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I'm not joking, it looks like an inked piece to me, and the Comiclink description doesn't specify. Why do we think it is a pencil piece? Has someone seen it in real life?

Really, this piece is only pencil?

Any Caniff guys still on here? Early Terry daily, possible Sickles involvement, but no action and no gals goes for 4560? What am I missing? https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/comic-strip-art/milton-caniff-terry-and-the-pirates-daily-comic-strip-original-art-dated-12-31-35-chicago-tribune-/a/7229-95047.s

This is certifiably bonkers, right?

Kirby grew up in the scene that Riis photographed. My guess is he drew that splash without needing any reference at all.

Bought for 300. on Heritage ten years ago and still probably worth 300 I grew up on the Oregon coast and this evocation of a winter storm just takes me back.

I'd like to know more about the development of the Kublak character. It seems very composite-y, like the arms of the Thing with the legs of Triton, and a sort of Asgardian shoulder fur situation. I wonder if this was a case of Kirby's assistants or the young Image artists who were around helping Jack along or something. I'd have thought the Kublak was earlier than the Rahmin, but as you say, the Rahmin makes sense in a way the Kublak doesn't, which suggests it came first.

Huh. Up to now I had no doubts about the Kublak sketch being authentic, but that apparent copy of the leg fade seems troubling. Jack almost never repeated a pose, certainly not as exactly as this.

Taking as a parameter that it has to be something from my own collection, I've been feeling this rejected book cover by Arthur Hawkins for the last little while:

I see what you mean. I have no knowledge of the artist, but, for example, the upper teeth seem like a tracing of the whole squiggly row of teeth, i.e. working across the top then back along the bottom, rather than, as I think almost any artist would do it, drawing one tooth at a time.

Hmm. With all that Kim Deitch forever off the market, should we be scooping up the scarce examples in the wild?

I'm leaning toward young Barda and Granny.

Another version of the concept was done all the time in the Sci-Fi digests of the '50s and '60s. I have this one by William Terry, illustrating a story called "Time Armada." I forget the author, but it somewhat anticipates the themes of Enders' Game.

All three of those are badass!

Now, THATS a DPS. & Glen's one is decent as well. Kirby wasn't the first to do one, but he perfected the form.

Couldn't you just get the OA editions and have your pick of the best?

So you're saying I'm too p*u*s*s*y to dis Jim Mooney to his woulda-been 100-year-old face? But then how to explain me going after Sal Buscema, who's a spry 83? You're saying Sal's too chicken to come out here and beat my a*s*s? Man, Grape, I thought I was harsh with Sal, but I draw the line at challenging his manhood.

OMFG, without Peanuts specifically, there IS no Calvin & Hobbes.

For me it's when they're still alive that I pull my punches!

Oh man, I've always hated that spread! Kirby's kids could be awkward. Major stare-eyes in this one all right, but not inappropriate for the gung-ho patriotic spirit of the shot.

Disagree, somewhat. Every Kirby pencil I've seen from any period has remarkably well "acted" facial expressions. If there are expression fails in Kirby, and there are occasionally, I'd put it down to the inker.

Limiting to the mainstream US comic book, no strip artists, no alt/underground, no foreign, it might be something like: Kirby, Adams, Wood, Davis, Barks (but I might switch out anyone but Kirby for Eisner, Miller, Ditko or Toth) Global top five for me might be: Kirby, Tezuka, Foster, Crumb, Giraud/Moebius

Wait, does anyone use average selling price as the standard? I'm curious. I had the impression most people were applying some combo of talent/influence/important runs. Where I see you differing from most is your emphasis on volume and longevity.

John B. had real gifts and flashed them for a couple years, 1968-70ish, so I think that keeps him out of the top 5. I thought of Swan, but went with Plastino because I think Swan kind of invented what I think of as Chamber-of-Commerce Superman, so again, a level of original contribution. Rich Buckler's an interesting nominee. I'm not aware of how large his body of work is. It's important that the artist be ploddingly reliable & consistently uninteresting over decades. How about Jim Mooney? His career ran from the birth of superheroes into the 90s and includes countless forgettable pages of Batman, Supergirl, Spiderman, and many others.