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Glenn Bray is an American private collector of comic book art and memorabilia, and the editor of multiple books about comic book and modern art, including The Original Art of Basil Wolverton: From the Collection of Glenn Bray (2007) (2026). 9780867196870, Last Gasp. ISBN 9780867196870 and The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection. (2026). 9781606996959, Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 9781606996959 Bray started collecting comics, original art, toys and posters in the 1970s, amassing one of the largest private collections of comic art by Mad magazine artist Basil Wolverton over the following decades. Bray’s comic art collection has thousands of pieces, including art from Mad magazine artist Harvey Kurtzman, George Herriman (known for the Krazy Kat comic strip), Disney cartoonist Carl Barks, and Savage Pencil.
In 1971, Bray commissioned the first oil painting from Carl Barks; entitled A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By, the painting featured Donald Duck. (2026). 9781578068586, University Press of Mississippi/Jackson. ISBN 9781578068586
Pieces from Bray’s comic art collection were included in the 2005 “Masters of American Comics” exhibitions at the Los Angeles Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Bray and his wife Leny Zwalve also collect art work by Polish modernist painter and sculptor Stanislav Szukalski. Bray collaborated with and published several books with Szukalski. In 2000 Bray, who is also the executor of Szukalski’s estate, helped organize a retrospective of Szukalski’s work called “Struggle: The Art of Stanislav Szukalski,” hosted at the Laguna Art Museum and sponsored by actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The book Struggle: The Art of Szukalski, edited by Bray and Lena Zwalve, was released the same year. (2026). 9780867194791, Last Gasp. ISBN 9780867194791 Bray’s filmed interviews with Szukalski in the 1980s were included in the 2018 Netflix documentary, .
As of 2008, Bray held he largest private collection of art by Wolverton, with over 400 pieces. In 2014, Bray’s comic art collection included “hundreds of thousands of items.”
In 2014, Bray co-edited The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection, featuring art by Harvey Kurtzman, Robert Crumb, Charles Addams, Peter Pontiac, and others.
Bray and comics scholar Frank M. Young co-edited To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life and Times of Art Young, published in 2017. The book was nominated for an Eisner Awards in 2018.
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