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COMIC STRIPS
7 MARCH 2015
SOTHEBY’S PARIS | PARIS, FRANCE

Sotheby’s is teaming up with experts Bernard Mahé and Eric Verhoest to stage Comic Strips, an exceptional auction featuring selected works by leading comic strip artists from around the world.

With 300 lots comprising illustrations, paintings and original plates blending historical and contemporary European and American authors, Comic Strips will be of major interest to international connoisseurs and collectors.

Artists represented include such established names as Hergé, Hugo Pratt, Peyo, Gir-Moebius, Enki Bilal and François Schuiten alongside American artists like Winsor McCay – one of the founders of transatlantic comic strips – and Milton Caniff, with the first two Sunday Pages of Steve Canyon.