Will_K

Mr Lodge is the Watcher. Archie 555 by Stan Goldberg / Bob Smith

Nice Art Adams sketch !! Hooper: Big fish... Jaws recreation in pencil by original artist Roger Kastel on 11 x 14 gesso'ed illustration board.

My avatar is a "gimme" Bernard Sachs (mostly known as an inker, e.g. over Sekowsky's JLA) These guys could be twins. And... headband in every panel.

N I A G A R A F A L L S ! ! ! Slowly I turned... step by step...

Looks like Jeff Bastita https://www.deviantart.com/jeff-batista/art/Zealot-Pencil-Ink-original-art-FOR-SALE-803361266

Is that really some dry brush work in the shadow of Sauron's wing ??

I was thinking Nicole Kidman.

I have a Red Sonja story on CAF, written and drawn by Bruce Jones http://cafurl.com?i=26124 I also have this one by Alfredo Alcala on CAF

FWIW, I happened on my copy of David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #78 (1990) which has the interview with Todd Reis who traded his 3-D dioramas for Batman commissions. Unfortunately, it looks like art may have been photographed in color and printed in black and white. About half of the art is line drawings which printed fine. But several pieces are described as being color pieces and don't look that great in the article. Among them, art by Bill Sienkiewicz (chalk pastels), John Byrne (oil paint !!), George Perez, Don Newton, Jerry Ordway, Giordano, Ken Steacy and Brent Anderson (chalk pastels). Also, I've seen other pieces in recent HA auctions. I have the Mike Nasser drawing that's shown in the article but I acquired that in the early or mid 1990's. If there's any interest, I can post scans of art from the article. The interview shows the original Walt Simonson commission and 1983 published piece for comparison. In the interview, Reis does not mention being upset over Simonson giving the image to DC (bolding and italics as per the article): Todd: ... There's an interesting story: That was drawn by Walt for my collection, and before he mailed it to me, he showed it to Len Wein who was Batman editor at the time. He had to have it for a cover, so he had Doug Moench write and Don Newton draw a story, based on the Batman and Joker fighting atop this tower. It wasn't quite the same, I believe they used an Aztec or Inca tower in that particular story; but nevertheless, it was based upon this piece which then became the cover of BATMAN #366. It could be that Reis was not upset at the time of the interview and became upset later. But the interviewer and Reis make various comments/critiques of other commissions. So I can't see that there was really an issue re: the Simonson commission.

I edited my comment to make it clear the a-hole was Reed Richards. I think Norm Macdonald is great.

Another NM... Norm Macdonald. Not sure if he's really a comic book fan... Anyone familiar with his Fantastic Four riff ?? One of my co-workers thinks he (Reed Richards) is an a-hole. This skit kind of confirms it. I think Norm is hilarious.

Next Men

Out of curiosity, how many of us would take a serious run (i.e. at auction) at an animation cel or animation pencil drawing from Harley Quinn's 1st appearance in BTAS ?? I generally have little interest in cels unless they're relatively cheap. The flaking paint or shrinking cels seems scary. I can go for a decent animation pencil drawing, again if they're kind of cheap.

For reference: https://www.comicconnect.com/item/903150 Also... Herb Trimpe - G.I. JOE (A REAL AMERICAN HERO) #119 Cover ($19,100): https://www.comicconnect.com/item/902632

These days, it's more likely the publishers will go off-brand with characters they DO own.

The description said "Spirit Book #3" and HA said it's from the 1970's. Were you able to determine if there ever was a Spirit Book 3 in the 70's ??

top middle - Ed McGuinness lower right - Dave Ross Craig Young ??

Didn't you mean... Peanuts... followed by strips in no particular order??

I'm a big, big Mike Nasser fan. I didn't even bid on it. But $25K blows me away. It's not THAT great a cover. I think even Mike would agree. And... y'know... Colletta inks. But the market is the market. In general, I think 70's Wonder Woman covers are really scarce. Also, there are those Golden Age characters on that cover. BTW... If anyone's got Mike Nasser's full figure drawing that appeared on the cover of The Amazing World of DC Comics #15, I'm your guy.

It doesn't look like anyone has posted this so here you go (from HA): Due to technical difficulties we are extending our April 4-5 Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation & Art Weekly Online Auction #122114 by a day for each session. With Comics taking place 6:00 PM CT tomorrow, Monday, April 5, and Comic Art, Animation Art and Memorabilia taking place 6:00 PM CT, Tuesday, April 6. Also, it looks like the auction scheduled for Monday, April 5 has been bumped to April 6.

Or... under priced ?? If you're buying for the purpose of re-selling, maybe it's a lot easier to pull the trigger ?? Also, maybe a lot of people just had CLAIM4-DINO (or whoever) typed into the chat before the piece appeared. Then you only had one more click to send. I don't have a youtube account so I'm not in the chat. It's interesting to watch but almost none of the art interests me. A lot of the "appeal" is the immediacy. But I won't jump at a piece that I can't clearly see and there's no zoom with only a few seconds or minutes to think it over. Also I'd also be worried about icing or frosting on my art. Because you know... CAKE !!

As mentioned above, become a "Premium Member" if you can. The keyword e-mail notifications are nice. I don't take advantage of it but you can post larger images than non-premium members. I think Comic Art Live (the virtual comic art convention) opens up an hour early for Premium Members. I fiddle with a few things in my CAF... Re: the 12 featured pieces that randomly appear in the top, left corner of the CAF main page... I keep the last 3 pieces I've posted at the bottom row. It's just another way of getting them some exposure. When I select them, the oldest of the 3 is on the bottom row on the left side... and the most recent of the 3 is on the bottom row on the right side... that way, when deleting the oldest, they'll automatically move over to the left and open up a spot for the most recent posting. It's all very OCD. The top 3, 6 or 9 pieces above are usually other pieces I want to highlight, I'll play with those every once in a while, usually to highlight Nick Cardy, my favorite artist. I'll tweak my titles or descriptions if I remember something that might be nice to mention. Although there are times I'll write a lot more than other pieces, I make sure I'm writing in the same style. Also, I like using plenty of white space, so no walls of text from me, a pet peeve. And I appreciate when someone writes about why a certain piece appeals to them or why they think it's an important piece in "comics history". If a piece is published, I'll link it to comics.org using the Comic Art Archive. It's kind of a pain (there are reasons) but once you get used to it, it's easier. My 2 major pet peeves regarding other CAF galleries are... 1) too many pieces in a single gallery (my current highest is 38, which feels like a lot) and 2) having a lot of galleries specifically created just for a single pieces.

On the other hand, how many times have you seen "Neil Adams" ?? For me, enough times that it's a pet peeve. Personally, if I found the "right" Matt Baker piece, I would go for it.

Jan Duursema (Tom's wife) has PO Box listed on her website.

No mylars ?? Time to start buying NFTs !!!