Over on his MySpace page, Brian K. Vaughan talks about he ended up making an appearance in the latest volume of Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library:
How the hell did I make this happen? Not by using my awkward charm to befriend the otherworldly talented Mr. Ware, nor by impressing him with my vastly inferior writing. No, I did it the old-fashioned way… by shelling out large sums of cash.
A few months ago, I read about an online auction to support the extremely worthy FIRST AMENDMENT PROJECT, where various authors and cartoonists had donated the opportunity for winners’ names to appear in the creators’ various works of fiction. And while I hope the comic books I’m fortunate enough to be a part of will be read and enjoyed for a few more years, Chris Ware’s, er, wares will absolutely be studied by our grandchildren’s grandchildren hundreds of years from now. So in a shameless stab at unearned immortality, I bid on the chance to have my likeness show up in a Chris Ware comic, and was equal parts ecstatic and mortified to win.
