We Think Mateo Can
Support "Mateo Sends Charles Schulz Spinning in His Grave" while helping homeless youth
Support Mateo's Campaign!
- 3 years of support
- and 4 pairs of socks
Donations
| Name | Amount | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mateo Burtch, It's Me, Mateo! | $30 | San Francisco, CA | 04/14/2010 |
| If I'd pledged to raise $30, I'd be done now. | |||
| Ramona Dviola, Friend | $50 | Coronado, CA | 04/15/2010 |
| Get a job. | |||
| Michelle Berg, Friend | $50 | EL Dorado Hills, CA | 04/15/2010 |
| Thanks for letting us help. Step back, Crumb! | |||
| Lesley Harris, President, Mateo Burtch Fan Club | $50 | Santa Cruz, CA | 04/15/2010 |
| If it cycles like a cartoonist, dresses like a cartoonist and hoots like a cartoonist -- hey!! You are a cartoonist!!! Good luck with the project amigo--'tis a good thing you're doing. | |||
| Gail Mooney, Cousin | $25 | Smoke Rise, GA | 04/15/2010 |
| Hey, I like Ann Coulter! I would love a cartoon with cats, lots of cats! | |||
| Hilary Mine, Friend | $100 | Davis, CA | 04/15/2010 |
| Joyce Yokoe, Friend of Total Weasel Hypocrite | $50 | Belmont, CA | 04/15/2010 |
| and you kept saying it was against your personal moral code to buy wrapping paper from my children...man, you owe me | |||
| Cecile Braun-Jones, Foe | $30 | Boston, MA | 04/15/2010 |
| Too bad you didn't go with your other ideas... you would have received a much larger sum of "encouragement" had you had chosen to throw ONE THOUSAND POUNDS worth of Creationist propaganda into Ann Coulter's open mouth. | |||
| shannon rose, Friend + Marxist Relativist Deadhead spouse | $50 | Aptos, CA | 04/16/2010 |
| Cartooning for kids. Love it! - Ms. Jackhammer Thailand 2010 | |||
| Ethel Lewis, Friend | $50 | Aptos, CA | 04/16/2010 |
| Thanks for what you are doing. Be Good To Yourself at least once a day. | |||
| Coleen Baik, Wing Man | $50 | San Francisco, CA | 04/16/2010 |
| I don't really care about disadvantaged kids or helping others or any of that malarky because I that would be COMMUNISM. But I like your drawer-ings. Even if that's, like, ART or whatever. | |||
| Christina Le, Friend | $10 | Fort Worth, TX | 04/17/2010 |
| ^_^ | |||
| Tracy Orloff, Friend | $50 | Santa Monica, CA | 04/18/2010 |
| Charlie believes that what would make people everywhere truly happy is a cartoon of a train crash. I told him you have your own material, but that I would submit his suggestion. | |||
| Gregory Kimura, FOC, Friend of Cartoon(ist) | $30 | Palo Alto, CA | 04/18/2010 |
| What? Are *all* your male friends underemployed tech writers? Well this underemployed tech writer believes in your cartoons! Still, I'm with Joyce. Expect my Girl Scout daughter to come to your house next year to sell you cookies. Many cookies. Request: Cartoon with God. And maybe a homeless guy. Or maybe a Girl Scout! | |||
| Natalee Ernstrom, Friend | $50 | San Francisco, CA | 04/18/2010 |
| cool idea--great drawings--many thanks, natalee | |||
| Gabrielle Hildebrand, Friend | $25 | San Francisco, CA | 04/19/2010 |
| Michele Cyran, Friend | $25 | Littleton, CO | 04/19/2010 |
| Good man! | |||
| Rebecca Ann Ullrich, Friend | $100 | Albuquerque, NM | 04/19/2010 |
| Most excellent! Do one with god explaining why there are homeless kids in San Francisco, the closest place to Eden we've got. Okay, draw whatever you want and I'll laugh. | |||
| Laura Hancock, Friend | $25 | White Salmon, WA | 04/19/2010 |
| The beauty of living in a commmunity where every other house is a double-wide is the utter lack of homeless teens...or homeless anyones for that matter. Don't relax too much, though. I'll probably be hitting you up during our campaign to buy the police chief a brain. | |||
| Jana McBurney-Lin, Friend | $50 | Los Gatos, CA | 04/20/2010 |
| You bring sunshine and laughter. Thanks! | |||
| Suzie Wan, The land phone line killer | $50 | Foster City, CA | 04/20/2010 |
| In 4 days, you have already drawn 6 cartoons! I think you should up the number of drawings :-) Perhaps I'll get more $$ if you do ;-) | |||
| Pamela Ronald, Friend | $250 | davis, CA | 04/20/2010 |
| Anonymous, Friend | $25 | 04/21/2010 | |
| You are a good man, Mateo. You inspire. | |||
| Omar Alonso, Friend | $50 | Redwood Shores, CA | 04/21/2010 |
| Felicitaciones! Muy buena idea. Espero que Quino te mande a corte por si le robas algunos dibujos :) Felicitaciones de vuelta. | |||
| Annette L Gardner, Friend | $50 | San Francisco, CA | 04/21/2010 |
