Skizz

Some people here seem to swear by him.

But my only experience with Spencer Beck was having to email and chase him half a dozen times for a period of seven months, just to inquire whether some pieces of art on his website were available, before I got an answer. 

I’d be extremely reluctant to try to buy anything from him again. 

3 hours ago, delekkerste said:

@Nexus Had a great time recording this one with you, Lambert and Andy!  Already getting some nice positive feedback from people - I think people appreciate hearing what others are thinking/hearing in this unprecedented and often bewildering environment we find ourselves in!

BTW, as some have remarked to me, I haven't been posting as much on the CGC Boards as I used to.  I am, however, posting (almost) daily on Instagram (@collections_gp).  It's more weighted towards sports cards & memorabilia, but, probably 15-20% of it is comic books, comic art, Dungeons & Dragons, 1st edition books, non-sports cards and other pop culture items - give it a look if it sounds like it may be of interest! 

@delekkerste I’ve been following your collection chronicles on Instagram. I’m @rudra_untold

I say this as someone who has zero interest in sports cards; I find your posts quite entertaining and educational. As was your brief analysis at the beginning of the podcast of the broader economic factors affecting the collectibles market. Many thanks.

7 hours ago, Taylor G said:

I came across this interesting podcast about the Manx Loaghtan sheep, that people will mainly know from their appearance on rock album covers. 

What is interesting about these sheep is that, although they've been around since the Bronze Age, they've come close to extinction several times, edged out by economically more viable breeds. 

What saved them from going out, was that every time they were down to just a few sheep, some eccentric gave the surviving sheep shelter on his farm, and when he died, another eccentric came along and took over their stewardship.  Now they are thriving as the inhabitants of the Isle of Man take pride in this very distinctive breed of sheep.   They survive because of the efforts of literally a handful of farmers who saw more than just economic prospects.

What has this got to do with conserving comic art?  Left as an exercise to the reader.

 

I’m ready to do my part in conserving comic art by becoming an eccentric shepherd-farmer. 

1 hour ago, stinkininkin said:

There may be hundreds of even thousands of pages of "supply" of Mike Ploog art, but there are only about 20 pages from MS #5. That's your relevant apples to apples comparison.

The bidders would likely say that there are only four MS #5 graded at 9.8 on the CGC census and given the black cover, more are unlikely to come out of the cracks in the future. 

1 hour ago, KPR Comics said:

About all I have left are my top 10s

 

And what a top ten you have left !

21 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Wow, I honestly would have guessed that Alan Moore refuses to sign autographs.  I don't think of him as someone who even wants to interact with fans ... but maybe I'm wrong about that?

He attended some comic cons in 80s and signed books there. He doesn’t attend comics cons any more but signed editions of his novels and more recent literary works, that he owns the right to, are available. 

6 hours ago, Varanis said:

A few massive adds this week for me:

Cosmic Ghost Rider #3 Cover by Geoff Shaw

Thanos #17 Complete Issue by Geoff Shaw

My collection is heavily focused on Cosmic Ghost Rider and Shaw's work on the character, so these are enormously meaningful additions to me. Thanos #17 might be the best issue from the arc which introduced Cosmic Ghost Rider. It's hard to imagine a bigger addition to my collection. I've included images of some of the best pages from Thanos #17, but check out the links above to see the full issue and additional details.

Congratulations dude, this will go great in your collection.

35 minutes ago, J Bill said:

I'm always interested in rare Alan Moore work.  The Alphabets of Desire poster is actually still available on Todd Klein's website, signed by both, and available here. 

Thanks for the info. Just got one of this to add to my Alan Moore signed prints/comics/books collections 

On 10/30/2020 at 5:37 AM, OtherEric said:

Actually, I think they said the last signing he's likely to do unless you travel to Northhampton.  Two Moore signatures are enough for me, I don't need a Providence omnibus to go with the 3-volume set of HC's I've already got.  One is on the Promethia 32 special edition (I have the cover gallery book with the signature but not the posters, long story...) and the other is this print that I really need to get framed:

 

 

This is awesome!

