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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Speaking of helping Stan and Sharon Sakai, CAPS just started another round of ebay auctions to help raise money for Stan and Sharon. </font><div><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><br></font></div><div><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Included in this round is an auction for some artwork by the late great Dougie McCoy. Dougie actually loved Usagi almost as much as he loved Groo, and I believe he would have been thrilled to have some of his art being auctioned off to help one of his favorite cartoonists. </font><div><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><br></font></div><div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3">What is up for auction is not one drawing by Dougie, nor two, or three, or even four.... It is a set of six individual </font><font size="3">drawings of various characters from Stan Sakai's saga of the ronin rabbit. Usagi & Tomoe, the woodcutter couple, Gen & </font><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Inukai</span><font size="3"> the Stray Dog, Yagi & Gorogoro (Lone Goat & Kid), Kitsune and her apprentice, and last but not least - Jei San & Keiko. </font></font></div><div><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3"><br></font></font></div><div><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAN-SAKAI-AUCTION-6-Different-Original-DOUGIE-McCOY-Art-USAGI-FRIENDS-Pen-Ink-/141274030676" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAN-SAKAI-AUCTION-6-Different-Original-DOUGIE-McCOY-Art-USAGI-FRIENDS-Pen-Ink-/141274030676</a></div><div><br><div>> From: bruce.senkpiel@justice.gc.ca<br>> To: groop@groo.com<br>> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 23:18:27 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [Groop] Octopus Print Update<br>> <br>> My Octopus prints arrived safely yesterday! Thanks again Gary! And thanks too for giving us an opportunity to contribute a little to Stan's expenses at this difficult time.<br>> <br>> Bruce :O)<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Groop mailing list<br>> Groop@groo.com<br>> http://mailman.newdream.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/groop<br></div></div></div> </div></body>
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