Comments on: AAEC raises estimated $5,747 for Cartoons for the Classroom project http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:23:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Scott http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-60813 Scott Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:19:08 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-60813 As the winner of the great Tom Toles cartoon I'd just like to say thanks for hosting the auction. If you hold another one I will certainly bid again. I'm also pleased to have discovered AAEC and The Daily Cartoonist. As the winner of the great Tom Toles cartoon I’d just like to say thanks for hosting the auction. If you hold another one I will certainly bid again.

I’m also pleased to have discovered AAEC and The Daily Cartoonist.

]]> By: Tim Campbell http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39416 Tim Campbell Wed, 23 May 2007 20:53:58 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39416 I wanted to write and express my gratitude for the recent auction of editorial cartoons. I started doing editorial cartoons myself this past year and have become very interested in the work of others in this field. This past Sunday I was fortunate to have the winning bid on one of my favorites and it arrived today. I couldn't be more pleased. I sincerely hope that you will hold similar auctions like this in the future. Tim I wanted to write and express my gratitude for the recent auction of editorial cartoons. I started doing editorial cartoons myself this past year and have become very interested in the work of others in this field. This past Sunday I was fortunate to have the winning bid on one of my favorites and it arrived today. I couldn’t be more pleased. I sincerely hope that you will hold similar auctions like this in the future.

Tim

]]> By: DT http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39153 DT Tue, 22 May 2007 21:12:35 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39153 Just goes to show, you can't make value-judgements unless you know the ground rules. I'm glad to discover my cynical suspicions were unfounded. But unless you ask the question... Just goes to show, you can’t make value-judgements unless you know the ground rules. I’m glad to discover my cynical suspicions were unfounded. But unless you ask the question…

]]> By: Clay Bennett http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39117 Clay Bennett Tue, 22 May 2007 18:40:52 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39117 I do, Alan. Thanks! I do, Alan. Thanks!

]]> By: Alan Gardner http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39105 Alan Gardner Tue, 22 May 2007 18:31:48 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39105 Clay, I'd hate to think that anyone is taking offense to my observations on the final bid amounts. Any casual suspicions that I may have had were resolved with your earlier post. I completely support the AAEC and its endeavors to raise money for the classroom project. I hope that the AAEC does this again and that you'll consider me and this blog as a friend of such a cause. Alan Clay,
I’d hate to think that anyone is taking offense to my observations on the final bid amounts. Any casual suspicions that I may have had were resolved with your earlier post.

I completely support the AAEC and its endeavors to raise money for the classroom project. I hope that the AAEC does this again and that you’ll consider me and this blog as a friend of such a cause.

Alan

]]> By: Clay Bennett http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39102 Clay Bennett Tue, 22 May 2007 18:17:17 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39102 No problem, Rick! I'd be the first to admit that I was flying by the seat of my pants. In fact, the first contact to the cartoonists who were involved went out in early April, so I had very little time, and even less expertise. Couple that with the fact that our web site was shut down completely by our server for the last three days of the auction, and you can see why I see this as nothing short of a smashing success. I don't mind the criticism of me. Those who donated work for the auction however, deserved no criticism at all. No problem, Rick!

I’d be the first to admit that I was flying by the seat of my pants. In fact, the first contact to the cartoonists who were involved went out in early April, so I had very little time, and even less expertise. Couple that with the fact that our web site was shut down completely by our server for the last three days of the auction, and you can see why I see this as nothing short of a smashing success.

I don’t mind the criticism of me. Those who donated work for the auction however, deserved no criticism at all.

]]> By: Rick Stromoski http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39083 Rick Stromoski Tue, 22 May 2007 17:54:47 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39083 Clay- I did not mean to imply that your auction was poorly run. I apologize for my poor choice of words. I've been on an educational organization that has a yearly auction that raises money for the arts in the public schools in my town and we consistantly raise between $60 and $70K a year. The first year we hired an auction co-ordinator service and they taught us a numerous amount of ways to make an auction successful. After hiring the consultant we went from just $8K the first year to $60K the second year. If you do decide to do it again I would like to help out. Again my sincerest apologies for my poor choice of words. Rick Clay-

I did not mean to imply that your auction was poorly run. I apologize for my poor choice of words. I’ve been on an educational organization that has a yearly auction that raises money for the arts in the public schools in my town and we consistantly raise between $60 and $70K a year. The first year we hired an auction co-ordinator service and they taught us a numerous amount of ways to make an auction successful. After hiring the consultant we went from just $8K the first year to $60K the second year. If you do decide to do it again I would like to help out.

