Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet

Last year, Matthew Inman, creator of comic The Oatmeal, took website FunnyJunk to task for reposting his comics without attribution. FunnyJunk eventually took them down but recently a lawyer claiming to represent them demanded $20,000 in damages. Rather than send him the money, Inman started a online donation to instead collect and split the money between the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation. Oh, and to take a picture of the money and send it along with a comic of the lawyer’s mother attempting to have sex with a Kodiak bear.

Inman raised the $20K in just over an hour and so far has reached close to $100,000.

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