Lobstrosity

(This is an exhibition, not a sale. No pieces are for sale) In 6 weeks I'll be exhibiting a large collection of production artwork from film, television, and pop culture. Included will be a section on comic book art, with pieces from Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Alan Davis, Bill Sienkiewicz, and more. For animation, there will be 90 animation cel master setups (each complete with their hand-painted background), each from a different show! So 90 different shows represented from the Flintstones all the way to Ed, Edd n Eddy. This will include many comic- related shows, such as Batman the Animated Series, Super Friends, The Superman / Aquaman Hour of Adventure, The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam, Iron Man, The X-Men, The Tick, and more. Additionally, there will be original production artwork from Star Wars, Star Trek, The Goonies, Ghostbusters, Labyrinth, TRON, and many others, from artists such as Bernie Wrightson, Syd Mead, Mike Ploog, and others. A rare exhibition, especially in the midwest. Admission is free. At the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska from June 3- October 7. Here are some promotional images:

The newsstand copies have the 'clean' icon (without the blotches)

Thanks! I'll post a pic eventually...only missing 5

After another couple years of research, I've just published an update to my article & checklist "The Definitive Guide to Spawn Newsstand Editions" As with everything on my site, the checklist is available for free (!) at SpawnWorld.com (in the Features section). But to save you a couple clicks if you just want to have a gander, I've pasted images of every page below. Enjoy, and happy newsstand hunting!

This explains why you never got back to me I guess

This Spawn book isn't a test print. This is the Employee Edition variant cover. They were produced solely to be given to friends & employees, never for sale. http://spawnworld.com/books/ongoing/ongoing285v07.htm

haha, I kept it as a souvenir

I attended a live Heritage auction once in Beverly Hills. It was a fun experience - I always enjoy auctions. Interestingly, they had a raffle on the day, for a bottle of Fleetwood Wine, signed by Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood mac). So, I filled out my info and dropped it in. Later that afternoon, they announced the results....I was literally the only one who had entered. Cheers!

And relevant to being an OA board...picked this one up a few years back!

Yes, that was my thought as well. As far as I've been able to figure, there were two concurrent distribution methods for a large portion of the newsstand run...then one of them stopped. I'm working on getting confirmed that that was the case, as that would coincide with the various printed numbers.

I know it's a thing! I'm actually still researching it...It didn't come to my attention until after I published the guide. In the meantime, I can tell you that most (not all) issues have more than one barcode (typically two), identified most easily by their manufacturer code (the first grouping of 5 digits) with the most common numbers being 70989, 73361, 70992, 74470, and 14302. I'll be updating my guide once I finish my research! Thanks for the heads up!

Agreed, I wish they would leave the obi on all the time. If I were to submit international books (which I don't) I'd make sure to list everything as precise as possible for them - they have a track record of fudging the info on this type of book.

This book is very wrong....the publisher is wrong (should be Culturecom not Dengeki), the country is wrong (should be Hong Kong/China, not Japan), and the date is wrong (should be 1996 not 1994). Also they usually remove the obi (the paper strip at the bottom) before slabbing, not sure why they didn't here.

I purchased this page from Excalibur back in 2012 It was listed as being the work of Steve Epting (penciller) and Philip Moy (Inker), but honestly it never looked right to me. The issue was credited to them however. When I received it, my suspicions were confirmed, as I found a signature of Joe Madureira had been written in pencil on the front....but then erased (you could still make it out though). I started contacting the various artists, but had difficulty getting in touch with Joe Mad. As luck would have it though, in 2015 I saw that he was to make an appearance at SDCC, so I took the page with me and tracked him down to talk about it. Sure enough, he said the work was his...in fact he said he was either still in high school when he did it, or just out. He filled in on just this one page for the issue! He signed the margin for me and gave me a few suggestions on who the inker was. With a little more sleuthing, Bill Anderson confirmed that they are his inks.

For my money, the "king" of strips is actually a triumvirate: Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, and Farside. The peak(s) of the artform. Peanuts is, of course, amazing and a landmark, but for all it's charm, it never made me laugh (or felt as personal) as those three. Garfield gets a lot of hate, because I think underneath it all, it was an homogenized, mass-produced product - but nonetheless, it did its thing well, and occasionally hit the mark. It's inarguably an important strip, and I think you could do a lot worse.

33k for Liefeld New Mutants page is a record for a Cable (as opposed to Deadpool) page as far as I know

Listings and info for Australian Spawn comics (not prices) can be found here: http://spawnworld.com/books/international/australia/trielle_ongoing007.htm

I was approached for the same book, but the message I got really rubbed me the wrong way so I decided not to participate. Hope it works out for you though and you get your copy/credit

Mignola for me. But I've found that I just don't care for his guest work on X-titles (which was my introduction to him). Once I saw him work on things (that I feel) are more suited to his style, I loved his work.

Received an email tonight that Profiles had 'partnered' with Heritage - or more specifically, that head honcho Joe Maddalena had joined Heritage as an Executive Vice President. Profiles has always had some fine auctions, particularly for film props & artwork, as well as animation. I hope this doesn't get lost in the transition - I don't see this as a particularly good thing for the marketplace. What does everyone else think?

I have far more art than I have wall space...but I'm an optimist, so maybe someday For now, the majority of my collection is stored in itoya portfolios, and I put each piece in a mylar before the portfolio page.

Yes, I'd say 'A' Spawn pages of Capullo/McFarlane are in that range, although they don't come up for sale often. Covers come up more frequently, which are of course, higher.

Just reiterating from the previous thread: McFarlane/Spawn pages probably shouldn't be included in the $3-5k category, unless it's referring to his inks? (this may be the case, but I was under the impression this was mostly a pencillers list). McFarlane doesn't have any penciled Spawn pages in the marketplace, but there are a lot of Capullo penciled pages with McFarlane inks.

McFarlane/Spawn pages probably shouldn't be included in the $3-5k category, unless it's referring to his inks? (this may be the case, but I was under the impression this was mostly a pencillers list). McFarlane doesn't have any penciled Spawn pages in the marketplace, but there are a lot of Capullo penciled pages with McFarlane inks.

Thanks, i'd hoped it would be helpful. I did complete my set, however recently I got the hair-brained idea to try for a 9.2+ set of them, so I'm back on the hunt for any that might not be top grade. It's a very tough set to complete.