This auction is now closed.
The bookcase purge for charity continues! You can see a complete list of all auctions here, in chronological order starting with the latest, here. Full auction details are included at the end of the article, but to bring the new folks up to speed real quick:
Every weekday until Friday, June 5th, we publish a new Shelf Bound article announcing a bind or bound set up for auction.
Each bind auction’s bidding starts when its article is published and ends 72 hours later, so today’s auction will close at 4 PM EST on May 25, 2020.
Bids must be posted in an item’s comment section to be considered for that item; highest bid posted before close of auction wins.
Bids from outside the U.S. are welcome, although shipping outside the U.S. may incur additional fee. Bids posted in currencies other than US dollars will be valued at their USD equivalent.
The winning bidder emails me (greg at multiversity comics dot com) to verify donation particulars, then makes the donation and send me verification.
I send out the bind.
Everyone wins.
30 weekdays. 34 binds. All proceeds going to charity. Sound good? Let’s get to it!
I IS FOR IMAGE, VOL. 1
Written by: Tim Seeley, Gabriel Hardman, Corrina Bechko, Justin Jordan, Joe Casey, Phil Hester
Drawn by: Mike Norton, Gabriel Hardman, Matteo Scalera, Nathan Fox, Mike Huddleston, John McCrea, Will Volley
Inked by: Mike Norton, Gabriel Hardman, Matteo Scalera, Nathan Fox, Mike Huddleston, John McCrea, Will Volley
Colored by: Mark Englert, Moreno DiNisio, Nathan Fox, Mike Huddleston, John McCrea
Lettered by: Crank!, Gabriel Hardman, Pat Brousseau, John Dranski, John McCreaPublished by:
Collecting:
- Revival #1-5 & FCBD (May 2012 – Nov 2012)
- Heathentown OGN (Jan 2009)
- Dead Body Road #1-6 (Dec 2013 – May 2014)
- Haunt #19-25 (Nov 2011 – Jul 2012)
- Deep Sleeper #1-4 (Feb 2004 – Sep 2004)
- The Atheist #1-4 (Apr 2005 – Sep 2007)
Additional Material: None
Bind Details:
- Oversewn binding
- Slate Arrestox cover material
- Black/white headbands
- IMAGE LOGO stamp used
- White endpapers
- Page edges trimmed
Signatures: Hardman (x2), Bechko, Jordon, Fox, Scalera
Sketches: None really, but Fox draws a cool skull-face in his signature!
Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.
Today’s bind is the first of three such books collecting comics published (at least at one point) by Image Comics. Back in 2014, “I is for . . . ” was their big-push marketing campaign, complete with an I Is For Image preview comic sporting that 4-color cover up top. I liked the idea & visual so much I flat-out stole it for my own compilations. Each of them has some kind of linking idea under the ‘published by Image’ umbrella.
Take today’s book, for example. Its criteria was:
- (1) the comic had to be published by Image at some point even if the actual copy included came from a different publisher,
- (2) I had to have the material already in-house so no eBay or online bin-diving, and importantly,
- (3) one or more of the creators had to be attending the upcoming Heroes Con 2014 so I could snag their signatures.
Running those filters on my library actually left me with enough material for at least 2 books (you’ll see the other book next week). And out of that pile jump these books with their clear horror vibe; if not supernatural horror, then in the case of Dead Body Road the horror of being in a f#*ked up situation.
I immediately liked the range of visual approaches I was seeing: from Fox’s supercolors . . .
. . . to the starker black&white of McCrea and Hardman . . .
. . . to all points in-between.
So off to the binder it went!
So you COULD take the time & effort to track down the original issues or later collections and turn them into your own book via a binder using the techniques & approaches we cover every month in Shelf Bound . . .
Continued below. . . and get them signed (probably across multiple conventions) once we get back to living in that kind of world . . .
OR!
You could bid on the bind we’re auctioning today, get the benefit of someone else doing all that work for you, AND do some good for the comics community we all love in the process!
Starting Bid: $25
Auction Ends: May 25, 2020 at 4 pm
Proceeds Benefit: The Hero Initiative
AUCTION FINE PRINT
- This auction ends 72 hours after the date & time of this article’s posting.
- Bids MUST be placed as comments below to be valid.
- Bids order is set by the timestamp given by Disqus. I subscribe to every comment section and receive an email notification simultaneous to the posting of every new comment. That email’s timestamp is what I use to determine bid order & the final bid cutoff time.
- Bids placed anywhere other than the auction article’s comment section (i.e. replying to the announcement tweet) will be ignored.
- Bids posted in currencies other than US dollars will be valued at their USD equivalent.
- Highest bid posted before the end of the auction wins. The winning bidder has 24 hours to contact me via twitter or email (see below) to set up payment. If contact is not made in this timeframe, the winning bid is invalidated and the next highest bid will be the winner.
- Winning bidder will make the donation in the amount of the winning bid to the agreed-upon charity. Upon successful donation and receipt of receipt (hehe) by me, the bind will be mailed out via Media Mail on the following Saturday unless an alternate schedule is agreed upon by all parties.
- Feel free to post any additional questions you may have prior to the end of the auction below; I will do my best to answer them ASAP. Additional and/or specific pictures of the bind are available on request.
- Thanks in advance to anyone bidding on these binds. Good luck!
