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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
HAPPY REUNION!
So I got Dooey back today, thanks to the power of the internet.* Thank you everyone from the bottom of my heart. I also want to say that I really appreciate the people at the vet's office for taking such good care of Dooey and for not just putting him to sleep when I couldn't pay the bill right away. Their policy of not making payment plans isn't the best but they kept him alive long enough for me to pull this crazy internet-saving-throw out of my ass. Additionally, they genuinely wanted me to be able to have him and made it easy for me to get him back- honoring their initial quote of 900$, when the bill had apparently gone even higher than they thought it would be.
This is seriously the greatest christmas present ever. I have no words to properly express how it feels to be touched like this. I will be working my ass off on your commissions, and thanks to those who bought one, picked up some previously completed artwork, donated and spread the word, it all means a lot to both Dooey and myself.
I also wanted to pass on this note of thanks from my ex-girlfriend Carly, who was similarly touched:
"as a former co-owner of dooey, and as someone who always misses and loves him and has terribly fond memories of scratches and bite marks up and down my arms and legs, i thank everyone who helped zack keep him. i have first hand experience of just how much zack is the love of dooey's life. he wouldn't have been the same without zack, just as zack wouldn't have been the same without him. the quickness with which you people responded is amazing, i didn't even have time to read the post, let alone donate myself (though I will be sending dooey a present, to be sure). thank you thank you thank you!!!"
So yeah, again and always thank you for this second chance.
Zack and Dooey
* I will never say anything bad about twitter again! ¶ 6:55 PM 1 Comments
So I got Dooey back today, thanks to the power of the internet.* Thank you everyone from the bottom of my heart. I also want to say that I really appreciate the people at the vet's office for taking such good care of Dooey and for not just putting him to sleep when I couldn't pay the bill right away. Their policy of not making payment plans isn't the best but they kept him alive long enough for me to pull this crazy internet-saving-throw out of my ass. Additionally, they genuinely wanted me to be able to have him and made it easy for me to get him back- honoring their initial quote of 900$, when the bill had apparently gone even higher than they thought it would be.
This is seriously the greatest christmas present ever. I have no words to properly express how it feels to be touched like this. I will be working my ass off on your commissions, and thanks to those who bought one, picked up some previously completed artwork, donated and spread the word, it all means a lot to both Dooey and myself.
I also wanted to pass on this note of thanks from my ex-girlfriend Carly, who was similarly touched:
"as a former co-owner of dooey, and as someone who always misses and loves him and has terribly fond memories of scratches and bite marks up and down my arms and legs, i thank everyone who helped zack keep him. i have first hand experience of just how much zack is the love of dooey's life. he wouldn't have been the same without zack, just as zack wouldn't have been the same without him. the quickness with which you people responded is amazing, i didn't even have time to read the post, let alone donate myself (though I will be sending dooey a present, to be sure). thank you thank you thank you!!!"
So yeah, again and always thank you for this second chance.
Zack and Dooey
* I will never say anything bad about twitter again! ¶ 6:55 PM 1 Comments
Thursday, December 11, 2008
WOW!
Ok, I will never doubt the power of the internet again. In just a couple hours I have made enough to get Dooey back. I am overflowing with happiness right now. This week has been a rollercoaster of emotion, from the worst, most hopeless day of my life to the best. I went away from the computer for a couple hours and was amazed and touched when I came back.
Thank you to everyone who bought art and donated. Please do not donate any more, but you are more than welcome to keep buying art and commissions. I will be happy to make you a drawing or ship you a painting if you would still like one anyway.
Purchased paintings that are already done, I'll start shipping next week (I have to go out of town for the weekend and will be back monday night). I will also start working on the commissions this weekend and hopefully start shipping the first of them this coming week as well, depending on how fast the work goes (I want them all to be awesome!).
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all. Seriously, I have never felt quite so much good will towards man.
