Glenn Bray

Glenn Bray (born 1948) 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 and The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection. Bray started collecting comics, original art, toys and posters in the 1970s, over the following decades. 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. As a teen, Bray started working in his family’s hardware store and began collecting comics, original art, toys and posters. and Savage Pencil,

Pieces from Bray’s comic art collection were included in the 2005 “Masters of American Comics” exhibitions at the Los Angeles Hammer Museum 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. Bray’s filmed interviews with Szukalski in the 1980s were included in the 2018 Netflix documentary, Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski.

As of 2008, Bray held he largest private collection of art by Wolverton,

In 2014, Bray co-edited The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection, The book was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2018.

Select publications Struggle: The Art of Szukalski The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection Behold!!! the Protong: Extracts from the 39 Volumes of My Science "Zermatism," Based on New Interpretations of Petroglyphic Communications, in which Will be Revealed the Most Precedent-shattering and Up-turning of All Notions on Our Origins. Including Samplings from Anthropolitical Motivations, the Deluged Gods, and Listen to These Stones (2019) Art Young's Inferno : Original Art Edition(2020) Inner Portraits

Personal life Bray lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife Lena Zwalve, a Dutch cartoonist. He retired and closed his family’s hardware store in 2010.