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Dynamite Issues Vampirella Lithograph to Help Pay Joyce Chin's Medical Bills

Bleeding Cool reported on artist Joyce Chin being hospitalized upon arriving in Chicago heading into C2E2 – just as her Vampirella story in Playboy Magazine was being published. Joyce suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage (stroke), exacerbated by a broken ankle from the resulting fall. Thankfully, Chicago's Presence Resurrection hospital was able to perform surgery and provide care and she reports that she has not experienced any noticeable loss of function, a great blessing for such a well regarded artist. However, costs above her medical bills were not covered by her health insurance as she was hospitalized for nearly two weeks.

Chin has already launched a GoFundMe to help with bills and to that end, Dynamite Entertainment, her current publisher, have organised a benefit sale with a Vampirella lithograph by Chin, offered signed and unsigned. The piece chosen for this lithograph was Joyce's first work on the Daughter of Drakulon, originally an alternate cover for Vampirella (2001) #20, reproduced in high quality on the 11" by 17" lithograph print.

Should Joyce not need all/any of the money from this, then the proceeds will be going to The Hero Initiative.

Breaking into the industry in the mid-1990s, Chin got major notice for her artwork in Wynonna Earp, written by Beau Smith. From there, Chin moved onto a run on Xena: Warrior Princess comics at Topps and Dark Horse, today reprinted by Dynamite in the Classic Years Omnibus. In the 2000s she began working with Top Cow and contributed to some of the earliest Dynamite titles such as the Monster War crossover. Recent work includes cover variants for Black Panther, Mighty Thor, Doctor Strange and Ms. Marvel. For Dynamite she has continued to contribute to Vampirella and has drawn many covers for the Chaos! line including Evil Ernie, Purgatori, Lady Demon and Alice Cooper vs. Chaos.

"I've been working with Dynamite/Dynamic Forces off and on for around two decades now, on a huge variety of incredible characters," said Joyce Chin. "This lithograph is one of the pieces people have told me is one of their favorites."

"Joyce and Arthur have long been two of my favorite artists and I've had the pleasure of working with them. They both are incredibly talented and have unique styles. I'm fortunate to have been close friends with them for years and was shocked to hear of Joyce's injury," said Nick Barrucci, Dynamite CEO and Publisher. "We thought the perfect way to boost their fundraising efforts was to give fans the opportunity to help as well as receive one of Joyce's most beautiful pieces as a bonus."

Funds raised in excess of Joyce's needs will go toward the Hero Initiative. The charity is a not-for-profit organization set up to assist comic creators with health, medical and quality-of-life assistance.

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