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Once a year for fifty years

Wednesday, 10 November, 2004

There's just something sublime about this:

Lithograph No.1: Neil Gaiman
By Dave Sim & Neil Gaiman

(NOTE – not actually a Lithograph. Lithograph No.1: Neil Gaiman is the title)

Only 50 copies of the piece have been produced of which Neil Gaiman and Dave Sim have signed and numbered only 2: “#1/50” and “#2/50” and both have written the year, “2004”, adjacent to their respective signatures. “#1/50” is being auctioned on eBay with the auction closing Friday November 12, 2004 and all proceeds going to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The “#2/50” is being raffled at the Fiddler's Green Sandman Convention the next day. In the event that neither has been completed by those dates, they will be FedExed to the winning recipients.

Of those pieces which remain, Sim and Gaiman will both sign—and Neil Gaiman will complete—one copy in November of each year (i.e. #3/50 in 2005; #4/50 in 2006) which will then be auctioned on eBay to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, by way of illustrating in as pointed a fashion as possible that even though Dave Sim and Neil Gaiman are at diametric opposite poles on the political spectrum, they will always be on good enough terms, personally, to cooperate in jointly supporting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

They will also sign (and Neil Gaiman will complete) five AP (Artist's Proofs) for each other on the understanding that these will not be sold for a period of at least five years (although they can be given away as presents to any individual who agrees not to sell them on the same basis).

If either Neil Gaiman or Dave Sim dies before the last piece is signed—in the year 2053—the survivor agrees to sign the remaining pieces at the agreed upon rate of one per year. After both have died, the remaining pieces will be auctioned at the same rate of one a year, in each case to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

(via Neil. Read “The Long and The Long Strange History of Phase II: Good Things for the CBLDF” in its entirety—it's worth it.)

If I am ever able to make a living out of writing and my work ever becomes worth something valuable, I'd like to do something like that and give the proceeds to the work of God's kingdom. How cool.

P.S. Happy birthday to Neil!

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