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Time to squander a little more of the kids' inheritance. Though actually, the spending happened some time ago. The results arrived today.

Mike Kunkel's Herobear and the Kid is a wonderful story of a young man, his toy bear, and his family. Mike describes it this way on his website:

Herobear and the kid is a nostalgic view of childhood, complete with new schools, bullies, true love, imagination, and… a magic bear.

After his grandfather passes away, young Tyler inherits an old stuffed toy bear and broken pocket watch. He soon learns that things aren’t always what they seem, and that you shouldn’t judge a bear by its cover.

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I fell in love with it on first reading back in 2008. It's taken a long time to get on his list and I'm thrilled that I finally did.

Thanks, Mike. It's perfect and more than you promised! Click for a bigger picture.
 

I don’t know, but…

Go to Comic Art Tracker, enter his name, and check the listings. You should be able to figure out his rep if he has one. 

On 6/20/2022 at 8:45 AM, grapeape said:

Well reasoned Alex. 
 

And pretty close.

On 6/11/2022 at 12:05 PM, Rick2you2 said:

I rarely buy commissions anymore, but I love the one I just got from Aaron Campbell. Campbell is the artist on the current Constantive series (Hellblazer), and his work plays beautifully in the horror genre. I had commissioned him at NY Comicon last year, and he ran about 6 months late, but this is worth it. Basically, he used John Bolton's style in Books of Magic to create an interpretation of the essence of the Phantom Stranger so rarely captured by artists. While you can't tell, he also did it on a rough paper which gives the image some nice texture. By the way, it was $500 for a 11 x 17, but he has since raised his rates to $600--if you can get him. The following image does not do it justice.

 

 

Wow! That's a great one. Congrats!

On 6/8/2022 at 1:16 PM, Latverian Tourism Board said:

Excellent idea. Thank you

Let us know what you find out. 

The spoiler text in the first post on this thread might be of use. Comments, questions, concerns, and suggested improvements are welcome. 
 

On 5/26/2022 at 9:27 PM, RBerman said:

I only read Ex Machina recently and was impressed by the sophisticated, thoughtful storytelling. So I'm glad to get a splash showing the lead character well.

One of the best books in the last several years. 

On 5/16/2022 at 1:16 PM, Brewcrewfan77 said:

Picked up a Thom Zahler Amazonia and Abby piece.  Zahler is really becoming one of my favorites.  Between his art and the writing I've enjoyed most of his work.

I love Thom's work. I even have a piece of published OA for Love and Capes! If you are curious, click here. In fact, I like it so much that I hired him to draw and -script the story of my courtship with my wife. You can see the cover (OA) and read the comic here. I'm glad to see someone else appreciate his work.

Two new pieces of art:

• An addition to my wife’s Strong Women sketchbook featuring Claire from Adventureman by Terry Dodson: https://cafurl.com?i=27616

• A remarque in my copy of the Adventureman HC: 

My condolences to his friends and family. He did wonderful work both on boards and in helping creators.

I like it when an artist can make some extra money by selling copies of my commissions as prints.

I've had it happen a few times:

Yale Stewart

Thom Zahler (the first two were actually suggested by my daughter; the third was a gift)

Spencer turns up on the Clan McDonald FB Group periodically. He's also at various cons. I've seen him at HeroesCon before.

On 1/27/2022 at 11:33 AM, Terry E. Gibbs said:

(kinda of why I stepped back from that Swan LSH page this month - love the title love the page, love the art - but people my age seem to be a smaller group each year)

I stepped away because it was too darned expensive! I don't care about resale (I'll be dead), but I do care about upfront cost.  (and, yes, a Shooter/Swan/Klein page is WAY up on my want list).

I won a piece in the Jan auction, but I'm superstitious and won't post it until I receive it someday!