| Dana Naughton, Thanks but I'm in one, however I'll meet you for coffee | $50 | State College, PA | 04/21/2010 |
| Do you have any cartoons with toasters or other small appliances? Or circling birds? | |||
| Sue Young, Friends in LA | $213 | Los Altos, CA | 04/22/2010 |
| Mateo we love you. That's $53.3675 from each of us. Wonderful cause. Don't get a finger cramp. I miss my whiteboard. Young and the Rackelmann | |||
| rebecca chiao, Friend | $36 | Portland, OR | 04/23/2010 |
| You'd better finish those cartoons or I want my money back. | |||
| Aron Choi, Friend | $25 | South San Francisco, CA | 04/24/2010 |
| Your cartoons are awesome, Mateo! Keep up the good work! | |||
| Catherine Cameron, groupie | $30 | Palo Alto, CA | 04/25/2010 |
| way to go, mateo | |||
| Carol Schmitt, Friend | $50 | Lawrence, KS | 04/26/2010 |
| Hope you have the homeless teens' problem cleaned up by my next visit. | |||
| Kim Chang, Friend | $159 | Basalt, CO | 04/27/2010 |
| Hope you're fast and furiously drawing these cartoons...I'll check them out next. Proud of you for giving your talent so generously. Hugs, Kim | |||
| Sheri Mar, On-call Nutritionist | $25 | Seattle, WA | 04/28/2010 |
| And to think, I used to get this stuff for free! Way to go Mateo! | |||
| Robin M Tovey, Lucy Liu | $25 | Portland, OR | 04/28/2010 |
| um, could you please be sure that Hello Kitty figures into at least one cartoon? | |||
| Roseamber Sumner, atavistic angel | $25 | Lopez Island, WA | 05/02/2010 |
| Alexandra French, Friend | $50 | Honolulu, HI | 05/02/2010 |
| you da best / maikai'i a'e 'oe. | |||
| Mitchell Gitin, Friend | $100 | San Francisco, CA | 05/05/2010 |
| Mateo: Your cartoons are of New Yorker quality and I hope you have been (or will be) submitting them to The New Yorker! Congratulations on achieving your campaign goal. From the Ultimate Creator of ATC, Mitch Gitin (Rob's Dad) | |||
| Reid Sams, Friend | $25 | San Francisco, CA | 05/05/2010 |
| I'd have donated a whole lot more if only these were funny. Sure, they're beautiful to look at, but enough with the serious, arty stuff. Go for funny next time. You know, funny. | |||
| Corinne Mar, Friend | $25 | Moss Beach, CA | 05/06/2010 |
| Congratulations and good luck. | |||
| Joseph Scott, Chicharrón | $50 | Oakland, CA | 05/06/2010 |
| I'm supporting you in this cause . . . well, I don't know why, actually. Do you really use that much Brylcreem? | |||
| Susan (Snooze) Green, Friend, at the very least. | $50 | Birmingham, AL | 05/06/2010 |
| So much better than bicycling! Exercise, feh... With much love from Birmingham. Snooze | |||
| Jacqueline Sutton, Friend | $100 | Houston, TX | 05/06/2010 |
| Okay, so Dead Man's Curve had me laughing so loud, my dogs wondered what all the fuss was about. I should have visited this site a lot sooner. For my guilt, you got a bigger donation. How ya like me now? | |||
| Anjali Mutucumarana, Friend | $25 | San Francisco, CA | 05/06/2010 |
| Nice work! You better replicate in Vietnam =) | |||
| Caroline Judy, Friend | $100 | Palo Alto, CA | 05/06/2010 |
| Laurie Edwards, Former writing group person | $25 | Berkeley, CA | 05/07/2010 |
| Man, you're still funny and a great writer - great campaign idea (Greg told me about it). | |||
| Mateo Burtch, Blokes & Birds | $40 | San Francisco, CA | 05/09/2010 |
| My English friends Ann-Marie and Tim were here visiting me in the States, and they were chuffed to bits about this site, even though they find me personally rather naff and manky. But, being British, they aren't allowed to use credit cards, so they slipped me a couple quid and asked me to have a go. So this is actually their very gear and fab donation, not mine. Cheerio. | |||
| Carol Laursen | $50 | Cleveland Hts, OH | 05/10/2010 |
| Mitchell Gitin, Friend | $50 | San Francisco, CA | 05/14/2010 |
| Mateo: Your most newly-posted cartoons are so funny and give me such a laugh (the one on "boogie-boarding:) is priceless, that here is another financial smidgeon to move you closer to your goal. Mitch Gitin | |||
| Nick Thomas, Health Inspector at Susan Green | $100 | San Francisco, CA | 05/14/2010 |
| Wait, you SWORE you'd never use "Blunderbus" jokes! Was the 'head on fire" panel a Dirwood Kirby reference? | |||
| Erik Wood, 40-Something Bench Warmer | $50 | San Francisco, CA | 05/14/2010 |
| Hey Dude, the Writers Block cartoon is worth every penny. Put it on a T-Shirt, give Kimura a commission to peddle it at Poetry Festivals, then sit back and retire.... I want one! | |||
