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I started 9 years ago. It seems like yesterday. Time flies.

Finally cast my votes! As usual, picking only 5 in each category was a hard choice, with all these great pieces.

Covers:

Splash pages, pinups:

Interior panel pages:

Strip art:

Commissions:

Convention sketches:

Others:

With a good smartphone, the (free) app CamScanner gives very decent results for B&W pages.

Here are examples of pieces I "scanned" using the app:

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1398719

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1423772

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1398722

Glad to hear the sketchbook found its way back to its owner.

On 7/26/2017 at 7:40 AM, PhilipB2k17 said:

Were they from one of his outside-continuity books? He said he may start selling those.

A buddy sent me pics of the pages Stan had for sale at SDCC.

They were unpublished Usagi pages, as well as the published pages for the Six Guns intro by Stan (these pages featured Stan and Usagi) . But no published Usagi comics pages.

As far as I know, there are only two in private collections (one is a friend of Stan, and the other offered a crazy amount of money).

1 hour ago, Mr. Machismo said:

... And NEVER drymount. ...

I've never done it, but what's wrong with drymount?

1 minute ago, Brian Peck said:

You don't know the secret word!

 

"Please"?
I tried "Sesame" and "Mellon", but they didn't seem to work.

Since we all gather in a comic art board to chat about comic art collecting, I think it's safe to say there are only two valid answers for us:

"Crazy addicted" or "In denial about addiction".

On 01/06/2017 at 9:07 AM, JadeGiant said:

Art Collecting Addicts!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1400584193504897/

 

Link doesn't work for me.

Two new Mouse Guard pages for me.

First, a page from Winter 1152, with the full main cast in both panels! The mice are facing the snow during their journey.

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1398719

Second, a page from Legends of the Guard Vol 3.

Some of you (alxjhnsn, I'm looking at you ) may remember the Mouse Astronomer commission David created for me a few years ago (here: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1155373 ). Well, it seems David liked enough the character he created for me, because he later decided to include him as a character in the 3rd Volume of Legends of the Guard!

The least I could say is that I was extremely surprised to recognize this little fellow in the pages of the book!

Of course, I couldn't resist the temptation of getting a page with "my" mouse appearing in-story, so here it is:

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1398722

Awful story. I feel for you.

Stan Sakai doesn't sell the published pages from Usagi Yojimbo. However, you can buy either published covers (around 2.5k$, can be more if the cover is from the beginning of the series or particularly beautiful), or rejected interior pages (prices vary, one very early rejected splah page sold for more than 3k$ on Heritage, for example). There are also prelim covers (not published) which are cheaper than the final version.

Stan sometimes accepts to do commissions to be picked at a convention, if his schedule allows it.

I got this in 2015 for 300euros, which I picked up during his visit at the Lucca convention. I contacted him one month in advance.

http://www.2dgalleries.com/art/usagi-yojimbo-commission-boys-day-57031

As for Jason Latour, I've heard he doesn't do sketches often in conventions, and he just confirmed on twitter that he would not sketch at C2E2, for example. But it does happen sometimes if one's lucky.

Below is a sketch he did for me during a french convention. The french publisher organized a lottery to win a free sketch by Jason Latour. I got lucky:

http://www.2dgalleries.com/art/southern-bastards-par-jason-latour-63358

Thanks for sharing the pics!

Link?

My commission of the main cast of the strip Rick O’Shay by the late Stan Lynde was just published as the cover to the Dec 2016 issue of the Comics Review! It’s very appropriate because I asked Stan for a scene on Christmas Day in the O’Shay household. If you are familiar with the strip, Stan would often have “homey” scenes for Christmas and Easter. I really enjoyed them and asked for one when I found him selling items on ebay.

 

Rick Norwood, the editor of Comics Review, contacted me through Facebook about using it and I said sure if Mrs. Lynde agreed. She did and Rick used it.

 

It’s fun to see it in print. The cover is in the Additional Images.

 

 

P.S. It is a remarkable piece. Look at the shadows and the glow of the candles on the tree which is unpainted paper.

It's a nice story, and a nice commission. It deserved to be published.

Welcome to the hobby! Always a pleasure to meet a new collector with the same passion.

In Europe we don't have this kind of discussion, because all auctioned items (I mean *real* auctions - not eBay - such as the ones from Christie's, Sotheby's, Artcurial, Millon...) have an estimation, and all auctioned items have a reserve price which is often set at the low estimation price. Which means in fact that estimations are not real expert estimations but are driven by the reserve price negociated with the seller.

 

 

Interesting. What percentage of those auction items sell, by meeting their reserve? Most?

Also, does bidding start at the reserve price?

I would say most, but not all. Auction houses tend to refuse items if the seller asks for a reserve too high. If they have many items not sold at auction, it doesn't look good (just like Pedigree right now).

Also, they prefer to have low or no reserves so they can put a low estimation on an item and claim after the sale: "Look, we managed to sell this item for 3 times the pre-sale estimation. It's because we are very good at getting a high selling price. Future consignors should give us their items if they want to get the best price."

Usually, the bidding starts a bit below the reserve, but not at 1euro/dollar like most american auctions do.

Excellent Cooke!

Agreed!

Been looking for a nice Samurai themed page for a while. Came across this on eBay today and snagged it. Anyone know if this book is any good? It's called "Shadow Hawks of Legends" and it came out in 1995 as a one-shot. Apparently Alan Moore and Stan Sakai and others were involved.

I've never read the book, but if Alan Moore and Stan Sakai were involved, I'd say it already looks good!

It's a very nice looking page, by the way.

Doc Joes Twice Up Art Day

 

Crime Does Not Pay 131 Cover

 

from the Comiclink Description

 

Original art from CDNP is quite rare on the market. Rumor has it (confirmed by relatives of editor Charles Biro) that when publisher Lev Gleason left the comic book industry in the middle 1950s, he deliberately destroyed and disposed of his archived art. This means that the small number of pieces from this landmark series that have surfaced over the years have primarily emerged from the collections of the artists who produced them, most notably George Tuska.

Fixed Link

 

Green guys with scaly skin and goblin masks are more normal somehow? At least morbius doesn't carry a purse with "poof bombs"

 

I mean... dang... Gobby was basically marvel's answer to Magica DeSpell

I had a very hard time not laughing out loud in the office.

Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai!

my first original comic book art purchases Nothing special, but I am happy with them. A page of Avengers and a Batman and Robin page.

 

Avengers Assemble Featuring Captain Citrus 2 pg 1:

 

Worlds' Finest (2012 3rd series) Annual 1 pg 11:

Cool stuff! (thumbs u

Great piece!

And fun to see this when I am trying to get a Usagi piece as well!