About Heritage Auctions - Executive

Todd Hignite is Executive Vice President, Partner, and Global Head of Comic Art, Heritage Auctions. Todd has been integral to the company’s continued expansion in multiple art and collectible categories over the last fifteen years. As one of the world’s top Comic Art experts, he has overseen numerous record-setting results both at auction and privately, including Frank Frazetta’s world-record $13.5mm sale, managed many of the largest private and institutional consignments in the category, and played a key leadership role in the dramatic rise of the markets for Comics and Illustration Art, which has seen Heritage established as the dominant international auction house in those fields. 

Todd has also been instrumental to the increased cultural awareness of these art forms, notably in organizing the most substantial US retrospective devoted to Robert Crumb, 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; as author of the books In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists (Yale University Press) and The Art of Jaime Hernandez/The Secrets of Life and Death (Abrams); as founding editor of the much lauded Comic Art magazine; and as inaugural curator for the Dowd Illustration Research Archive. He also has extensive experience in both the museum and gallery worlds, including working for several years at Pace Gallery, New York, and he holds a Master’s degree in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis.