Kenosha Festival of Cartooning NCSF Auction Raises Over $10,000 For Kid's Charities In Kenosha!

Open Wings Director Kim Hufford Ackles and Kenosha Festival of Cartooning Director Anne Morse Hambrock with students from Open Wings School for children with autism and other learning challenges.

We are please to announce that the 2014 benefit auction, sponsored by the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation, raised over $10,000 to be split between the two children's charities in Kenosha!

We were honored to present a check for over $5,000 to the Open Wings School which serves children with autism and other learning challenges and also a check for over $5,000 to the Kenosha Clinic of the Children's Hospitals of Wisconsin.

Thank you so much to all the members of the cartooning community who donated art and ephemera to the auction and to all the bidders who valued those items and bid heartily!

And thank you to the NCS Foundation for making this auction a part of their mission to support community causes through cartooning!

Kenosha Festival of Cartooning Director Anne Morse Hambrock presents a check for over $5,000 to Dr. James Lustig, Thomas Miller and Jack Scalcucci of the Children's Hospitals of Wisconsin

Kenosha Festival of Cartooning Director Anne Morse Hambrock presents a check for over $5,000 to Kim Hufford Ackles - Director of the Open Wings School for children with autism and other learning challenges.

Open Wings Students made a lovely "Thank You" card and presented it to Festival Director Anne Morse Hambrock

More Open Wings Students with their "Thank You" card for Festival Director Anne Morse Hambrock