UPDATE! The CBLDF Auction keeps getting bigger and better! Thanks to the generosity of the artistic community at Comic-Con, the CBLDF has 12 new pieces to add to tonight’s Comic-Con Auction, and more is on the way! To make sure that our donors have the maximum opportunity for bidding on these items, we’re extending the deadline to place absentee bids until 5 PM PT. Full rules are at the bottom of this post. New items have been added to the slideshow below as well. The list of new items is:

1. Paul Pope, Orion original art
2. Jill Thompson, Beasts of Burden original painting from CBLDF Master Session
3. Duncan Rouleau, The Thinker
4. Paul Pope, Homage to Hamlet from CBLDF Master Session
5. Paul Pope, Battle of the Planets from CBLDF Master Session
6. Paul Pope, Pulp Hope, out of print book, signed
7. Dan Brereton, Color painting
8. Marco Cinello, Soul Kiss original art 1
9. Marco Cinello, Soul Kiss original art 2
10. Tom Hodges, Classic Wonder Woman drawing
11. Ale Garza, Supergirl from Drink! Draw! Dance!
12. Oliver Nome, Wolverine from Drink! Draw! Dance!
13. David Petersen, Mouse Guard original page

It’s here! The CBLDF’s biggest auction of the year! Saturday night, starting at 7:30 PM in Room 3 of the San Diego Convention Center, the CBLDF will be auctioning off one of the largest and most diverse arrays of original art ever contributed to benefit the organization! Highlights below, followed by a complete list of items.

Highlights include:

Dave McKean – Black Orchid, page 96, original art.

Contributed and signed on the back of the frame by Neil Gaiman, from his personal collection! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a one in a kind work of art by two trailblazers in modern comics, and perhaps your only opportunity to acquire a piece with such a unique provenance. Truly a rare and significant offering!

MUTHR Maquette from The Search for Wondla

From the mind of Tony DiTerlizzi, creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles comes The Search for WondLa, the start of a new trilogy that’s already been optioned for the screen! This maquette, MUTHR is generously contributed by DiTerlizzi and Simon & Schuster Young Readers. MUTHR is Multi Utility Task Help Robot, and is brilliantly sculpted and painted by Martin Meunier, the award-winning sculptor/model maker and graphic designer whose film credits include Coraline, James and the Giant Peach, and The Spiderwick Chronicles the film on which he met author and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi. Martin has worked for FX Company as well as film studios Industrial Light and Magic, Pixar, Disney, and Universal. Intricately crafted and cast in hard resin, MUTHR Maquette is a limited edition of 100 worldwide, signed by Tony DiTerlizzi.

TFAW.Com’s Second Annual Comic-Con CBLDF Art Auction!

Last year, Things From Another World and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund teamed up with some fantastic comics professionals to help raise more than $30,000 for the CBLDF’s annual auction at San Diego Comic-Con. They’re at it again, with an even wider array of great original art gathered by TFAW in association with Image Comics! Check out this amazing range of original art, including contributions from Ben Templesmith, Charlie Adlard Darick Robertson, Fabio Moon, Phil Foglio, Jeff Lemire, Jeffrey Brown, Jenny Frison, Jim Lee, Moritat, Peter Bagge, Phil Hester, Jim Valentino and many more!

SeenAllOver.com/Etnies Contributions!

SeenAllOver.com launched on July 4 with a bang to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Now we’re auctioning off their great work, including a selection of Etnies sneakers customized by artists including Jill Thompson, David Mack, Eric Powell, and more, plus original paintings made on the CBLDF’s Live Art Stage by Tara McPherson, Aya Kakeda, Molly Crabapple, Nikki Cook, Khary Randolph, and Brian Ewing!

Apart from all of these great items, even more than we can show here will be in the final auction, including live art created at the CBLDF Master Sessions by Paul Pope, Rob Liefeld, Jill Thompson, Terry Moore and Darick Robertson, as well as the Ale Garza hosted Drink Draw Dance pre-Comic-Con party on Wednesday, and the Thursday night’s CBLDF Welcome Party sponsored by Image Comics, in association with SeenAllOver.com, Soulcraft Comics, and IHEARTCOMIX.

Come out on Saturday night to win your share of these great original pieces, and support the First Amendment at the CBLDF’s Comic-Con Art Auction!

