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Massey Charity Auction 2008: Athar Malik and Elisa Chan (published August 23, 2008 on WoB) Athar won the second West of Bathurst cameo and requested that Elisa appear in the comic with him. The two then won this item year after year after year after year... Elisa won this one. Athar enthusiastically bid against her, despite the fact that they knew they would both end up in the comic, no matter who won. I honestly don't even remember which of them won in 2010. By this point, it didn't really matter. Athar
and Elisa finally stopped bidding on the item in the charity auction,
so they didn't appear at all in 2011. In 2012, however, I brought them
back, mostly just because I could. Yeah...it just wasn't worth fighting the presence of these two any more. They were clearly regular characters now. This was me making a fourth-wall-shattering ad for my Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of the monstrously huge West of Bathurst collection. Elisa and Athar have since gone on to become characters in It Never Rains. Elisa gets to be a time traveller's doctor, which is quite exciting. Ryan is a famed jokester, but he takes a long
time to get back to innocent cartoonists who just want to put him in
their comics (thus the two-and-a-half-year gap between Ryan winning the
auction and appearing in the comic). Elizabeth,
the wife of former Master John Fraser, is very good at 1) flower
arranging and 2) staying very still as her husband bounces around her. Ruedi's devotion to organising Massey film nights is the stuff of legend. James told me some things about himself. That was not very wise of him. |
Kate Blair
is a Toronto author; click on the comic to read a blurb about her and
find a few relevant links. The comic takes place at the launch of her
latest novel, The Magpie's Library. |