We just found out our friend artist Carlo Vergara was one of the many people affected when floods hit Phillipine capital Manila after a particularly nasty typhoon.

Carlo drew several stories for Graphic Classics from scripts by Antonella, including Mysteries of Udolpho and The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter.

Carlo has just been in touch to say he's OK, although he's just spent the last few days clearing the mud out of his home. Meanwhile, fellow Philipino comics artist Gerry Alanguilan has started an Ebay auction featuring donated original artwork to raise funds to help fellow artists and others affected by the flooding (his list of "artists known to be affected" has about ten names on it, including Carlo's).

The auction still has a little time to run, so if you'd like to pick up some interesting originals, the auction link is here.

There's more about Gerry's fundraising efforts and the general situation here, and on John Freeman's Down The Tubes newsblog here.

Here's an example of some of the art in the auction, drawn by Gerry for Comics Artist Magazine in 1995:

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:04:08 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]