About — Todd Hignite

Todd Hignite provides exclusive worldwide representation for all Daniel Clowes original art sales as well as additional art sales for a select group of important contemporary cartoonists. Our website also features occasional texts, research projects, and interviews.

Todd Hignite is author of the books The Art of Jaime Hernandez/The Secrets of Life and Death (Abrams) and In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists (Yale University Press). He was founding editor of Comic Art magazine, acted as inaugural curator for Washington University in St. Louis’ Dowd Modern Graphic History Library, and has written on and organized a number of exhibitions devoted to comic art, notably the retrospective R. Crumb's Underground, which originated at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and toured US museums including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

Hignite currently serves as Executive Vice President of Heritage Auctions, where he has managed many of the most substantial and important collections of original illustration and comic art to appear at auction, including the collections of Eric Sack, Jerry Weist, Denis Kitchen, Jane and Howard Frank, Glynn Crain, and Roger Hill, achieving worldwide record results for such artists as Robert Crumb, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Bill Watterson, and Wally Wood, among many others.

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