aaronnear

You'd have to do two scans, unfortunately. It's exactly 11x17. A lot of my Marvel boards are 11x17 1/8 and they just clip over the edge of the scanning bed. Not a big deal in most cases for me as there isn't a lot of bleed outside of the general frame on the board for much of what I buy, but I could absolutely see that as being a bit frustrating if you have such bigger boards. It looks like larger dedicated scanners are 10x this device in the best circumstances from what I can see online. I know some multifunction devices go for that price as well and have larger scan beds (e.g. at work we have some copiers with what I recall being 18x24 beds), but I think they start at around $2,500.

It maxes out at 11x17 on the flatbed. That's a great deal - it's the model I have and I paid $120 more (and am OK with that). The thing is a tank.

I only have one prelim, and it's not that big, but it's my pride and joy. James Jean's variant cover pencil prelim to Sandman Overture 6. James came out of comic book retirement to do this amazing piece for Neil. James is by far my favorite artist and I never thought I'd be able to own something made with his own hands, but here we are. The birds from the final piece showed up on Heritage I think it was last year, but it went for more than I paid for this, so I couldn't contend. Hopefully someday I'll bring the two together. Prelim: Final: All framed up before going up in the living room:

Been awhile and I haven't got any leads on this or seen it pop-up anywhere. Figure it's worth a New Years bump. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Time for a summer bump. Still hoping to acquire some new pages from this issue.

ing for the New Year

That's amazing. Great pieces in both books! James is my favorite artist, so I have to say I'm a bit jealous that you got to meet him. What a cool story and great pic!

Continuing the Epson Workforce support. I bought an Epson WorkForce Pro WF-7820 last year to scan my original art and it's been great. I don't plan to really print with it as I have a reliable laser printer, but the reviews I've read for the Epson's indicate that, unlike many brands, it will continue to allow scanning without a working ink supply. I'm a Mac user, so I just use Preview, which is built in, to scan and make any minor edits. No need for branded software so far.

@NicoV Thank you so much. Everything looks good in the new account. Please feel free to delete and rename whenever you have time. Greatly appreciated!

@NicoV Any ideas on this? I created a new account, aaronnear1, to test the login experience and I can sign in fine with the new account. It happens whether I use the username or email address for the username. I've reset my password as well, thinking it might be an issue with special characters in the password and I still get the same white screen. In Chrome, I do now get an error message of: "This page isn’t working comicarttracker.com is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500" If I have to just use the new account that's fine I guess, but I'd prefer to not have to re-create my searches, if possible. Thank you!

When I sign in to the site I just get a white page. This happens if I sign in directly from the home page, from the search page, or on my phone from the search result morning emails. I've tried it in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on my Mac and Safari and Chrome on my iPhone with consistent results. If I clear my cookies the site works fine again, until I try to sign in again. Account name is just my name: aaronnear. Any ideas? Thank you! I love the site!

Bumping this thread. Some other art I was interested in fell through, so I have more funds for this search. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four is one of my favorite comic runs. Issue 604 is the main high point of the series, bringing it near to a close. I have three pages from the issue, but I'd like to collect more. The issue is, from my understanding, all Steve Epting printed blue lines with Rick Magyar inks over the blue lines. I talked to Rick at a con years ago about the run and that's what I remember him saying about the production process. It checks out with the pages I've seen so far. I'm open to any and all pages from issue 604. If you have any pages you're interested in selling please let me know as I'm eager to buy. Thank you!

I like seeing everything on the page that is part of the process. It's one of the reasons I love collecting original comic art - you can really get a great feel for the design process and see the thought process when there are remnants of old work like this. There's nothing better, to me, than seeing old erased letters or lines partially there or old pencil marks that weren't inked for some reason. It's a bit different with digitally printed pages that are inked over, but you still can get a sense of the artistic thought put into it - which is fine by me. Someone like say, Michael Lark, who leaves tons of reference blue line prints on his pages, but inks how he wants it to look in the end are 100% acceptable. For this image specifically, it's a little weird to me that the glasses behind the hair were inked and not just there as a reference, but with the way colorists work digitally in most cases nowadays I'd expect there might be some transparency on the hair over the glasses - assuming this was colored digitally - and that would account for the artist making sure the full glasses are shown in the final product. Either way, there are generally changes of some kind between OA and final, so it wouldn't bother me.

Sorry for the delayed response. Thank you for the reply! Yep, I've tried the Contact form on his website too. Given that it's about a CAF post from 14 years ago, I can't say I'd respond either. I guess my main hope is that someone stumbles across this thread at some point and might know where it is now. I don't expect Kwan actually has it still, but someone out there might know something and I'm patient.

I'm a huge Jessica Jones fan and I very much appreciate the relationship Luke Cage and Jessica have. I'm interested in picking up page 39 from New Avengers Annual #1 with Luke and Jess kissing at their wedding. The page is by Olivier Coipel. The page has been posted in CAF for a long time, but I do not think it's still available from given when it was posted and the fact that I've emailed and messaged the vendor, Kwan Chang, multiple times over the year without response. I have not seen the page posted for sale or in anyone's collection on various sites. Does anyone have a possible lead on this page? I know I'm newly registered on here, but I've been collecting for about 15 years and finally at a point where I can afford to spend a paycheck on a page I really want. Thank you! Kwan Change CAF listing: https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=411941 I've attached the image from the CAF posting for reference.

As long as it's the only original physical art for a page I'm OK with it. My preference is inked pencils, then pencils alone, and then inked printed lines. It's hard to find a lot of modern artists with published work that I enjoy that are not all digital, and artist proofs aren't my thing, but there are some that still sketch things out digitally and then them or their inker will ink the printed lines. If it's a safe bet that those inked blue lines are what were used for publishing and there are no pencil versions then that's the best you can do, so I'll buy it. If you look at, say, McNiven who stopped doing pencils long ago then the only way to own any original art for those published pages is inked blue lines. There's still a lot of joy in seeing the ink work stand as the only hand touched work. It's not, to me, about the artist doing the page so much as it's the moment(s) existing on the page and knowing I have the only physical work for it. I could see how some might think pencils from an important artist that are printed and inked by someone else would make the page not have as much value, but that's not what I'm really concerned about in my collecting.

Those are beautiful. Congrats! Both of those works are great! I did not know he had a special stamp, that's cool. I'm a huge Alias fan and have been following Mack since the that series. I own one of the covers from Alias, but I want to pick up pretty much every piece he makes as he's so good and these are no exception.

Did the original buyer end up wanting the cover still? I'm assuming they did, but felt it worth asking to be safe.