Tabletop adventurers and followers of the d20, we’ve got a donation drive for you! Donate $7.24 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this lot of D&D valuables donated by Wizards of the Coast! We’ll run this donation drive until 12:30 AM PST.

God Save the Queen Fashions LLC started as a small home business in Atlanta by Catherine Lewis. She began with small alterations and costumes before moving to drag costumes and finally cosplay in 2008. Now, with a small team of talented artisans, GSTQ Fashions produces numerous, high quality costumes for both fans and costume connoisseurs alike all year round. GSTQ previously donated a custom leather Mass Effect N7 jacket to Desert Bus 6 and we are so excited to have them back this year! Thank you God Save the Queen for your support!

We’re down to our last giveaway of Ken “Value Added” Steacy’s visit – a Cosplay Caricartoon by Joan Steacy! Donate $6.16 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win. We’ll run this donation drive until shortly after 11:05 PM PST. Here’s the description for this lot:

JagaSilk was created in 2005 by Miyuki and Jared Nyberg whose goal is to act as nodes of knowledge for the maccha world outside of Japan. These specialty importers of maccha green tea and its tools are based in Victoria,BC.

JagaSilk is a new food sponsor for Desert Bus 9. This year they provided tea concentrate and kombucha to keep the Bus well caffeinated. Thank you JagaSilk for your support! And for the month of November if you mention the coupon code DesertBus you get a 15% discount on your order.

Keeping the Steacy train rolling we have the Air & Space Smithsonian Archival Video disk set. We will run this as a Donation Drive for donations of $6.00 or multiples thereof for the next half hour. 8:50 PM PST is our end time on this one!

Ken’s just plane crazy about things with wings! This set includes 6 disks, each containing 100,000 images of aviation and space development all the way from the Wright brothers through the late 80’s. It also includes catalogues for quick reference.

It’s Ken Steacy Time, here are your links to everything being Auctioned/Given Away over the next 2 hours!

Live Auctions:

24 Signed Trading Cards

Ken (Value Added) Steacy Original Self-Portrait for CBLDF

Venom Cover by Adam Kubert & Ken Steacy

TMNT Magazine full-colour dinosaurs original artwork

Victor Vector & Yondo Comics Original Artwork

Astro Boy full-colour original double page spread

Spider-Man Meet the Characters original artwork – Mary Jane

World of Warcraft framed full-colour original: Onyxia

Unpublished original sketches for Iron-Man storybook

Darth Vader 27 colour silkscreen press proof print

Night and the Enemy original airbrush painting

Commissioned full-colour portrait painting

Giveaways:

Monochrome Character Sketch

Air & Space Smithsonian Archival Video disk set

Collector’s Classics Binders – covers by Ken Steacy

Tsukino-Con original painting

Cosplay Caricartoon done by Joan Steacy

PLEASE NOTE: At the request of Joan & Ken Steacy, and with the permission of Child’s Play, 50% of the donations for this item will go to the Desert Bus organizing team, in recognition of their efforts in putting on this event. The other 50% will go to Child’s Play.

Harrison Krix, the man behind Volpin Props, has made your dreams come true, and you probably didn’t even realize it. Volpin Props is world famous for its nerdy Daft Punk Helmets, Planet Express from Futurama, Needler from Halo, and so much more—you name the nerdy activity, and there’s a chance Volpin Props has made something awesome from it. Harrison Krix has been creating since 2007, and he made it into his full time job in 2013.

Harrison has donated some incredible props to us in the past for auction, one might remember a certain volunteer and his Scissor Blade and this year is no different. Thank you very much for all your support, Volvin Props!

Fugi has decided to run an all-shift Art Challenge because, and I quote, “He likes to make the Blog Team’s lives as difficult as possible”.

*sigh* Thanks Fugi

But I am super excited for this challenge. Fugi’s favourite game is Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. He would like fan art of The Wind Waker, no specific theme, no specific references, no specific media. Let your imagination sail across the Great Sea and send your entries to [email protected] with the subject line Wind Waker. Please include the public name you’d like to be used if you are selected as a winner. 

The prize for this challenge is one of our Desert Bus for Hope 9 T-Shirts from Fangamer. As we discussed earlier the shirt is available for pre-order but this will be the fastest way of getting one of these amazing shirts!

And our winner is KV1NN4!

We had many wonderful entries but in the end there could only be one winner. We have our three honourable mentions here.

And here are all of our entries!