Sideshow Bob

Well, the underbidder is welcome to bid on the other 9.8 on ebay. It was relisted.

The Pedigree Auction one is sitting at $4200 right now...

Bryan, Tweet from Gabe the day these covers went up for sale on his Chilean art dealer is the source of that comment. It was easy for me to isolate the tweet since I remembered the wording, so here's the link to the specific one. He tweets a ton so its a lot to wade through: GR_Comics on twitter March 10th Still has a couple covers available for sale. Bob

Picked up a couple more covers...and I expect that is going to be it on any more Locke & Key covers (and interior art for that matter) being available anytime soon. Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom #5 Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom #6

Pedigree Comics - Bats 227 auction

Here's something you don't see everyday...two of the 9.8 #227 are up for auction. The ebay one is a unbid reserve starting price of $4500 and a BIN of $7000. The Pedigree one is sitting at $3000 with five days to go. Considering there are only 8 of these in the population, that is pretty wild to see. Bob

Great choice on the Tiger Lily...that is a tremendous splash! Once Tyler started adding inkwash to his Peter Panzerfaust pages instead of just inking and letting the colorist work out the shading, the OA took on so much more depth. This is a great example of his evolution as an artist.

Threw a couple of YTLM pages up for auction ending on Thursday, but with a special free OA extra for boardies. Here's the link to the OA Marketplace thread with the details on the extras. Bob

So there's this book called Manifest Destiny... it's really well written and incredibly drawn. I'll go so far as to say its a happy marriage of the two creative minds! No therapy needed. Here's an OA page from issue #4. Matt Roberts has a couple great perspective shots of the fort with some great mood treatment with the morning fog. Oh, and there's a very small horse...

Same here. Got the monster package from IDW, also with Petersen!

Had a wild week of OA deliveries, from Sheltered, Rat Queens, The Wake, Wild Blue Yonder, Manifest Destiny [posted in other threads], as well as these two gems: a Locke & Key cover, and the pencils for a terrific R'as splash page from Red Hood & the Outlaws by Julius Gopez. Getting another Locke & Key cover is really special, as they are so few and far between. The pencils on Red Hood by Julius Gopez are stunning in person; comiconart.com just got the shipment of OA for his run and has them for sale if you want to check them out. There are some really great pages there.

Just got this awesome OA page (and the one with the Four Dave's telling Gary to shut the f up!). Thanks Court!

Every morning, I get a kick out of seeing this unintended mosaic of Lying Cat (albeit Flying Lying Cat) which is one of many mosaics on the walls of the downtown 86th & Lex subway station in NYC, and thought I would share:

or it was exactly what you thought and you were right, but now the market has been moved and his mission accomplished... ) I love that post-game interview. Can watch it over and over. During the broadcast, Charles Barkley showed up at half-time with the Bears down by 20 and Barkley predicts the Bears would win over the Cardinals. Something like, "doesn't matter if you are up by 10 or 20 or 35, you cannot beat this team!" Go Bears!

Just nice to see the little things done right. MD has given us some serious flora (even the vomiting kind) and assorted fauna: buffalotaurs (living and now dead), storks (living and very quickly dead), and horses (knock on wood, only living so far). Matt Roberts is delivering some serious variety.

Sorry if it seems like I'm laying it on a bit thick with the OA, but there needs to be a reason that people want to believe in the future success of this book (speculators or actual readers pushing it onto more readers) ...well, if the art doesn't convince you, I don't know what will. [My apologies for the night-time exposures. Will fix this weekend] How good is this horse? Seriously.

One of the better horses I've seen in a long time... As promised: and

Oh thank God that is over. I'll post some Manifest Destiny OA on this thread tonight when I get home (yup, Sacagewea and some enormous buffalotaur eyes!), and try to get this thread back on track.

I don't have any hard evidence but I would bet that Matthew Roberts is killing himself getting the art done for the inside of the book. That doesn't leave any time to come up with fancy new covers every time Image wants to reprint. I would rather the books hit shelves in a timely manner than reprint mania. I've been back and forth with Matt on the OA. He stopped doing full pencils followed by separate inks during issue #3. It was a while back, but I think at first they had expected an inker to work off Matt's full pencils, so he did the pencils in full detail to hand off to someone else. That someone else turned out to be himself. Now he is inking directly over pencils or doing blue line layouts with ink on top. So maybe less time needed than before... but that might explain the lack of a different 2nd print cover.

I know its a day early (due to work restrictions, and a Blackhawks game, I won't be able to post on 2/27), but I agree with the wrap sentiment...try this one for comparison. And if you're going to have a party, you should have your friends there too...

The Doyle auction for the 227 interior pages ended at at a hammer price of $10k in 2011. With auctioneer premium and NYC taxes, final invoice price would have been just under $13k. So if you were someone looking to get a 40% investment return over two years (after ebay fees). I suppose $20k is the price you would need to get there.

Still bummed over two years later, as I the final underbidder on all of the #227 interior OA (the full story was sold intact at Doyle in November 2011). I know we all talk about the throwback Adams cover, with the cruel joke being the interior by Novick/Giordano as not very significant or special by any means. I even went to the preview to look at it, and the woman seemed annoyed I was taking up premium counter space flipping through the pages...in the catalogue, they even called it a "curiousity", since they never do comic OA. Always exciting as we approach 2/27 and the tribute parade of #227s come out on this thread, but that miss still stings.

If anyone knows where I could find any one of these four Jerry Bingham covers done during the Millenium crossover in 1988, please let me know. Jerry says he sold them long ago...definitely a finders' fee if I can get any one of them! The Spectre #10 Detective #582 Suicide Squad #9 Captain Atom #11 Thanks! Bob

Malvin, You remember our conversation a year ago about GA:LBH...well, it all worked out, so thanks again for your feedback/guidance. Bob