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Guice Family Memorial Fund Sale

Monday, February 10, 2025
Butch Guice writes: In early December, two days before his 88th birthday, my dad was diagnosed with a previously undetected stage 4 lung cancer.

It blindsided him and the rest of the family, and our focus outside of his immediate needs pretty much came to a full stop, including my work.

Unfortunately, my dad's health declined rapidly and steadily from his initial diagnosis, and he passed away from his cancer two weeks ago.

Since that time, I myself have been recovering from pneumonia, a health situation I had been ignoring during his final two weeks.

Now -- as I slowly heal and begin to step back into my day-to-day life I realize I need to try and find a way to help recover from all the work ing time lost these past two months. In an effort to get back on my feet, I have decided to part with a number of pieces from my original art collection.

Hopefully I can raise some much needed funds while I turn my attention back to long neglected projects.

A number of the pieces on offer are singular, executed by some of the greatest legends in comic art history, and each piece has brought me a lot of joy and inspiration over the years. Hopefully they will be of equal interest to some of you.

My thanks to everyone in giving them your kind consideration. OFFERS ACCEPTED TILL NOON FEB. 16TH CST on certain pieces, otherwise OFFERS ACCEPTED TILL NOON FEB. 23RD CST. PAYPAL or PERSONAL CHECKS ACCEPTED. Thank you.
 

Butch Guice
Jackson Guice (Butch to family and friends) [1961-2025] discovered comics at the age of ten. It was love at first sight. Beginning with his first regular assignment in 1981 (Micronauts), he has happily enjoyed a long career illustrating for a number of publishers, including Marvel, DC, Disney, CrossGen, Humanoids, Acclaim, IDW, and Valiant. Highlights of his career include co-creating one of the earliest Epic Comics series (Swords of the Swashbucklers), drawing Action Comics during the Death of Superman, co-creating and drawing the first issues of X-Factor (including the first introduction of the character Apocalypse), drawing Resurrection Man and Birds of Prey runs at DC, co-creating the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated Ruse at CrossGen, and helping launch the Winter Soldier in his own series at Marvel. In recent years he reteamed with his Birds of Prey collaborator Chuck Dixon to revive the WinterWorld series at IDW and is now busy illustrating a steady stream of covers for a number of publishers as well as drawing interiors for both the Bloodshot and Ninjak series at Valiant. And after 30+ years of daily fun, he still believes he has the best job in the world.