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A positive quality in a collector evidently! (One I suspect I share...)

Those Fantastic Fears are freakin' awesome! Hard to find even in low grade. You must have a secret source.

Very nice Cat! Beautiful book. By Theo's valuation that would be worth about a million bucks! (It's obviously a 9.8 in disguise.)

Stop! Stop! Dont! Dont! Dont stop! Heh heh.

Those are fantastic things! Sharp intake of breath here - #2 and #3 in that condition?!! All I can say is, keep 'em coming Steven!

One tough book! Anything interesting inside? All the artwork is unsigned. No one noteworthy. It has a cool dinosaur story and some lingerie panels. The best thing is the great cover. I wouldn't put anything past Ajax-Farrel - but a dinosaur in lingerie? Yes. It was a Bra-ntosaurus IIRC. Not a pantysaurus then?

One tough book! Anything interesting inside? All the artwork is unsigned. No one noteworthy. It has a cool dinosaur story and some lingerie panels. The best thing is the great cover. I wouldn't put anything past Ajax-Farrel - but a dinosaur in lingerie?

One tough book! Anything interesting inside?

Great pickup! That's gotta be one of the best Horror covers out there. A high quality black cover and flaming skull . Nice! One of the things I love most about this cover, aside from the flaming scull, is the close-up of Dr. Death He resembles Nosferatu.

Me either. We're like twins, of radically differing heights and follicle counts, separated at birth. I've seen it before! I've seen it before!

I've seen one somewhere in the not too distant past but cant remember precisely where. Is it Canadian or just an obscure US publisher?

I think The people you depict have stories, but don't represent them. The imagery symbolizes, but isn't symbolic. Nor are they Symbolist. Nor do they illustrate. They decline all obvious interpretations. They are precisely arranged so as to appear happenstance. They lay clues for narratives they do not narrate. They are dreamlike without being self consciously surreal. They are enigmatic. In some though not all cases, they inhabit a realm of archetypes come to life. They do not wear your influences or inspirations on their sleeve. But where the voices of mediocre artists are overwhelmed by their influences, your paintings are far more than the sum of the things you know. I think of Goya (the lace), Velasquez (the treatment of flesh), Caravaggio, Vermeer, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, even Edward Robert Hughes... For some reason, cant quite say why, I find myself thinking of "Ashes and Snow" I gazed upon all the Edens that have fallen in me. I saw Edens that I had held in my hands, but let go. I saw promises I did not keep, Pains I did not sooth, Wounds I did not heal, Tears I did not shed, I saw deaths I did not mourn, Prayers I did not answer, Doors I did not open, Doors I did not close, Lovers I left behind, And dreams I did not live. I saw all that was offered to me, that I could not accept. I saw the letters I wished for, but never received. I saw all that could have been, but never will be....

All of the work is fantastic. BIG DRESS is a tour-de-force of the draughtsman's art.

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I do have one Church copy to make matching bookends however! really like this cover!

As I've intimated before there are a number of artists and writers on the boards, some of whom have posted in this thread, some have yet to do so. The recent discussion about OA prompted me to p.m.one of them for his view of what OA might mean to a practising artist. I found what he had to say extremely interesting and asked him if he'd mind me sharing his thoughts with the rest of the community. I'll tell you who he is in a moment, but first, his comments... "I started drawing as a child like every other artist has, we draw the things we love visually, the things we want to posses and hold and make permanent somehow. I can remember looking at the Marvel Heroes on the milk cartons advertising channel 9 cartoons of the characters portrayed, one for every night of the week. I can remember going to the barber shop at six years old and trading with the barber new comics for his old ones. Bitter sweet as the haircuts in the 60's were those horrible crewcuts. Just before I started college I sold all my comics and comic art that included pages and pages of original art, so many covers and splash pages that were bought at the comic cons were right from the artists for just a few dollars. "When I had my first son and daughter I started collecting again with them when they were about 8 and eleven. This gave me the excuse to revive those childhood impulses for heroic content and visual power that were in comics. Something I couldn't do consciously as a young serious artist.. "So for myself, it's a nostalgic interest, a boyhood dream to one day draw like those guys and also something more. I think there are aspects in pop culture that communicate our unconscious needs, fears, and desires hieroglyphically. Every period in comic history is a very powerful representation of that, in part because it didn't have to be considered art. Also, I can identify with those artists as underdogs who were never taken seriously. Many if not most comic artists were jewish who couldn't get into other art related positions due to discrimination. Most of the if not all the jewish artists of the New York School of painters changed their jewish names, Rothko was Rothkowitz for example. It's an interesting history and mix of things. History has a way of homogenizing everything so who knows maybe one day people will see Jack Kirby and Mark Rothko on the same plane and not so different." Steven Assael is a highly regarded American artist who also happens to collect comic books. He posts on these boards under the pen name of "sartre". Follow this link to see his astonishing paintings: Steven Assael

Very pretty - those colours really pop! Look at mine in comparison...

Nice looking CL 25. Thanks - I've always assumed the cover depicted Mardi Gras.

We're all curled up in the fetal position after seeing your books. Affirmative.

Same problem. To see the pic, I had to cut & paste the image link into a new tab in the browser & press enter. You can see the link if you quote his post. http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb352/JAMESELSENPETER/cap6cgc_zps114d4f75.jpg Use a real browser and it will be a lot less work Internet Explorer is full of holes. Mozilla is allegedly far more stable, resilient and secure Anyone here use Chrome?

Handsome Billy Parker, my dear friend, was kind enough to sell me the under copy Thanks Billy! Not in hand yet, but sooner or later he'll send it to me. in the mail as i type!! It just arrived Excellent interior art and stories I'll snap some photos and add them to the "You've seen the cover" thread later this weekend The splash pages are great.

Firefox here too - but I can see everyone else's pics as far as I can tell. Strange...