| Lucy Dyke, Friend | $100 | Studio City, CA | 05/14/2010 |
| Eric Schorger, Comrade Verbiage Mechanic | $50 | Albany, CA | 05/17/2010 |
| Thanks for the opportunity to acquire merit. Now there's less likelihood I'll be reincarnated as a tapeworm. Moreover, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. | |||
| James Delaney | $50 | Berkeley, CA | 05/19/2010 |
Goal
My goal? To meet a pouty-lipped French actress and together fill a hot tub with bouillabaisse sauce and then we put on giant papier mâché chipmunk heads and... actually, the more I think about it, the more I have to admit that that goal, while admirable as hell, isn't going to help homeless teens in San Francisco very well. Damn you, homeless teens of San Francisco!
All right then, my goal is to draw 20 cartoons in 30 days. That works out, if my calculations are correct, to ONE CARTOON EVERY 3.2 SECONDS! Ideally, they'll be funny cartoons, humorous cartoons, cartoons that will make sick children spring out of their beds with laughter, where they'll smash into their IV units and send them careening into the syphilitic pensioner in the bed next to them as he's watching the ending of "Mayberry R.F.D.."
However, I may settle for drawing 15 cartoons of bricks with thought balloons that say, "Why me? Why am I a brick?" That is to say, 15 cartoons approximately as amusing as your average "Luann" strip.
I will sketch them out, and the better ones I'll color in. People who donate the most can choose an original cartoon if they want to and I'll sign it and send it to them. Alternatively, if you donate a big amount then you can request an original cartoon of your own invention. Remember, folks, someday these cartoons will be worth something, assuming I become a famous astronaut.
(By the way ... click on the thumbnails of the cartoons to see the full image. Oh, and please don't download them.)
I chose this goal because
I chose this goal because it seemed a lot easier than my original three ideas, which were:
1. Run the Boston Marathon while wearing a giant papier mâché chipmunk head and covering a pouty-lipped French actress with bouillabaisse sauce.
2. Throw ONE THOUSAND POUNDS worth of Creationist propaganda into a landfill, possibly Ann Coulter's open mouth.
3. Perform an act of kindness.
Also, even though I love to cartoon, I hardly do it anymore, and maybe this will be the KICK IN THE PANTS that will get me to drawing again, and then someone will spot my work and ask me to write a screenplay, and I'll win an Oscar, but I'll turn it down because I prefer to be just a simple, humble cartoonist, and then I'll find out that I'm broke and I'll beg for the Oscar back, but they'll say, no, sorry, we melted it down for fillings for Beyoncé, and then I'll go back to living in the sewers of London with nothing but a harmonica and some Bloody Mary mix.
I'd like to get back to doing more cartooning.
I'm helping because
I'm going to make a confession here. Generally, I don't like campaigns where people ask their friends for contributions. I won't go into the reasons here, but I generally don't. So I'm being a TOTAL WEASEL HYPOCRITE here by doing one of my own.
There are basically two reasons why I'm being a TOTAL WEASEL HYPOCRITE here.
The first is that I like the fact that ATC's I Think I Can campaign lets people choose the kind of goals that really mean something to them. Nothing against people who bicycle across the Pacific Ocean to raise money for stoat research, or whatever, but I like the variety of goals here, and I like that I can pick a goal that I really want to do.
The second reason is that if I don't do this, Rob Gitin, ATC's founder, will cut off my U-No Bar supply. No, actually it's because if you've lived in San Francisco for very long you've seen ATC's staff and volunteers on the streets, helping a lot of desperate, down folks who don't have many other people to look out for them. ATC's staff and volunteers are amazing people and do amazing work and I feel very good that I can help out in a small way.
About At The Crossroads
ATC walks the streets of San Francisco, reaching out to homeless youth and young adults on their turf. We work with young people who others have given up on, who would not get help without us. Since we started 13 years ago, we have worked with more than 5,000 youth, helping them build outstanding lives.