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Nice work! I made a map once. I wanted a large map of Middle Earth to frame and hang. I was 15 or so. I made a copy of a map from a hard cover LotR volume and used a scaling technique from my drafting class to enlarge it to poster board size. I then colored it with colored pencils. I never had it framed; it was too expensive. Somewhere along the line, I lost it. I had no clue where it was and didn't ask anyone until about 35 years later. My brother matter-of-factly said that it was in a portfolio of my mom's behind the couch in her living room. I found it right where he said it was and it had aged/browned which actually made it look better. It's framed now. I wasn't clever enough to scan or photograph it before framing, but you can see it by clicking the image below.

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I am enjoying this. Thanks for starting the thread.

Three pieces of art appeared under our tree this year. Click the image to learn more. My wife got a recreation of her favorite Peanuts trip by Bruce McCorkindale My Secret Santa got me a wonderful addition to my "Supergirl vs." theme. This time she's taking on her jerk ex-boyfriend Powerboy. An the capper to my Christmas, Jeremy Bastian's very first Cursed Pirate Girl commission

Ditto - I'd treat the 6 pages as one item IF the total is less than $300.

Unpublished Maleficent by Walt Simonson (click for more details)

Mike, who says you aren't nice. You are correct, I can post two pieces! and I will! Maleficent is the one that I'll use. Thanks for the reminder. This should get you back on the "good kid" list! Merry Christmas!

I can only enter once and my entry has votes so I'll leave it (and I really, really like it). That said, here are my runner ups. Maleficent by Walt Simonson (this is my wife's not mine, her character choice and it's a great choice) Odin by Walt Simonson (wanted a character that is more visual than Thor and Odin has great hats!) I think Maleficent might get a lot of votes, but I can't take my Pirate Ship down and she doesn't have an account here.

I have to ask though it might not change my submittal. My two Simonson "head shots" fit under the $300 limit IF you adjust what we paid by deducting what we got. Odin by Walt Simonson and Maleficent by Walt Simonson We got them at the Simonson dinner at SDCC 2017. Here's the breakdown of why I think they cost $250 each. Part of the dinner with IDW. Cost is an estimate as follows: Total cost: $500 Dinner at FdC: $100 BRB AE (signed/numbered): $125 (list) Ragnarok Vol 2 HC (remarqued, signed, stamped): $ 25 (cover) This makes the drawing $250 though since Walt doesn't do commissions, it's really hard to value. Thoughts?

Unpublished Pirate Ship by Jeremy Bastian (click image to learn more)

The story of my OA collecting life right there. It's not that I haven't had enough money to buy one on my want list, but that I spend it on other cool stuff!

How about an Evil Queen as in Snow White's step-mom? Click to read more.

Yep. It was an accidental discovery. I'd spent all my OA funds and was determined not to checkout the CL auction, but I was in The Netherlands with nothing to do. I scrolled through the list and saw it. I had to buy it. I made a strong bid (higher than I should have) and one it for a lot less (so happy!). Never thought I'd find it.

My collection consists of comic related artwork by artists that I admire of characters I associate with them. For example, Curt Swan (Superman, LSH), Nick Cardy (TT, Bat Lash), Joe Kubert (Sgt. Rock, Hawkman) and more recently Nick Pitarra (Manhattan Projects), Joe Eisma (Morning Glories), Thom Zahler (Love and Capes). I think you get the drift. I have two sub-themes: 1) Supergirl arm wrestling X where X is a character I associate with the character X 2) The cover to the 100th issue of Sugar and Spike (big Sheldon Mayer fan). They got to 98 in the original US run. DC then issued a 99 some years later. Still waiting on #100 so I took matters into my own hands. The art is segregated into galleries for myself, my wife, my daughters, some sketchbooks, and a few others as follows: Collections My Art Gallery - Contains scans and stories about each piece of art. The theme of this gallery is pretty simple - characters that I care about by the artist I most identify them with, e.g., Bat Lash and Cardy, SA Flash and Infantino, Superman and Swan, etc. Be sure to scroll to the second page. There is good stuff on it, too. Kathy's Art Gallery - Contains pieces of art purchased for or by her. Allie's Art Gallery - Contains pieces of art purchased for or by her. Elizabeth's Art Gallery - Contains pieces of art purchased for or by her. Rebecca's Art Gallery - Contains pieces of art that purchased for and by her. Sketchbooks 40 for 60 Sketchbook (Alex) - Contains scans from the Sketchbook that my wife and daughters made for my 60th birthday Strong Women (Kathy) - Contains scans from the Sketchbook that my wife is building for herself. Untitled (Rebecca) - Contains scans from the Sketchbook that my daughter is building for herself. Miscellaneous My Pseudo-Art Gallery - Contains art related materials for which I do not have the originals, but which are related to the pieces that I do have. On the Walls - Framed pieces Here's the link to the main gallery page: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=10225 Here's the link to all the art sorted by Most Views: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerydetailsearch.asp?gcat=10225&pm=1&pi=54&order=Views

Make it three others. The post is now update. Sigh...

