11,000 hand-drawn ‘Garfield’ comics go up at auction

11,000 hand-drawn 'Garfield' comics go up at auction

Garfield creator Jim Davis is auctioning off his spare comic strips — but not all at once.

Heritage Auctions, based in Dallas, started auctioning off two comic strips per week in August, specifically the daily strips that appear in newspapers; they sell for around $500 to $700. 

Longer strips, like those from a Sunday newspaper, will be available at the auction house’s bigger events, and go from closer to $1,500 to $3,000. A comic grader at Heritage said strip price can increase depend on more character appearances or Garfield behaving in his signature way — hating Mondays, eating lasagna, and so on. Read more…

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