Sharkey

Here's a few more pieces. Recreation of ASM Annual 1 Splash by Thomas Cook: Large art sized color guides Modern Color Guide Another angle on the color guide (and a Geoff Darrow too)

That is awesome. What size was the whole piece? 11x17? Yes, he recreated it large art size. It's stunning.

Just got this back from the framer a week ago. Although it's cropped out of the picture, I just have it in a simple black frame -- so your eyes focus on the really nice twice-up size recreation by Thomas Cook -- it really looks great on the wall!

There's a number of new folks on the boards so I'm quoting this. Still lookin for page 19 from FF 40 as posted below. Any info on its whereabouts is welcome (even if it is not for sale at this time). Thanks! -Steve

Bought a nice Zombie slab from me. Great guy, fast payment, good communication! (thumbs u

One last time. Surely somebody would want this for a Stan Lee Sig Series opportunity? Otherwise, I'll do it!

Thanks Felix!

It's no secret that I'm trying to put together the 6-page epic battle sequence between the thing and Dr. Doom from Fantastic Four #40. I have 5 of the 6 pages ( You can see the ones I have here ). Here's the one that still eludes me (scanned from Essential FF TPB). If you have any idea who might own the OA to this page, please let me know. Thanks!

I bought another batch of goods from Beltan. Again, absolutely bomb-proof packaging, and shipped quickly. Class act!!! (thumbs u

Price Reduced! (thumbs u

I had this for sale in a mixed ages thread but I'll post it here and see if it'll go. This is truly something you just don't see every day. rules. PM me with questions or to purchase anonymously. Paypal preferred; checks must clear first. Price includes shipping! Secrets Behind the Comics (1947) by Stan Lee. nn CGC 7.5 off-white to white pages Highest CGC Graded Blue Label (there is an 8.0 graded yellow label) PRICE: $550 PRICE DROP: $500 Shipped STILL FURTHER PRICE DROP: $475 shipped psst, seriously, that is a good price PERFECT FOR STAN LEE SIG SERIES!! Description: Secrets Behind the Comics by Stan Lee (1947) was published by Famous Enterprises Inc. Written by Stan Lee with illustrations by Ken Bald. This book was published after Stan Lee wrote an article for Writer's Digest on the same subject matter. Though not the first book of its kind, Secrets Behind the Comics was a wonderful source of material to help inspiring young writers and artists to break into the comic book industry and has been reprinted and updated several times. Features a profile on Syd Shores and his creation the Blonde Phantom. It also includes profiles on Mike Sekowsky, Basil Wolverton, Al Jaffee and Martin Goodman. One of the gems of this book is a detailed description of how Captain America was created. 100 pages, B&W, card-stock paper, 5.5-in. x 8.5-in. There is a string on the CGC case in the pic -- that's not a crack. This is a unique bit of comics history that you don't see that often. There are very little sales data on GPA or elsewhere, but crappy copies have sold at auction and online for $200-$400. I've got this priced to sell. Great candidate for Stan Lee sig series!!

Paul bought a bunch of stuff from me and paid super fast. Always a pleasure to do biz with! (thumbs u

Picked up a WD watch from me -- paid immediately. Much appreciated, sir! (thumbs u

Super-fast payment on some statues he bought from me. True story!

Beltan is a class act, folks. He packed up a massive batch of color guides for me SO securely, they arrived unscathed despite the box they were in being completely FUBAR'd by the USPS. Shipped immediately after I paid him, too. How often does THAT happen? (thumbs u all the way

I haven't bought anything from or sold anything to Greggy in a long time. But when I did, he gave me a freaking great deal on some sweet, sweet Jack Kirby Collector magazines in the original envelopes. Oh and he likes sushi, which makes him even more ok in my book.