(I'll post an update on Dooey's return tuesday)
EDIT: Just to clarify, I definitely asked them to set up a payment plan or take partial payment, but they said it wasn't something they did. I also thought about trying to sneak around it all and get a friend to adopt him back for me but I didn't want to take the chance that that wouldn't work out. Also, I've had several people asking where this happened, but until I get Dooey back I'm not going to release the name of the vet, since I don't want to chance anything weird going down before I get him back. (I will say that other than this they've been nice enough, though) ¶ 3:51 PM 2 Comments
Thank you to everyone who bought art and donated. Please do not donate any more, but you are more than welcome to keep buying art and commissions. I will be happy to make you a drawing or ship you a painting if you would still like one anyway.
Purchased paintings that are already done, I'll start shipping next week (I have to go out of town for the weekend and will be back monday night). I will also start working on the commissions this weekend and hopefully start shipping the first of them this coming week as well, depending on how fast the work goes (I want them all to be awesome!).
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all. Seriously, I have never felt quite so much good will towards man.
(I'll post an update on Dooey's return tuesday)
EDIT: Just to clarify, I definitely asked them to set up a payment plan or take partial payment, but they said it wasn't something they did. I also thought about trying to sneak around it all and get a friend to adopt him back for me but I didn't want to take the chance that that wouldn't work out. Also, I've had several people asking where this happened, but until I get Dooey back I'm not going to release the name of the vet, since I don't want to chance anything weird going down before I get him back. (I will say that other than this they've been nice enough, though) ¶ 3:51 PM 2 Comments
Call for help
EDIT EDIT EDIT!!!
The money to get Dooey back has been raised. THANK YOU ALL, everyone who bought something or even spread the word. I didn't know if this would even work, much less work in just a couple hours! I am really humbled and will work extra hard on your commissions!
If you know me, you may know that I'm a fairly private person (despite my constant nonsensical myspace bulletins and updates) and that I don't really like to ask for help or to air my laundry for all to see. You might also know that I love my cat Dooey about as much as anyone has ever loved a cat. He's kind of a maniac but he's kept me more or less sane during some dark times. I am about to ask for a big favor because I need your help to keep Dooey in my life.
Earlier this week, he was suddenly taken ill and when I took him to the vet they told me that he'd probably had a urinary tract infection that had led to crystals forming in his bladder and blocking his urethra. This made his bladder full of poisonous urine that he could not pass, and they needed to get a catheter in him immediately and drain him, etc. The catch was that the whole procedure was going to be 900$. Now, I don't have 900$, or anything remotely close to 900$. No one I know has that much money and I wouldn't feel comfortable borrowing even the bulk of that from anyone in any case. At first I thought that I was going to have to have him put to sleep but the long and the short of it is that to save his life, I had to sign ownership of Dooey over to the vet and they will absorb the cost of the procedure, nurse him back to health, and then adopt him out to someone else. This was literally one of the worst days of my life and I'm not ashamed to say that I sat in the vet's office crying as I signed away my best friend. I felt pretty much like the worst parent ever. The only consolation I had was that he would at least live to bite someone else's ankles as they walked down the hall.
I AM ashamed to admit that I spent the next couple days feeling hopeless and not being all that proactive. However, I must try one last attempt at fixing this problem, and here's where I humbly ask for your assistance. I need to raise 900$ or at least the bulk of that by tuesday morning. It seems impossible to me, but I don't have much to offer besides my art, so I'm offering super cheap commisions and discounted art, with free shipping on everything except the really huge framed pieces. I know that times are tough for all of us right now, so any little bit you can contribute to help me get my baby back will be appreciated more than I can even express.
COMMISSIONS
(FREE SHIPPING ON THESE)
3 commission options in easily framed sizes
FRAMED AND READY TO SHIP ARTWORK:
(FREE SHIPPING ON THE SMALLER PIECES, REDUCED SHIPPING ON THE BIG ASS PAINTINGS)
I don't have pictures of these all in the frames, but they're all generally pretty cool. Trust me, I have great taste in frames.
