Showing posts with label Sempervirens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sempervirens. Show all posts

Friday, December 20, 2024

XMas in the Emergency Room WITHIN OUR REACH "Home for Christmas"

Our Yuletide Tale Involves a Hospital and Terminal Illness...

...but there's no involvement by the patients with a doctor or other medical practitioner!
This tale, written by Shair and illustrated by Eric Shanower appeared in the Yultetide-season charity benefit book Within Our Reach (1991) with proceeds going equally to AmFAR and Sempervirens.
Besides AIDS patients, the comic ran stories about the poor and homeless, undocumented immigrants, and the clinically-depressed, all set at Christmastime.
The one-shot was the final publication by independent publisher Star*Reach, which became a "packager" providing editorial and art services for other publishers through the 1990s.
Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year
We're taking next week off, but we'll be back the week after New Year's Day.

Marvel Comics, The American Cancer Society and the Story So Nice, They Told it Twice!

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