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and nice logo display!
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Gaspar was excellent and he learned from Ira.
That said, opinions vary.
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14 hours ago, batman_fan said:
My wife now thinks I am an uber dork. I tried to tell her I was now a world renowned art collector but she isn't buying it.
I understand.
I'm quite well known in my field and I have worked all over the world. I told my kids that I'm world famous with more knowledge of my field that 99.99999% of the people in the world. The didn't care.
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On 2/4/2021 at 10:56 AM, brownies8701 said:
Few random questions:
1) Why do newer original art pages not have conversation bubbles?
It's because the lettering is now applied digitally which lowers costs and production time. It is disappointing. Some have been known to have the speech bubbles recreated and attached to an acetate overlay to restore them.
Originally, the penciler did his thing and passed it to the letterer do to his thing who passed it to the inker to do his thing. Now, any piece or all of that process is done digitally. Boards with everything petered out in late-80s through the early 90s. It's a rare book with letters on the page today.
Here's a history of lettering:
Early Years: http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/history-of-comic-lettering-early-years-to-1940/
Middle Years: http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/history-of-comic-lettering-1940-to-1990/
Later Years: http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/history-of-comic-lettering-1990-to-present/If you really enjoy the topic, check out Todd Klein's blog. It's fascinating especially the articles about Ira Schnapp, the world's greatest letterer and logo designer (IMHO).
Enjoy!- brownies8701, Twanj, cloud cloddie and 1 other
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I vote for pieces that I would like to have the most. So, my choices tend to reflect my odd taste. Also, that means that I don’t vote for my own submittals since they are already in my collection.
I’d like to compliment Bill & Company on the improved voting and organizing method. It really helped especially in the popular categories.Published/Unpublished Comic Book Covers
There are so many excellent example of our favorite art form that voting was a challenge. That said, the new mechanisms are a dream come true. Still, it’s a tough call! Especially since I had a special entry of my own in the crowd!The five I picked to support are, in alphabetical order:Monty B’s Don Rosa Cover Scrooge McDuck A Letter from Home
I have an irrational love of Don’s work and this one is an excellent example
Fabio C.’s Topolino #3343-44 cover - Mickey, Donald, Scrooge, Daisy, Goofy, Minnie
Hmm… I may have an irrational love of crowd scenes, too!
Dries Dewulf’s Richard Sala - The Grave Robber's Daughter - Back cover
I’ve always enjoyed Richard Sala’s work when I encountered it and I really like this scene. What happens next? She doesn’t look like a helpless woman!
Sam H’s Penny Century #7 coverThose Hernandez boys always have something going on. Plus it makes me smile! Excellent work by Jaime.
Honorable MentionGlynn Crain’ Barry Smith - Conan Saga #1 CoverDan M’s Groo 33 cover Sergio AragonesBernard Voorzichtig’s 1970 - The Sunday Seducer - The Studio (Paperback cover in color - NF - American BV-W)Dries Dewulf’s Stan Sakai - Endpapers - Fantagraphics Book 3 HCStan Sakai is one of the world’s best cartoonists. His Usage Yojimbo series is one for the ages. This is an excellent example of his splash pages. Congrats!
Steve Kriozere’s Tor #1, page 2-3 DPSI’m a big Joe Kubert fan and this piece from his creator owned Tor is a terrific example of his work
Greg McKee’s Adventures of Jerry Lewis #123 pg 21DC had a great line-up of funny books back in the day with some of the best cartoonists around - [Dean Martin and] Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, Fox and Crow, Sugar and Spike and on and on.Bob Oksner was one of the best doing these books.
Dan P’s Fables #27Loved Fables! Love this splash. A rare moment indeed!
Nestor Redondo’s Rima was one of the most beautiful books on the stands. This is effective story telling beautifully executed.
Honorable MentionJason Schachter’s Superman For All Season #2 p.2-3Miki Annamanthadoo’s Adventure 355 page 13 by SwanThe Legion and Swan/Klein? Yes, thank you very much!
Half a page is way better than no page! What a great find. The CAF description explains how rare this piece is.
Mark Levy’s Redondo - Sweet Rima PageThe art in this series was lush and beautiful. It ran for too short a time.
A very significant page in an excellent story with Sienkiewicz’s art reaching new heights. Wow!
Smith and Everett is a wonderful combination!
