MIL0S

An incredible talent and a super nice guy. I met him a few times and he signed a couple of books for me and always added a little something extra:

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerydetailsearch.asp?artist=Darwyn++Cooke+&GCat=17793

At East Coast Comic Con this past May he was charging $60 for an inked single character (no background) sketch and had a lengthy list early on the first day of a three day show. 

I just picked up a page by John Buscema from the western Punisher one shot story, "A Man Named Frank" that had the bottom right panel cut out and replaced. I also happen to have already had a photocopy of Buscema's rough layout pencils for the page. 

For me the sweet spot is late 80's early 90's Marvel so 

Jim Lee - X-Men

John Romita Jr - Daredevil & Punisher

Mark Texiera - Ghost Rider & Wolverine

and through back issues:

John Buscema - Conan

When did eBay start collecting tax? Is it for all states or certain ones? I just got hit up for unexpected tax for a purchase made from someone in PA.

He also had 9” x 12” tight shaded pencil “prelim” illustrations for 2K. ( he called them prelims because they were used for later larger finished illustrations but they were not your typical prelims).

4 minutes ago, GotSuperPowers? said:

Cool, thank you for ending that dream!  His art is so very lush and appealing to me.

27 minutes ago, Brian Peck said:

 I prefer the traditional inks over pencils by each artist. I rarely get new art that is just pencils or inks over bluelines. Thats due alot to not word balloons. 

same here, I miss the word balloons, or better yet hand lettering.  When did all digital lettering become common?  I have pages from '92 that have paste up word balloons and some from '94 that don't so it must have happened some time in the early '90's.  And the whole separate pencils and inks over blue line prints, when did that become common?

Ugh, this scumbag is really cranking them out:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?sid=lavelle834&isRefine=true&_pgn=1

4 hours ago, Brian Peck said:

I got the prelim in 2005, and just missed getting the published cover. Fast forward to last year and I got a 2nd chnace and was able to add it to me collection.

Brian, awesome piece! I know the satisfaction of reuniting a prelim and finished piece, I have a couple of John Buscema pieces like that.

Similar to the Mignola and Tim Sale threads, how about one for Mark Schultz? I saw Mark today at the ECCC and picked up a cool dino piece and he was nice enough to do couple small sketches in my books. He told me the prelim was for an unused wine bottle label for CapRock winery located in the Texas panhandle circa 2011. By any chance does anyone have pictures of the final labels he illustrated?

Can you provide a list of the titles/issue numbers the lot of guides includes?

1 hour ago, Bird said:

I didn't think that it looks bad 

Yeah, it doesn’t look godawful terrible like many eBay fakes but I agree with topfuel and think it’s fake. It looks ‘flat’ to me and off, but are there any examples out there of Mignolas finished pencils pre-ink? I’m not counting the loose sketches he sells.   

Thoughts?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hellboy-Original-Sketch-Mike-Mignola-12-10-in/173899282315?hash=item287d34778b:g:I~8AAOSwDNRc1b4b

27 minutes ago, Lucky Baru said:

Mike Zeck and Eddy Barrows have produced some great prelim covers.

Zecks prelims are awesome, so tight, I have several:

https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=34480

Awesome JSC piece! I’m a big fan of prelims, great way to get cool art at affordable prices. My latest prelim is a Tim Sale sketchbook cover.

10 hours ago, exitmusicblue said:

Resurrecting this cool thread -- let's share our prelims.

 

On 5/8/2019 at 3:54 PM, Taylor G said:

Available for $150 from IDW.

It says not available. This sold out quickly after it was released last year.

FYI, If anyone’s looking for a copy of the remarqued Zeck Artist Edition there’s one with a Cap profile currently on eBay.

Does anyone know how to contact Mark Schultz? Does he sell his art personally or have a rep? Any info is appreciated. 

I think that page was $1200

46 minutes ago, ZimmermanTelegram said:

Done! 

Bird, did you (or anyone else for that matter) happen to see the page someone early in line bought? Not sure where you were, but I was probably 12 or 13 people in. I saw it from afar and it looked like possibly a Hellboy in Hell page that was mostly a village shot. I'm curious which one it was exactly and how much it went for. A shame I wasn't earlier cause it looked like something right up my alley that I was looking for...

I see the original posters point about how at current price points you have to consider the “investment value” of your art purchase, but the problem is that our hobby is so nostalgia driven whereas a typical investment is not. You typically won’t have an emotional attachment to a stock that’s appreciated but barring a personal financial crisis I wouldn’t sell covers I bought years ago for a couple of hundred bucks even though now they’d fetch thousands. And that is why it’s hard to pinpoint value, it just takes two people with an emotional attachment to a piece to result in a ‘crazy’ auction price, but then good luck if you try to sell and recoup your money...

8 hours ago, Fred Chamberlain said:

One of the pieces went on a journey to the far southeastern corner of the United Styates, before ending up back in the Great Lakes area that it was destined for. 

I had a package that I sent from north New Jersey to Brooklyn (20 miles away) go via Detroit... but it ultimately arrived. Another time I bought something from California and the package inexplicable spent ten days in Atlanta before arriving in Jersey.

Yes he was, a minimum of $100 for ‘quickies’. I just posted one to CAF.

28 minutes ago, Bird said:

I saw Bill drawing in one of these AEs yesterday, he did not seem to charge for it but that could have happened before I got to the table. Didn't seem like it though.