The original artwork by Thomas Taylor for the original cover of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from 1997 has sold at auction for $1.92 million, the most expensive item from the Harry Potter franchise ever sold at auction. The watercolour art, painted on cold-pressed watercolour paper and outlined with black Karisma pencil, […]
One of the best known of Frank Frazetta's many iconic works, his 1976 painting Dark Kingdom sold today at Heritage Auctions for $6 million, a record for a Frazetta painting and also a fantasy art record. The sale price surpasses the previous record holder, Frazetta's famous Egyptian Queen, which sold at Heritage in 2019 for […]
Spring has sprung in San Diego and Free Comic Book Day is upon us again, and the best spot to celebrate is Southern California Comics. Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to attract new readers to independent comic book stores. It usually takes place […]
Amanda Conner has an incredibly ardent fanbase. If you've ever been near her table at a comic convention, you'll likely know it from the copious length of the line of those hoping to meet Conner and perhaps get something signed by the prolific artist. Amanda Conner has had popular runs on many iconic titles, with […]
This just might be the most shocking auction result I've ever witnessed (and that's saying something): The original artwork for story page 25 of Secret Wars #8, the interior page which serves as the origin of Spider-Man's symbiotic black costume, has just sold for an incredible $3,360,000 at Heritage Auctions. Spider-Man's black costume was originally […]
Y: The Last Man is an enduring comics epic that began publication in September 2002. It seems almost like a fable with the state of the comics industry in 2021, but it was an ongoing, non-superhero title that ran for a staggering sixty issues. Written by Brian K. Vaughan, who would create other enduring epics including Ex […]
Charlie Adlard originally drew the below page in 2012 as the cover to The Walking Dead #107, but it was instead repurposed by Robert Kirkman as a splash page to The Walking Dead #112 in 2013, as published by Image Comics/Skybound. It is currently up for auction from ComicConnect as part of a lot of original […]
Who drew the cover to Phantom Lady #2? One of the first superheroes to debut in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and published by Quality Comics and then Victor Fox, the character was subsequently published by Ajax-Farrell as well as Charlton. In more recent times, a new version of the character currently appears […]
ComicConnect has a couple of original art pages by Dave McKean, part of Neil Gaiman's projects, his most common collaborator, as part of ComicConnects' Original Artwork Auction today. The star will have to be the cover to Miracleman #20 and a page from their graphic novel, Mister Punch. Expect these to go for quite a […]
Love and Rockets is one of the most iconic indie comics of all time, and now you can bid for an emotional page illustrated for the series by Jaime Hernandez. Created and produced by Jaime and his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Love and Rockets has been published since the early 1980s, with Jaime and Gilbert producing […]
"Just when I thought it was all downhill from here, on my last night, I woke up in the dark drenched in sweat from a succession of uncomfortable dreams that were all about one thing – drowning." Man, oh, man. It's easy to see from Jaime Hernandez's words why Love and Rockets is one of the […]
There are plenty of pieces of comic book history in the 2021 June 6-7 Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation & Art Select Auction #122123 from Heritage Auctions this weekend. And that includes these remarqued prints by Moebius. Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who gained worldwide fame under the pseudonym Moebius, […]
This past February, news surfaced of an astounding collection of all things Spider-Man assembled by Los Angeles defense attorney Steve Levine. Levine intended for the collection to be sold to benefit his family financially after his battle with cancer. Sadly, Steve Levine passed in February, and no single buyer for the collection emerged at that […]
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) is considered one of the most influential American illustrators of the 20th century. Best remembered for his advertising and book illustrations, WWI posters (his "Weapons for Liberty" war bonds poster is one of my favorites of the period) and The Saturday Evening Post and other magazine covers, Leyendecker's expansive influence on […]
Neil Gaiman's seminal run on The Sandman introduced The Endless to captivated readers in 1989. Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium are a family of seven supernatural beings that, as you can probably tell from the name, encompass different forces of existence. One of the most beloved works featuring The Endless is Death: The High […]
Indie comics fans have quite the opportunity on their hands today. Currently, live on Heritage Auctions is original art from one of the medium's most beloved, long-running, and critically acclaimed independent comics ever produced: Love and Rockets. Gilbert, Mario, and Jamie Hernandez, a trio of brothers, self-published the first issue of Love and Rockets in 1981 but have, […]
Collectors of modern comic book art have a unique opportunity today to bid for the original art of Chris Delara's Robyn Hood cover over at Heritage Auctions. Robyn Hood, which reinvents the classic story of the hero that robs from the rich and gives to the poor as a troubled young woman from Queens, New York, […]
Deadpool's debut in comics was kind of a throwback. When a character would debut back in the day, it might be years before you ever saw them again, as it would take longer for feedback to get to the publishers, not like now, when they shove new characters down our throats before we get to […]
Today, on the anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11th, 2001, it's a day of quiet reflection for Americans and also for non-Americans around the world. One of those non-Americans is legendary Italian comic book artist Milo Manara. The Chadster doesn't often get to cover comic books here at Bleeding Cool, […]
Mark Bagley and Brian Michael Bendis on Ultimate Spider-Man is one of the modern epics of comics. For over 100 issues, they reshaped the Spider-Man mythos for the modern-day and inspired one of the last youth reading movements in comics. It was a superb read, and on ComicConnect right now, you can celebrate said run […]
