Jonathan Ross, 2000AD & others Donate Items for Charity Auction

Jonathan Ross, Frank Quietly, 2000AD, Paul Cornell, the cast and crew of BBC's Merlin and more have donated items for a charity Ebay auction in memory of Eric Martin who died of a massive heart attack on November 18th during his sleep.

Martin was aged only 36 and had been involved with the comic book related podcasting crew who are the Geek Syndicate, being involved in early few episodes and staying in touch with hosts Barry Nugent and David Montieth. Later he started producing podcasts of his own under the Comic Playground (a look at all ages comics) and DC Noise.

His brother Mike has now set up a donation fund for Eric's eight year old daughter, Gracie.
Geek Syndicate has decided to organise an auction to raise money for the donation fund by asking some the people they have met doing the podcast to contribute something to the auction. The auction will take place on ebay and kick off on Monday 14th December and run until Friday 18th December.

Items are still being sorted out for the auction but at the moment the list is the following:

• Radio and TV host Jonathan Ross will be donating a piece of original comic art from his collection.

• Frank Quitely (Batman and Robin) will be donating an original page from his run on All Star Superman.

• Tommy Lee Edwards (Batman, Hellboy) will be donating a piece of his own art.

• 2000AD will be donating a Greg Staples signed sketch, Books of Invasions Vol. 1,2 & 3 signed both by Pat Mills and Clint Langley (with a quick sketch in each by Clint) and a signed copy of Pat Mills' Requiem Book One.

• Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, Primeval) will be donating a signed initial pitch document for Captain Britain and MI-13 that no one has ever seen.

• Geek Syndicate will be putting in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Century 1910 signed by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

• Titan Books will be putting up Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia and a Watchmen Film Companion signed by Dave Gibbons.

• Shine the team behind BBC's Merlin have kindly offered Series 1 Volume 1 and Series 1 Volume 2 DVD's signed by the cast( Bradley James, Colin Morgan, Angel Coulby, Katie McGrath and Anthony Head).

Details of the auction can be found at www.geeksyndicate.co.uk