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Wolverine: Weapon X 100 covers up for bid at eBay

by Josh Medors

Several pieces of original art from The Hero Initiative's Wolverine: Weapon X 100 Project are available for bidding on eBay ... including this one by Josh Medors, which just looks absolutely incredible. Also pieces from Chris Bachalo, Colleen Coover, Art Adams, John McCrea and several others can be found as well.

Go check'em out and place a bid; it's for a good cause.

Cartoonists band together for health care art auction

Hornschemeier's Beasts art

Anders Nilsen (Big Questions, Dogs and Water) has organized an impressive array of big-name cartoonists to participate in an ongoing art auction and fundraiser designed to promote universal health care. Entitled the "46 Million Art Auction and Benefit," it features contributions from folks like Chris Ware, Ivan Brunetti, Dan Clowes, Kevin Huizenga, John Porcellino, Jeffrey Brown, Lynda Barry, Paul Hornschemeier and many, many more.

The auction runs until September 6th, in 10-minute increments. All proceeds will go to Democracy for America Now, a national advocacy group pushing for the Public Option in democratic swing districts and offering support to congressional members who take a stand for the policy. To see the art, go to ebay and do a search for "46 million."

For more details, check out Jeffrey Brown's blog, which has detailed info on the what, when and why, or go to Hornschemeier's blog.

Monsters & Dames charity art auction

by Joe Jusko

Earlier this year the folks at the Emerald City ComiCon put together a benefit book called Monsters & Dames that featured pin-ups by many of the artists who attended the con. The original artwork by Joe Jusko (above), David Petersen, Bruce Timm, Mark Brooks and many others is being auctioned off to benefit the Seattle Children's Hospital; you can find the available pieces up on eBay right here.

Kitty Pryde charity artwork available on eBay

Kitty vs. a Sentinel

Jason at Floating World Comics sent over a link to pictures from the opening of the Full of Pryde charity art exhibit that kicked off last week. So far they've raised about $500 for the Oregon Hemophilia Treatment Center.

Also, artwork from the show is now available for purchase on eBay. Check out the full list of available pieces here, by artists like K Thor Jensen, Jeffrey Brown, Nikki Cook, Rick Lacy, Dan Hipp, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Chuck BB, Hope Larson and many more. And finally, you can also check out the show's official blog for more details and additional artwork that'll be up on eBay soon.

Auction winner shares unpublished Big Numbers #3

from Big Numbers #3

If Chris Mautner's "Collect This Now!" series was called "Finish This Now!" then he probably would have already covered writer Alan Moore and artist Bill Sienkiewicz's Big Numbers. Two issues saw publication in 1990, with the other ten issues never seeing the light of day (as detailed on the book's Wikipedia page).

Well, now lettered artwork of the third issue has surfaced thanks to the magic of the internet and eBay. Pádraig O Méalóid, aka LiveJournal user glycon, details how he came to possess Xeroxed copies of the third issue, which were listed on the auction site earlier this year. Glycon checked with Alan Moore before publishing the pages on the web:

In any case, everything I know leads me to believe that this is a copy of the unpublished third issue of Big Numbers, and I genuinely didn't believe it existed, and certainly never expected to actually see a copy, led alone own one. Even Alan Moore doesn't have a copy, to the very best of my knowledge, which in this case is considerable, as I decided to specifically ask his permission before I posted this here. He is happy for it to be made available to the world, so here it is.

I know I have the first two issues somewhere in my collection ... time to start digging!

via Kevin Church and The Beat

Related: Eddie Campbell talks about Big Numbers

Attention fans of The Winter Men: Bid on this

The Winter Men Case Files

Knowing my love for The Winter Men, the Wildstorm miniseries by Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon, artist Cliff Chiang sends word of an eBay benefit auction that has me trying to wring some money out of my bank account.

It's "The Winter Men Case Files," a one-of-a-kind collection of character designs and descriptions, project proposal, story notes, and an Issue 1 script, collected in a custom-made cloth-bound binder signed by Lewis, Leon and editor Will Dennis. There's also a complete set of Winter Men comics, signed by Lewis and Leon.

The auction is part of an effort by several creators to help with a friend's medical bills. Any money raised beyond what's required for those expenses will be donated to The Hero Initiative.

The auction for The Winter Men piece ends on March 8.