Honorable MentionsSteve . M’s Aster of Pan page 113A really nice page of story telling.I’m a Heath fan especially when it comes to his war machines. This is an excellent example of that.I passed up a Frazetta?George Hagenauer Atomic KnightsMurphy Anderson’s pencils are a pleasure - all great inkers can draw or they really wouldn’t be great inkers. The Atomic Knights is a guilty pleasure. Glad to get the collected edition.Hans Kosenkranius’s J. Kirby - Thor #139First I pass up a Frazetta and now a Kirby? It’s a terrific page.Kit Walker’s Kingdom Come Issue 2, Page 15Every page of Kingdom Come is a treat.Lovely drawing by one of the greats - Burne Hogarth.
This is a terrific Romita Spider-man. Love to have it to put in my Romita Artist’s Edition next to MJ.
Darrow is one of those guys that never stops in his drawings. Crowded, but every figure distinct. Amazing work.
I’ve always enjoyed paperback book covers and this is a really excellent example. Love the lighting.
It’s hard to rank Batman artists. The best I can do is alphabetically - Adams, Aparo, Rogers, Sprang, <your pick here>. I love Sprang’s work and I’d be thrilled to have this.
Honorable MentionPretty much classic Crumb. No clue as to the story, but I’m sure it’s quite unusual.Beautiful drawing and wonderful choreography! It really does look like a Sunday strip
Hans Kosenkranius
MUTTS Daily 6/21/99I have a weakness for Mutts to start. Plus, I am the least observant person that I know and I believe that this could happen to me. Neither Ozzie nor I will be Batman!
I love L’il Abmer and this is a terrific example of the strip.
Quite simply, it’s my patriotic duty to vote for this piece.
Home plate, Charlie Brown, not dinner plate! This hits all the Peanuts bases.
Honorable MentionIt’s a beauty hard to believe that I didn’t pick it.I love commissions where something is going on; I’m not so interested in posing characters so that definitely influences my choices. This one definitely fits my criteria and uses a character that people too often forget. Good choice, George, for both topic and artist!
Though this is a single character and a mere torso shot, I find it haunting. I find the back story on Mr. Freeze poignant as well. Nicely done!
Michael One Minute Later
Blacksad Painted Commission. by Juanjo GuardinoI love this one. I haven’t read a full Blacksad story so nostalgia doesn’t play a direct role, but I do have a soft spot for tales of this type.
If you are a fan of Caniff or Manara, you have to love this one.
I love Eisner’s Spirit. This image captures him perfectly. Might be my favorite out of the bunch. I really liked Rob T.’s other Spirit submittals as well, but this one really makes me want to read the story.
Honorable MentionRay Cuthbert’s Dorman, Dave - Recreation of Frank Frazetta's A Princess of Mars (which is spectacular)Tatiana TDArt Dykes’s Studio Ghibli watercolor commission My Neighbor Totoro Kiki's Delivery Service Spirited Away Ponyo (wonderful)I have a hard time in this area because it’s just not my favorite for of comic art. That said, there are some really nice pieces here.I like this image because it captures both of the Beast’s sides - intellectual and the physical.
I love this “period” piece of Bernie. He looks like he just stepped out of Frankenstein.
A really striking image which is not easy to do in the confines of a sketch cover.
Hans Kosenkranius
SupergirlSupergirl, the way she should be, happy!
Honorable MentionA poster that I remember well. This Tolkien fan was largely disappointed with the movie (not a rotoscope fan), but it definitely had its moments and I’d have happy bought tickets to follow-on movies. I liked the character designs a lot.
I’m not a real fan of Scooby Doo, but I’m a sucker for team shots that capture the characteristics of the team members and this one does that! Looks good, too!
Matt E.
Cover art for August 1992 New York Times Television Magazine 1st appearance of Harley Quinn Ever!A fun drawing well executed and historic as well.
Honestly, I really am not a big fan of Scooby Doo, but I like this image.
Striking image that properly represents these characters from the show.
Honorable MentionThere were so many great examples in this section. Sigh…I’ve never read the book, but if this was the cover, I probably would. I might anyway.
No clue as to the story it represents, but what a neat looking cover!
Floating houses! What a subject for a drawing. I don’t know Chris Riddell, but I like his work.
I want to know what’s going on. When that happens, I know it’s an engaging piece of artwork. What is the story?
Terrific representation of a critical scene from a favorite book. Yay!
Honorable MentionNot much more to say than “Take a look at that” and “Wow! Dave Stevens was so good!"
Another artist whose work I need to know more about.
I’m a sucker for a crowd scene or drawings with all or most of the characters from a book. This hits that spot.
