gnommando

Finally got back The Last Ronin to complete my collection of every variant cover by David Choe.

I think this label on back idea ignores the fact that I would guess that most collectors want to display the grade. Also there are frames out there that hide the top label behind a picture frame border if someone is only concerned about showing the cover of a book without the label.

Lol yeah that does make it a pain for the retailers. I mean that could be resolved with some generic plastic labels set behind the comic to show the grade and color but that's still added work for retailers.

Greg Capullo sometimes sells sets of signed comics on his website. About a year ago I purchased a set of his first like 6 issues of Spawn and finally sent one of them his very first Spawn #16 into CGC. I wasn't even thinking about a grade but I'm very pumped it came back 9.8. I may have to send the rest of them in now.

Modern is 1975 to present What you're talking about "books fully covered in ink" would only include a small fraction of books that are considered Modern Age as that's a very recent thing.

I know McFarlane has done sort of homages to his other covers. I don't know that he's just drawn over the same image though. This one is literally the same piece of art just painted over in spots. You can see the brush strokes match exactly.

These are both covers by David Choe. He simply reworked the same artwork and I believe he said he did it cause he's lazy. This might be a first in comic history though. Anyone know if any other artist reworked the same image for two different comics from two different publishers?

Well it seems someone is paying attention to the contact page messages so for anyone else running into this with books that aren't on the census here's what I did. I sent a message refencing both the submission number and the item number telling them that the description in submission tracking was wrong. I mentioned the book didn't currently exist in the census and I listed all of the following details for the book hoping to make it easier for them to confirm. Name Issue number Publisher Publish date Cover artist Writer Artists

Update; It seems sending a message via the contact page worked. The info is correct this morning.

When I was a little kid in the 90's before I went to college to study art I used to sit for hours trying to draw my favorite images from comics. Spawn comics especially after like #20 were my favorite to try to draw cause the level of detail seemed like it was on a whole different level than all the other comics at the time. I think I thought a lot of detail made art good back then and I tried real hard with very precise hard lines to get every exact detail into what I did. Slowly I figured out I couldn't do it that way. Those details emerge from loose sketching not hard precision. Drawing spawn and that wild cape taught me to really loosen up in my drawing and start to make more expressive lines rather than trying to get everything exact all the time. Now back then I wasn't really into knowing the names of the artists and writers or whatever I just wanted to draw some cool stuff. I did know that Todd McFarlane created spawn and I considered him my art hero. It was only years later when I started being interested in who was doing what that I realized that my real art hero was actually Greg Capullo. That wild cape those loose lines really didn't show up until Capullo took over the pencils. Anyway here's a drawing attempting to reproduce a spawn page that I did as a kid when I was trying to emulate my art hero Greg Capullo.

Looks amazing. Instead of "Where's Waldo?" this is like "Detect Darth"

I just noticed while tracking my submission which is currently in Grading / Encapsulation / Imaging that one of the books I submitted is mislabeled as being a book with a similar title from a completely different publisher. The book I sent is one that isn't currently in the census. I assume someone just selected the closest name to what they saw on the cover or something. Has anyone else run into this or had trouble submitting books that aren't in the census? I sent a message about it through the contact page but I'm worried I'm going to get the book back with the wrong label and have to resubmit.

New member with a quick question. What's a grading contest? I can't seem to find any info about it.

Hello all. I just started getting back into comics after not collecting for about a decade. I'm an artist and comics sort of taught me how to draw as a kid and got me into art school. I collect mostly books that have artists with unique non-traditional art styles.