Chris Muir, the author of the fabulous Day By Day cartoon, planned on having a fundraiser to gather $10,000.00 to help with the growing expenses of the site as well as help compensate him for the time and effort he puts into the strip. He'd planned on running it for the month of January...
Seems like we-his-readers had different ideas:
I can't believe I'm saying this...
Please don't send DBD any more money!
Well, I put up a perfectly good 10K Fundraiser thermometer "graphic," and you guys just smoked past that in under 8 hours. The Fundraiser notice was barely up for 24 hours. As of 5:28 this evening, (January 7, 2008), DBD readers have hurled - hurled, I say - $20,185.52 this way.[...]
I am truly amazed. Gobsmacked. Stunned. And, obviously, at a loss for words necessary for what all of you have done.
All I can think of is from what I said earlier: "I know this is very much a vote from readers on DBD."
Thank you. Thank you all for your vote.
You're welcome, Chris.
After all, we don't just love your characters - we love you, too!
[note: I can't permalink to his letter because the redirect to the PayPal donation page is embedded in it.]
I'll be thanking you with a personal email, Kat, with every other DBD contributor(I got to put a note up about that tonight), 'cause I don't like mass mailings.It may take awhile, as 853 of you saved my bacon and guaranteed the strip for 2008.
My thanks again, and there should be a note to you in the next week...
Chris!
Posted by: Chris Muir | January 10, 2008 at 06:33 PM