Jules Feiffer on the Artists and Works from His Collection

From Swann Auction Galleries.

David Levine, Jules Feiffer with Cigar, 1983, unpublished.

Jules Feiffer’s career spans decades, producing a remarkable range of projects and generating numerous awards and honors. 

His contributions to the field of comics since his start in the late 1940s have been recognized with his induction into the Comic Book Hall of Fame and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Writers Guild of America. 

His satirical strip, Feiffer, which explored contemporary politics and social issues, ran for 42 years and earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1986. 

Record price set at auction for single-panel cartoon

From CartoonStock.

July 5th, 1993 was a simpler time. Facebook, Google, the iPhone and the phrase “social media” had yet to be invented. The “World Wide Web” aka “the internet” had been, but only techies who knew how to work a dial-up modem were actually using it.

Cartoonist Peter Steiner wasn’t among them. And yet, in that week’s issue of The New Yorker, he was somehow able to distill an essential truth of what, for better or worse, or maybe both, the internet was, is, and always will be.

The artist behind Trump's NFT cards

From The Daily Cartoonist.

The artist who designed NFT digital cards with “amazing ART of Donald Trump’s Life & Career” is Clark Mitchell.

Clark Mitchell has been creating commercial art for years “for iconic brands, including Star Wars, Disney, Lucas Arts, Coca-Cola, Time Magazine and ESPN Magazine – to name a few.” 

Frank Frazetta's "Egyptian Queen" Sets $5.4 Million World Record

From Heritage Auctions.

The 1969 fantasy painting Egyptian Queen, one of the most legendary artworks by famed artist Frank Frazetta, sold for a world record $5.4 million Thursday, May 16, at a public auction of vintage comic books and comic art held by Heritage Auctions in Chicago.

"The Illustrators 2016" at the Chris Beetles Gallery

From the Chris Beetles Gallery website.

Chris Beetles Gallery welcomes you to The Illustrators, the largest and most popular annual event worldwide for cartoon and illustration collectors. 

Chris Beetles Gallery hosts exhibition in support of House of Illustration

From Pro Cartoonists.

The Director and Trustees of House of Illustration together with Chris Beetles are exhibiting and selling of works from the 2008 exhibition What Are You Like? to raise funds for House of Illustration.

R. Crumb's Top 10 Most Expensive Works at Auction

From ArtNet News.

Abstract expressionist ultra super modernist comics (3 works) (1967)
sold for $72,000 at Bonhams & Butterfields on May 22, 2007.

As Robert Crumb's inaugural exhibition of drawings from his Art & Beauty series opens at David Zwirner's London gallery this weekend, we take a closer look at the celebrated illustrator's market, examining how he moved from the realm of comic books to the walls of a blue-chip institution.

A Note on Recently Auctioned Calvin & Hobbes Artwork

From The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum blog.

Thanks to some dear friends and fans of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, it has come to our attention that there were recently three “original” Calvin & Hobbes comic strips listed for sale on eBay.

1st International Cartoon Exhibition Sisak 2015

Drawings by Zoran Petrovic

Here is the poster of the first international exhibition of caricatures in Sisak (MIKS) 2015.

The theme of the exhibition is "Jazz & Blues".
Deadline for receiving cartoons is June 30, 2015

Rules & Regulations:

The Story Behind "Saying Grace"

David Apatoff in Illustration Art.

Saying Grace, 1951 by Norman Rockwell

The brilliance of Norman Rockwell's painting Saying Grace has always been in plain view for anyone of good will and good taste to appreciate, but since it sold at Sotheby's last week for $46 million, art critics are finally able to appreciate it as well. 

Beyond Norman Rockwell

Daniel Grant in The Wall Street Journal.

"Breaking Home Ties", a 1954 painting by Norman Rockwell

Everyone carries in their heads favorite images from picture books, comics, magazine covers, cartoons and advertisements. Now much of the original artwork on which these mass-produced images were based has become a hot corner of the art market.

Calvin & Hobbes original sold at auction for $203,150

From The Daily Cartoonist.

An original hand-colored 1986 Sunday Calvin & Hobbes original has been sold at auction for $203,150 (login required to see final bid amount). The strip was owed by Adam@Home and Red and Rover creator Brian Basset, who told me last September that he acquired the original back in 1986 after agreeing to exchange originals with Bill Watterson. A recent financial pinch prompted him to put the piece up for auction.