Smokinghawk

I'm a full-time artist, working in oils:

Dammit, you're right, I am SO sorry. I mis-read the post, and got it all wrong. My bad. Edited.

I can see that he may have grounds to say his book was damaged (I don't know for sure; the first video in the OP link is set to "private", so I can only take his word that the Crow back cover was damaged in the process). But there's a lot more context to a business deciding to decline further business to a customer, and in this case being verbally abused over a business issue is way out of bounds. If someone came at me at my job and used vulgarities and screaming and online harassment to make their point, even if they had grounds for the issue itself I'd cease all interactions with them at once too. Abuse isn't the same thing as grievance. I gotta go with CGC on this one, EVEN IF the book was legitimately damaged. Frankly, I'm not even sure the guy has grounds to claim harm; he has a book legitimately designated 9.6 by GCG. If I were in his shoes and felt I had a legitimate complaint, I'd try to handle it rationally so that me and GCG would both be satisfied with the outcome. There's always PGX if he prefers...

Jeez, I skipped to 1hr01 and he's still cursing about being banned, and laughing in a Joker voice about it. Now I'm at 1hr05 and he's ranting about how Blue Screens of Death ought to be fixed by new coding. I'm not invested enough to listen to how he makes that into an analogy about how CGC screwed him by giving him a fantastic grade on a comic. Honestly, this guy seems like CGC dodged a bullet here. He's the Michael Savage of comic book submitters.

Man, I'm trying to listen to his point, but I've skipped through several times to random points in this 80 minute video, and at 41 minutes right now he's still going on, yelling the same exact points he'd already yelled and cursed about a dozen times already. Am I missing something, or is his complaint basically, "I allege that my comic was damaged at some point between my mailing it, it being graded, and it being mailed back, and nevertheless CGC gave me a 9.6 on it, but I'm still pissed off"? Because jesus man, 9.6 is hardly a grade I'd make a video series fuming and cursing about like I got screwed by CGC.

Deleted--I mis-read the thread and made a mistake! OOPS!

I finally got a copy to replace one I sold to buy my wife a dishwasher years ago. Took a huge beating on that sale; I think I got about $400 total for a run of 180, 181, 182--but we were poor newlyweds. Here's my new one!

Those are some pretty books, no doubt.

One more new one:

Here are some of my new ones!

Not all are from this week, but in the last couple of months here are some new acquisitions:

My mom had a favorite Christmas gift when she was a kid. A few years ago, I found one again, and gave it to her for Christmas all over again. Today it's on her kitchen wall in a glass display case:

Hey guys, do you really have to re-quote the whole gazillion pictures just to add at the end of it??

Dang, i wish my LCS was that good!

I think I found another Bill S. commission:

Considering it started in early-2009, I assume it'll be here for a little while longer. Translation: Bill S doesn't give a rat's behind what anyone thinks, as evidenced by the reprehensible sketch and his treatment of paying customers and fans. I mean, it's a matter of time before he removes my facebook thread on his page. I posted that on his facebook just a few days ago.

It's just a matter of time before Bill sees the thread and removes it. Enjoy it while it lasts. Although, if all of the comments bear the guise of favorable replies ("Hell of a sketch, there, Bill!"), wouldn't removing it be a tacit admission that he knows it's not a piece he wants associated with him?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bill-Sienkiewicz/30809756246

This is a shame. I've loved Bill's artwork since I was a kid. I even appreciated him as a person, knowing that he had overcome such a difficult younger life, himself. This is just crass, though. I suppose they can't all be the gregarious, kind artists that David Mack is. Like him or not, he's pure class. He's working on a project with Bill right now, and I look forward to seeing it, but I think it's clear that this was intended to be a sketch. I LOVE the idea of giving it a 3-year residency on Ebay. Here are some other fun ideas: *Make it a deliberate comic art meme. Commission other artists (especially any who are sympathetic to your situation) to do their own take-offs of the original schlong-troll, each in their own style. Make a Comicartfans gallery called "Sienkiewicz-inspired" and start filling it with comical commissions that ape your sketch. *Circulate the original to other artists at future conventions, and have each of them add 10-30 seconds worth of their own creativity directly to the image. Actually draw right on top of Bill's mess, adding whatever they want. Let the image organically fester into a mess of hilarious overlapping oddities--a collage of satire. *Make a small avatar of the image and let this whole board use it as a shorthand graphic to replace the word *spoon* to represent terms of disparagement. As in, "don't be a...[image here]" or "That's a piece of [image here]." Give the image its proper role. *Make a youtube video titled "Bill Sienkiewicz original art." The whole scene is just this image, with the Fred Schneider song, "Monster" as the soundtrack: There's a monster in my pants And it does a nasty dance When it moves in and out Everybody starts to shout Monster, aaaah monster, ahhhh Get outta here monster! Monster! Monster! Get outta here monster!

I'm sorry, but I think it's . I'm not sure what terms you agreed to initially, but I'm a huge Bill S. fan and LOVE his work, but this is sub-par. I think you got a "quit bothering me" pic.

Guys, you don't have to re-quote all three YARDS of photos to add one comment at the bottom.

Sigh...I remember when I used to be nostalgic...

Aversion to feet?

Man, seeing all these old names makes me realize I've been around here longer than I realized! I miss rickdogg's ebay vigilantism. Carl Darthdeisel was a good guy who sold me some great books.

Thanks! Top two are woodburnings, about 2' by 1'. The bottom image was painted in pigments I created by filing shavings of various stones, and using the dust to mix paints.