Floating World Comics is an amazing comic book store/art gallery located in Portland, Oregon. For the month of May the store is hosting a gallery exhibit called Full of Pryde, a tribute to the X-Men character Kitty Pryde (aka Shadowcat). The show features original art pieces from a wide variety of different artists each showing their unique perspective on the X-Men team member. The original art being shown at the gallery is all for sale, and 100% of the proceeds from the sales will be going to a good cause.
The following is a statement regarding the show from the store's owner:
My good friend Douglas E. Sherwood (Oni Press) proposed a tribute show based around his favorite X-Men character, Kitty Pryde. His own personal experiences with having hemophilia his entire life also inspired him to make the show a fundraiser for the Hemophilia Treatment Center at OHSU. So we’ve asked dozens of comic artists, graphic designers, and illustrators to do their rendition of Kitty Pryde for our May Art Exhibit at Floating World Comics. The opening was a huge success and now we're making the original art from the show available through ebay auctions. 100% of the proceeds from these sales goes to the HTC department at OHSU.
Take a look at our other auctions, there's a great variety of artwork and it's all for a good cause!
(Auctions end in about 1 week, artwork will be shipped near the end of the month when the art exhibit has ended. Artwork will be shipped safely and securely.)
I've picked out some of my favorite pieces from the show and have shown them above, but if you go here you can see a ton of other images from the exhibit. There's a great number of pieces in the show, and there are so many different styles represented that no two depictions of the character are the same. There's also this flickr set which features more pictures from the show as well as the exhibit's opening night party. The pics there suddenly make me sad I live so far away from such a cool looking comic shop.
If you wish to purchase any of the pieces, you can bid on them here. Prices for the art ranges from $20 to $150 depending on the piece, and remember all of the proceeds from the show are going to help people in need. So not only will you get a cool piece of comic art, but you'll also be doing a good deed.
Those are pretty good. I might consider buying one if I knew the money went to the "bring Kitty back to the X-Men foundation.
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