Madman1138

I just dropped the prices on all the above art 20% through 12/31! So everything is hundreds cheaper now through the end of the year and it's a great time to buy these beauties! Thanks!

Bump. These are still available and I am open to best offers and trade for the Platt pages. Thanks!

**EDIT: 20% Sale through 12/31 on these 4 pieces of art** I am selling 2 Jim Lee Wildcats pages for a friend, and I have a couple Stephen Platt pieces of my own I am selling as well. My friend is only looking for cash at this time for the Jim Lee pages, but I am open to cash or trade for the Platt pages. Jim Lee pages: Wildcats #11 page is $1500 or best offer and Wildcats #13 page is $2250 or best offer. Both pages are by Jim Lee and Scott Williams. Stephen Platt pages: Soul Saga #1 page is $750 or best offer and is pencils by Stephen Platt and inks by Matt "Batt" Banning Prophet vol 2 #2 page is $1500 or best offer and is pencils by Stephen Platt and inks by Marlo Alquiza. MO, check, or Paypal accepted, and open to offers so don't be shy if you like one of the pages. You can PM me here or email me at madman1138 at Yahoo dot com if interested in chatting more. Thanks for looking! Wildcats #11 page 7 by Jim Lee & Scott Williams - $̶1̶5̶0̶0̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶e̶r̶ now $1200 through 12/31! Wildcats #13 page 21 by Jim Lee & Scott Williams - $$̶2̶2̶5̶0̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶e̶r̶ now $1800 through 12/31! Soul Saga #1 page 5 by Stephen Platt & by Matt "Batt" Banning - $̶7̶5̶0̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶e̶r̶ now $600 through 12/31! Prophet vol 2 #2 page 20 by Stephen Platt & Marlo Alquiza - $̶1̶5̶0̶0̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶e̶r̶ now $1200 through 12/31!

I'm actually a big '90s Wildstorm fan, so when Gary did a new Gen13 piece for the 25th Anniversary special last year, I tracked down his agent to buy it. So not DC proper, but something I had to have.

Have you reached out to his art reps yet? That was finally what worked for me. This is their CAF: https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=5908 Or you can email them at sterlingclass at yahoo dot com. I tracked down a piece I wanted directly from Gary, through them. Good luck!

I got this new backpack after SDCC this year, so it hasn't been fully "battle-tested" yet, but I have tried it on and packed it up to fully test it when I got it a couple months ago. I always used a messenger bag for my sketchbooks and supplies, and my SDCC backpack bag they give every year for my portfolio and plastic top loaders for art. Every year my back hurts so back, so a friend recommended a backpack like this. It is very comfortable and more breathable than the plastic vinyl-like material of the SDCC bags so it doesn't seem like it will make you as hot and sweaty throughout the day. The straps are padded and comfortable and as I mentioned it snaps across the chest as well to prevent it from sliding off your shoulders like the other bag. But more than anything it corrects the one-sided weight of the messenger bag that always seems to wrench my back at each con. So for comfort alone, I really dig my new bag. The inside compartment fits my con portfolio perfectly, which is a 14x17 zipper case portfolio (15x20 or so outside) that I used to carry but found myself forgetting or almost leaving without too many times. So it is great to protect the art but needs a backpack so I don't misplace it lol. It fits perfectly in the big padded pocket. The front pocket fits 9x12 sketchbooks perfectly, and the other pockets hold my sketch card blanks and there is a pocket for rolled items or long stuff too. So I feel it covers most angles and frees me from the messenger bag that just tore my back up every show. Even if not the one I am recommending, the others people are sharing seem good too. The backpack is the way to go.

A FB friend recommended this artist backpack so I picked one up and it's pretty awesome. It fits quite a bit too. A big portfolio in the main pocket, 9x12 sketchbook in the front pocket, and supplies and more in the other pockets. It has comfortable shoulder straps with linking across chest so it doesn't slip off your shoulders, and it has handles on the side for when you need to carry it. I haven't had it long but so far, so good. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B071WLWRKJ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Oh, good grief! (to quote the boy himself!) This looks all kinds of wrong. I would avoid it. I am looking to eventually get a Peanuts piece of my own someday as well, but for so many reasons I will only get a published piece that I can verify. Far too many fakes out there these days.

I used to own this one years ago, bought directly from Mario and his wife around 2006. I used to collect the McFarlane Spider-man homage covers and this was one of a few I used to have. I sold it on eBay about 6 years ago to someone with user ID of "bladehush". It's possible that it has changed hands again after I sold it in Sept 2012, so it may have made the rounds and gone through Malvin's hands too. Mario is active on FB as Original Mario Gully OMG. https://www.facebook.com/mario.gully?fb_dtsg_ag=AdxUVS7dTnOcb_tr_YfhUC9i6iqIBpq99YHUZBnFciGMLw%3AAdwiTXOGpO5rso9pHtpGtMtll-Ozgv6ToNRJ4ZsAnZlvPg He still works in independent comics but sold the rights to Ant to Erik Larsen after the Image run.

