"MOST" of the winners. I assure you I'm familiar with Phil Foglio's work. One of my prized memories is of the art auction at a Denver worldcon where one of Phil's drawings* was being auctioned off. He was one of the auctioneers, so sitting on the table behind the guy currently up. Two very well heeled sorts got into a bidding war and the price shot straight up. As the price went up, Phil's jaw dropped further and further... IIRC it finished up at about $1000 or so and they practically had to call the paramedics to revive him.
* A colored sketch entitled "The Indiana Jones Wing of the National Archives", it depicts a pile of crates with captions along the lines of "Hi, guys, I'm the Ark of the Covenant!" "I bain the Hammer of Thor" (this in something like Fractur), variations of "I'm the [similiar sort of artifact)", and finally over to the right "There must be some mistake; I'm only an electric pencil sharpener!" I bid on this thinking it would make a lovely Intercepted cover. I gave up when it passed $30 in the first three or so bids, without even slowing down.
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Date: 2009-08-11 06:04 am (UTC)* A colored sketch entitled "The Indiana Jones Wing of the National Archives", it depicts a pile of crates with captions along the lines of "Hi, guys, I'm the Ark of the Covenant!" "I bain the Hammer of Thor" (this in something like Fractur), variations of "I'm the [similiar sort of artifact)", and finally over to the right "There must be some mistake; I'm only an electric pencil sharpener!" I bid on this thinking it would make a lovely Intercepted cover. I gave up when it passed $30 in the first three or so bids, without even slowing down.