Well, Heck. Who Needs Both Kidneys Anyway?
So there’s this thing that the Cartoon Art Museum does in alternate years, where they decide on a cartoonist, get a bunch of other cartoonists to do tribute art, then auction it all off as a fundraiser. It’s cool for fans of the tribute-makers, fans of the tributee, fans of comics in general.
This year’s auction is a tribute to Bill Watterson.
Here’s the deal:
- Participants announced so far include Harry Bliss¹ and Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin), Jeffrey Brown, Brian Fies, Lynn Johnston, Patrick McDonnell, Steve Purcell², Riley Rossimo, Jon Way$hak, Mo Willems, Michael Jantze, John Reiner and Bunny Hoest, Roger Langridge, Gemma Correll, Charles Brubaker, Aaron Conley, Andy Ristaino, Nate Powell, Kim Dwinell, Le Tang, Tony Guaraldi-Brown, Betsy Peterschmidt, and more to come.
Get the feeling that Watterson was kind of a seminal influence of almost everybody in comics? I sure do.
- Images for the auction can be seen at CAM’s page on Comic Art Fans, with some of the contributions having been on display since the end of September.
- One of the items up for auction is a print of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip³, signed by Watterson and given to his editor, John Glynn. Glynn has passed this treasure on.
- The auction will be conducted on CAM’s eBay page, starting soonish? in the beginning of December is what the press release says. New pieces will be added biweekly, there will be a pause for the holidays, resuming in the new year.
- In March 2020 there will be an exhibition of all the pieces at CAM in San Francisco, so if you win an auction you won’t get your prize right away. There will also be an accompanying full color catalog of all the pieces at the same time.
Without a more specific date (I’d argue we’re well into the middle of December), your best bet is to follow CAM on social media, or park yourself on the eBay page if you want a shot at things. Or, given that a lot of this work is going to go for serious coin, maybe set an alarm for March and check out the exhibition catalog when it drops.
Spam of the day:
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1. That is a suspiciously precise number.
2. The weight loss industrial complex, like being in trouble, is a fake idea.
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¹ That site requires Flash, in this the gods-damned year 2019.
² No web presence that I can find.
³ One may recall that it was a Sunday, printed half-page size thanks to Watterson’s contract demanding space (in return for which he offered the very best monsters, dinosaurs, and mayhem), on the last day of 1995. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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