![]() ![]() To say we and the consignor were thrilled would be an understatement.” “But given the scarcity of these gems, we never knew how far this would go. ![]() “We absolutely believed this would be a record-setter, especially given its back story and the quality of the strip,” Todd Hignite, vice president of Heritage Auctions, told Artnet News. The nine-panel work is signed with the words, “For Lee with best wishes - Bill.” As with the previous sale a decade ago, the strip was a gift, in this case to Lee Salem, the influential editor and eventual president at Universal Press Syndicate, who gave the Ohio native his break. ![]() ![]() The Sunday strip, which depicts six-year-old Calvin and his tiger companion attempting to time travel, was put to market by Heritage Auctions at its Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction.ĭating from May 24, 1987, it’s only the second such Watterson strip to have ever appeared at auction. But this rejection of commercialism hasn’t dampened the value of the American cartoonist’s work-if anything, it’s increased it.Īt auction on November 17, an original hand-colored work by Watterson sold for an artist record of $480,000. There have been no hot collabs and no immersive experiences promising to plunge fans into his whimsical world heck, Watterson hasn’t even licensed T-shirts and souvenir coffee mugs. Unlike his illustrator peers, Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, never cashed in. ![]()
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