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Two Tropen fountain pens used by Ronald Searle are in the eBay shop now!  Visit the Cartoon Museum SF store and hit view all items. You'll see them listed individually.  Searle posters to follow next week.

SOLD!

Ronald Searle collector & fountain pen enthusiast Uli Meyer is custodian of the pens in London.  He describes their condition: 
"The pen is five or six decades old but I presume that it is usable. I haven't tried them and I never would. Ronald labelled all his pens and nibs meticulously. I very much hope that the winner of the pen will not use it. This pen is special because it came out of Ronald's pen drawer with his note attached, last used by the man himself. I would hope that the pen would be kept as it is. "

Austin Madison

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'One of our Dinosaurs is Missing'

Austin Madison

Storyboard Artist Pixar, closet Paleontologist

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Sandro Cleuzo

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'May I Have This Dance?'
Ink & marker on paper 11.75"x11"

Sandro Cleuzo

Animator, Designer

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Elliot Elam

'Biker'

A3(11.7"x16")  blue brush pen, blue pencil crayon, black fountain pentel and TippEX/whit-out
Elliot Elam Cartoonist & illustrator

London, UK

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Ken Turner

'Seinfeld'

Ink on Watercolour Paper

Ken Turner Animator/Illustrator

Canada

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Lindsey Olivares

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'Hawaii 1943'

'Home 1942'

India Ink on Cardstock 8.5" x 11" Framed

Lindsey Olivares Character Designer
California

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Elliot Cowan

100 Monster drawings!
Pen on paper 3"x5"

Elliot Cowan Independant animated film director/producer & teacher

New York, NY
Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Julia Lundman

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'Reminiscing'

gouache on board 13.5" x 9.75"

Julia Lundman Lead Artist at Disney Interactive/Playdom

San Francisco, CA

Julia's lovingly rendered tribute to a possible St Trinian's alumni is based on her discovery in the '101 Dalmations' book that Cruella attended the same school as Anita and was expelled for drinking ink!  This a beautifully painted piece on artboard by an experienced commercial artist with a fine arts background.  Julia is an accomplished plein air and still life painter.  This is an opportunity to own a more cartoony piece in her sophisticated style.

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Vitaliy Strokous

'Chain of command'

5"X11". It's ink and watercolor

Vitaliy Strokous
Artist at JibJab media

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Perry Osuna

'007'

pen and ink on watercolor paper 90lb  9x12

Perry Osuna
Toronto, Canada

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Paul Abadilla

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'Blouses'

6"x9" ink & watercolor on watercolor paper
Paul Abadilla, Illustrator / Artist at Pixar
Alameda, California

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Heidi Smith

'Scrooge'
Ink on art board 10.5" x 13"

Heidi Smith Character Designer 

Heidi's designs for the stop-motion feature 'PARANORMAN' made it one of the most striking looking animated features of last year.  Her original design sensibility garnered instant attention from the industry and she was rightly awarded this years Annie award (the US animation community's Oscar) for Character Design in an Animated Feature. This is a chance to own an original drawing by one of todays emerging talents whose personal work is seldom available to purchase.

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

'The Cigarette Lady'
Ink on art board 8" x 8.7"

Heidi Smith

Character Designer PARANORMAN

Carlos Leon

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'Chess Players'

Pencil on paper

Carlos Leon Vis Dev Artist PDI Dreamworks

San Francisco, CA

 All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November. Shipping fee negotiable. Expedited shipping available if extra fees are paid by the buyer.

Jason Groh

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"Domesticated American Cowboy"

Ink on paper

Jason Groh Character Designer

Toronto, Canada

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Randall William Cook

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'Orson Welles'

Ink on paper 23.75" x 18"

Randall Cook Animation wizard Ghostbusters, The Gate, Lord of the Rings

Los Angeles, CA

Randy Cook is a veteran of the visual effects industry, recognized THREE times with an Academy Award for his work bringing Gollum to life in the original Lord of The Rings trilogy. While still living in New Zealand he went on to shoot 2nd unit photography for Peter Jackson on ' King Kong' and is now back in Los Angeles working on feature projects inspired by his hero & friend stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen. This magnificent large format drawing of Orson Welles is inspired by the recent publication of Henry Jaglom's lunch conversations with the legendary director & raconteur. In his early career Randall worked with John Musker & Brad Bird and still has the drawing chops to match them! Randall still designs creatures for film but works mostly digitally.  This is a rare opportunity to bid on a piece of traditional art by the hand of an artist responsible for creating some of the most memorable characters in film history.

Mike Lynch

'St Trinians Fairy'

India Ink & watercolour on Arches Paper 11" x 10"

Mike Lynch Cartoonist

Milton, NH

Mike Lynch's clients include Reader's Digest, Mad Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, St. Martin's Press, Random House, McGraw Hill, The Boston Globe and many others. Mike has spearheaded the "Oscars of cartooning" as the Award Coordinator for the annual National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Awards. He writes the popular Mike Lynch Cartoons blog on the business of cartooning, one of the most recognized and trafficked comic art industry sites on the Web.

Trevor Jiminez

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'Cats' (+ bonus doodles on reverse)

10" x 7.5" ink on thick stock paper

Trevor Jimenez Storyboard Artist Pixar

San Francisco, CA

Trevor's graduation film 'Key Lime Pie' was very well received at international animation festivals such as Annecy, Ottawa and Zagreb.

Trevor has storyboarded for Disney Feature Animation, Henry Selick and is currently at Pixar. 

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Ronald Searle #2

SOLD!

