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I'd enjoy this piece of cheese as well

Oh, Van Halen 1984 would be cool. I had that back in the day. Some of these great bands really only had a memorable image or two. I like Aerosmith but I can't say care for the Toys in the Attic illustration, for example.

I guess my point was that he's had some hard miles so its not surprising that the artistic output has seen some better days. Fair enough though, I'll edit that comment out.

I've seen that before, but yeah... yikes.

pic?

If he's only 66 those are some hard miles on that odometer. Reminds me a bit of Gordon Lightfoot before he passed away. Gord looked like a skeleton near the end.

thanks for posting this. I checked out Stanton's work and found it great from what little I can see ('fetish artist' doesn't seem like a fair label, but I only have the slightest of knowledge of it so far). Ordered a book on Stanton and look forward to checking it out - not often I come across a name from those days that is both talented and that I haven't already heard of... thanks!

No sweat. About ten years ago now heritage sold the artwork for Robocop, and the artist involved there used what I suspect is a similar process (minus the ammonia?). The description is linked below. https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/action/robocop-orion-1987-original-mike-bryan-poster-artwork-3325-x-5125-total-2-items-/a/7094-83131.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

For any Canadians in the crowd, sadly it appears the Fully Completely album art (a huge album here at the time) is a collage of manipulated photocopies. On the plus side, the band thought enough of it to purchase it. Album artwork[edit] The cover art for Fully Completely was designed by Dutch artist Lieve Prins.[3] Prins was given the idea of a "bacchanalian sort of scene – lots of decadence, decay and rebirth," by Hip guitarist Rob Baker, and was left to work with the idea.[4] Prins also drew inspiration from I ching symbols and numbers.[4] The final artwork was created using a Canon colour photocopier.[5] The cover consists of 30 segmented photocopied images pasted together.[3] The band was granted licensing privileges to the artwork, but Prins retained the ownership of the actual artwork.[3] In the late 1990s, the Tragically Hip bought the piece from a gallery in Los Angeles.[3] It now hangs prominently in their studio near Kingston, Ontario.[3]

I didn't know either. Makes sense though; like the Quiet Riot discussion if you wanted to manipulate a photograph back then you had to take these sorts of approaches. That's an incredible album to have the OA for. Just too bad in a sense that there isn't 'more' to the art. I think that's one where if the work itself was more impressive the sky would be the ceiling on the price.

good catch Gene.

I'm a big fan of his 80s and 90s work and even I'll admit he stinks most of the time these days.

The details in both the auction description and this article https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/quiet-riots-metal-health-story-behind-cover-art are highly underwhelming, but to me it seems this may well be a hybrid; don't feel bad. A few artists at the time would use a photograph as, essentially, underpainting and then airbrush on top of it and/or add traditional brush accents to be able to play with color and other elements. Sort of like taking a photo and manipulating it in photoshop now, I guess. At which point.... maybe 45k was the right number.

double doesn't seem unreasonable.

Huh! I don't remember the Shot in the Dark video. I may have been just a couple years too young at that point. I bought the tape a couple years after release (I was around more for 'Girls, Girls, Girls' than 'Home Sweet Home.)' Somewhere in Time in the best one, I agree, but Powerslave is the one I owned!

good luck!

Nice to see a clear image of the original. I'm not sure I could pick one above all others but my mind comes back to Ultimate Sin. Cheesy but fun and I've always liked it despite the eau de fromage. I guess owning the tape and seeing the image a million times has decided for me. Lots of other cool ones like Struzan's Sabbath, and Riggs' Iron Maiden - Powerslave and what have you.

some interesting notes from your link "Stipple tracing with Rapidograph pen on a single sheet of tracing paper, 177 x 177mm, affixed to a larger sheet, 204 x 262mm (slight cockling, extremely faint spot). The original artwork for the first Led Zeppelin LP: one of the most iconic album covers of all time. George Hardie was still a graduate student at the Royal College of Art when his friend, photographer Stephen Goldblatt recommended him to Led Zeppelin in 1969. After rejecting his initial ideas, Jimmy Page suggested that Hardie adapt Sam Shere's jarring 1937 photograph of the Hindenburg disaster. Hardie set to work rendering the image in stipple on tracing paper, evoking the feel of a low-resolution newsprint photo. Led Zeppelin paid Hardie £60 for his work"

Terrific. McMacken was a talented illustrator. Passed away not too long ago unfortunately.

Yeesh, 1m for pencils. What was the price on the Vargas if you recall?

Very cool piece. Very memorable.

good info. Back in 2000 it seems.

That's a Malevich - Oleg would be all over that one.

I get that ;) but DAMN. Chuck sells the MH Action 1 for less than that at the time. I can't imagine that 75k wouldn't have bought any single piece of comic art in existence at the time, as well.

Damn that's a big number in 1978