Refreshing the Reports (Updates)
Bessie Mae Kelley, Kieran Castaño, Robert Ripley, Harry Bliss, Hergé Alex Jay took note of the Bessie Mae Kelley stories…
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Wildly Random Weekend Roundup
Award Winning Cartoonists Kevin Necessary (1st Place) and Rich Williams (2nd Place) win 2022 cartooning awards…
Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Page Goes for $480,000
It cost nearly half a million dollars to take home the original art by Bill Watterson for the May 24,…
Calvin and Hobbes Original Daily Goes for $216,000 (and other original art sales)
The original art for a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, dated February 6, 1992, sold at auction for $216, 000.00….
Original Art – Herriman v Raymond v Watterson
Heritage Auctions currently has the original art of a George Herriman/Krazy Kat daily strip, an Alex Raymond/Flash Gordon Sunday page,…
Doonesbury NFT Charity Auction Goes Live Today – Updated
NFTs still represented a strange new world to many cartoonists last year when Jason Chatfield decided to convene an online…
Doonesbury NFT/Signed Prints Benefit Auction
From Intelligent Collector: In November 2020, Trudeau attempted the seemingly impossible: whittling down that mountain of strips to a…
Elon Musk Tweeted Cartoon Now For Sale as NFT
Colin Wright, evolutionary biologist, is the man who created the now famous cartoon Elon Musk tweeted last week. Colin has…
John Kovalic – Cartooning For Ukraine
Cartoonist John Kovalic is best known for Dork Tower and Apples to Apples. Recently John cartooned a Ukraine related drawing…
Hal Foster Layouts for J.C. Murphy Prince Valiant
In 1970 Prince Valiant creator Hal Foster was nearing 80 years and decided to slow down. After interviewing a few…
Insane Nonsense in the Original Art Market
So this happened… From Eric Diaz at The Nerdist: Penciller Mike Zeck’s artwork for page 25 of Marvel’s classic event…
Being For the Benefit of St. Jude’s Kids – Reminder
A reminder that there are only two days left until the National Cartoonists Society auction to benefit the St. Jude Children’s…
NCS Auction for The Benefit of St. Jude’s Children
Beginning on October 27th and running through November 3rd of this year, the National Cartoonists Society and the NCS Foundation…
Signed Schulz Sunday Sets Peanuts Auction Record
The art for a 1966 Christmas themed Sunday Peanuts comic strip and signed by Charles Schulz as “Sparky” set a…
My Two Million Dollar Comic Book – update
Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962). First appearance of Spider-ManAt Heritage Auctions with 6 days until end of bidding. Okay, so my…