I'm digging this topic (Lichtentstein) and this thread for a number of reasons: It's controversial, it's getting people fired up and excited, and regardless of how you feel about Lichetenstein and what he did, he is ALL OVER the news and bringing attention to the comic art world (and market). I like his work. I liked it the first time I saw it in the 1980s in an art store in Iowa City, Iowa (when I wasn't going to tractor pulls and NASCAR with my cousins Cletus and Skeeter ) I'd like to see the artists he used get credit for what was used. Whether you like it or not, the reality is that not long ago, comic art was not thought of very highly other than a very small group of collectors who decided they thought this stuff was pretty darned cool, intresting, and deserved the respect of owning it AND DISPLAYING IT. And that's a point I'm going to harp on. How many of the people commenting in this thread actually display the art they own, vs keeping it in portfolios in a closet or under your bed? TAKE IT OUT, GET IT FRAMED, AND LOOK AT IT! APPRECIATE IT! It's art, fer cryin' out loud. Sorry to shout, but I'm passionate about this. One of the reasons I started buying art in the 1990s was because I was sick of owning a bunch of comic books that I was afraid to read and page through for fear of bending a corner and "ruining" them. They sat in boxes in a closet, and I bought trade paperbacks and Masterworks so I could READ them. How ridiculous. So I started selling them off and buying art, and I framed that art and hung it all over my house so I can look at it and appreciate it every day. I love the conversations it starts when someone comes to my office at work and sees one of my Marvel's Greatest Comics production covers on the wall and I can educate them about comic art. Everybody who sees that stuff thinks it's cool but they are typically ignorant of the fact that it was actually hand-drawn by very talented people who, up until recently, got very little respect for the craft they labored in. Whether or not you think Lichtenstein stole other people's work, the fact that what he did is considered "high art" is helping to put this art form into the mainstream. It's helping this medium get respect. Because the truth is, decades ago very few people thought of comic art as a respectable art form. And dammit, I'm thrilled to see all the press Lichtenstein is getting, both for his work in and of itself, the attention it's bringing to those artists that he took from, and the controversies surrounding it. Did you see the article today in the WSJ on Kirby? FANTASTIC!! The guy is getting credit in the mainstream media! IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!! I'm starting a new thread about this: Kirby gets some credit in the WSJ!

Also, not to try to spurn any ill will (I appreciate scholarly debate from all perspectives), but have you ever taken an art studio class or actively engaged in producing art? Can you speak intelligently on being in a darkroom until 2 am finishing a series of photos? Or spending hours making a sand mold, only to be left praying that, as you pour molten iron fresh out of the cupola, that it doesn't burst at the seams? Or ripping through sheets of thumbnails trying to nail down your composition before starting a large watercolor painting? Again, my point is not to stir up any sort of class warfare type of situation, but it seems to me that until you've literally sweated and bled into a piece of art, then you lack a critical piece of this complicated issue: the feelings of the artist. It's interesting that you state your artistic experiences as giving you the insights and opinions you stated about Lichty. I have been reading this thread and gotten frustrated that all the anti Lichty people are clearly NOT artists, and come across as just comics fans bemoaning the theft of a few meaningless panels in long forgotten funny books issues. But as an artist, I'm baffled that you aren't on Lichtensteins side! As an artist I'd think you'd celebrate Roy's creative rethinking of the comics medium. I do. I'm an artist and view these paintings as great successes. More and more over the years. To come up with an idea, and spend the hours and hours (as you do) perfecting my craft in making these canvases, is something we all dream about. Most of us all make a living or a great living as commercial artists never daring to take the main stage of ART. Lichtenstein did, and he came with a daring creative and bold approach that tied in low art and high art. I'd think you'd appreciate the larger theme and creativity of that and not the work for hire paid by the hour artistic reality of the type you mention, that 98% of all artists like us deal with every day. He took something throwaway, forced society to look at it with new eyes, and made people think differently about it! THey said back in art school that painting was dead. This was a way of saying that art was now about ideas, not brushstrokes. Lichtenstein was a player in the efforts that made that kind of thinking a reality. And I thought I was done with this subject. As for Delly, sure he's an academic that discusses art, studies art, buys art and appreciates it but doesn't make art. But he gets it! Why don't you toiling in the trenches? Do you identify so much with the comics guys who "got ripped off?" over the guy who took it to a whole new level? Russ Heath is one of my favorites. He's an amazing draughtsman. But his dreams were small. Different men. Different goals. I don't think he lost sleep over some fancy pants artists who showed him a new way to look at his long forgotten panels he banged out at midnight many years ago for a lousy paycheck. I hunk he said to friends at parties! Gee why didn't I think of that? And laughed. THen cried a bit when things were slow, but took pride in his talents that afforded him a good living. +1

I agree. Credit should be given in the cases where the artists are known. They should also show a reproduction of the original panel. Even if Roy is a great artist, it's appropriate to show his muse. (thumbs u

Chicago Tribune article about the Lichtenstein exhibit at the Art Institute digs into the controversy of his "borrowing" others' images, and the lack of the names of those artists is evident. Here's a link Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective at Art Institute story

Bought a signed Spawn statue from Mike, got it along with some nice freebies and a picture of McFarlane signing it. Very pleased! (thumbs u

FIRST POST! Picked up some sweet, sweet color guides from r100comics. He was a pleasure to deal with, and shipped them fast and secure from across the pond. VERY pleased with the transaction and hope to do more. (thumbs u

Bought a cool UFO publication and a steranko item from Paul. Fast, secure shipping. Accurately graded. A+ to the infinity power.

Thanks for the dough. Quick Payment. Shark makes an ATM payout look slower than molasses in winter.

I've got a bunch of misc magazines in the mixed forum, including Famous Monsters, Rampaging Hulk, Savage Sword of Conan, Spectacular Spider-Man, and more. Thanks for checking it out! Sharkey's Magazine Madness thread