# Thousands of Animation Cels Coming up for Auction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-animation-cels-coming-up-for-auction/673440 "2013-11-08T19:00:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-animation-cels-coming-up-for-auction/673440/1 "2013-11-08T19:00:58Z")
[Here.](http://comics.ha.com/common/auction/catalog.php?SaleNo=7086) \*Peanuts _cels! Yellow Submarine! \* Winsor McKay_ cels! It makes me want to cry, because I have absolutely no business spending any money on any of this. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-animation-cels-coming-up-for-auction/673440/2 "2013-11-08T19:29:47Z")
Jeez, how much do you think those will go for? That clip showing the Top 10 lots up for auction was just incredible. I think I have a soft spot for the original production cel for The Grinch, where’s he’s looking down, over the front of his sleigh…and signed by Chuck Jones himself…covet! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-animation-cels-coming-up-for-auction/673440/3 "2013-11-08T19:40:09Z")
? Why are these coming up now? Did a collector die, or suddenly decide he needs money? Animation cels have long been available. Gallery Lainzberg has been selling them for decades. I got my Bugs Bunny cel (from _A Connecticut Rabbit_) from them. My first reaction to “Windsor McKay cels” is “McKay didn’t use cels – he drew on rice paper on cardboard”. Which he did, at first. But if you look at his later cartoons, like _The Giant Pet_, he’s undoubtedly using cels. I’ve never even seen a McKay cel, though. Nor a picture of one. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-animation-cels-coming-up-for-auction/673440/4 "2013-11-08T19:46:43Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > My first reaction to “Windsor McKay cels” is “McKay didn’t use cels – he drew on rice paper on cardboard”. Which he did, at first. But if you look at his later cartoons, like _The Giant Pet_, he’s undoubtedly using cels. I’ve never even seen a McKay cel, though. Nor a picture of one. I call your pedantism. It’s \*\*Winsor \*\*McKay. OK, [they’re drawings](http://comics.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=52+793+794+791+1893+792+2088+4294945669) (except the \*Lusitania \*cel, which isn’t very interesting). I don’t know the source of the stuff for this auction. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-animation-cels-coming-up-for-auction/673440/5 "2013-11-08T21:57:49Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Jeez, how much do you think those will go for? That clip showing the Top 10 lots up for auction was just incredible. I think I have a soft spot for the original production cel for The Grinch, where’s he’s looking down, over the front of his sleigh…and signed by Chuck Jones himself…covet! There have definitely been some cels that made me lust - originals from absolutely iconic moments and sometimes with the original backgrounds. I do have a lovely triple, though - a Chuck Jones drawing, the magazine cover it was drawn for, and a sericel that was later released of the same image. All signed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-animation-cels-coming-up-for-auction/673440/6 "2013-11-08T22:35:33Z")
Ooh, some good stuff there. > [@WordMan](#): > > Jeez, how much do you think those will go for? That clip showing the Top 10 lots up for auction was just incredible. I think I have a soft spot for the original production cel for The Grinch, where’s he’s looking down, over the front of his sleigh…and signed by Chuck Jones himself…covet! I have a pencil sketch (and reproduction cel) from _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_; one of my treasures. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-animation-cels-coming-up-for-auction/673440/7 "2013-11-08T23:28:53Z")
You guys are killing me. Cool stuff.