Was it 3 flat boxes thick inside and taped together on all 4 sides? The tape is important too, to keep it a solid and unbendable brick inside. 2 boxes or less, and especially if loose and not taped together, I have seen damaged but never the 3, done the way I describe. But I agree it isn't best compared to the foamcore method I use myself now, but for artists who don't put much thought or money into shipping it works great for.

I worked in the event industry for many years, mostly in high-end hotels, and after all the events they just left them to be thrown away so I would gather them and bring them home and before long filled a closet lol. So they were free to me and have lasted me for years. (and I ship a lot!) But sign shops and FedEx/Kinkos sell the signage type which is sturdier than the stuff you find at Michaels or the Dollar Store. As for online, Uline has them on the website and for much less than masonite. I recommend the 24"x36" because you cut it into quarters and get four 12"x18" boards per sheets, which perfectly protects 11x17 art. Here's a link. https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-11752/Foam-Board/Foam-Core-Board-24-x-36-White-3-16-thick

Unlike most, I am not a fan of masonite for shipping because it is heavy and because I have had both "worst case" scenarios where the boards were broken in half all the way across and the art was bent repeatedly across that spot to where it was a thick, raised, floppy crease all the way across the art, and another time where SOMEHOW the USPS managed to remove the art from the masonite package in route and literally lost the boards. The art was in a plastic top loader, taped inside 2 larger masonite boards, and taped all the way around the border. First they lost it, and when it was finally delivered almost 30 days later, it was just the art in the plastic top loader with the art and the eBay summary sheet, all horribly bent. (see pics below) My best guess is that their machine stripped the tape off a side or something and the art sleeve slid out and got bent, before they completely lost the wood panels. It was a cover I really wanted bad and when it first disappeared I put in a claim and a trace. I only got the art from inside because the summary sheet had my address, so even "without postage" they delivered it. But I still get email updates over 6 months later that they still have not located my package because they completely lost the wood with the label and it was never scanned again. So I ship it differently than most are recommending, and I had actually typed up something years ago that I send to artists, which I will paste below. I still use this basic system to package, but I upgraded it to use foamcore panels used to make signs for the interior package instead of other flat USPS boxes, as it is even more rigid and hard to bend and still extremely light. It makes for an even more "bulletproof" package. But whatever you use inside, the buffer around the edges is key to prevent damaged corners, since it is unbendable and nearly impossible to damage otherwise. That is really what the outer box is for, edge protection. Hope that helps!

This is exactly what I have been doing recently, trading several smaller pieces for better single pieces. I think as long as your collection is well diversified with large and small value pieces, it will all balance out in the end. I do it to both thin out the collection and to get the "upgraded" pieces. As far as value and trading, a single high value item can be more difficult to trade off as it takes a lot of value for someone to match it and that can be an issue if you don't like enough of what they have, they don't have a similar large item, etc. Smaller value items are easier to trade as you can stack the value on your side in various ways. In the end, I just think of it in a cold and rational way. Would I rather have these several pieces or this one large single piece? (I usually take the single, larger piece)

There is no discount time of year, and no discount if you get both Premium Membership and Market Data. Market Data is nice but I don't really need it, however I love my Premium membership and have always had it because it gives you larger scans, daily emails for CAF and Ebay/Heritage listings, the watermark on the uploads, the CAF Classifieds access to list, unlimited ebay promotions for your auctions, and the one I love the most is the ability to delete comments on my art if they are inappropriate or trolling or just say something stupid. (doesn't happen often, but noce to be able to delete when it does) So Premium is great to better show off your art with the larger scans and 12 featured items, and helps with selling by promoting your CAF Classifieds, Ebay auctions, and the larger scans. So if you sell art even casually it is definitely worth it. But as others mention, I do it to support Bill Cox because it does cost a lot to have and maintain the site and all the constant improvements. So since it brings me joy, helps me display, share, and sell my art and all that, I want to support it financially and do my part. If you can afford to do so, you quickly forget about it after as mentioned above but the gift keeps giving all year long.

My guess would be Mike Miller, as it is definitely not Tex or Sal. It looks like Mike's style.

The inker Robert Jones always signed his name differently. Are you sure it is Robert Jones? If it is, he also did full illustrations sometimes. But here is an pinup image with his pro signature and a page I had him sign. As you can see, they are much different than yours. It is possible we are talking about different artists too, as comicbookdb lists 2 Robert Jones, 2 Rob Jones, and several Bob Jones, etc. If you hadn't said the name of Robert Jones, I wouldn't have seen that in the signature, which looks more like a "Brent Jons" to me lol.

From what I have seen, he can have up to 3 pieces for a published cover with original pencils, original inks, and original colors. I bought the blue pencil version of a published cover from Albert for a friend at SDCC a couple years ago. Albert also had the original inks and a full color piece of the same. So I believe he did the blue pencil, scanned and printed for inks, then took that and scanned to print out and color. I am not sure if he always inks a blueline copy of his blueline pencils, which seems a bit redundant, but I know he did with that one at least. And I know there are separate inks and colors, but I believe his colors are always over copies of the original line art and that he doesn't lightbox or draw it again. Most painters also paint over copies of the line art, so it is a pretty standard process.

