MR SigS

I use 11x17 comic boards (this one is turned over with the blue lines on the other side) with Faber-Castell Pitt pens and brush pens, with some old fashion brush and India ink here and there (I'm trying to go all brush, but that's gonna take some more practice). GREAT PC #33! I'm trying to decide what precode horror cover I want to try.

Oh yeah And check out greggy's book!

Mind Blown Again

WOW! Your paintings continue to amaze. Personally (of the pieces I've seen) I think this is the best one you've done, in terms of tones and colors. I assume it looks like the client

Well, this is sorta new. I bought it back in 2007 during a buying frenzy, and it wound up unopened in the kids' TV room (soon to be Comic room) closet. I re-found it a half hour ago A signed (Yeagle and Yoe) and numbered edition of Clean Cartoonists Dirty Drawings. Well known cartoonists/artists art showing their naughty side. I was looking at the list of artists- such legends as Shuster, Kane, Barks, Neal Adams, Steranko and Wally Wood- And saw Kirby I turned to the page and discovered it was work from Kirby/Royer . Something else for Mike to sign. I'd like to add Wally Woods' art, but I think that would even push the "spoiler" function's limits Ming The Merciless is right!! Hooooo BOY!

Please do very soon. That would be really cool to see! Great drawing

Thanks!! It will be going into this year's Holiday Raffle

All done My degenerative arthritis makes inking the numbers and smaller letters a real pain (literally). Now I need to finish the DD recreation, but 1 day off per week isn't helping.

Finally going to read Ghost Story by Peter Straub. I'm really hoping this will be another case of "the book being far better than the film". I'm a little worried it may move slowly like some of his other work. I'm not sure how the writing responsibilities were divided between King and Straub in The Talisman, but I always thought Straub's writing was mostly in the beginning- which I felt moved too slowly- and King took over when Jack's journey began- which I felt is when the story took off.

Awesome work all over this page

Awesome, Mike! I envy your dedication

+1

I won't tell you how it ends

I HIGHLY recommend both. I don't know if or how they will tie into the series, but they're just great WD reads.

American Gods by Neil Geiman- Finally.

I use the kneaded as well. That specific generals eraser you have, is something I will use from time to time but I always go back over it w/ the kneaded. +1

Looking awesome!

At what point did it make the switch?

13 books to show, so I'll wrap them in a spoiler to save thread space All are 1970 or sooner IIRC

White out is fine if it's going to be scanned for publication, but it looks kinda tacky on a recreation- something designed for display. IMHO I'll try using an exacto, but that a lot of ink to lighly scrape. My "Master" uses an electric eraser at times, which is basically a type of dremel tool.

Thanks all. Especially you, Shadow. That means quite a lot coming from you . I do want it known that I utilize the aide of a light box. The inking stage is where I'm trying to grow. I had started a DD #91, but got a little careless and spilled a some ink on it. It might be salvageable, but I thought I could do a better job on the header so I just started another instead. Not really a spoiler, but it is a great space saver. And the new one. I can draw on my own, but not well or consistently enough (yet) to recreate this well. At least not quickly. I'm really happy with this because I've seen some pretty bad light box drawings, so I must be doing something right. Of course, I still need to ink it

Kirby/Sinnott Thanks I'm starting to read from the OA forum and see that recreations can be a touchy area of the hobby if not represented properly, far more than I suspected. Sure, I knew that there were and are many that try to pass off recreated covers and pin ups as OA, and I assume even recreated published pages- though I don't recall reading of those types of misrepresentations. But reading the posts there I see that the extent some go to dupe honest collector's can even be comical. Unless, that is, someone is duped. It looks like there are more do's and don'ts than I thought. I can't think of a better place to learn

Here's one of the two cover recreations I started (the other may be spoken for), and am pretty frickin happy with it. If all goes well, it (or another) just may go into this years raffle. I don't really have the time or resources to ink right now so I think I'm going to build a stack of these in the meantime. I'm trying to decide on a great Pre Code Horror cover that hasn't been done too many times. There's so many to go through, but seeing all the awesome covers is always fun. I'm still deciding on a Hado inspired Spider Woman recreation. Something Copper Age or sooner. The contrast has been increased so the pencils show clearer. They're quite a bit lighter than shown.

How do you attach these cool covers to the interiors we send?