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A limited edition poster of cartoon characters from seventy different cartoon artists
25 June 2006, 10:00 PDT
Los AngelesSold for US$1,792.50 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA limited edition poster of cartoon characters from seventy different cartoon artists
1986, limited edition 175/195, the poster has over 172 cartoon characters represented by seventy artists, done as a fund raiser for Child Welfare League, signed by the cartoon artists on the bottom of the poster in pencil and in ink, matted.
Each artist worked on the picture at home and then sent it to the next artist. All together, the picture was sent to 43 cities across America and traveled 170,000 miles. It took almost a year to finish. The cartoonists agreed to do it to raise money for the Child Welfare League of America, which buys food and clothes for needy children. The poster includes such cartoonists as the three Pulitzer Prize winners Jeff MacNelly, Bill Mauldin and Mike Peters; Frank Kelly Freas, a 10-time winner of the Hugo Award; Harvey Kurtzman, founding editor of Mad Magazine; Jack Davis and Mort Drucker having drawn 37 and 33 Time Magazines cover respectively; Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters have enjoyed the largest distribution of any syndicated comic strip with more than 2,000 newspaper publishing it daily; and Johnny Hart, Mort Walker and Dik Browne are the only cartoonists to have two comic strips each that are syndicated in more than 1,000 newspaper.
25 x 33in within mat
Each artist worked on the picture at home and then sent it to the next artist. All together, the picture was sent to 43 cities across America and traveled 170,000 miles. It took almost a year to finish. The cartoonists agreed to do it to raise money for the Child Welfare League of America, which buys food and clothes for needy children. The poster includes such cartoonists as the three Pulitzer Prize winners Jeff MacNelly, Bill Mauldin and Mike Peters; Frank Kelly Freas, a 10-time winner of the Hugo Award; Harvey Kurtzman, founding editor of Mad Magazine; Jack Davis and Mort Drucker having drawn 37 and 33 Time Magazines cover respectively; Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters have enjoyed the largest distribution of any syndicated comic strip with more than 2,000 newspaper publishing it daily; and Johnny Hart, Mort Walker and Dik Browne are the only cartoonists to have two comic strips each that are syndicated in more than 1,000 newspaper.
25 x 33in within mat