Will Planning: sketchbooks, proofs, and rough drafts giveaway

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Hello, folks! We are doing will and estate planning stuff (we are young and in good health, but it's never too early to plan) and while most of our stuff will be comparatively easy to shove at thrift stores, none of our helpers are in a good position to figure out what to do with our original artwork, sketchbooks, edit proofs, and rough drafts of our work. These are exactly the kind of objects that are probably of intense interest to SOMEONE, but certainly not everyone. So, we're putting them up for grabs here on Dreamwidth!

These things range from hand-drawn original pages of finished comics, to rough pencils that were later inked digitally, to printed and bound rough drafts with edits in colored pencil. I suppose falling into this category would also be our sketchbooks and writing spirals; basically every story we have ever posted started handwritten longhand in a spiral (or three). Most of it is not conveniently frameable, sorry.

To make a claim on an object, you do not need to be someone we know or have a close relationship with us. If you are an archivist of some kind (not necessarily a formally recognized one) with interest in plural or comics work, you get higher ranking. Ditto if you are within the USA. (Sorry overseas folks, but overseas shipping is a nightmare. I'm willing to liquidate my postmortem funds for the purpose, but also dumping our corpse is expensive.) PLEASE BE GREEDY! Unclaimed stuff gets recycled.

Since we need a legal name and contact info or stable address for a claim, comments are screened. Anon comments are on.

Here are the things up for grabs:

Finished Clean Originals: no edit marks, final versions, hanging loose and not bound or framed (except pg. 7 of MPD For You and Me)

• Originals for MPD For You and Me (includes typed script and one page framed; this is the most conveniently frameable project)
• Originals for Questions
• Originals for FTMPD (which became a chapter of Alter Boys in Love) (includes both hand-drawn pages and typed-up script)
• Original for Gender Evolution one-pager
• Original for The Bad Day Book one-pager
• Scattered miscellaneous original pages for Cracks of Sunshine 1/The Homeless Year: Pop-Pop, Body Heat, Achievements of 2012, Things I Love About You, Smile!, Sneak Is Friend to All Animals, Free-Floating Anxiety, So Much Money, Happy Tuesday, Freak Out (the first appearance of Self-Hate), 2012 in Review, Scary Things, Green Lantern of Boston. (Most are frameable.)
• Original for Eat This Sandwich one-pager
• Original for Self-Care 101 one-pager
• Original for Improving a Blah Day one-pager (became Fixing the Blahs)
• Original promo bookmark showing the system circa 2011
• 3 original pages (though comics only) for the Dead Boy Walking segment, and the Mori and Mir "we've been doing religion this whole time" page from Madgic #2: Psycho Pomp (frameable)
• Original hand-drawn Infinity Smashed tarot cards
• A buttload of Infinity Smashed drawings and sketches from 2000-present, in pencil, ink, and colored pencils. (Frameable. Seriously, if there's one you have in mind, just say, "the one with Raige and M.D. dancing in front of graffiti," I'll know what you mean.)
• A buttload of headmate drawings and sketches from 2004-present, in pencil, ink, colored pencil, and water color. (Frameable. Ditto.)
• Two massive framed watercolor fanart illustrations from the 2003 Infinity Smashed draft by artist Francesca Buchko in 2006. One is or Raige, M.D, and Aqua in a forest, the other is the full cast plummeting through a psychedelic vortex.

Roughs (artwork in pencil or sketch form, zine pages handwritten to plan blocking) pages loose and unbound

• Rough pencils for LB 101 one-pager
• Roughed illustrated pages for the failed big LB 101 zine on looseleaf (14 illustrated pages, frameable)
• Typed script for Alter Boy with edit notes in red (became a chapter of Alter Boys in Love)
• Penciled handwritten rough pages for Red Yellow Green on looseleaf paper (became a chapter of Alter Boys in Love, includes one deleted section and one changed illustration, frameable)
• Penciled handwritten rough pages for Leap of Faith on looseleaf paper (became a chapter of Alter Boys in Love, includes one deleted page and two deleted illustrations, frameable)

