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Four new pieces up now on eBay for the museum/Hairy Cell Leukemia fundraiser, including this piece by Patrick McDonnell.

More up this week, including a really neat piece by Patrick McDonnell!

4 new auctions this week, Daniel Warren Johnson, Jeffrey Brown, Matt Harding, and Kelly McNutt! Support two great causes and take home some original art!

Only one day to bid on this exceptional Daniel Warren Johnson piece at the CAM charity auction! Help out two good causes, but a piece of art on your wall. Thanks to Daniel and Felix for the donation.

Thanks for posting this and being a good friend of the Museum. Got some great new pieces up this week, closing tomorrow, including this gem from Stuart! He doesn't do a ton of watercolors I am told, and this piece is stunning. I held it in my hands to scan and didn't want to give it to the museum! https://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/ms3tbwtn

We have new auctions closing tomorrow. Great pieces, in no particular order by Stuart Immonen, Dan Cooney, Judd Winick, Denis St. John and Jon Bean Hastings.

Thank you for the support Ron!

Another round of auctions are ending in a few days. This time, we have some very nice pieces by Harry Bliss, Ben Seto, Roger Langridge, Brent Anderson, and Jonathan Lemon! Thanks very much for your support! https://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/2nptdrnj

A number of collectors got Jeffrey Brown sketches at Comic-Con, thank you for that. We have five new auctions running on eBay this week. Great pieces by Ryan Sook, Christian Meesey, Derf Backderf, Gareth Monger, and Roy Chang. Thanks as always for your bids. https://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/2nptdrnj

As our auctions are running, we are also doing a Sketch-a-thon here at ComicCon; you can order them from home and don't have to be at the show they will be shipped to you. Jeffrey Brown and others are doing them; link here. https://www.cartoonart.org/store/comic-con-original-sketch

Our next round of auctions is now live on eBay. This week we have a terrific piece by Aaron Conley, one of my favorite modern artists. He's got that cartoonish yet realistic look I love. He's a great cartoonist if you ask me! Thanks to Felix for rallying a few of his artists to help out. And, of course, a thank you to all the artists who so graciously donated their time and talent to help us out this year. Also this week, pieces by Tom Beland, Gemma Correll, Graham Annable, and Joe Staton. Thanks for reading and for supporting the Cartoon Art Museum! https://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/2nptdrnj

Hi- We've finally got these auctions underway. We had some eBay issues with the Charity part; possibly, due to their managed payments system, and we couldn't post as a charity for some reason. But after many phone calls, we finally got it sorted out. So, the first week of auctions started a few days ago. This week we're starting with four pieces. Jamie Cosley, Keith Harrop, Michael Jantze, and Bill Morrison of Bongo fame have donated pieces. Please bid if a piece speaks to you; the money raised will go towards funding the museum's activities, as well as a portion going to the Hairy Cell Leukemia Foundation in Dave's name. In the coming weeks, we'll have pieces by Arron Conley, Ryan Sook, Harry Bliss, Stuart Immonen, Judd Winick, Jeffrey Brown, Partick McDonnell, Mark Badger, Jon Way$hak, Paul Pope, Scott Morse, and many more! So check this URL every week if you are interested, and I will try to remember to post the week's auctions here as a reminder. Thanks again for your support of the Cartoon Art Museum. It's been a tough few years for non-profits and museums, so if the mood strikes you, throw a bid or two our way! https://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/2nptdrnj

The Cartoon Art Museum, in cooperation with The Rocketeer Trust, announces an all-star tribute to Dave Stevens and The Rocketeer, the Museum's latest original art auction fundraiser. Original artwork created for this auction will be exhibited at the Cartoon Art Museum this spring and will be featured in an exhibition catalog. We already have an impressive list of creators lined up, and as the pieces come in they will be posted here, and at our Cartoon Art Museum page on CAF Twenty percent of the auction proceeds will go to the Hairy Cell Leukemia Foundation in honor of Dave Stevens. Dave's sister has graciously given us permission to do this show/auction. "It is very exciting to have an exhibition at the Cartoon Art Museum honoring Dave’s art legacy, spanning from Saturday morning cartoon art to comic and pin-up art,” says Jennifer Stevens-Bawcum. “I appreciate the Museum's desire to pay tribute to his Rocketeer comic book creation with the auction and exhibition." The tribute art auction will be followed by an exhibition of Dave Stevens's original Rocketeer artwork this summer. Proceeds from the auction and catalog will also support the Cartoon Art Museum, an educational non-profit institution that will be celebrating its 40th anniversary next year. If you are a working comic or strip artist and would like to participate, please contact Andrew Farago (gallery@cartoonart.org) for more information.