Again my sincerest apologies for my poor choice of words.

Rick

]]> By: Clay Bennett http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39059 Clay Bennett Tue, 22 May 2007 16:39:13 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39059 If there were any strategic or tactical failings of the AAEC auction, those criticism fall squarely on my shoulders as its organizer. This was the first such endeavor for both the AAEC and myself. We were dealt some blows during the course of the event, and made some mistakes ourselves, but should we decide to try this again in the years to come, we'll do a better job from the lessons we've learned. All I ask is that you save your criticism for me alone. The cartoonists who gave so willingly to this event deserve none of you speculative contempt. The artists who put their work out there, risking the fate that it might not make as much as we hoped it would, or as much as others might think it should, deserve nothing but your respect. If we do decide to try this again, I just hope we can convince the cartoonists who we approach, that the performance of their cartoons won't be sliced, diced, scrutinized and ridiculed. If there were any strategic or tactical failings of the AAEC auction, those criticism fall squarely on my shoulders as its organizer. This was the first such endeavor for both the AAEC and myself. We were dealt some blows during the course of the event, and made some mistakes ourselves, but should we decide to try this again in the years to come, we’ll do a better job from the lessons we’ve learned.

All I ask is that you save your criticism for me alone. The cartoonists who gave so willingly to this event deserve none of you speculative contempt. The artists who put their work out there, risking the fate that it might not make as much as we hoped it would, or as much as others might think it should, deserve nothing but your respect.

If we do decide to try this again, I just hope we can convince the cartoonists who we approach, that the performance of their cartoons won’t be sliced, diced, scrutinized and ridiculed.

]]> By: Nick Anderson http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39056 Nick Anderson Tue, 22 May 2007 16:32:47 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39056 Several cartoons went for $250 because that was the "reserve price" for an original (It was $150 for signed prints). The starting bids were $50 for all. Any bid submitted between $50 and $249 will stay at $50 until a second bidder drives the price up. Once someone bids $250 (or more), the bid automatically jumps to the reserve price. The price won't go up unless another bidder is driving it up. Theoretically, you can submit a maximum bid of $10,000, but only end up paying $250 because no one bid against you. The ones that didn't sell didn't meet their reserve. The ones that sold below their reserve apparently took advantage of a second-chance offer from the auction coordinator after the auction was complete. I (and the other cartoonists) may have a "large ego," but not a big enough one to create a fictional character who has apparently been a member of ebay since 1999 and has bought at least 75 other things on ebay, who apparently (from earlier purchases) is an editorial cartoon collector, and to spend $250 on my own cartoon. Nothing wrong with cynicism, as long as it's informed. Now, you can consider yourselves informed. Your welcome. Nick Several cartoons went for $250 because that was the “reserve price” for an original (It was $150 for signed prints). The starting bids were $50 for all. Any bid submitted between $50 and $249 will stay at $50 until a second bidder drives the price up. Once someone bids $250 (or more), the bid automatically jumps to the reserve price. The price won’t go up unless another bidder is driving it up. Theoretically, you can submit a maximum bid of $10,000, but only end up paying $250 because no one bid against you.

The ones that didn’t sell didn’t meet their reserve. The ones that sold below their reserve apparently took advantage of a second-chance offer from the auction coordinator after the auction was complete.

I (and the other cartoonists) may have a “large ego,” but not a big enough one to create a fictional character who has apparently been a member of ebay since 1999 and has bought at least 75 other things on ebay, who apparently (from earlier purchases) is an editorial cartoon collector, and to spend $250 on my own cartoon.

Nothing wrong with cynicism, as long as it’s informed. Now, you can consider yourselves informed. Your welcome.

Nick

]]> By: Alan Gardner http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39030 Alan Gardner Tue, 22 May 2007 13:55:13 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/05/21/aaec-raises-estimated-5747-for-cartoons-for-the-classroom-project/#comment-39030 Thanks Clay for your report. Congratulations on its success. Thanks Clay for your report. Congratulations on its success.

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