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Those are among my favorite pieces.

I know how you feel... My own Superman by Swan My own Sgt. Rock Made me laugh!

I think you art looks good on the screen, but some of it would look better on my wall.

I think the credit goes to Steve Wyatt for helping Russ manage his time. I'm glad he's doing this. It helps Russ and I got two great pieces.

He's available and doing great work.

Raboy is a favorite though I don't own anything by him. Anyway, I do own something new! I just got the Russ Heath recreation of Showcase 29 that I ordered. 3 months start to finish isn't bad and the work is excellent (again). Russ still has it at 84 years young! You can see it here or you can scroll down, but feel free to click the link or image and leave a comment.

Nice Suicide Squad pieces. I always enjoy seeing them. As for me, I just got the Russ Heath recreation of Showcase 29 that I ordered. 3 months start to finish isn't bad and the work is excellent (again). Russ still has it at 84 years young! You can see it here or you can scroll down, but feel free to click the link or image and leave a comment.

Forgot the link to the image, I think.

I agree. Very nice.

By the way, I'm crushed, crushed! I tell you, that no one commented on my wonderful Christmas present above. My ego needs the feed.

Reminds me of this Tales from the Con strip.

I had a very Merry Christmas and look at what I got thanks to my wife with an assist from Russ Heath and Steve Wyatt. You have to check it out - it has a three-headed, fire breathing, sea horse! http://cafurl.com/?i=19213 For those that don't like to click (shame on you), here's the image:

I had a very Merry Christmas and look at what I got thanks to my wife with an assist from Russ Heath and Steve Wyatt. You have to check it out - it has a three-headed, fire breathing, sea horse! http://cafurl.com/?i=19213 For those that don't like to click (shame on you), here's the image:

Fun stuff, Travis. Thanks for sharing.

Yes, linking to the block from the CAF is a good idea and easy. Chris, If you paste this in your description, you'll get a working link: Neil Gaiman's blog featuring this image you can change the text "Neil Gaiman's blog featuring this image" to whatever is appropriate.

If you click the image in the blog, it takes you to the CAF.

Excellent!

Interesting. Hard to believe that out of all those people none would leave a comment. Can you comment if you aren't a CAF member?

Thanks for both comments. I must admit that as nice as the art is being married to Kathy is better.

Yesterday (Tuesday) was my thirtieth wedding anniversary and Kathy gave me yet another wonderful gift (as if her marrying me wasn't enough). This is the rejected cover for Sword of Sorcery #1 (Amethyst) by Aaron Lopresti. DC decided that the characters on the covers of the new books should be leaping out to the audience, but they didn't make that decision until this was finished. I think this piece is a better composition. There's a bit more to the story so give the link a click and check it out.

Congrats, Court!

The fact that they do so much restoration is one of the things that makes me consider them a collector willing to trade; rather, than a dealer. For example, I have a Swan Legion page that is missing a word balloon. I want to get it replaced and I am torn between: 1) Replacing and mounting on the board 2) Mounting on an overlay. It's actually a tough call for me since it's just the one balloon. I did have Chris Ivy add the cover blurbs to my DeCarlo Archie as an overlay, but that was much more substantial. I do need a scan of the piece without the overlay though.

I'd like to preface this with that my relationship with Coollines Art has been only through e-mail and while we've never struck a deal they have always been prompt and polite. That said, they do things differently than I would and one of those is "restoration" of their art. One example is Curt Swan's cover for Superman Annual #7. This Curt Swan piece was sold on Heritage in 2007 - As I understand it, the Heritage buyer sold/traded it to the Donneleys. They now show it on their site as: A conversation on the Curt Swan FB fan page led to an e-mail conversation with Steve. Steve told me in that note that: So, they restored the cover to its original state by re-creating stats. An interesting point was made on the Swan FB page by Ray Cuthbert about Steve's assumption: While I would not have mounted "replacement stats" on the original Swan piece, I might have done it on an overlay. There are several takeaways here: 1) People do try to "restore" art and Coollines is one place that does. 2) Proper restoration is hard. 3) Be an informed buyer PS. If you are interested in the Swan FB Fan Page, let me know.

In the old days, lettering was hand down; today it is most commonly done by using computer tools to add it to a scanned image of the page. BTW, inking is moving that way rapidly. It's common to see pages of OA pencils and the same page with blue-line inks. Here's one of mine: Finally, pencils are moving to the computer as well. It's conceivable that we are buying a dying art form. I prefer pages with everything - pencil, ink, and words.

That's one of my favorite features in the piece, too.