This year for SDCC I tried something different and went after sketch commissions more so than published art because I am usually the other way around. But I am a huge fan and collector of '90s WIldstorm and last year I missed the Wildstorm 25th Anniversary reunion because I couldn't make it to the show. So I made up for it this year with a theme of getting a Zealot (from Jim Lee's WIldcats) sketch from as many of the Wildstorm artists at the show as I could. I ran around the con like crazy, and still have some that will have to be mailed to me later. But I'm proud to say I got quite a few of them, along with some other artists with fantastic styles that I always wanted to see the interpretation they would give the character and I was not disappointed! Sketches by Arthur Adams, Adam Hughes, Dave Dorman, Bruce Timm, Humberto Ramos, Scott Williams, Stuart Sayger, Dean Yeagle, Richard Friend, Joe Linsner, Ryan Benjamin, Ryan Odagawa, Jim Balent, Katie Cook, and manny others. Here is a link to the gallery I set up on my CAF just for the show's acquisitions, before I sort everything later into their proper galleries later. Each piece has a story in the description so I'll spare the details here, but please take a look if interested. http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=168444 Thanks for looking!

I have backed about 23 Kickstarters, and most of those were comic or comic card related. Basically art stuff and comics & trading cards. Most of those were backed specifically for an art reward and I have never been let down and all have paid off eventually. I have backed Dan Brereton on several projects (comics by Big Wow's Steve Morger and trading cards by Side Lab), Steve Mannion, Bart Sears, and all the Coffin Comics KS's for Lady Death and others. I can tell you that it really depends on the artists and their reputations leading up to it, whether they are doing it themselves or have someone to help manage them and the money, and how ridiculous some of the stretch goals are can tell you everything. So I base it on a gut decision on whether I trust they will deliver or not. Here's a list of ones I liked, but didn't back for my reasons above and each has failed to deliver so far. Tony Harris? Talented but screwed people over with a KS that he no longer acknowledges (even marked the rewards as sent when they never were) and then did a GoFundMe to go back to the well and get even more money and no one will ever see anything. Jason Pearson? Love his art and Body Bags, but I knew that project would self destruct, if it ever made it to completion. Seems like it might now, but art rewards are nowhere near even started. There have been others but no need to call them out. These 2 above are great examples because of how public they are that they aren't delivering. I still back Kickstarters whenever I like something, and while I am still waiting on some tech stuff to come through, the art has never been an issue.

I'll be there as usual, hitting up Scott and more in artist alley and of course hitting all the dealers. I always find something great at SDCC. Dave K

Here is my one and only McSpidey page! Not an action page, but Spidey in all 4 panels and in costume, and a sexy Mary Jane in 2 panels. It makes me happy to finally have one, but very hard and over 10 years to finally get one. I was always priced out, as I mention on my CAF description. I also have a huge scan of it on my CAF for those who'd like to see. http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1372524

I am usually pretty good at identifying art, and am actually a resource for others when it comes to '90s art. So it has always been frustrating that I cannot find this published image anywhere, but I KNOW it was published somewhere because I remember the image vividly in color. But it has driven me nuts for over 12 years now so I might as well try here as well with my fingers crossed lol. This was set to be the cover to Wildstorm Swimsuit #1, which was later switched for a Jim Lee cover instead. It may have been solicited in color as the cover in Previews or Wizard or something, or maybe it was used as a house ad in the books but it wasn't published as a pinup in any of their swimsuit books. I have shared it to the Yahoo group and a couple Wildstorm groups and people recognize it but can't remember where. Had to have been drawn around 1994 or so. It is super clean with no white out or corrections, and features several key Wildstorm ladies so it seems unlikely that it was completely unused. It is unsigned but I recognized it immediately when I bought it as pencils by Scott Clark and back in 2008 he was able to confirm it was him and he thought it was Sal Regla on inks, but other than that he couldn't remember where or even if it was published. Unfortunately Scott probably did more swimsuit pieces than anyone else at Wildstorm so it blurred his memory a lot 15 or so years later lol. At one point I even hand colored a copy by memory and tried Google image searches but still nothing. Does anyone recognize this and know where it was published in color?

It also has the TV Batmobile on it, which some people REALLY love. Maybe that had something to do with it as well?

No, only items sold on eBay can use this program. It's super expensive for the customer so International folks aren't big fans. But it is a way to get US sellers that don't want the hassle of shipping internationally to agree to do so by releasing them of any liability. So it is just a regular domestic mailing job for them and eBay does the rest. But other than double shipping costs on the buyer it also adds extra tariffs on their side to get the packages, I believe. So it's both good and bad for most people.

He's on FB at https://www.facebook.com/ron.lim.125 I want to say he was $80-100 for a bust last I saw him at a show, not sure on more detailed pieces. But he's active on FB.