Kevin Paul Shaw Broden, artist and co-writer for the webcomic FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY, has always felt strongly about helping out the hungry and homeless.
"The first time that I experienced is going back... my parents were already helping out through the church and other groups... we were taking things up to one of the skid row missions in Los Angeles. I felt uncomfortable not because I felt unsafe but because we were there in our big car and these people had nothing. I was about six or seven at the most as best I can remember."
He continued to stay involved with the cause in a variety of ways, even beyond the canned food drives at school.
"Through our community organization of affiliated churches, I've participated in monthly food drives at our church plus a month long drive in August where I regularly help transport the donations to the distribution center where a family can receive two bags of needed emergency groceries a month. Through this I've also participated in an annual hunger walk which also provides for local and worldwide needs. Also, I've assisted my Dad as a chef making homemade recipies for several years at a fundraising benefit for the organization, where he has won ribbons each year of the event which is judged by professional chefs."
Kevin's experiences, especially involving the fundraisingcooking competition, made deciding to have FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY be part of the cookbook WEBCOMICS: WHAT'S COOKING? an easy decision. WEBCOMICS: WHAT'S COOKING? is a cookbook featuring art from a variety of webcomic artists along with a variety of recipes. Proceeds from this book are going to Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest) and Food Banks of Canada. The book is a project of TGT Media.
"And so I think it is good we are also able to provide a recipe that will also help feed more people worldwide through this cookbook," Kevin says about the opportunity.
To find out the full recipe for what was made, and to obtain exclusive FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY comic content, pre-order your copy of WEBCOMICS: WHAT'S COOKING? at http://tgtmedia.com/preorder.
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KEVIN PAUL SHAW BRODEN is four names of creativity you need to remember. He is an animation and comic book writer, having spent more then 15 years in and around comics and animation. Kevin got his break into the comic book art side of things working as an art assistant, and you can see his special credit inside Image Comics' SUPREME #1. Also, through the California State University Summer Arts Program, he storyboarded the music videos for "Summer Single" by John Wesley Harding (Warner Bros.), "One" by BiGod20 (Warner Bros.), and "Beestung" by Kristin Hersch (Warner Bros.).
SHANNON MUIR is an author of animation scripts, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction books about the animation industry. She's also worked in the animation field in a production capacity for several major companies.
FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY is a webcomic, with a new black and white page generally released weekly, that follows a story of a teenager named Debra Clay and her friends as they struggle with their newfound celebrity as musicians and superheroes when they discover Debra inherited her grandmother's powers. The webcomic will celebrate its tenth anniversary in the summer of 2011.
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