The Most Expensive Gag of All Time?
by Dan Nadel
Friday, December 3, 2010
I thought he was joking. But Norman assured me he wasn’t. A few weeks back, from the stage of The Society of Illustrators, Sam Gross announced that his iconic (and still REALLY funny) gag cartoon was going on the block for 20K. And lo, it has come to pass. I should initiate a Kickstarter campaign to buy this. By the way: Sam Gross: Still really fucking funny. And underrated!
Herewith the goods.
You get to the buy the front…
… And the back of this piece of original art!
Do it!
Oh, and by the way, don’t forget about the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival! Saturday, 12-9. PictureBox will be on the mainstage with Chippendale, Dorkin, French, Harkham, and Thurber! A gang if there ever was one.
I liked that book of swastika cartoons Gross put out a few years ago: We Have Ways of Making You Laugh. Good stuff.
How much would this classic go for?
http://mediumatlarge.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/bkfly.jpg
That’s some prime Kliban right there.
I’ll give you fifty pence for it.
I seem to remember some Bernie Wrightson story (in Plop?) with a related gag, but stretched out over 8 pages.