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1993-2010, TERRY MOORE INKING BRUSHES USED TO CREATE STRANGERS IN PARADISE & ECHO, SIGNED AND NUMBERED #13, #20, #26, & #29 OF #30

Artist: Terry Moore (Inker)

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1993-2010, TERRY MOORE INKING BRUSHES USED TO CREATE STRANGERS IN PARADISE & ECHO, SIGNED AND NUMBERED #13, #20, #26, & #29 OF #30 Comic Art

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The picture of all 30 Raphael and Windsor-Newton Brushes Terry used in his blog post announcing the sale.

The image Terry used for his "Black Friday" blog post

Image Terry posted to FB "Getting the 30for30 brushes ready for their new homes."

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Title:	1993-2010, TERRY MOORE INKING BRUSHES USED TO CREATE STRANGERS IN PARADISE & ECHO, SIGNED AND NUMBERED #13, #20, #26, & #29 OF #30
Artist:	Terry Moore (Inker)
Media Type:	Photograph
Art Type:	Photograph
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,041
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Added to Site:	8/3/2017
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Here is Terry's blog post and video describing the brushes, and how he went about selling them:

"30 For 30 Brush Sale
by Terry Moore | Jan 6, 2017 | NEWS
I�ve used only 30 brushes to ink every page of comics I�ve ever made. How do I know that? Because I saved the brushes. Since the first page of Strangers In Paradise, I�ve inked with a #0, 1, or 2 watercolor brush, either Windsor-Newton or Raphael. One brush would last about a year, which comes to 30 brushes for 24 years, so far. And here they are:

One of these brushes inked the first issue of Strangers In Paradise, another inked the last issue 14 years later. One of them inked Rachel rising from the grave, another inked Annie flying over the desert in her Phi suit. And, one of these brushes even inked the first two issues of Motor Girl. if you�ve ever read one of my books, it was inked by one or more of these brushes. These brushes inked Katchoo and Francine and Julie and Rachel and everybody else in the Terryverse. Now I�ve decided these little creative pals shouldn�t be retired to a box in my studio, they should be with readers who appreciate what they�ve made, and they should be available to anyone who wants one at an affordable price. So I signed and numbered the brushes, 1 through 30, and made a Certificate Of Authenticity, and a little video to explain the idea and let you know this is all for real. Tomorrow, Jan 7, we�ll post the brushes for sale. Price is $30 each. First come first serve. The first order will get brush #1 and so on. Good luck and, if you decide to adopt one, give it a nice home because it did something wonderful in its past. These things have very good karma!
Here�s the video explaining it in full."

And here is his blog post about how the sale went:

"Black Friday Brush Sale
by Terry Moore | Jan 7, 2017 | NEWS

The brush sale this morning went down like the Black Friday Sale on South Park. A crowd hit the site early before the brushes were to go live at 10 AM, and froze it up. People showing up at 10 couldn�t get on the site, the yelling started, we scrambled to contact the site host Westhost, bodies kept stacking up at the site wanting in and there was nothing we could do to help them. Westhost turned out to be no help so we were considering moving the sale to eBay when orders started showing up, which meant people were getting in one at a time, so we stuck with it and here�s where the most heartbreaking thing occurred: we had the sale limited to 30 units, but instead of limiting transactions to 30 carts, the limiter was apparently on the checkout register. Maybe that�s how it always works, I don�t know. But when there�s a run on something like this, the people managed to get an order in a cart but then they were waiting with their cart for a half hour or more as other people slowly checked out one at a time through an intermittent register. When the register hit 30 sales, it left a lot of waiting carts in line and they arrived at the register to find the product was sold out. It was awful!
Most people were understanding and good natured about it �Bless you!� but it was understandably frustrating for everybody. So my most sincere apologies for what turned out to be a scheduled web riot. If you got a brush, you are damn lucky. If you didn�t, I�m sorry. I�ll try to offer something very cool for you soon. And I won�t try another sale on our site until I�ve upgraded the server. I think my current package must be dial-up connected to an Apple iiC. Thanks Westhost, we�re all very impressed.
PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE MAILING LIST ON MY SITE. THE MAILING LIST WILL GET FIRST CHANCE AT THE NEXT SPECIAL OFFER.
And it goes without saying, I�m blown away by your support. Thank you!"

Needless to say I feel really lucky to have netted four of the thirty. I was using two browsers on my desktop, and my iPhone... and the whole process took about two hours of refreshing; but it paid off! Obviously there is no way to tell which brushes he used for which pages, or series; but considering I have 4 of the 30 he used over that 17 year period (the video says through 2017; but the certificate indicates 2010, so I'm going with that), I'd like to think at least some of them were used on my beloved Strangers in Paradise, perhaps even on some of the pages I own. I plan to one day frame at least one of these to display with my SIP art, perhaps all 4. All 4 of the brushes I obtained are Raphael 8404's, three #1's, and one #0.

Speaking of Terry inking... here is a video of him inking the cover to issue #8 of his current series, MOTOR GIRL, with yep you guessed it, a Raphael watercolor brush.

Update: 04/02/23, I only own #13 now, as I've finally given away the last of the 3 extra I acqu

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