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Et Cetera Auction: Full Steam Ahead and Man The Grappling Hooks!

KPhoebe — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:05:40 +0000

After a few false starts, the Girl-Wonder.org Art Et Cetera Auction is up and running! Betty is listing items as fast as she can here.

This is an auction where the proceeds will be donated to cover the incorporation costs and start an operating budget for Girl-Wonder.org. It includes original art by the likes of Tim Sale, Ross Campbell, Jim Rugg, Shaenon Garrity, and more! Please come check it out and help support Girl-Wonder!

Art Auction Update

Arion Hunter — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:28:54 +0000

Due to technical difficulties, the girl-wonder benefit auction is postponed. Please be assured we’re doing everything in our power to deal with this issue. If you would like to subscribe to auction-notify@girl-wonder.org to receive an email when the auction is live, please enter your email here. It is our hope to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Apologies, the auction team.

Art Auction Preview: Something Special

Rachel Edidin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:23:49 +0000

Hannah Perlman’s contribution to the auction is a bit different from the other pieces: it hasn’t been drawn yet. That’s because Hannah has donated a piece of custom character art, which she’ll draw to the specifications of the winning bidder, who will also receive both a digital copy of the picture and a signed print (Hannah works primarily digitally, so there won’t be a paper original). This is a great chance for role-players, writers, and anyone with a rich fantasy life to see their characters come to life under Hannah’s talented pen.

The following three images are examples of Hannah’s character art:

The starting bid for this custom piece will be U.S. $18. BID HERE!

You’ll be able to bid on this and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera Auction, from October 7-14, 2007!

Art Auction Preview: Honor Among Punks

Rachel Edidin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:03:39 +0000

If Guy Davis’s gorgeous pages piqued your interest in Baker Street, you’re in luck: Guy has also donated three signed copies of Honor Among Punks, the complete Baker Street graphic novel. As if that’s not enough, he’s also taken the time to draw a piece of character art on the first page of each book!

Front Cover:

Drawings:

BID HERE!

BID HERE!

BID HERE!

The starting bid for each trade paperback will be U.S. $15.

You’ll be able to bid on these and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera Auction, from October 7-14.

Art Auction Preview Correction

Rachel Edidin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:27:12 +0000

The entry “Kind of a big deal” has been updated with accurate descriptions and prices. If you haven’t been following, I learned after first posting that entry that I had misread Ross’s email–many of the “prints” he had offered to send were in fact original art!
But that’s all fixed, so you can budget with impunity. Thanks again, Ross–you rock so hard.

Art Auction Preview: Shaenon at Stumptown

Rachel Edidin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:01:06 +0000

This past weekend, Girl-Wonder.org made its convention debut at Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, Oregon. Imagine our joyful surprise when guest-of-honor Shaenon Garrity ran up to our table, introducted herself, and asked if it was to late to donate a piece to the art auction (the official answer is “yes,” but we’ll make exceptions if you’re Shaenon Garrity)!

What Shaenon gave us was the original art from a strip of her long-running web-and-print sensation, Narbonic:

The starting bid for this piece will be U.S. $25. BID HERE!

You’ll be able to bid on this and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera auction, from October 7-14, 2007.

Art Auction Preview: Kind of a big deal

Rachel Edidin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:05:48 +0000

With the auction less than a week away, the last few items are going to be going up fast, so make sure to keep checking for updates!

Ross Campbell is one of those artists whose work I’ve been gaping at for years–first, when he started illustrating for WhiteWolf games, and later as he brought his exquisite painted figure work to comics–Hopeless Savages, Wet Moon, and his upcoming Minx book, Water Baby. He draws some of the most interesting, sexiest, strongest, and most all-around-awesome women I’ve ever seen, and the scope of his work–from superheroes, to college students, to monsters–never ceases to impress me: I won’t be the least bit surprised if someday he’s generally accepted as one of the modern masters of dynamic pin-up art. If you haven’t checked out his art before, now is a great chance, as Ross has given us a small army’s worth of both original pieces and prints.

The following are pieces of Ross Cambell original art:

From Wet Moon:

Cleo

BID HERE!

Audrey

BID HERE!

Myrtle

BID HERE!

From The Abandoned:

Rylie

BID HERE!

From X-Men:

Storm

BID HERE!

U-Go-Girl
BID HERE!

Penance

BID HERE!

Marrow

BID HERE!

Emma Frost

BID HERE!

Angel II

BID HERE!

From Exalted:

Demon of the Third Circle

BID HERE!

Metal Storm

BID HERE!

The starting bid for each of these original pieces will be U.S. $30.

The following are original prints. Because there are so many, these will be sold in sets of two.

Wet Moon Set 1: Cleo and Mara

BID HERE!

Wet Moon Set 2: Cleo and Audrey

BID HERE!

Wet Moon Set 3: Audrey and Fall

BID HERE!

Wet Moon Set 4: Mara and Natalie

BID HERE!

Mixed Set: Mara (Wet Moon) and Rylie (The Abandoned)

BID HERE!

The starting bid for each set of two prints will be U.S. $10.

You’ll be able to bid on these and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera Auction, from October 7-14, 2007.

Art Auction Preview: Girl-Wonder Pride

Rachel Edidin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:42 +0000

Know what’s awesome?
Pride High. It’s got characters of all genders, colors, cultures, and abilities. It’s won awards from BFLAG. And it’s the kind of good super-powered teen drama I haven’t seen since the original New Mutants.

Know what’s even awesomer?
Two of Pride High‘s signature characters, Scotch and Suravi, showing their love for some of the best girl-geekery on the world wide web!

This is a pencil drawing originally comissioned by Pride High writer Tommy Roddy; it will appear in color as a full-page ad in an upcoming issue of Pride High and shows Scotch and Suravi in t-shirts advertising, respectively, girl-wonder.org and mynerdgirl.com.

The starting bid for this item will be U.S. $25. BID HERE!

You’ll be able to bid on this and other items in Girl-Wonder’s Art Et Cetera Auction, from October 7-14, 2007!

Art Auction Preview: Jack and Jim

Rachel Edidin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:39:33 +0000

If you know me at all, you know that Jimm Rugg’s Street Angel is pretty much my favorite comic ever. So, imagine how excited I was when I saw these: Jim’s inks over Jack Kirby pencils (or at least printouts of Jack Kirby pencils) of Wonder Woman!
Both pieces are on 11×17 bristol. They’re from Kirby’s proposal for a Wonder Woman animated series, scanned from Kirby Collector #38, and inked by Street Angel and PLAIN Janes artist Jim Rugg:

BID HERE!

The starting bid for each of these drawings will be U.S. $28. And I will be bidding against you ALL THE WAY.

You’ll be able to bid on these and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera Auction, from October 7-14.

Art Auction Preview: GWOG

Rachel Edidin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:17:07 +0000

Who’s the tiny, glowering defender of good comics? If you answered “Betty,” you’d be right, but I’m talking about GWOG, the eponymous club-wielding mascot of the Girl-Wonder.org blog. GWOG’s fierce visage was created by Katie Moody, whose design won over some very stiff competition, and who has donated both her original sketches–including another unused design for the character–and the final GWOG line art:

The starting bid for this set of items will be U.S. $12. BID HERE!

You’ll be able to bid for this and other items in the Girl-Wonder Art Et Cetera Auction from October 7-14, 2007!