Sal Velluto Needs Your HELP!

On May 16 friends of my oft-art partner Sal Velluto created a GoFundMe page to assist Sal with financial debt accrued from surgical/medical procedures to treat his recent cancer illness.  He is recovering but he lost work income putting him thousands in debt. Sal did not reach out for help but he is too much in need to deny it, either, so many of us have reached out to help. The cause has raised about half of the goal amount to date. If you have been a fan of his work and can help him with any amount, meager as it may be, it’ll add up and go a long way. As an Inkwell Awards ambassador since 2010 my non-profit has helped him a bit from our summer convention tour earnings (50% of sold merchandise and monetary donations). Thanks kindly for your consideration.

We Made the Llst of Marvel’s TOP TEN BLACK PANTHER Stories!

The article was posted on Bleeding Cool and the video countdown resides there and on YouTube from July 15.  My comments on Facebook were:

“(We’re proud) to have worked on one story on this Marvel TOP TEN BLACK PANTHER STORIES list with #5 “Killmonger’s Rage” which was our (Priest/Sal Velluto/Almond) longest epic at like a dozen chapters, but I’m surprised not to see “Sturm Und Drang: A Story of Love & War” (BP#26-29) make the l
ist as many felt that that was opus of our run. It included some of the major monarchs of the Marvel Universe, T’Challa’s nemesis Klaw, and it was us that reunited Ororo/Storm back with T’Challa after Claremont introduced them as kids in MTU#100 (which possibly should also be included) decades earlier and influenced Hudlin to later get them hitched (on the list).”