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Thom Zahler the creator of Love and Capes just did something similar for a friend. He wanted to create a one page story that featured his wife working with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thom knocked it out of park. His rates are reasonable and he hits his deadlines. Highly recommended. He can do a variety of styles, but is generally cartoony. You can see samples of his work (and read the story) on the Love and Capes site. The gift is a secret so I can't post it, but it's really good.

Okay, here's a new art addition. It's from a Kickstarter funded book called "A Hero's Death." It failed to make on its first try, but the team (Ricardo Sanchez (words) and Mark Texeira (pictures)) kept working on the book (it's fully painted by Mark Texeira) and tried to Kickstart it a second time. That time worked! Still, painting is slow work and it's taken awhile to get done, but the result is a beautiful and moving story. It's worth the read. As for the Kickstarter, I got a remarqued book with this image in it. Click the link to learn more and see related images - like Mark working. ) Or go to their page A Hero's Death on Facebook.

Two new additions for your view pleasure (click to embiggen): A family portrait by Dan Parent that I received for my birthday A story about ME by Matt Sturges I’ve had both of these for awhile, but hadn’t gotten them posted.

^Lovely. Where was it used?

Yeah, I'd agree that that Spidey is as good as a McFarlane as one will find. Congrats.

Arnie? Chuck would take him down and Predator, too. Here's proof.

Beautiful, Terry.

I can see why you like it.

It is pretty cool. Congrats.

Not just a Peanuts strip, but one of the three best types: CB and Baseball, Snoopy as WWI ace, and CB and comics. Congratulations.

I remember reading that Jim worked on more Spider-man pieces (pencils, inks, or both) than any other artist. I wonder if that's true. One thing is for sure, he did a very nice job here.

I saw this on ebay years and years ago. I should have bid on it, but did not. I wish I had. Does anyone know who owns it now?

I just posted the OA that I won on ComicLink here. Click it and read the story of why this is an important piece for my family.

Picked up the 2nd page of a two page flashback; I already owned the first page so this is a real treat. It's even more of a treat because it features the Legion of Super-Heroes by Curt Swan and inked in George Klein's 60s style. Even better, it feature 7 Legionnaires. Check it out and learn more about it (click to embiggen):

Great pickup. Kubert war covers are priceless especially one that ties to your own life.

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the art and the description. I spend time on those so that people know something about how the image came to be.

Another chunk of my daughters' inheritance has been squandered! Joe Eisma is the artist on Morning Glories. The book is fascinating to me. It's a puzzle sent in a prestigious private academy where the students are all unusual and the faculty is just plain strange. It's been described by Nick Spencer, the series writer, as "Runaways meets Lost." Runaways was a comic book series featuring young characters who discover that their parents are evil and Lost was a very mysterious TV show with a very non-linear narrative structure. Per the Wikipedia, "the series focuses on six 'brilliant but troubled' new recruits at Morning Glory Academy, a prestigious prep school hiding "sinister and deadly" secrets." Anyway, Joe has been the series artist for its entire run to date (quite an accomplishment). But that’s just the start, the series is supposed to run about 100 issues and Joe is committed to doing them all. I enjoy his story telling and have had him add head sketches to each chapter break on my copies of the Deluxe edition books, but I've wanted a commission from him for some time. I decided to pull the trigger this month. So, for your viewing pleasure, I offer my latest addition featuring the staff and students of MGA discussing a recent disagreement. Sorry Allie, Elizabeth, and Rebecca. Click to embiggen and read more about the setting and characters.

Another chunk of my daughters' inheritance has been squandered! Joe Eisma is the artist on Morning Glories. The book is fascinating to me. It's a puzzle sent in a prestigious private academy where the students are all unusual and the faculty is just plain strange. It's been described by Nick Spencer, the series writer, as "Runaways meets Lost." Runaways was a comic book series featuring young characters who discover that their parents are evil and Lost was a very mysterious TV show with a very non-linear narrative structure. Per the Wikipedia, "the series focuses on six 'brilliant but troubled' new recruits at Morning Glory Academy, a prestigious prep school hiding "sinister and deadly" secrets." Anyway, Joe has been the series artist for its entire run to date (quite an accomplishment). But that’s just the start, the series is supposed to run about 100 issues and Joe is committed to doing them all. I enjoy his story telling and have had him add head sketches to each chapter break on my copies of the Deluxe edition books, but I've wanted a commission from him for some time. I decided to pull the trigger this month. So, for your viewing pleasure, I offer my latest addition featuring the staff and students of MGA discussing a recent disagreement. Sorry Allie, Elizabeth, and Rebecca. Click to embiggen and read more about the setting and characters.

My other Comicpalooza 2015 was an Orc. Yes, it's clear that beer glasses work because I picked this up. Wait, I don't drink. What!

At Comicpalooza​ 2015, I had some work added to my Easy Company jam. Thom Thomas Zahler​ (Little Sure Shot) and Joe Eisma​ (4Eyes) added ink and colors. Joe Rubinstein​ added color to Sgt. Rock and started Bulldozer when he discovered his plane left earlier than the thought. Ooops! I think it's turning out quite nicely. Click to embiggin.

Terry, I love the Sea Devils covers - both Russ Heath's and Purcell's. I really admire this one. I have two recreations from Russ that you might enjoy.

Yeah, that has crossed my mine (and my wife's )

Thanks.

There's a group of "new" artists that I think are really hitting it out of the park - Dave Petersen on Mouse Guard, Katie Cook's Gronk, Jeremy Bastian's Cursed Pirate Girl, Ted Naifeh's Courney Crumrin and Pricess Ugg to name a few. All have been working for years, but aren't fully appreciated in my opinion. A perfect example of a great book that gets too little attention is The Stuff of Legend by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith (writers) and Charles Paul Wilson, III (artist). It's the tale of a boy kidnapped by the Boogie Man whose faithful toys venture into The Dark realm to rescue him. The story is full of emotion and action. It's a great read - a terrific story, well told. Seek it out, it's more than worth the effort to find and read. This all leads to the obvious, I guess. I bought a piece of CPW3’s TSoL art - The cover to the FCBD 2015 issue. Check it out here (click to embiggen):