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So, Friday was our 38th Wedding Anniversary and guess what I received as a gift? Surprise! It's comic book related art. In this case, it's another of my faux Sugar and Spike #100 themed comics. S&S never made it to issue 100, but one day DC will publish one and I will have a wonderful collection of variant covers that they can use. In this case, the artist, Charles Paul Wilson III, launched S&S into an adventure in The Dark. In the main story, the Boogeyman captured The Boy and pulled him through his closet door into The Dark, a strange world that he controls. Some of The Boy's bravest toys decided to pursue and free him. It has not been an easy journey and victory has not been achieved, but still they struggle. It appears from this cover that S&S have stumbled into The Dark by way of The Boy's closet, they must be neighbors. More disturbing, they look like they may have been touched by the Boogeyman's influence. Will our kids be able to help The Boy's toys or will they fall under the influence of the Boogeyman! You can learn more on the image: You can see the full by clicking on the image

So, Friday was our 38th Wedding Anniversary and guess what I received as a gift? Surprise! It's comic book related art. In this case, it's another of my faux Sugar and Spike #100 themed comics. S&S never made it to issue 100, but one day DC will publish one and I will have a wonderful collection of variant covers that they can use. In this case, the artist, Charles Paul Wilson III, launched S&S into an adventure in The Dark. In the main story, the Boogeyman captured The Boy and pulled him through his closet door into The Dark, a strange world that he controls. Some of The Boy's bravest toys decided to pursue and free him. It has not been an easy journey and victory has not been achieved, but still they struggle. It appears from this cover that S&S have stumbled into The Dark by way of The Boy's closet, they must be neighbors. More disturbing, they look like they may have been touched by the Boogeyman's influence. Will our kids be able to help The Boy's toys or will they fall under the influence of the Boogeyman! You can learn more on the image: You can see the full by clicking on the image

Jeff donated the art to the Billy Ireland Museum at The Ohio State University. There are a few published Bone pieces that are not there, e.g., the Trilogy covers, but the Bone books are all there.

I redid the number adjusting for BP and Seller's fee, the loss was 54%!

Re: if you were going for those pages Nope, too rich for my blood. I play in the kiddie's pool. Re: looks like the owner paid a little bit for the privilege of gazing at that nice art for a few years Not even that; the Nate Sanders auction was only 6 months ago! As you can see, I adjusted for the BP and Seller's fee and his loss is about 54%!

My tastes differ from most. The lots that I found interesting were the four complete or nearly complete issues of Sugar and Spike. All of them were sold sometime ago at a Nate Sanders auction and came from the garage of Sheldon Mayer's son. Whoever bought them at that auction sold them on Heritage and took a hit - 54%! 

Hope springs eternal! phrase from “An Essay on Man,” by Alexander Pope.

Picked mine up. How many pages did you contribute, @thethedew?

Olivier does an truly excellent Thor!

This page from my first comic (yep, really, it's JLA 29) has a note about how to color the rays from Ultraman's eyes.

It turns out that she had simply misplaced it.

"Brown furniture" is not selling. "Brown furniture" is what the kids call it. I agree. I, too, am not a big fan of Jim's work. That said, I've a ton of his comics and I'm more than impressed by the guy. He's friendly and hardworking. He's great with his fans, has accomplished a ton in his career, and seems to be a loving dad and husband. I fully appreciate his artistic skill (and Scott's inking), but it just doesn't ring my bell on a consistent basis. That's not to say that I wouldn't take a page gratefully if someone gave me one, it's just that I don't have him (or most (all?) of his contemporaries at Image) on my radar.

We are remodeling our house so clearly I need to spend more money on comic book art from a comic of which no one has heard. Yes, I have once again squandered a bit of the daughters' inheritance for my own pleasure. This time it was from the second issue of Fairy Quest by Paul Jenkins (writer) and Humberto Ramos (artist). Fairy Quest 1 and 2 were Kickstarted and later distributed by Boom! many years ago. It shares a basic premise with Fables and TV shows like Once Upon a Time where the realm of Fairy Tales is real. In this case, it's run by a Mr. Grimm who requires the characters to do their story exactly the way it is written - over and over and over. Failure to comply leads to getting one's mind erased. The story tells of Red Riding Hood and Woof, a wolf, trying to escape to the "Real World" wherever it may be, whatever it may be. I was quite disappointed that there were only 2 issues and I waited a long time before giving up and filing them in the closet of no return. This year things changed - Issue 3 was solicited on KS AND this page showed up in the NYCC charity auction. I bid and I won. The other page had more action, but I like the scene setting - Red and Woof have come across a devastated town and are confronted by a very large minion of Mr. Grimm. I've always liked Ramos' work especially on Impulse, but I like to get pieces with the artist's own IP if possible. This scratched an itch. By the way, MultiversityComics has a great review that I link to the CAF Description. Click on the image.

When Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta decided to add to the Starstruck story with the prequel, Old Proldiers Never Die, they offered my favorite Kickstarter perk - commissions from artists who don't often do them. Later, when they realized that they needed more money, they offered people the option of contributing some funds for "some background." I threw in $200 on top of the original pledge ($300). Mike does't do preliminaries. He draws roughly on the page and then adds to it. In this case, he'd already started on my original request (The Shadow and Margo), but he abandoned it because there was no way to add a decent background. So, he turned the page over and started again. Yes, I definitely got "some background!" 2 and on the back we find the original pose The first pose would have made me quite happy, the final piece blew me away and still does. Mike told me that when people would come over and ask what he was working on that this is what he would show them.

Here's one for you. Sheldon Moldoff would draw an image, light box ink it, and then paint it. He'd repeat the process for as many copies as he wanted for a show. There's a discussion in the CAF Description (click the image). On the back are nots from Sheldon and his wife. and on the back we have these notes Does anyone know who Jim might be? I'd like to give credit.

The squandering of the daughters' inheritancecontinues. At the age of 10, I bought the first appearance of The Inferior Five in Showcase. I was really puzzled. I didn't know the word inferior, I didn't know about parody and satire. Who were these people and why weren't they as capable of as the Justice League!?!? Eventually, I figured it out and really grew to enjoy the book. A friend (thank, Miki!) alerted me that several pages were for sale at Anthony's Comic Book Art. As it happened, they were priced in my impulse zone and, ironically, were from the same issue as the page I left at Logan Airport a few years ago. Anyway, welcome to the Inferior Five, the home of Merryman, Awkwardman, The Blimp, White Arrow, and Dumb Bunny. Click to embiggen

Joe Kubert - WWI or WWII Action Rush Heath - WWII Action Maybe an air battle with the Enemy Ace by Kubert Maybe a tank battle by Heath

Seems like a grail for the right guy. If only there were such a guy - @Rick2you2

I confess that I have a weakness for All-Ages books with OA perks on Kickstarter. This one is Land of Toons (written by Kevin Chilcoat and everything else by Hayley Russell and Andrew Morrice) and its quite interesting. Our heroes are Ted the Zookeeper and Mangus the Monkey and they start out making B&W cartoons from a --script. Things go well until they and everyone else see their ratings drop, people vanishing, and a wall appearing. Ted and Mangus decide to find out what is going on. The first two issues are out and a KS (see the Description) is funded for the printing of the third issue. This was my perk.

I do have the write-up as an MS Word file if anyone wants a copy. Just PM me with your email address.

I do have the write-up as an MS Word file if anyone wants a copy. Just PM me with your email address.

These showed up, those probably will, too.

He does at home commissions on occasion. Contact Spencer Beck at spencerbck@aol.com / The Artist's Choice.

There are two: My Swan Superman My JLA 29 page I've told these stories a thousand times and you can get the details in the CAF Description by clicking on the images, but here's the summary. My paternal grandmother setup a small trust fund for her adopted children upon her death in 1967 (I was 10). After about 38 years, the trust had done its job and the balance was to be distributed among her three natural children. By that time, my dad had passed so his share was split among his four children. For the first time in more than 30 years, I had some free cash. Kathy and I decided I could spend it as I wished. I'd discovered Heritage and there this was along with a Sheldon Mayer Sugar and Spike one-page story. I bid something on both, but decided that the Swan was going to go out of reach so I bid the balance on the Mayer. I lost, but the Superman was mine on my highest bid! Thanks, Grandmother. At the Comic Art Show in 2010, Kathy and I made an appearance and found 5(!) pages from my very first comic - Justice League of America (1st Series) 29 featuring the JLA and it's 2nd JSA crossover. This is the comic that imprinted me. This story is long, but it involves a Mexican vacation, minimal cash for gas to get back to Texas, a comic book vending machine at a HoJo, and $0.15. What really makes it special is that Kathy bought it for me. She has not always been a fan of my hobby as you can read here, but she knew it meant a lot to me. I have a wonderful wife! Thanks to Will Gabri-El for a quick and fair deal. What I'd like to know is the location of the splash. If six pages have surfaced, that indicates that more may be out there. That splash means a lot to since my brother and I stared at it for a long time trying to figure out who these people were before we read the comic. I value it higher than the cover. I suspect it's mostly stat, but I wouldn't care.

Congrats! That's quite the haul!