Auction List

1. Dave McKean & Neil Gaiman – Black Orchid, p. 96 original art
2. Martin Meunier & Tony DiTerlizzi – MUTHR Maquette from WONDLA
3. Philip Tan – Batman
4. Jim Lee – CBLDF’s Liberty Comics 2010 Cover, 1/1 print
5. Jeffrey Brown – Cat Mischief
6. Jeff Lemire – Sweet Tooth pinup
7. Guy Davis – The Marquis
8. Guy Davis – Abe Sapien
9. Gabriel Ba – Casanova and Kraken
10. Jenny Frison – Wonder Woman
11. Fabio Moon – The White Violin
12. Jay Anacleto – Ecstacy
13. Duncan Rouleau – The Great Unknown
14. David Hine – The Bulletproof Coffin
15. Darick Roberston – Conan, cover to CBLDF’s Liberty Comics 2010
16. Phil Hester – The Wretch Pinup
17. Peter Bagge – A Widow’s Worry
18. Peter Bagge – Sticks & Stones
19. Paul Grist – Jack Staff
20. Patric Reynolds – Dexter
21. Nick Percival – Pin up
22. Matthew Southworth – Brewster Wayne
23. Mark Dos Santos – Death
24. Kody Chamberlain – Sweets pinup
25. Jonathan Luna – The Sword pin up
26. Jim Rugg – Codex
27. Bill Morrison – Lady Robotika
28. Ben Templesmith – Choker #3, page 20
29. Amy Mebberson – Miss Piggy
30. Tim Seeley – Warrior Maiden
31. Arthur Adams – Batman pinup
32. Frank Miller – My Universe signed print
33. Arthur Adams – Wolverine pin up
34. Cully Hamner – The Question original art
35. Craig Thompson & Neil Gaiman – The Last Angel tour poster, signed
36. Matt Wagner – Tek Jansen #2 original cover art
37. Tara McPherson – Mr. Bubbles original painting
38. Rob Schrab – SCUD original drawing
39. Terry Moore, Jim Valentino, Batton Lash, Marc Hempel, Jimmie Robinson, Zander Cannon, Jon Bean Hastings – Independent Alley original art
40. Matt Kindt – Scarlet original art
41. Jeff Smith – RASL original drawing
42. Paul Pope – Pin up original art
43. Jim Silke – Pin up – original pastel
44. Nikki Cook – original painting
45. Nikki Cook – original painting
46. George A. Walker – Murder Mysteries Woodcut- Angel
47. George A. Walker – Murder Mysteries Woodcut- Smoker
48. David Petersen – Mouse Guard unfinished page
49. Charlie Adlard – Michonne, original character design from The Walking Dead
50. Jim Mahfood – Kick Drum Comix #1, page 13
51. Khary Randolph – original painting
52. Jose Marzan Jr. & Bill Willingham – Jack of Fables #27, page 15
53. Ron Lim – Iron Man/Doom #4, pg 7 original art
54. Kerry Gammill & Sam De La Rosa – Indiana Jones #7, p. 23
55. Richard Case – Hunter #22, page 16
56. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 1
57. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 2
58. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 3
59. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 4
60. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 5
61. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 6
62. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 7
63. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 8
64. Charlie Adlard – Walking Dead Suite 9
65. Tom Scioli – Death of Godland pinup
66. Shaky Kane — The Coffin Fly signed production stat
67. Phil & Kaja Foglio – Girl Genius pinup
68. Nate Powell – Swallow Me Whole
69. Larry Marder – Beanish Original drawing
70. Kenneth Rocafort – Velocity pin up
71. Jim Valentino – Tall Tales pin-up
72. Gabriel Hardman – Spider-Man pin up
73. Dane Ault — Kid Zombie
74. Dan Brereton – Pinup
75. Andy Kuhn – Firebreather original art
76. Victor Santos – Mice Templar original art
77. Moritat – Original Drawing
78. The Talisman #0 Signed by Stephen King & Peter
79. Straub
80. Eric Powell Etnies
81. David Mack Etnies
82. Molly Crabapple Etnies
83. Kevin Colden Etnies
84. Aya Kakeda Etnies
85. Jill Thompson Etnies
86. Larry Marder – Portrait of Harvey Pekar
87. Sienna Morris – Perpetual Motion
88. Steve Seeley – Bandito Superman
89. Peter Krause – The Plutonian
90. Billy Tucci – Heroes For Hire #2, Page 1
91. Eric Powell & Neil Gaiman – Orignial sketch card & sketchbook set
92. Bob Layton – Galactus original drawing
93. Craig Rousseau & Paul Tobin – Marvel FCBD Iron Man/Nova
94. Georges Jeanty – Faces of Evil: Deathstroke original page
95. Casey Jones – Exiles #84, page 15
96. Jim Calafiore – Excalibur #15, page 4
97. Dustin Nguyen – Detective Comics #849, page 5 original art
98. Nathan Fox – Creepy #2, Muscle Car page 1
99. Bernie Wrightson – original painting
100. Matt Smith – Clock Maker #7, page 9
101. Ben Templesmith – Choker #3, Page 18
102. Ben Templesmith – Choker #3, Page 17
103. Brian Ewing – Broken Skull
104. Guy Davis – BPRD: The Black Goddess #1, page 4
105. BPRD – BPRD: The Black Flame #1, page 15
106. Sam Ellis – Bed Bug Origin #1 original page
107. Aya Kakeda – Original Painting
108. Alan Moore & Todd Klein, Alphabets of Desire print, first edition

Bidding Rules

At The Show

All bidders will need to have a bidder number, which can be picked up at Booth 1920 at any time during the convention, or at the auction.

Off-Site Bidding

If you are unable to be at the convention, or unable to attend the auction, bids will be accepted online bids starting Monday, July 19 until Saturday, July 24, 1:00 PM Pacific Time. All bids must be emailed to director@cbldf.org with “SDCC AUCTION BID” in the subject line. Be sure when bidding to use the item name as it appears on the website.

This is not a silent auction bidding system. All bids placed online will be used as opening bids during the live auction on Saturday, July 24. In the event there are multiple bids on the same item, the highest bid will be the one accepted.

Bid amounts placed online will not be disclosed before the item is auctioned. Winning bidders will be notified by email the week following the convention. Payment is expected within 7 days from said email.