I really like the way David tells stories, draws, and paints. I also like that he shares his universe with his fans. He will do commissions (on occasion) that show the mice at various jobs - something like this.
Michael One Minute Later
James Montgomery Flagg - 1932 - Good Housekeeping - WashI was expecting a second drawing of the little boy jumping up and running off to play.
Honorable MentionKarim Elrafei
Superman Vs Hulk By Glen Orbik Trading card art
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23 hours ago, fenip said:
For commissions Jeremy uses a micron pen. His CPG pages are made with a brush (Escoda Kolinsky Sable size 00 brush).
My CPG page is here https://www.2dgalleries.com/art/jeremy-bastian-cursed-pirate-girl-chapter-5-page-7-104251
btw You can zoom in on 2DG (one of the things I prefer in 2DG vs CAF, first click on the image than double click), with Jeremy's work it's a pleasure to see all the details...
Here are my Jeremy commissions for your viewing pleasure. Click the image to get a bigger picture.His work is incredible.
CPG Herself Pirate Ship CPG vs. Grandfather Clam (his very first CPG commission)
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15 hours ago, See The Art said:
There's a story to be told here, with lessons to be learned. You should write a book, interview him, make a youtube video, or something, so that 50 years from now, people can understand a very important part of Marvel history. In the future, if prices for his art are even more expensive than they are now, people might remember the person and the values that John Buscema represented. That's the message I seem to get from what his grandson wrote.
FWIW, Brian did write a book about John B and his art.
- HC: John Buscema: Michelangelo of Comics Deluxe Hardcover (only 300* copies and there is a print of a JB drawing with Joe Sinnott inks that came with it)
- SC: John Buscema: Michelangelo of Comics Deluxe Softcover
Neither book is easy to find nor inexpensive, but it is fun.
* My copy says 750, but the Amazon copy says 300. You choose.
15 hours ago, See The Art said:He has a couple of SpiderMan pieces for sale, and wonders if his grandfather John had any relationship with SpiderMan, whom people forget was the third major artist to draw Spiderman.
I'm not sure what you mean. Per Brian's checklist, JB did two Spider-man stories that I see:
- Amazing Spider-man 1999 Annual
- Spectacular Spider-man 121
Mike's Amazing World of Comics shows three stories:
- Amazing Spider-man 1999 Annual
- Amazing Spider-man 84
- Amazing Spider-man 85
The GCD shows him involved with a few other Amazing Spider-man issues either doing layouts or penciling over JR's layouts. It that what you are referring to?
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Remember, if you have a theme that you'd like to share, make a comment on the Themed Art Collections thread and I'll add it to the master list.
Then take a few minutes to checkout some of those wonderful collections!
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30 minutes ago, Will_K said:
Anyone know what happened to the cover ?? Given the premise of the lawsuit (associating Amy Grant with the occult), I would assume the art would have to be turned over for destruction.
I'd always assumed that Amy's face wasn't drawn, but added mechanically (photoshop or whatever). Was it really on the board?
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2 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:
Just out of curiosity, would you other borders consider this a page to have a quarter-page splash with 4 regular panels, or a page with 5 miniature splashes? Does anyone consider a page with a full width horizontal panel with less than 25% of the page a splash at all?
I'd call it a panel page. Yeah, one is a little bigger, but not what I consider a splash.
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If you haven't read the material in the first post on the Pricing Comic Art - Updated thread, you should.
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It went for a lot of money (surprise!).
From a letter to the comicartl@freelist.org mailing list from ruediger.krischel@t-online.deDear all, there’s a new record price for a cover by Hergé: 2.6 plus fee = 3.000.000 Euro for 34 x 34 cm in gouache!
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Added a number of themes from Mark Levy's CAF.
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Added Dave Morris' Venture Brothers
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I've added your channel, Felix', and Bill's to a Video and Podcast section of my Pricing Comic Art thread. Yeah, I get that these resources don't directly address cost, but the background information is useful.
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I'm happy to add people, but I need you to tell me:
- The name to use on the listing
- The theme name / brief description
- A link to the art
Without that, I have nothing to list. I'd prefer if you'd put that information on the Themed Art Collections thread -
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If you'd like me to add them, provide me with the appropriate links. The best place to put that information is here.
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Added @Sideshow Bob's Batman/Spectre commissions
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The OFFICIAL "This week in your ORIGINAL ART collection?"
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@malvin, you are now recorded in the Hall of Fame for Themed Collections. Yes, you are now listed on The Themed Art Collections Thread. If you have others, I'll add them.
Everyone, I'm always interested in adding more to the list.