Tag Archive | "auction"

Molly’s fabulous CBLDF poster

Thursday, May 26, 2011

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You may remember me mentioning a huge poster by the shiny Dr Sketchy’s founder Molly Crabapple that she was creating as a fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. BoingBoing reports on the finished poster, which is huge – some 8 feet in height and full of Molly’s wonderfully detailed artwork, begun during the [...]

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Lew Stringer art for sale

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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The redoubtable Lew Stringer is selling some of his art on eBay, including some of his Robo Capers work, signed and at a very reasonable price, check it out:

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Caped Crusaid – Buy someone some postcard art for a fine cause.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

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Martin Eden (of Spandex) sent word of an auction/exhibition he’s involved in – called Caped Crusaid, it’s a postcard exhibition at Orbital Comics London. Featuring lots of great artists and all being auctioned for The Terrence Higgins Trust. Great art and a great cause. Auctions all end on the 15th December, so you’ve still time [...]

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The 20, 000 dollar cartoon

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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Sam Gross’ classic “Frog’s Legs” cartoon from National Lampoon (December 1970) is up for auction on Ebay, starting bids from $20, 000. Be a lovely Christmas present for the cartoon art fan in your life! (thanks to Mike Lynch for the heads-up)

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You can be a character in a Peter F Hamilton novel

Friday, November 5, 2010

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Bestselling science fiction author and all-round good egg Peter F Hamilton tells me that, along with a whole slew of writers, he is offering readers the chance to bid on Ebay to have a character named after them in his next novel, with the funds raised going to Autistica, which campaigns to invest more into [...]

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Help Steve Rude

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

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Tom Spurgeon on the always excellent Comics Reporter alerts us to an awful hole that top comics creator Steve Rude and his family have found themselves in – Steve, like many, has been hit by the economic crisis, so much so that he is now facing a bank foreclosure on his family home. In order [...]

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Hi-Ex charity auction

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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(signed original page of art from Grandville by and (c) Bryan Talbot) With the third Hi-Ex Highlands comics convention due to see a number of comics creators riding into Inverness on the backs of giant atomic mutant haggis in just over a month the website has up some of the fine goodies that have been [...]

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Doctor Who and Torchwood auction

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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(just the thing if you’re planning some interior redesign – a section of TARDIS interior wall) The famous auction house Bonham’s has a number of props and costumes and other assorted collectables from Doctor Who and Torchwood going under the hammer on the 24th of February, from Martha’s costumes to a section of TARDIS wall [...]

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Comics auction in memory of Eric Martin

Monday, December 14, 2009

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As we covered last week comics fan, geek and podcaster Eric Martin passed away unexpectedly at the age of only 36 from a massive heart attack, leaving behind his eight year old  daughter Gracie. As Barry from the Geek Syndicate told us Eric’s  brother Mike has set up a fund for Gracie to draw on [...]

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From our continental correspondent – more stuff for people with too much money

Thursday, December 3, 2009

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The trusted Blake, Jacobs and Mortimer blog, that we’ve quoted before, has found some very nice Jacobs items in the catalogue of a new comics items auction due to be held on December 12th at the Coutea-Bégarie auction house in Paris. Next to a very nice large-sized sketch by Jacobs (valued at 4000 Euros), the [...]

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Art auction for new cartooning education site

Monday, November 23, 2009

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David Lloyd drops us a line to tell us about an interesting project he’s involved with, a new website entitled Cartoon Classroom: “I’m helping a new non-profit educational website get underway and right now I need to tell folks about what’s happening around it as easily and quickly as I can -  it has the [...]

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Conan art for sale

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Gerry Alanguilan is auctioning some original Ernie Chan Conan artwork to benefit the disaster relief funds attempting to help people caught up in the dreadful flooding in the Philippines. On his blog Gerry also reports that the upcoming fifth annual Komikon event will also include an auction to raise funds komikeros affected by the flooding, [...]

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To boldly bid…

Friday, July 17, 2009

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This Hasbro piece of early Star Trek merchandising dates from 1967, a paint-by-numbers kit and, remarkably, is in mint condition, still unopened. As such its extremely rare, eminently collectable and is already upto $1799.99 on Ebay. Somehow I’m guessing whoever buys this is likely to keep it sealed and not open it up for their [...]

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