To Felix and Chris's point, it took me over a decade to get a commission from Arthur Adams. And this is after knowing him for many years (manning a booth across from him at SDCC for many years, seeing him at set up, and chatting, etc,) and buying art from him-- he's one of my favorite "modern" artists. But I'd always be too far down the list or found it to be far too long by the time I got to his table to sign up because I can't stomach lines. But I'd ask when I'd see him at random shows, and he'd generally say "sign up." So I did it more than once, but it was years before I got one. Sometimes he never made it that far down the list where my name sat. I never took it personally, and certainly never sold off any of his art because of it. Who knows why? Maybe he just wasn't "feeling it." Or maybe he was tired of doing commissions and seeing them flipped on eBay for 2X 15 minutes after he delivered it. The last thing you want is a commission from an artist who isn't in the right frame of mind to draw whatever it is you want. Arthur crushed my commission. I mean, he really did a nice job for me. It was worth every penny as well as the 10-year wait. I'd say hang in there. When you do get a DWJ commission, it'll make it that much more special.

Hi Ricky Bobby. I assume that’s a screen name. Mine is John Butler. Yes, I owned it for a bit longer than 10 months. And that link to Rob Stiefel's piece on the Kirby Museum page that you posted was written before I had researched the piece. I think it’s human nature probably (or at least mine) to defend something you own or care about. And I did at the time, as Eriks post sort of blind-sided me. But then I spoke with several people. Kirby scholars? Well, I’m not sure about that designation. But Mark McDermott's name never really came up alongside some of the dealers, artists, and collectors that I spoke with. Greg Theakston, Joe Mannarino, Mike T, Todd Seisser, Glen Gold, Erik Larsen, and David Schwartz did-- I would consider all to be at least educated and knowledgeable about Kirby because they all either knew him or have done the work to know about him for decades. I spoke to all of them. The only guy I couldn’t get to was Evanier. He never answered me. The rest did, and rather quickly. All had slightly different things to say, some just weren’t sure and couldn’t really say other than to mention they saw it on Jack’s wall at one point, (that was literally the best piece of info anyone had as to its legitimacy… didn’t pass the sniff test for me) some were certain it was mostly done by another hand… none said, “Oh no, that’s Jack and Jack alone.” So, just an opinion here, but that came after a lot of research and an open mind. The key clues for me were 1. The back of the piece is bone white. So, it never hit Jacks' drawing board which made very specific graphite smudges on the backs of his art. Possible that he did it elsewhere, but that was a rare occurrence. 2. If you look at pieces Jack did in the late 80s, as you mention as the time period that this was done, they are wonky. Nothing like this. 3. The piece is very tightly rendered. Some of it looks outlined and filled in. Jack worked with the edge of his pencil and spit the graphite out like he was chiseling, it’s just far too meticulous. Like those cover recreations from the 90s… possibly by the same hand. Look at other Kirby pencil pieces. This is very different. 4. The pieces the artist traced or used as reference are clear if you look at other Kirby work. The Surfer Sketch from the Kirby Collector issue 48, and a flopped surfer drawing by Kirby and Sinnott from a Marvel Portfolio done in 1979 (with modifications) is the main surfer body. I’ve lined them up in Photoshop and they come pretty darn close. The Doom head is from a panel in FF #59, and an exploding planet from the Gods portfolio is at least part of the background. I think it would have been odd for Jack to have traced these out. He just didn’t do that. And these are almost exact. The Doom head scales up perfectly, except for the eyeballs. 5. The erased leg. Kirby just wouldn't have done that. Of course, people will believe what they want. Probably Rob's designation as The Studio of Jack Kirby is about as accurate as one can be with the piece. Someone else's hand is in there. I have a pretty good idea whose it is, but I’m not comfortable saying who that is here. How much Jack is in there if at all? Who knows? Unless the Kirby estate wants to say and that’s probably not going to happen. But I personally think there is very little. But I also don’t think it’s a forgery, as Erik originally stated. I believe someone helped Jack out because he and Roz needed the dough, and it was a decent thing to do between friends. Now that stuff is worth thousands of dollars, I think it matters. So, I flipped it back through Heritage. They gave me a slightly better deal than the hammer price in the end, but I still lost money. But I made sure people knew what they were getting and wrote the auction description myself, with some additions by Todd Hignite. I did write a lengthy article about this in the APA as Felix mentioned. I won’t post that here for anyone to download, but if you want to read it, I think it's in issue 102. This is really what it says though-- Most were kind enough to talk to me about it and help me come to my conclusion, but of course, we’ll probably never really know for sure.