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greetings fellow squaxx!

hopefully some of you will have caught the adverts in 2000ad and comics international about this galactically groovy event , all in the name of charity ; 'draw the world together' - for 'everychild' to be precise.

what we're rustling up is a stupendously tasty bundle of original art, 2000ad pages, signed graphic novels and scripts , and all sorts of crazy 2000ad stuff!

the auction will go live at midnight on august 8th, but more details will be revealed on this site and also drawtheworldtogether.com

a full list of the 2000ad creators who have agreed to pitch in so far , goes like this:

dave gibbons
kev walker
chris weston
si coleby
chris blythe
david millgate
dave taylor
rob williams
carlos ezquerra
mike mc.mahon
si gurr
laurence campbell
colin wilson
matt brooker(d'isreali)
john wagner
dom reardon
ian edgington
alan grant
brendan mc.carthy(maybe)
henry flint
steve yeowell
jaspre bark
patrick goddard
steve roberts
frazer irving
rufus dayglo/gary leach
cliff robinson
mike collins
bryan talbot
s.b. davis
jock
boo cook(who?!)

a mighty list indeed! a few samples of the artwork are available for viewing over at drawtheworldtogether.com (see'tharg to the rescue!)

any creators reading this who ain't on the list - its not too late - contact us via the drawtheworldtogether website!

and so , fellow squaxx , all that remains is for me to say ' prime your wallets! and get your bidding fingers at the ready!'

see you there!

- boo.

McMahon artwork? Sweet! Though would it be possible for Rufus and Wake to have some kind of bidding 'handicap' during the auction to give the rest of us a chance? Maybe ... I dunno ... break their fingers, or something? ;)

If there's McMahon artwork up for grabbs just accept it's got "Property of R. Dayglow" on the back.

I have several bidding handicaps on this auction.

I have no spare money.

I already have a McMahon Judge Dredd page and wouldn't want to pay the current market value for a second.

I'm on holiday for nearly 3 weeks from tomorrow morning, so I won't be able to bid on anything anyway.

Cheers,

Wake

boo, you need an icon!
email me something to make into one for you

icons at 2000adonline.com

Also... Mick doesn't have any old pages left (some git bought them all..grumble).
So if he's donating something, it'll be new.

I've donated the Future Shock Page written by Al Ewing, Inked by Garry 'Miracleman' Leach.

:-) Rufus

Aw shite! I go on my holidays early in the morinfing of August 9th, grrr!

There are some rarities in the listings too. Choose your own adventure pages from Bryan Talbot and David Loyd

Can someone make a note to BUMP this nearer the day.

-I'm on holiday for nearly 3 weeks from tomorrow morning, so I won't be able to bid on anything anyway.-

Quick, to Ebay! ;)

Bump for tomorrow.

So much art, so little money!

So... anyone got a link to the actual auction?

Try this...

M@

Link: Draw The World Together 2000AD (ebay)

the auction is now go!!!!!!

just go to ebay and type a search for 'draw the world together 2000 ad ' and away you go!

go tell it on the mountain!

- boo.

heres the official word from our sponsors........

THARG TO THE RESCUE!!

The amazing online charity auction of 2000AD artwork is about to kick off.
The auction, to be held on eBay, features some of the most amazing artwork
from Art Droids both past and present. Names such as Henry Flint, Mike
Collins, Disreali, Christ Weston, Steve Yeowell, Dave Gibbons, Carlos
Esquerra... and the list goes on, have donated pages of art for this awesome
online event. The auction is in aid of 'Draw the World Together' and the
funds will go to directly help the EveryChild project in the Prey Veng
province of Cambodia. The auction lasts for just 5 days, so get those bids
in now!

You can access the list of lots directly by going to
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=DRAW+THE+WORLD+TOGETHER+2000A
D&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&ebaytag1=ebayreg&srchdesc=n&maxRecordsRetur
ned=300&maxRecordsPerPage=50&SortProperty=MetaEndSort

For more information about the auction visit
http://www.drawtheworldtogether.com/news.html
and  http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=news&page=newsimage&choice=artauction

For information on the Cambodia project visit
http://www.drawtheworldtogether.com/charity_cambodia.html

I've placed a bid on one thing.
I'll probably consider bidding on other stuff too, but I'll leave it a day or two to see what might be in my price range.

Any one bothered about Boarder's Ettiquette? Or (seeing as it's for charity) are we for an all out bidding war?

Normally if I see someone I know is bidding for something I would think twice about bidding for it myself. I think in this case the prices should be as high as possible.

Gallant of you to say so David -- your name's on some of the items I might want!

Does anybody know what happened to McMahon art? Although, as a consolation, there are two cracking Dr Who photos.....

& David, I went to ?180 on the Necropolis art so feel free to bid some more. Hoping the reserve is ?200.

Looking at the Kevin Walker Mandroid artwork, what does

Ink on tracing paper (no solid blacks).
mean? No solid blacks? So just initial drawings then that were used as the basis for the actual finished artwork?

Kev doesn't fill in the black areas,  he draws the lines, then drops the black areas in on Photoshop.
He's inked onto tracing paper, as his pencils were probably rough on layout paper.
Hope that helps !
rufus

Thanks Rufus :)
Just sounded a bit funny!