On 7/4/2020 at 9:56 PM, Jasonmorris1000000 said:

He's not a bad artist either. There's a lot of detail in here.

On 6/9/2020 at 5:58 PM, Bart Allen said:

Picked this up last week:

Wondering what these are? Haven’t seen them before 

On 4/26/2021 at 6:32 AM, jdandns said:

Wow, great selection of Alan Moore scripted original art pages.

I also have page from Swampy #61. I posted it in the Swamp Thing dedicated thread, but I guess it belongs here, too.

 

 

Awesome page from a great issue! Congrats on owning it. 

30 minutes ago, Jasonmorris1000000 said:

Very cool.  Congratulations.  I like your board name too.  Was it named for the 2000AD character?

 

@Jasonmorris1000000 Thanks.

Yeah, the board name’s based on the Moore written 2000ad character. I mainly collect (or at least try to collect) original art from Alan Moore and Skizz is one of the first ones that I got.

I’ve kept a running diary of original art collecting over the last few years in this thread. Seeing as my collecting focus is Alan Moore, figured it might be appropriate to share it here:

Here’s my original art collection from Alan Moore’s comics:

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerydetailsearch.asp?artist=Alan+Moore&GCat=121983

5 hours ago, Don84 said:

Hello guys,

Iam new to fan Club of Alan Moore. And I am interested in A Gold Edition Miracleman #1. Can somebody tell me how to get one or to find one. Or maybe someone want to sell me his or hers?

Thank you for your help in advanced

Kind Regards

Don

 

In my case I just sporadically checked eBay for a few years until one showed up. 

Thrilled to say that after a few years of searching, I’ve finally joined the Miracleman #1 Gold club with #113

18 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:

Sadly, some collectors like them for the wrong reasons: they claim it's like getting as many as 6 small splash pages for the price of one.

Or in the case of Watchmen, it’s like getting 9 small covers for the price of one 😁

On 8/29/2020 at 6:40 AM, BuraddoRun said:

What was the first comic book OA you ever got? How and/or why did you get that piece? Do you still own it? Do you still enjoy looking at it after all this time?

This is very first page of comic art I ever bought (or even saw in person). Picked it up at a local comic mart in Birmingham UK for a mere £10. Although it didn’t lead me to collecting OA (that bug came later), this piece of unpublished art from Marvel UK’s Deaths Head II by Salvador Larocca has been on display on my wall for nearly a decade now. 

I didn’t get a page Silver Surfer: Black when these went for sale some weeks back.  But I did manage to pick up these two pages of Tradd Moore art at the previous drop.

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1660473

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1660476

This first page is from Tradd Moore’s debut work, Stange Talent of Luther Strode.  This isn’t one of the flashy action pages from that book. Instead I went for a quiet moment between the protagonist and his mother as he tries to sneak out of the house. 

Much has been said about Tradd Moore’s precise and detailed line work. But one thing that I feel doesn’t get talked about enough with Tradd’s comic work is how balanced and symmetrically his layout and panelling is.  In this page the first and last panels at the opposite corners of the page (and also the panels at the other two corners) are mirror images of each other, with the main story beat, i.e the protagonist getting caught by his mother, being placed in the middle row. A perfectly balanced page that clearly tells the story visually even without the word balloons being present.

The second page is from The New World. And it’s another (in fact, even better) example of a well balanced and symmetrical page. The central visual element of the page is in the middle panel and the rest of the panels fan out from there. Much like the last Tradd Moore page I got a few months ago, I was baffled that this page was still available on the artist’s rep website and hadn’t been snapped up already.

Many thanks to @Nexus for working with me on these pages at a time when I’d stretched myself a little too much with art purchases. 

7 hours ago, Will_K said:

I've always thought that every Peanuts character pretty much has the same face/profile.  Charles Schulz essentially used different hair and clothes to distinguish their looks.  Heresy??

Huh, whaddya know.