New Index Card Drawing on eBay
Added 2025-04-06 05:41:11 +0000 UTCIndex card drawing of Aaron Winkleman, chairman of the Northwest Comix Collective (aka, the alternative Eltingville Club) now up on eBay. Ink is his blood, his taste is impeccable, his "talent", alas, remains unrecognized.
In many ways more surprising than the Eltingville Club revival that's been going on, it turns out that there's a good number of fans who are into The Northwest Comix Collective (the art/alt versions of The Eltingville Club that appeared in a one-shot comic that first appeared in Dork #6 and was collected in the Eltingville hardcover). I've been getting requests on Instagram to draw the characters, so I started with the chairman of the group (and the Bill Dickey correlation). I had no idea what these guys looked like, I don't think I've ever drawn them since I did the story. Maybe I was asked to sketch one of them at a con back in the day. I only remembered that Aaron Winkleman wore a vest like art Spiegelman used to. Or still does, I don't know.
Niches within niches, with no guarantee of riches.
Here's the eBay link - https://www.ebay.com/itm/256883527506
Winky the Pirate Girl > Aaron Winkleman. By far.
Comments
I saw Art in a press photo for a documentary last month. He was indeed still wearing a black vest.
David Forsythe
2025-04-07 13:40:32 +0000 UTCBack in the day, I was the president of an APA-type group for aspiring cartoonists. For the most part, it was a great experience. But there were definitely some characters involved who's ego and self-importance were way out of proportion to their level of talent (myself definitely included). When "Northwest" came out, I related to it like crazy, and thought it was a perfect skewering of the "wannabe" mindset.
J. Kevin Carrier
2025-04-06 15:40:29 +0000 UTC
