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Pretty much the same list for the last few years: Alex’ Comic Art Wish List In the reasonably possible: Aparo B&B page (art and letters by Jim) In the Serious Stretch Goals category, we have: Ditko Creeper Everett Sub-Mariner page Kirby Thor or New Gods page Rogers Detective (Batman) page from his wonderful run with Steve Englehart and Terry Austin Mayer Scribbly page (if there are any) Shuster Superman Sprang Batman Swan/Klein Superman or LSH page Special cases - I know they exist, but I doubt that I could spend what it would take to get them: The splash to JLA 29 (1st series) or the cover, but I'd prefer the splash. This one is on Heritage, but it's already beyond what I would spend. There are two other pages from the book up as well. It's almost $30K including BP with more than two weeks left to go. It is nice to know it exists. Cover to The Official Legion of Super-Heroes Index #1. The cover to #2 would also work, but it's in David Mandel's collection and I doubt that I could pry it loose. I bid on #2 when it was up for auction to raise money to save Jerry Siegel's house, but I was the under bidder. A four page Scribbly story recreation by Sheldon Mayer for the book The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told. It was up for auction by his son this year, but billed as the original art for the GA comic, but it was a recreation. The family refunded the money and kept the art. Sigh... Comic Strips: Skippy strip by Percy Crosby Peanuts by Charles Schulz Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson

I think the most well known example in our neck of the woods is the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center which is totally on-line. I consider it a real museum because of: It's tax exempt status It's board of directors It's activities to scan all of his existing work and make it available for viewing Sounds like a museum to me.

New Art Day - Cruella de Vil by Aaron Lopresti A Christmas gift for my wife that I arranged with Aaron. i think it looks pretty great and - thankfully - so does she! Click image to embiggen.

New Art Day - Cruella de Vil by Aaron Lopresti A Christmas gift for my wife that I arranged with Aaron. i think it looks pretty great and - thankfully - so does she! Click image to embiggen.

I heard that and I'm so disappointed that Sheldon turned it down. They deserve to be front and center!

It was a lot of fun. I gave copies to my comic dealer, @MrBedrock, and his GM, Michael Steenbergen. Kathy and I signed Mike's. When I decided to get my first ever comic graded as a lark, Richard when through the 20 or so that I had left and picked out two to grade. He sent them off as a gift. It will be fun to see how they turn out in the grading process. Of the 30 original copies, I have two left. A sellout!

My biggest commission ever! A full comic book - cover, 16 story pages, and full color. I decided to tell a tale as special gift to my wife for her 65th birthday. Due to COVID-19, we delayed the giving to our 38th anniversary. The project was all digital to keep the costs down, but Thom gifted me with a hand drawn cover for the issue and that's what I have to show. Click the image to read the comic and learn more!

Merry Christmas. I had a great one so far (it runs to the 6th (Epiphany) by the way) and I thought I'd share something unexpected. I hired Thomas Zahler to take my story and turn it into a comic, i.e., he scripted and drew it. What was the story? It was about how I met and proposed to Kathy. I've told that to bored audiences all over the world and now, thanks to Thom, it was documented in full color glory. The deal was a fully digital comic, i.e., no original art for my collection. That's okay with me and it definitely less expensive than a hand drawn book. However, he surprised me with the cover art as an Anniversary/Christmas present and that's what I'm posting. Click the image to read Description on the CAF and you'll find links to Thom's site, the printer, the comic, the -script, and the story that I sent Thom. Enjoy!

I'll give an example. This is my Fone Bone by Jeff Smith. Jeff did the pencils by hand. He took that and, by hand, lightbox inked 50 copies. Each copy is somewhat different. Those copies were then painted by his colorist on the Scholastic reprints - Steve Hamaker. Original art? I think so.

Absolutely true. Many inked pieces start as separate figure drawings in pencil on scraps of paper that get fed to a light box for final pencils or direct inking.

In my experience, HA is really good about fixing these items when they are reported before the item sells.

I think so. Inking is a skill; it's not just tracing even if a lightbox is involved.

If it's drawn by request, it's a commission. If it's drawn on spec by the artist and you buy it, it's not a commission. At least, that's the way I handle it.

I just sent them a note.

If you are ever doing one of these, get a spotter to watch the questions and comments. There's no way that a normal, human moderator/host can do their job and watch what people type.

Not I. I really try to minimize the number of pieces by an artist featuring the same character. I love lots of stories, but have zero interest in owning an entire one.

New Art Day - Mon-El by Cross Cross does a lot of work for Aspen and I think she did a really nice job on this classic Mon-El from the LSH. A Secret Santa gift opened a few days early! Click the image to embiggen:

New Art Day - Mon-El by Cross Cross does a lot of work for Aspen and I think she did a really nice job on this classic Mon-El from the LSH. A Secret Santa gift opened a few days early! Click the image to embiggen:

I've updated the write-up with: References to the replacements for the late, lamented comicart-l mailing list on Yahoo Citation of @RabidFerret's blog on Francesco Brisighelli's ComicArt.tips website explaining the research buyers should do Reorganized the material to make it more useful, I hope As always, comments are more than welcome. It's good to have feedback!

Eric, you silly man; that one is clearly signed and the OP asked about unsigned.

Prediction: For certain pieces, the seller can opt to have part (or all) the seller's fee turned into a bidder's premium.

I have an unpublished page, but not from a comic. It's from Sheldon Mayer's attempt to get Sugar and Spike into syndication on the comic page of newspapers around the country. He tried twice and this is the "Sunday" from one of those tries. Click the link to get a bigger image and more information. The full story is in the Description on the CAF link embedded in the image.

At least. It could go for more given some of the creators on it. It's likely as genuine Bob Kane as you are going to find, for example.

Today, the Heritage description reads: A few ink highlights were added to the piece offered here, by an unknown hand.