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Thanks, I like Michael's collection, too. There are a lot of commisisons there!

I think JRjr tells a good story, but it takes a strong inker to make his work attractive to me. Bob Layton's inking over him in Iron Man was wonderful. The recent Superman stuff - not so much, IMHO.

And an obvious one to me.

Walt Simonson - Ragnarok his current series is excellent. He's been working steadily since 1973 and has had some great runs - Manhunter and Thor especially.

Tom Scioli does a great Kirby. Here's Tom's My Little Pony comic as Jack would have done it. Here's the one he did for me at the late, lamented Amazing! Houston Comic Con. He also has a very early series that you can get on Comixology called American Barbarian and a newer one called GØDLAND that both are clearly inspired by Jack.

Here's my list: Davy Jones $1 per month for January Local to me (Houston) cartoonist for Charmy's Army Richard Cox $2 per month for January NC cartoonist doing his own strip - Highjump Ross Pearsall $1 per month for January Does one of the best comic blogs on the internet - SuperTeam Family Steve Lightle $1 per month for January Former Legion and Flash artist creating his own story - Justin Zane. Yale Stewart $2 per month for January Creator of JL8, the JLA heroes as 8 year olds. Wonderful strip. Almost 350 episodes. Now working on his own story. Steve Conley $2 per month for February* The creator of The Middle Age found on WebToon and GoComics. Katie Cook $1 per month for January Famous for Gronk, MLP, and now Nothing Special which is quite special Joe Eisma $1 per month for January Hoping and praying for Morning Glories to restart. Bill Willingham $1 per month for February* I like his writing, but the Patreon is pretty silent. J.V. Jones $1 per month for January Love her writing. She has a terrific fantasy series, Sword of Shadows series, that was on hiatus for a long time because of tough life events, but she's back to writing and I really like what she has shown. Colleen Doran $3 per month for February* A creator that I really enjoy. I support her hoping that she'll be able to finish A Distant Soil before I pass away and complete the (re) collection of it in remastered TBP. She's making progress. Surprisingly, I really enjoy the essays that she puts on her Patreon. They are easily worth the paltry amount I pay. Grim Wilkins $2 per month for January A creator that I found on Kickstarter and decided to support. Mirenda - a wordless story - is where I started with him. Jeremy Bastian $5 per month for January Jeremy's Cursed Pirate Girl is astounding. I support him because I want more and I hate having artists starve before they finish their stories! I also support Nick Pitarra, but he's suspended his because he doesn't have time for it now.

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The relisting can be seen here. The original "sale" here. The seller is the same in both cases.

It's been there for a long time; can't say that its been there forever though. I wish he'd add publish/unpublished to the set of standard sorts, along with by year and by type and by impressions/comments/likes in our galleries.

@ZimmermanTelegram, you could ask in the Facebook Houston Comic Fandom group. It's full of guys that worked on those cons. If you'd like, PM me with your real name and email and I'll ask on your behalf.

I showed it to Kathy and she said she'd be upset if I spent that much for it. That was good enough for me. I may set a search for one on our anniversary.

I thought a birthday strip for my wife who was a huge Garfield fan when we started dating might be a fun gift so I setup a search for her date. One finally turned up and it was for the year we married. I was about to enter a bid when I decided to check older bids - $1500 and up and up. Nope, too much for a b'day gift. She likes OA, but likes lots of other things for $1.5K.

I figure what I want to pay and bid it. That's it.

I thought I'd post my one example. It's a Legion of Super-Heroes page with pencils by Daniel HDR ($100 from Anthony), the inked over blueline version by Bob Wiacek ($40 from Bob at a signing in New Paltz, NY), and the printed page ($3.99 from Bedrock City Comic Company). There are a couple of interesting points: Daniel inked the faces to keep the look that he wanted Bob thought PG looked a little thick waisted in the 2nd panel so he did a little liposuction. If you look closely on the high resolution image on the CAF, you can see the thin blue line from the original outline. The second bullet backs my theory that the inker always wins. Click to see and learn more and to get a bigger picture. .

+1 My local carpenter/cabinet make could do that.

Thor with Tales of Asgard style background and a frost giant or other suitable opponent or something New Gods related like the cover of New Gods 7.

Seems like I've read that name, but I can't remember.

Here's an article about it.

Bottom tier of the last page no less. If you click the image now, you'll learn more including that my last panel echos the splash page.

I own one of the pieces he saved. Wonder Woman by H. G. Peter. It's near the top of my collection. Thanks, Marv! Click the image to learn more about it.

I have three two at-home commissions by Mike and a LCS signing piece. My commission of the LSH in battle with Mordru. I wanted the Fatal Five, but couldn't afford it. It's not inked for the same reason. Tara and the Warlord that came from the estate of a collector in Houston Mike was only doing head sketches so I asked for three.

No clue, but because there is so little hand done work for Saga, this is a very scarce piece.

True. However, he had a few advantages in that area on it and on my Superman - they weren't going to be inked/colored, they weren't going to be printed on the very limited presses of the day, and they weren't going to be shrunk to a fraction of the size. All of that made investing in more detail and shading worth the time.

LSH commissions are the best commissions. You can see mine here.