On 1/23/2022 at 9:43 AM, alexgross.com said:

i just got this custom piece made by a friend, graphic designer peter bergeron. he makes this recreations of classic covers by cutting multiple layers of paper/board and fixing them together. it's painstaking work and he's really good at it. the result is a 3d image that literally pops out. as you move past it you can really see the space. and he makes the right choices about what should pop out the most, the second, the third, etc. 

i love it-

 

I have something similar from Todd Reis. It's a recreation of the cover of the first comic that I ever bought (JLA 29, 1st Series). Click the image to see a bigger picture.

I didn't buy a lot this year, but what I bought I really enjoy. Only one piece (the faux S&S 100 cover by Bill Morrison) cost more than $550. Awesome year for me.

For me, at least, there's a lot out there that I can afford.

On 1/14/2022 at 5:43 PM, NicoV said:

Unfortunately it cannot get me the pages I like at a decent price!  

Yeah, someone on FB was asking for leads on affordable McCay originals. I pointed him at Comic Art Tracker for leads to McCay pages, but I made no promises that he'd find them affordable.

Everything I know is covered on the thread called Pricing Comic Art - Update.

On 1/8/2022 at 6:39 PM, Brian Peck said:

My Best of 2021 entries

 

Published/UnPublished Non-Comic Covers. Pin-Ups, Illustartion Gaming Art

Extra! Extra! Superman delivering newspaper by Joe Shuster

   I have wanting a Joe Shuster Superman for years. While this doesn't have the "S" on his chest you know its Superman by the curl in his hair

 

 

Published/Unpublished Comic Book Pin-Ups, Illustrations, Trading Cards

Batman and Robin by Sprang

   Sprang is THE Batman artist for me. I have a few other colour pieces but this is my first one in B/W

 

 

Published/Unpublished Interior Panel Pages

Silver Surfer #10 page 3 by John Buscema (Penciller) ,  Dan Adkins (Inker)

   Love John's work on Silver Surfer. Been looking to put this sequence back together. I have splash and page three just need the other two. I know where they are.

 

 

 

Published/Unpublished Comic Book Splashes, Title Pages

Excalibur #2 page 6 splash by Alan Davis (Penciller) and  Paul Neary (Inker)

   One of my all time favorite issues from the run. Chris nailed it with his balance of action and comedy. Great splash

 

 

 

Published/Unpublished Commissions/Recreations

Starfire commission by Tom Grummett

   Years ago I commissioned Eduardo Barreto to do a commission of Starfire and the events that happen to her during his run. So back in November. I commissioned The with the same basic idea. He knocked it out of the park just like Eduardo did but in a different way.

 

 

 

 

Runners-Up

 

1. Adventures of Robin Hood (1948) Belgium re-release by Jiel

   The film is one of my all time favorite films. What when ever it's shown at the local vintage films theatre I go to see it. Great example of a foreign movie poster of a US release. This and the X-9 I agonized over in picking the 5th Best of entry for 2021.

 

 

 

 

2.  Secret Agent X-9 pitch piece by Eduardo Barreto

    Another piece that almost got in my best of for 2021. I saw this on a blog for a guy who worked with Eduardo. This was just before Eduardo died. I saw the piece and loved the composition. Years later I won it in an auction

 

 

 

3.  Ghost Rider rescuing a woman from Mephisto by Carlos Dearmas

    Carlos is an amazing overlooked artist, Mind blowing

 

 

 

4. Hanna and Jack Epic by Mark Schultz

   Used in his latest Carbon book, love all the small dinosaurs

 

 

 

5.  Jean Grey Fleer Ultra 1995 Trading Card prelim by John Romita Sr

    Been looking for the published painted card art, the pencils is very cool.

 

 

 

6   Justice League of America #164 page 10 by Dillon (Penciller) ,  Frank McLaughlin (Inker)

    Great JLA example, love Zatanna and Black Canary are in the same pose.

 

 

Love the Sprang and Shuster! The rest are terrific, too, but those two I would want for my collection. Congrats.