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Alex Ross donates Catwoman artwork to cat rescue organization

Catwoman by Alex Ross

Artist Alex Ross donated this incredible piece of Catwoman art to benefit the Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc., a non-profit cat and kitten rescue organization. You can find more details and place a bid over at the eBay listing; the auction ends this Friday.

Fan shares alternate look at Quitely's Red Hood

First off, a big thank you to Robot 6 reader Mark Spitz, who shared this with us over email. Mark recently purchased some original Frank Quitely art from Graphic Collectibles, and it included a bonus of sorts.

"I was lucky enough to purchase a couple of Frank Quitely pages from Batman and Robin #1, including #22 (the "do not miss" page)," Spitz wrote. "I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there were actually two versions of the Red Hood panel and both were included in my purchase. The original shows the Red Hood in a different costume with different guns."

Here are all three versions, starting with the original version and ending with a scan from the published issue:

Again, thanks to Mark for sharing this cool purchase!

Steve Dillon at Jim Hanley's Universe tonight to benefit the Hero Initiative

Steve Dillon signing

Steve Dillon will be at Jim Hanley's Universe in Manhattan tonight from 6-8 as part of a benefit for the Hero Initiative.

Beginning NOW when you come to our Manhattan location you can buy a raffle ticket to win ORIGINAL STEVE DILLON ART! Steve is generously donating original pages from some of his recent work to this great cause, and you can win one with the purchase of a raffle ticket for only $5.oo! The more tickets you buy, the better your chances are! There is no limit to the amount of raffle tickets you can buy; winners must be present during the drawing (held during the signing) to win prizes. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win some original art from one of the most significant artists working in comics today, all while helping The Hero Initiative!

Oh, but we are not done! For a suggested minimum donation of ONLY $15 you can get an original head-sketch by Steve! Again, all proceeds go to The Hero Initiative, the only charity for helping out creators in need.

Click on the first link up top to check out some of the original art, which features the Punisher, Wolverine, Deadpool and The Boys.

Unseen Burroughs comic now seen

Sample image from 'Ah Pook'

In 1970, author William Burroughs and artist Malcolm Mc Neill joined forces to work on a graphic novel entitled Ah Pook Is Here. The book never turned out as expected, though, as Richard Metzger explains:

Originally conceived as a graphic novel in the pictographic format of the surviving Mayan codices, the project --eight years in the making-- consisted of over 100 illustrations by Malcolm McNeill, 30 in full color and about 50 pages of text. "Ah Pook is Here" would have been prohibitively expensive to publish at the time. As Burroughs wrote “over the years of our collaboration Malcolm McNeill produced more than a hundred pages of artwork. However, owing partly to the expense of full color reproduction, and because the book falls into neither the category of the conventional illustrated book, nor that of a comix publication, there have been difficulties with the arrangements for the complete work. The book is in fact unique…”

Now, however, the illustrations have been rediscovered and are touring art galleries around the globe. The show is currently at the Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles if you're so inclined to see it. Apparently some of these images are more than 25 feet long, which makes you wonder how they were going to reporduce it in a book in the first place.

Latest auctions for Carla and Lance end soon

I linked to the awesome artwork Walt Simonson donated to our auctions for our injured friends Carla and Lance Hoffman a few days ago, and since our latest round is about to end I thought I'd show off a few more pieces currently available for bidding. First up, a Wonder Woman original watercolor by Jose Carlos:

Wonder Woman

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