The Searle family have donated TWO of Ronald's own fountain pens to the auction.  They are not Mont Blanc but the German brand Tropen.  They are not in perfect condition but evidently used by Searle to create his drawings.  He would generally use fountain pens to sketch on location for reportage assignments.  Each has a handwritten notation by Searle detailing the functionality of each pen.  He was meticulous in recording the effectiveness of each of is drawing implements.
The pens will be listed seperately when the eBay auction launches.  Something for Searle completists, fountain pen enthusiasts and cartoon historians . . .

View more from Ronald Searle in the Posters section

Tuna Bora

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'Curiosity Killed the Cat!'

ink on Artboard

Tuna Bora Vis Dev Artist
Los Angeles CA

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Pete Docter

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Milt Kahl 101 Dalmations Flipbook (dummy copy)- signed
10" x 8.25" (Bigger than the published version)

Pete Docter, Director Pixar

Emeryville CA

When not directing Pixar's more original, whimsical films such as 'Monsters Inc.',  'Up' and the forthcoming 'Inside Out' Pete Docter indulges his passion for traditional 2-D animation. Every year he produces personal flip book Christmas cards for friends & family . This year he channeled that passion into a set of flip books representing classic Disney animation by each of the legendary Nine Old Men.  While deciding on the format of these books dummy copies were made to test the concept.

Pete has signed and embellished a dummy copy of the Milt Kahl book featuring a scene from '101 Dalmations'.  The book is bigger than the published size.

Katie Smith

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'Absinthe Anyone?'

Pen & Ink on Bristol Board, 8x10

Katie Smith Illustrator

NYC

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Nikolas Ilic

                                    SOLD!

'Red Arrow'

Ink & watercolour on 125lbs watercolor paper

Nikolas Ilic  Character Designer/Visual Development Artist

Burbank, California

Michael Smukavic

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'Action!'

9"x12" ink and wash on Fabriano 140 lbs Hot press paper.

Michael Smukavic Storyboard Artist 

Ontario Canada

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Lissa Treiman

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'The Swing... With Cats'

'St Trinians'

ink and watercolor, both about 5"x6" (not including margins).

LissaTreiman

Storyboard Artist Disney

Los Angeles, CA

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Philip Vose

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'Rich Man Giving'
14"x19" Ink, watercolour & gold paint on paper

Philip Vose Director & vis-dev artist

Fremont, California

This is an incredible, LARGE format drawing embellished with gold paint that shimmers in the light. Inspired by the political side of Searle's oeuvre it is as intricate & sharply inked as anything by Searle.

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Seb Mesnard

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'Athenaïs's playground'

 22X18 cm Black ink on Arches paper

Seb Mesnard Vis Dev artist and Illustrator, Paris France.

A beautiful drawing inspired by Searle's naughty schoolgirls of St. Trinians.  Seb has rendered this picture in exquisite detail, right down to the school emblem patch stitched on to her outfit.

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Michael Daley

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'Hulk out!'

Ink & watercolour on  11"x 14" Strathmore Paper 260g 

Michael Daley Storyboard Artist Blue Sky Studios

NYC


Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Noam Sussman

'Cat Lady'

Digital Print

Noam Sussman Animator/illustrator/film-maker

Toronto, Canada

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Eric Goldberg

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'After Aladdin'

Pen & Ink on Bristol Board 13" x 17"

Eric Goldberg Master Animator
Los Angeles, CA

Eric Goldberg is recognized by his peers and animation students everywhere as the preeminent practitioner of broad, cartoony, hand-drawn animation.  Influenced by the masters of the past at Warner Bros and Disney Eric infused modern Disney films with highly memorable characters like Aladdin's Genie voiced by Robin Williams,  'Hercules' Phil voiced by Danny Devito and Louis the alligator in 'The Princess & the Frog' .

Eric co-directed Disney's 'Pocahontas' and supervised the exquisite animation in Fantasia 2000s 'rhapsody In Blue' inspired by the artwork of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld. The design of 'Aladdin' was also informed by the work of Hirschfeld and Eric's drawing for this auction represents his vision of what the film may have looked like had it been designed by the savage pen of Ronald Searle instead!

Eric's personal work is rarely available so this opportunity to own a drawing by him influenced by TWO master cartoonists won't come up again soon.

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Jason Deamer

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'Victorian Values'

Ink on heavy stock paper 11" x 17"

Jason Deamer Character Designer Pixar

San Francisco, CA

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Pierre Collet-Derby

'Bubbles'

Ink and watercolor illustration on 125lbs watercolor paper 11"  x 7 1/2". 

Pierre Collet-Derby Character Designer & Illustrator New York NY

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Ronald Searle

The Searle Estate has generously donated a batch of posters for the fundraiser which I'll auction off individually.  See also the two fountain pens used by Searle which they donated. 

Katy Wu

'My Pussy'

  6.5" x 7" gouache on illustration board

Katy Wu Google Doodler

San Francisco, CA

This picture is petite with a wicked sense of humour, just like Searle's St. Trinians girls!  Katy established her reputation as a visual development artist at Pixar and later on Henry Selick's unfinished 'Shadow Maker' project.  She recently joined the GoogleDoodle team where her work is now seen by tens of millions globally! This is a rare chance to own original art by one of today's top graphic artists.

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.

Domee Shi

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'Searle-r Moon'

8" x 10" Ink & Watercolour

Domee Shi, Storyboard Artist Pixar

Oakland, California

Rhode Montijo

'Napoleon'

Ink on paper 8 1/2" x 14"

Rhode Montijo Illustrator

Shipping fee negotiable. All proceeds go towards mounting the 'Searle In America' exhibition at the non-profit Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco this November.