Dark haired Girls (framed set). two 5x7 paintings that look great together.
ISSUES OF STUDYGROUP12
These are my personal copies of the anthology I put out from 2001-2003. The second issue is a hand-made trade paperback type thing and the 3rd is a spiral bound notebook style thing, also handmade with love. Both have silkscreened covers and xeroxed insides. The 3rd issue has a cool color section and won an ignatz award in 2003. Comics and art from Marc Bell, BALD EAGLES (Victor Cayro), me, Sammy Harkham, Josh Simmons, Todd Bak, Andrice Arp, Souther Salazar, and many more. These are pretty much impossible to find. For what it's worth, I'll sign and do a drawing in any of these ordered. The 3rd issue has two variants, a blue version and a yellow version- first one to order one of these gets their pick.
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The money to get Dooey back has been raised. THANK YOU ALL, everyone who bought something or even spread the word. I didn't know if this would even work, much less work in just a couple hours! I am really humbled and will work extra hard on your commissions!
If you know me, you may know that I'm a fairly private person (despite my constant nonsensical myspace bulletins and updates) and that I don't really like to ask for help or to air my laundry for all to see. You might also know that I love my cat Dooey about as much as anyone has ever loved a cat. He's kind of a maniac but he's kept me more or less sane during some dark times. I am about to ask for a big favor because I need your help to keep Dooey in my life.
Earlier this week, he was suddenly taken ill and when I took him to the vet they told me that he'd probably had a urinary tract infection that had led to crystals forming in his bladder and blocking his urethra. This made his bladder full of poisonous urine that he could not pass, and they needed to get a catheter in him immediately and drain him, etc. The catch was that the whole procedure was going to be 900$. Now, I don't have 900$, or anything remotely close to 900$. No one I know has that much money and I wouldn't feel comfortable borrowing even the bulk of that from anyone in any case. At first I thought that I was going to have to have him put to sleep but the long and the short of it is that to save his life, I had to sign ownership of Dooey over to the vet and they will absorb the cost of the procedure, nurse him back to health, and then adopt him out to someone else. This was literally one of the worst days of my life and I'm not ashamed to say that I sat in the vet's office crying as I signed away my best friend. I felt pretty much like the worst parent ever. The only consolation I had was that he would at least live to bite someone else's ankles as they walked down the hall.
I AM ashamed to admit that I spent the next couple days feeling hopeless and not being all that proactive. However, I must try one last attempt at fixing this problem, and here's where I humbly ask for your assistance. I need to raise 900$ or at least the bulk of that by tuesday morning. It seems impossible to me, but I don't have much to offer besides my art, so I'm offering super cheap commisions and discounted art, with free shipping on everything except the really huge framed pieces. I know that times are tough for all of us right now, so any little bit you can contribute to help me get my baby back will be appreciated more than I can even express.
COMMISSIONS
(FREE SHIPPING ON THESE)
3 commission options in easily framed sizes
FRAMED AND READY TO SHIP ARTWORK:
(FREE SHIPPING ON THE SMALLER PIECES, REDUCED SHIPPING ON THE BIG ASS PAINTINGS)
I don't have pictures of these all in the frames, but they're all generally pretty cool. Trust me, I have great taste in frames.
Dark haired Girls (framed set). two 5x7 paintings that look great together.
ISSUES OF STUDYGROUP12
These are my personal copies of the anthology I put out from 2001-2003. The second issue is a hand-made trade paperback type thing and the 3rd is a spiral bound notebook style thing, also handmade with love. Both have silkscreened covers and xeroxed insides. The 3rd issue has a cool color section and won an ignatz award in 2003. Comics and art from Marc Bell, BALD EAGLES (Victor Cayro), me, Sammy Harkham, Josh Simmons, Todd Bak, Andrice Arp, Souther Salazar, and many more. These are pretty much impossible to find. For what it's worth, I'll sign and do a drawing in any of these ordered. The 3rd issue has two variants, a blue version and a yellow version- first one to order one of these gets their pick.
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