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I believe Terry Austin has kept most of his art.

As someone who lives in Seattle and spends plenty of time walking around downtown (sometimes even at night!), I would highly recommend not getting your news about Seattle from Jonathan Choe.

4 minutes ago, stinkininkin said:

When I clicked on it, the price isn't what I reacted to, it was all the stuff I would ink differently now!    

If only you had inked it that way at the time, it might be worth some real money these days. 🙂

3 minutes ago, Unstoppablejayd said:

Umm... What the heck on the Jim Lee X-men page??? 33k for storm only????  And Actually X-men in general ?? I need to start collecting Superman ..

I know. I was really shocked by the result. I thought I must have missed a claws-out Wolverine hanging out in the background or something. It is a really nice page, but the prices are just going through the roof.

Wow! Glad I finally pulled the trigger on a Lee/Williams X-Men page a couple years ago. Looks like I’m pretty much priced out of the market at this point.

Sadly, you can add Darwyn Cooke to 2016.

Auction closes in a couple hours. Don't miss out!  

Just listed this one on eBay. If you're interested please take a look and bid.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184559178916

52 minutes ago, Real Elijah Snow said:

Over the moon to have won this. I never thought I would have an X-Men pg from Lee's first issue, but here it is. I bid on the other 2, but came in 2nd. Reeeeaaaaly wanted that 277 page, but I'm happy with the 248 pg at the price.  

Oops, I left my original post below, but I was actually talking about the 276 page. That's the issue I picked up a page from.

Original post:

Great pick-up! I was surprised that the 277 page went quite as high as it did. Although, on the plus side it, made me feel a bit better about how much I paid for a 277 page a little while back. 

Mike

His art rep (Tom at Fanfare) retired at right around the same time. Not sure if Stuart has hooked up with a new rep since then.

Mike

4 minutes ago, stinkininkin said:

It's the same artist hands that make the piece beginning to end. It's the pure vision of the artist and the final layer of the drawing in ink is non digitally hand done, and I'm sure a lot of the finalized drawing is done at this stage too, again by hand.

Yeah, this is how I feel. I have a few pieces like this, and the digital pencils don't really bother me at all. In every case though, it's the same artist doing inks over their own digital pencils. I think I'd feel differently if it were someone inking over another artist's digital pencils. Not really sure why though.

Mike

56 minutes ago, Blastaar said:

So I have my sights on several of these pages. Is there any reason to believe that his pencils are not present under inks during his Kamandi run? Don't think I have heard otherwise but I know with Kirby sometimes it can be tricky. Are there any runs that I should be skeptical about?

 

 

I’m not much of an expert unfortunately, but I bought the page at a show, so I was able to take a close look at it, and there were several places where I could still see pencil marks, so I was pretty confident that it was ink over the original pencils.  Like you said, I haven’t really heard anything specifically about his Kamandi run, but you can never be too careful.

Mike

13 hours ago, Blastaar said:

Working toward a Kamandi page that is within reach. 

That's exactly where in ended up in my quest for a Kirby page.  It's not a silver age Marvel page, but he was still doing good work on a character he created, and it wasn't going to break the bank.  Maybe I'll add another page someday, but for now I'm happy I get to enjoy this one.

This one is a little different than most of the covers in my collection, but I really enjoy it.  It’s Juan Jose Ryp’s Cover for Valiant’s Wrath of the Eternal Warrior #7.

As a big fan of the Parker novels, I loved Darwyn’s adaptations.  I picked up this page from The Score not long after I started collecting art.  There were a handful of pages available on Albert’s site at the time, but if you’re familiar with the story, this page contains an important reveal, so it was a pretty easy choice for me.

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3 hours ago, emme_jay said:

He made a lot of comic purchases through a shop called Zanadu Comics in Seattle. I just checked and they closed in 2018. I'm pretty sure I'd remember a receipt for this drawing. 

Zanadu did close last year (R.I.P.), but I believe the owner, Perry, is still active online.  It’s a real long shot that this drawing came through the store, but I guess you could try contacting him at zanadu@zanaducomics.com.

Mike

26 minutes ago, Pete Marino said:

Is that for gauntlet?

Looks more like Golden Axe.

Mike

11 hours ago, delekkerste said:

Eat your heart out, Sean Murphy!! 

Does that make Enrico Marini the next Frank Miller?

Mike

2 hours ago, AnkurJ said:

Modern comics have much bigger print runs and sell through than older books, but that doesn’t make them more significant imo.

Isn't the opposite true?  These days only a handful of titles a month hit six figures.  Silver and Gold age books had way higher print runs.

Mike

On 11/3/2018 at 8:19 AM, PhilipB2k17 said:

I think Preacher art is on a downward trend as well. 

I could have told you that the minute I bought one.

Mike

On 10/23/2018 at 7:10 AM, Nexus said:

Support the show by leaving a rating and review on iTunes. We'll have a bonus episode out very soon just for iTunes reviewers with the inimitable Gene Park. We're glad to be back, thanks for listening!

I finally got around to leaving a review.  A bit late, I know.  What steps do I need to take to make sure I get the bonus episodes when they come out?

Mike