Comics Curing Cancer Art Book!

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Nathan from FOMO LOCO
May 26, 2024

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DID YOU KNOW

Art Spiegelman's Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, became the first comic book to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Maus is a two-volume Holocaust narrative that portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, telling the story of Spiegelman’s parents’ survival as Polish Jews in the Nazi death camps and of their troubled lives in America after the war.

In Today’s Email:

  • Comic Curing Cancer Art Book - Grab this book at Heroes con

  • Original Art Auctions - A new feature this week

  • This Week’s FOMO - Doom #1

  • Community Sales and Auctions

This Week’s Trivia Question (answer at the bottom): When was the first graphic novel made?

Comics Curing Cancer Art Book!

My buddies over at Comics Curing Cancer are doing an exclusive art book for Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC this June 14 - 16! Here is a blurb from DJ LINX:

Comics Curing Cancer is Going to Heroes Con!

If you haven't heard the news, Comics Curing Cancer (C3) will be present at Heroes Con! Rob Fat Stax, Legion of Comics, and DJ Linx will man the booth, with the goal to spread awareness and raise money for the fight against cancer.

This week, the group announced that they will have an art book for sale at Heroes Con. The art book (Comics Curing Cancer Art Book #1) features art contributions from some of the comic book community's finest artists. The art book will only be for sale at Heroes Con and will retail for $20.

Lot’s of fantastic comic community artist involved including MattyFreeze187 and Zarobinski Pulp Media. 

ORIGINAL ART AUCTIONS

Francesco at ComicArt.Tips does a great weekly update of original art auctions. See below for current or upcoming auctions.

Ebay Auctions

Marvel: a Daily Bugle page by Ross Andru, Iron-Fist by Kerry Gammill, the X-Factor page by Marc Silvestri is still going, a Conan page by John Buscema, another page with Alcala, a Dr. Strange DPS by Butch Guice, a Spidey commission inside a Joe Jusko art book, a Spidey commission by George Perez.

Iron-Fist #78 page by Kerry Gammill

A Venom cover by Ryan Stegman, a CGC Magik blank and a Rogue blank by Art Adams, a CGC Hobgoblin blank by Angel Medina, a CGC Green Goblin blank by Mike Deodato. A Cyclops & Phoenix page by Gene Ha, Tim Levins is selling a whole set of X-Men merchandising art with many bids, here's Wolverine. A Black Widow illustration by Celina.

DC: a nice Wonder Woman page by John Byrne, a G.I. Combat page by Glanzman, a Huntress page by Mike Netzer, a Rich Buckler JLA page, Ambush Bug by Giffen, a Superman  page by Joshua Middleton.

A Venom #12 cover by Ryan Stegman

A very nice Spawn page by Greg Capullo, another one, a Jam sketch with some big names, early Madman art by Mike Allred, a 1956 Mandrake daily by Phil Davis.

Don Heck and Mike Esposito The Avengers #111

THIS WEEK’S FOMO

Doom #1 2024 by Sanford Greene & Jonathan Hickman

There is no real reason this book should be going for $40 on eBay. An X-Men animated series and upcoming Fantastic Four movie have speculators driving this thing to crazy prices. It’s a great read but save your money and wait till prices drop to normal levels in a couple months.

Swagglehaus has a great video deep diving into the book as well:

COMMUNITY SALES AND AUCTIONS

Shortboxed Golden Age Auction

Shortboxed has their first Golden Age auction going right now. The auction is open until this Weds, May 29th (4 PM PST). That Captain America #3 is still $10k below FMV!

That’s it for this week. Have a safe Memorial Day and join me at the Yacht Club! If you know someone who would enjoy this, feel free to share with them. We appreciate it!

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Trivia Question Answer: Joseph Franz von Goez's Leonardo and Blandine, published in 1783 in Augsburg, Bavaria (now Germany), is regarded as the first graphic novel. It consisted of 160 illustrations with captions, and adapted the story of two ill-fated lovers from a popular musical drama onto the printed page

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