In fact, before he created the comic strip, Tevis spent weeks asking cash-strapped friends and family for help and walking door-to-door in the district. He raised $1,525.
The comic strip—at www.seantevis.com/3000 [1]—was first posted online July 16. Today, when he files his campaign finance forms with the Kansas secretary of state's office, Tevis will report that he has raised $95,162.76 in donations through PayPal, the online service that allows payments and money transfers via the Internet.
Via Sean Tevis [2], “Kansan sticks it to election system [3]”
It looks like he made his goal and then some [4], but I've still yet to see him get mentioned at Instapundit [5].
[1] http://seantevis.com/kansas/3000/running-for-office-xkcd-
[2] http://seantevis.com/weblog/story/first-big-interview-the-los-angeles-
[3] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-candidate28-