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The Pit Crew
The Pit Crew
The Pit Crew
Marie Enger

The Pit Crew

$50.00 $0.00

 Help me fight future medical costs AND make a book!


**All art and prints will be shipped as soon as they are completed - likely
between 2024-2025. 

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be a hot-shot-publisher giving a Butt-Sick cartoonist money so they can make sure their husband with Stage 3B Rectal Cancer gets the BEST irradiation and IV chemo that the medical companies charge INSANE AMOUNTS OF MONEY for?

NOW YOU CAN FIND OUT!

Did you know that each page of comic art I make takes 10+ hours from script to finish? It’s TRUE! I calculated my rates based off the info gathered in the 2023 Cartoonist Co Op survey. 

(Unfortunately, I've also counted up my billable hours for this medical emergency. 178 billable working hours on financial aid and medical system navigation alone since July. That shakes out to $10,680 worth of lost income! AHHHHHHHH!)

 I can do all the other stuff the publisher wants, but I need support to keep on drawing. I'm not sure what the medical situation is gonna look like for the foreseeable future - but it will make working even a public facing part time job difficult. This is a way to kick me $$ to keep working on something that gives my life purpose when life sucks (like now).

ANYWAY. Here's what I'm thinking -- 

  • You got mail! From the Bongcano! - $50 - get a riso printed postcard set FROM the Bongcano. Delivered when ALL book art is done - ETA 2025.

  • Vat Spawn-ser - $150 - Create another Vat Spawn for the Bongcano! Comes with an 8.5x11 drawing of a Vat Spawn that you get as soon as I’ve finished drawing that page!  - ETA 2024-2025

  • Greetings! From the Bongcano! - $300 - Sponsor the ORIGINAL postcard art for Greetings! From the Bongcano! When it’s done, I’ll send you the original art! At minimum it’ll be 8.5x11. - ETA 2024-2025

  • Map of the Bongcano - $600 - Sponsor a HUGE double page illustration featuring a layer of the Bongcano! When it’s done, I’ll send you the original art for that map. I honestly don’t know how big it’s gonna be yet. We’ll worry about that later. I’ll be in touch.

  • Journey to the Center of the Bongcano! - $2000 - Sponsor a WHOLE CHAPTER of Welcome to the Bongcano! When the chapter you sponsored is completed, I will print off exactly ONE copy on a riso printer and send it to you. BESPOKE. I’ll also send you the original art for the coolest double page spread from the chapter you sponsored.

  • BRING ME TO LIFE! -$3500 - Sponsor a WHOLE COMIC about YOUR Vat Spawn! By providing me with a month’s worth of salary, you’ll be giving me the opportunity to provide the world a comic about YOUR Vat Spawn! You’ll roll up a Vat Spawn for me, then I’ll write and draw a WHOLE comic about it. When it’s done, I’ll send you a bespoke riso copy, the original art from the cover, the original art from your favorite 2 pages, and the original art of your vat spawn.

**** IF YOU SUPPORT ME, YOU CAN ALSO HELP ME BY PROVIDING A GIFT LETTER, EXPLAINING TO WASH U, BJC, AND NORTHWESTERN THAT YOU ARE GIFTING US THIS MONEY DUE TO MEDICAL HARDSHIP. And folks? It's really hard. 

***** If you're here from Wash U, Barnes Jewish, or Northwestern! Hi! I told you during our financial aid meetings that I was out here beggin' for money! BEHOLD! MY SHAME! MY POVERTY! Can you just show your supervisor this page so the process goes faster?