Hurray! I won something!
:-) R
Well done everyone who bid...
 You can always just donate money to draw 'Draw the World Together"  as well.... even a ?5 helps!
:-) Rufus

Well, it was a bad time for a charity auction for me as I'm broke as buggery.  I checked my bank account and paypal account for funds, even my lottery to see if I'd won anything (I had, a tenner, which I took as an omen!).

I bid on a few things, but got outbid on most of them (The Grant scripts, Lloyd's Slaine and I even offered ?20 for the Bison cover :p because it would have made me chuckle to see it on my wall), or they raced away from me (Flint's ABC Warriors), or I never had a chance in the first place (Gibbon's Dan Dare), but managed to end up with some very nice Patrick Goddard art from My Beating Heart, which was a story I enjoyed at the time.  So thanks to Patrick for the opportunity to win that, it'll be going on my wall.

Anyone else here get anything?  

Ah, Rufus got that Slaine, I thought he'd come back for another go at it.  It's a very nice picture.

Yeah, poor time for an auction... no money!!!

Last week of month would be better, closer to payday.

?280 for all those Kev Walker pages, what a gift! I'd have bid on those if pay day was closer.

Good to see the Rufus/Leach page got its reserve, pity the Jock page had a similar reserve as I'd have bid on that pay day or not.

Can we look forward to another similar auction in the future?

Anyone on the board win anything?

I got the Mandroid art. Smiling like an idiot about it too!

Really thought it was going to go beyond my budget. (Thank you Opaque for stopping bidding when you did!)

Well done that man on the Mandroid art!! Deal of the year there.

Glad it went to a fan rather than a dealer.

Me too, Mandroid was a great story.  

But what do you do with it all, wallpaper your spare room or get it bound into a book?

I honestly hope I can afford to keep it all, not sure how or where yet.

I do have a wedding to plan in the future so I may have to sell some of it at a later date. Just have to wait & see.

If and when you sell some pages for your wedding fund, you've got a buyer for some pages right here. Just give me a heads up when the time comes.

Yeah... let us know if you don't want 'em!!

I won the Bogie Man book... everything else I wanted got too high for me.

Ggggr I?m on my hollys in Ibiza and I?ve been jumping on the net any time I can to bid. I got beat by a quid on two of the auctions (a Henry Flint and the Bison cover!)

Well done everyone who won (ye bastards:))

Pete (sunburnt loser!)  

Didn't get anything...never mind.  Nearly bid big last night on the Mandroid stuff, but the wine/wallet ratio was in the wallet favour...shame!

Well I'm happy the Mandroid went to a proper fan as well.
Not far off your top price was I Matthewvic? How much were you willing to go to?
I'm getting a bonus from work so I bid to the minimum I'm know I'm going to get from that but obvious not enough and I might have to wait a couple of months to get the bonus.
You know you're going to have to post pics of the big pile when you get them!

Thinking of it though, and I just realised this, I already have 43 pages of Kevin Walkers Sin City!

I am however soon getting a plan chest for my collection so it'll be loads safer and flat rather than being in art cases propped up under my table!

I bid high early thinking that if somebody wanted them they would bid over the weekend & was completely surprised nobody else bid.

As for my top bid, lets just say the fiancee wasn't too pleased when she saw it.

As for my top bid, lets just say the fiancee wasn't too pleased when she saw it.

Just tell her that if you sold them at ?20 a page (which you could easily do) you'd get almost ?1500 back.

Not a bad investment.

Oh, and a very big thankyou should go to Kev Walker for donating the set, so from all at the board (especially mattewvic) THANK YOU!!!

Yes, many thanks, Mr Walker, rest assured they will be well looked after.

& a big round of appaulse for a job well done to everyone who contributed to the auction.

I got the Family book, which I'm pleased about, as I've been meaning to re-read it in one go.
I had a go at some of the art, but it was never going to happen. :-)

I'd be interested to hear the total raised, as I would estimate it would be in the region of a grand.

Cheers, and well done to the fund-raisers!

- Trout

?3449.14.

Bearing in mind I've had a long day and have just done that in my head!

Not too shabby.

You're joking!

Bloody well done!

- Trout

If you're having trouble accessing the website with the address given,

Link: try here

I got the Family book, which I'm pleased about, as I've been meaning to re-read it in one go.
I had a go at some of the art, but it was never going to happen. :-)


Yeah, knocked me out of the Family book auction, oh evil fishy one.

Bah!

Managed to get the D'Israeli art which I'm well chuffed with as a big fan of Leviathan. Thought the Henry Flint stuff might go for more seeing as I spent almost double obtaining a page of ABC Warriors at Artdroids. Still well done whoever got it.

Oddboy, I paid over-the-odds for a book, because it's for charity, and you're calling me evil?

You twisted bastard.
;-)

- Trout

I'm not calling you evil for that... but you can't deny being evil. There isn't an eviler boarder.

(Anyway... have you smelt the new paperstock they're using post prog1500? It's a much nicer smell then previous progs.)

Boo let slip that they raised over ?3000 in the auction, and was cock-a-hoop about it.

Well done all.

Bolt-01

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww

Point taken. :-)