the next gapingvoid print: “wolf vs sheep”, pre-order at $265

[“Wolf vs. Sheep”. Click on image to enlarge]

[UPDATE: Wolf vs Sheep $265 is now clo­sed. The price is now $350 pre-order until the print ships, early May. Thanks for the support!!!!!]

“Wolf vs. Sheep” will be the next gaping­void print.
<ahref=“http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004906.html”>The votes are in, and it is always inte­res­ting to see which image wins, and what peo­ple have to say about why. We were bet­ting that the win­ner was going to be “Love Begets Love”, but bet­ween the emails and com­ments, it was at least three-to-one for “Wolf vs Sheep”. [Which just pro­ves that I still do not know why peo­ple like one car­toon over another]. Even though, fewer peo­ple voted for the other ima­ges, they were no less pas­sio­nate about the ones they selec­ted, and that star­ted us thin­king… as I will explain below.
I am always remin­ded that I need to spell out the ‘fine print’, as follows:

1. It’ll be prin­ted around the end of April, and will retail at $450.00. It’ll be an edi­tion of roughly 100, hand sig­ned and num­be­red by me. The first 30 peo­ple who pre-order it by making a $100 depo­sit using the Pay­Pal but­ton below can have it at the pre-publication price of $265.00. Any orders after, but before the publi­ca­tion date can buy it for $350.00. The minute the print goes into pro­duc­tion, the price reverts back to $450.00.

[UPDATE: PAYPAL BUTTON REMOVED, EASTER SUNDAY.]
2. To secure your pre-order, please use the Pay­Pal but­ton above to make a $100 depo­sit. The Pay­Pal form will ask you for all your details [inc­lu­ding your pre­fe­rred ship­ping address], which of course we’ll have for our records. Why are we asking for a depo­sit? To weed out the spam­mers, fla­kes and trolls out there [This is the Inter­net, after all], lea­ving only com­mit­ted buyers in the mix. No other rea­son.
3. The print will be ready to ship in 4 – 6 weeks. We’ll send you another Pay­Pal for the outs­tan­ding invoice once the art­work is prin­ted.
4. We’ll be prin­ting these to the same high stan­dards as last time i.e. top-of-the-line inks and paper, approx 24″ x 35″ in dimen­sion. If for some rea­son, I don’t like the way the colors lay down when I am proo­fing it, I reserve the right to change the colors and if you don’t like the final image, you can have your depo­sit back, no ques­tions asked.
5. Ship­ping & hand­ling [approx $45 USA, $65 abroad] is not inc­lu­ded in the price. The buyer is also res­pon­si­ble for any Cus­toms & Excise outside the USA. We ship them flat, not rolled. When you give us your details, please remem­ber to inc­lude your name, not just your com­pany name. Other­wise the Post Office won’t accept it.
6. If you have any ques­tions, please feel free to drop me an email at gapingvoidprints@gmail.com, and either Laura or me will ans­wer them.

Though “Wolf vs Sheep” was the clear win­ner, there was still a lot of PASSIONATE sup­port for the two other con­ten­ders, “Create Or Die” and “Love Begets Love” [see the com­ments]. We’re loo­king at ways to make those avai­la­ble to you as well. I draf­ted a post ear­lier today that I’ll publish in a few days. In part, it says:

EVERY DAY now, I’m get­ting emails from peo­ple, reques­ting that I turn their favo­rite gaping­void car­toon into a limi­ted edi­tion print. The good news is, in an ideal world, I would do it in a nano­se­cond. The bad news is, it is just not eco­no­mi­cally fea­si­ble. These sorts of print edi­tions are really expen­sive to make, and without a cri­ti­cal mass of cus­to­mers per edi­tion, it simply doesn’t work
The funny thing about my work is, that because there is so much of it, so many dif­fe­rent ima­ges mean so many dif­fe­rent things to so many dif­fe­rent peo­ple. On one level, I’ve been really bles­sed at being very pro­li­fic, but on another level, I strug­gle with deci­ding what to ima­ges to choose for pro­duc­tion. Yes, there are obvious ones, like “The Blue­train”, but many, like “Corinthians”, which pro­ved to be really popu­lar in the end, I could have just as easily not have cho­sen.
There HAS to be a bet­ter way. Somehow, I need to make the selec­tion pro­cess more open to Ever­yone.…
So I’m thin­king to myself, wouldn’t it be cool if peo­ple could SPONSOR their own limi­ted edi­tion? Seriously.

We’re loo­king into this idea where indi­vi­duals can fea­sibly “spon­sor” the pro­duc­tion of their favo­rite car­toon into print form, and har­nes­sing the power of the Inter­net to get other peo­ple to join their cause. We’ll either build or own web­site for that, or we’ll use something like Fundable.org.


[“Love Begets Love” and “Create or Die”.]
“Love Begets Love” and “Create or Die” will be the gui­nea pigs. It’ll be really inte­res­ting to see what hap­pens. Please watch this space.
Thanks, as always, for your love and support!