It was just announced on the Maverix Studios Blog that the money raised during the fierce bidding-battles at their Holiday-party/art-auction a few weeks ago totalled a mighty $12,000! Not bad considering that the benefit was arranged in under 3 weeks. This means that the Maverix guys have raised a grand total of $47,000 dollars for charities during their three fund-raisers in 2005. I competed for some paintings by Patrick Awa, Steve Purcell and Jennifer Chang but was defeated in each of those arenas…But I didn’t go home empty handed, as I managed to win this neat little Lady matador painting by Bosco Ng.