Blind Auction
Time to try something new: the blindest of blind auctions. Up for bids: something that I assure you is very, very tasty: the complete original artwork, comprising 99 full comic pages, of the five graphic novellas in my forthcoming 304-page blockbuster SILK ROAD TO RUIN: IS CENTRAL ASIA THE NEW MIDDLE EAST? My publisher, not the flattering type, calls it the best work of my career.
Not only have I never done this before, I have never before sold a single page from any of my graphic novel format comics. As collectors of comic art know, complete collections of an entire book are almost NEVER sold off by cartoonists.
What, you wanna see the goods? It’s a BLIND auction, silly. Gotta have faith!
OK, so here are the terms:
Minimum Bid for 99 pages of comic art from SILK ROAD TO RUIN: $4,500
(My price for individual cartoons is normally $500 each.)
How to Bid: Send e-mail to chet@rall.com. Highest bid wins. All bids kept private.
Offer Expires: July 22, 2006 (a few days before the book hits stores)
Winning bidder required to pay immediately upon notification.
Minimum bid goes to $10,000 if I do this after July 22, 2006.
Winning buyer is required to cooperate with museums and galleries wishing to borrow artwork for exhibitions.
Copyrights remain with me.
My apologies to people who love my work but can’t afford this admittedly expensive offer. Tasty Ted Rall ephemera at affordable goods to follow at some point in the future.
