Recap and Photos: Cartoonists Draw Blood – American Red Cross Blood Drive 2017
Oct23
On October 21, 2017, we had our fifth annual “Cartoonists Draw Blood” blood drive event with the American Red Cross. The event started in 2013 and has been going strong since!
This year we had a change of location because we wanted to be able to do the drive in advance of Halloween (to go with our theme) and there were some logistic date issues early on, but we were able to be hooked up with Palisades Community Church in Washington, DC for this year’s event — and everything worked out great. Thanks to Troy-Jeffery Allen for co-chairing the event with me!
Thanks to all the cartoonists who donated their time and talents: Steve Artley, Carolyn Belefski, and Joe Sutliff were drawing during the full blood drive. Art Hondros and Eric Gordon came to draw for donors during the second half of the drive. We were also able to showcase our first anthology, Trick or Treat.
Thanks to AIGA DC for reaching out to Cartoonists Draw Blood and including us to join DC Design Week.
Thanks to Joe Carabeo for photographing the event.
Thanks to our sponsors: Cartoonists Draw Blood, American Red Cross, National Cartoonists Society
Keep your eyes and ears open for another blood drive next fall.
Thanks to everyone for being a part of this and saving so many lives with cartooning — in addition to having a great time with us.
More photos can be found in the gallery on Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/CartoonistsDrawBlood/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1534734869940511
XOXO,
Carolyn