main site.

After the BF Fundraiser has been completed, 10 lucky donators will be randomly selected from the entire list of people who supported the donation drive (winners will be contacted by email). Eight of them will get a copy of The Art Of Greg Horn (Image), while two others will each get two TPB collections compiled from the following books:

Witchblade: Revelations (Top Cow)
Batgirl: Year One (DC)
Xenozoic Tales: The New World (Dark Horse)
Negative Burn: The Best From 1993-1998 (Image)

So, click on the Paypal donation button below and donate now!

Remarks

All donations will be listed in the BF Fundraiser - Donations thread  in the Announcements forum. Every donator's name as well as the winning bidders on the art auctions will be added to the list no later than 24 hours after the donation took place. At the same time, the total amount earned listed at the top of the thread will be updated, so everyone knows the status of the BF Fundraiser at all times. 

When you've made a donation, please enter your name under "Note" at the Paypal donation page (if applicable). If you do not wish your name to be added to the donations list, please enter "anonymous" instead.

If you have any questions, e-mail BF head honcho Frederik Hautain at frederik@brokenfrontier.com or send me a private message through the BF message boards.