Print Proofs (bound rough drafts, zines with rough pencil illustrations, prose typed, most with edit notes in colored pencils, some final versions with no corrections or notes)

• 2 copies of the original 2003 Infinity Smashed draft, one with a cover typo and crayon scribbles from a small child that will probably go in the grave with us
• The only copy of Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Stories, made in 2009 before Rogan and Mac got married, of fun times from their early relationship (hand-bound and illustrated, no edit notes)
• Half-letter-size print of MPD For You and Me (size test, so no notes)
• Half-letter-size print of Questions (size test, no notes)
• Half-letter-size print of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here, a 2008 plural anthology zine we rigged up (size test, no notes)
• Bodily Reconstruction original floppy print (later became a chapter of Infinity Smashed: Hearts Spark Beat; no edit notes)
• Homeless Year original floppy installments: Dissociation and Cracks of Sunshine #1 and #2 (final versions, no notes)
• Edit draft of The Greatest American Novel of ALL TIME! (Edit notes in red)
• All In The Family original #1-4 floppy installments (contain changed artwork and text, deleted pages, edit notes in red)
• Memory Work Essays zine from the AllFam Kickstarter (no notes, final version)
• What's Great About Multiplicity? (No notes, final version)
• LB Goes to Alaska (edit notes in red)
• 5 print drafts of what became Rutless: a transgender omegaverse story (edit notes in various colors, some with none, some with ilustrations)
• Death Watch (no notes, final version)
• Print test of Infinity Smashed: Heart Sparks Beat (edit notes in red)
• Flights of Reality print test (no notes)
• Cultiples #1 (final version, no notes)
• Cultiples #2 (edit notes in red)
• Cultiples #3 (no notes, only copy ever made)
• Inaction Comics Anthology (no notes)
• Boundless vol. 1 science comics anthology (misprint; one section the pages are upside-down)
• The Homeless Year (no edit notes, final version)
• Edit draft of Red Yellow Green, which became a chapter of Alter Boys In Love (edit notes in red)
• Edit draft of Alter Boys in Love (edit notes in red)
• Red and Blue (edit notes in red)
• 3 progressive edit drafts of Multi, Orgasmic: one with pencil or placeholder art and lettering tests, the other two with inked art and more final letters (edit notes in red and green)
• 3 progressive edit drafts of Madgic #1: one with pencil or placeholder art and lettering tests, the other two with inked art and more minor edits (edit notes in red, green, and purple)
• 3 progressive edit drafts of Madgic #2, all with varying levels of penciled, placeholder, and finished art (edit notes in red and green)
• All in the Family (final version, no notes)
• 4 progressjve drafts of what became Infinity Smashed: Found Wanting, floppy ashcans for edit purposes (edit notes in red, color artwork that didn't make it into the final print)
• Print edit paperback of Infinity Smashed: Found Wanting (edit notes in red, green, and purple, taped-in color illustrations)

There are also sketchbooks from 2005-present, containing rough pencil or finished inked pages for every comic we have made since 2012, Cracks of Sunshine/Homeless Year on. If you want the originals of a specific work and they aren't in the loose originals section, stake your claim here so I can mark the relevant sketchbooks with your name and info. These sketchbooks are also likely to have the roughs of any piece of artwork that's not in the originals section, so make requests for that too. (You will get the whole sketchbook. I am not making my descendants dig and chop through dozens of sketchbooks. All but one are small, 6 x 9 inches tops, and the exception is 8.5 x 11.) Similarly, we have our writing spirals from 2004-present, containing at least partial rough drafts of damn near every story ever posted on this blog, as far back as the original '04 drafts of Red Roses Old Horses from Infinity Smashed: Found Wanting. (Again, you'll get every relevant spiral with the story you want, because my descendants have enough trouble without hack-and-slashing dozens of spirals.)

I have no idea if anyone would want these things, but if they're unclaimed by you, the Billy Ireland Comics Library, or the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, they're just going in the recycling because ain't nobody else want them. So be greedy and stake a claim now.