Hey there Big Shiny Robot fans! It’s time to call out for help. It’s not for anyone here – it’s for great comic artist, Steve Rude. Word is traveling quickly through the geek community that Steve and his family are in danger of losing their house due to tough economic times. His subscriber message says it best, so I’ll let that do the talking:

S.O.S. — Help Steve Rude keep his house

Hey Guys,

Sorry for the dramatic headline but it really is appropriate. Like everyone else, Steve has been effected by the economic downturn, so much so that his house will be up for auction November 15th.

Link to Steve’s Facebook blog. http://tiny.cc/1dco7

In an effort to stave off the foreclosure, Steve has put up pages from The Next Nexus mini-series on eBay at really low prices. Pages from issues #1 and #2 are already up on eBay and issues #3 and #4 will up in a week or two.

Link to Steve’s eBay auctions http://tiny.cc/fup3u

Link to Steve’s store where all the issues as well as other art are shown. http://tiny.cc/xkey3

There’s a lot of pages with the main characters left as well as plenty of pages with his fantastic spaceship designs (they are so very cool.)

His commission list is temporarily closed until he whittles down his backlog a bit but will be opened back up shortly.

edit: It’s come to my attention that the links in the quote weren’t working. This is his eBay link and his other store link. I’m unable to link his Facebook due to access restrictions but I’m sure it’s not hard to find.