Consider supporting a favored cartoonist and consider supporting Cartoonists Rights. Original Wallace the Brave Comic Strip Art Cartoonist Will Henry has an offer for you: This Holiday season I’ve decided to make some of my original comics available for purchase. I figure I’d rather have them out in the world instead of sitting in storage […]
NEW YORK, NY — Doyle is MADly excited to offer the personal collection of the award-winning comic artist and author Al Jaffee. The auction of over one-hundred and fifty lots will be held at Doyle on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 10am. Doyle Auctioneers and Appraisers is listing original art and other ephemera of Al […]
Original art up for auction – some drawn especially for this event, some older art donated for this event. For example: Sergio Aragonés drawn for this event, Garry B. Trudeau from earlier this year donated for the event. Auctions for both the above end later this afternoon, but that doesn’t apply to all the offerings. […]
A London woman rediscovered original cartoon art including seven Andy Capp strips by Reg Smythe. Andy Lines reports for The Daily Mirror: Rare original Andy Capp strips have been found in a cellar, 30 years after they were hidden away there. The signed Reg Smythe works were among 2,222 Daily Mirror toons from the 20th […]
Original Peanuts comic strip artwork by Charles M. Schulz are highly prized by collectors. So naturally some try to profit off that attraction. Artist and original art collector Rob Stolzer makes us aware of one such attempt. Live Auctioneers carries an Andrew Auctions, who “acts solely as an agent for various owners and consignors,” item […]
Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have selected 103 pieces from their 26-year-old, award-winning strip Zits for Heritage Auctions’ sale on January 4. Zits has appeared in more than 1,700 newspapers worldwide since its introduction in July 1997. The offering consist of nearly 100 daily and Sunday strips and then a few specialty pieces. The strips […]
Cartoonist Chris Browne passed away early this year, now much of his, and his wife Carroll who predeceased him by a few years, estate is going up for sale. KELO of Sioux Falls South Dakota reports: Now 10 months after his passing much of his estate is going up for sale at his home on […]
Occasionally The Daily Cartoonist goes off-trail with some tenuous links to newspaper comics and cartoons… Shaenon K. Garrity at Publishers Weekly checks into WebToons and webcomics getting hard copy editions. Forget swiping right. Online comics are racking up readers, and the test of success is how far readers will scroll on down. As demand for […]
Dana Summers was too young for the originals, perhaps, like many of us, he became a fan later. © Tribune Content Agency/Dana Summers; © EC Comics Gary Shapiro retired from KUSA-TV after nearly 50 years with the station.Rather than a gold watch he got something better, a Drew Litton original. Watch the presentation […]
Heritage Auctions currently has the original art of a George Herriman/Krazy Kat daily strip, an Alex Raymond/Flash Gordon Sunday page, and a Bill Watterson/Calvin and Hobbes daily up for bid. The Herriman Krazy Kat is a very early sample of before the kat and mouse had their own strip, a time when they starred in […]