My wife loves the Disney Villainesses. So here is her Maleficent collection: Walt Simonson from the SDCC 2017 dinner with Walt and Weezie. Kathy got the best piece, IMHO, and I love my Odin. There's something about her eyes and the way he played up the common design elements shared between the dragon and the fairy that really makes it stand out. Mike Maihack of Cleopatra in Space fame plus some wonderful Batgirl/Supergirl fanart team ups. He did it at random and put it on ebay. I got lucky; he has a lot of fans. Michael Dooney - Michael's work was something that Kathy had noticed and commented on at several shows. When I needed a Christmas present he went above and beyond. Love the dragon in the background. Oliver Nome - Oliver was a fast rising young artist who was killed after a long battle by brain cancer. Lots of talent and a very nice person. This was sold as a fundraiser. I think it's terrific. Richard Cox - Richard is a computer guy and part-time artist. He has serious skills. He has two webcomics - a faithful adaptation of Princess of Mars and his own Highjump. Aaron Lopresti is an artist well known for his work on WW and other female heroes. He's also a friend. He put the opening piece in her Strong Women sketchbook. Katie Cook is the brilliant young writer artist of many Star Wars properties, MLP, and her own Gronk and Nothing Special. She does wonderful micro-paintings for $10 at shows.

Oh, Scott, if you ever would like to ink a Swan Superman on blue line for fun or profit, please let me know!

I can't think of one thing, but I'd be hard pressed to find the one perfect piece. There are to many I like, but I can't imagine an offer that would make me move my Superman.

Not a grail for me, but it would be great to own!

I just went back and looked. I've used BIN once. Actually, I didn't use it, my wife did to get me an anniversary present. Bob Bolling's Little Archie - good stuff in my opinion. $325 + $15 S/H.

And, of course, Google is our friend. Apparently, he did catch up in 2012. http://tonyfleecs1aday.blogspot.com/

I'm not aware of that. My experiences with him have been quite good.

Okay, here's another. It was the summer of 1964. I was 8 years old (summer between the 2nd and 3rd grades). My parents decided to take a driving vacation to Mexico. So, they loaded up the 1958 Plymouth Station Wagon. This car had two rows of bench seats, no seat belts until my dad installed some later, no A/C, and a storage area in behind the second row. Here's one like it: So how many people did we place in that vehicle for the 10+ hour drive to Mexico? 9. Yep, my dad, little sister (3 almost 4), and mom in the front. My mom's sister, her eldest daughter, and my grandmom in the 2nd row. My brother, my aunt's younger daughter, and my brother in the back (no seats). The luggage was in a box that my dad had mounted on the top of the car. We called it the coffin. Have you ever driven around Monterrey and Saltillo? No? Well, it's mountainous and the road are about 1.5 lanes wide and they have semis on them. We sometimes had to back down the mountain to find the widespot to allow the others to pass. Scary. I sat on the passenger side and looked down - I have vertigo to this day! Anyway, we got there safely. Spent time at the local sites and markets and had a grand time. We also spent almost all of our cash. Credit cards didn't work in Mexico and the only ones with money were my g'mom and me. We pooled our resources (I think I had a couple of dollars) and were able to buy enough gas to get us to Brownsville, TX. Whew! That was close. We stopped at a HoJo (Howard Johnson's for you young folks. Used to be the biggest and nicest chain around) for lunch. After we ate, my brother and I decided to explore and the first thing we found was a comic book vending machine. I'd never seen a comic book before, but I knew who Superman was from re-runs of the TV show. Thanks to Mike's Amazing World of Comics, I know what was on the Newsstands that month, but the only cover that I remember was this one. The cover to the first comic that I ever bought. I was imprinted. I ran to my dad and asked if I could have 15 cents (of my money!) back to buy a comic. Yeah, the book was 12 cents, but the machine didn't take pennies. I got the money, ran back with Bill and we bought it. We spent an hour looking at it and trying to figure it out. The splash page was especially awesome since it had the names of all the characters. We really had no clue when we started, but this was a big help. Well, that was 53 years ago now. I still buy these silly things, have virtually everyone that I have ever bought, and have moved into the original art, too. Kathy, my wonder wife, bought me a page from that first comic (Thanks to Will Gabri-el for the assist and easy transaction.) Here it is: So, how does this relate to commissions? Simple, I've had the cover recreated twice. The first is a 3D Shadow Box by Todd Reis. You really should look at his work. If you click the image, there are other links including a video of my piece disassembled. It is so cool! I also had Scott Shaw! do a version with his characters (for DC): 1) Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew in the JLA role and 2) The Justa Lotta Animals in the JSA role. Yeah, I am a comicholic.

I agree. I hope they come roaring back. It was a fun book. Now, if only Nick Spencer would finish writing the last 50 (!) issues of Morning Glories. Grrr... BTW, I hope the OP and other that read this thread enjoy my commission stories. If I'm boring you guys, let me know.

I forgot two others! I'm getting old. I've updated the original post.