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It's 2023, and there's still lots of good looking art out there in the Morlock tunnels! A few recent pieces, starting with Ibraim Roberson for X-Necrosha: Tony Harris gives us a hostage showdown in "Ex Machina": Geoff Isherwood for the 1980s Epic Comics space pirates saga "Swords of the Swashbucklers": The Escorza brothers and Kevin Eastman for TMNT: The Last Ronin In the "awesome pencils" department, a couple of Fernando Pasarin pages from Batgirl: And one from Jose Luis Soares Pinto for new series The Djinni: That's enough for now!

I will be there all weekend. We should plan a meal, exchange contact info, etc.

Your generation was lucky to have identifiable characters in their video games. I am a few years older, and the Atari 2600 graphics did not inspire us so much. But I am still waiting for the River Raid and Yar’s Revenge movies…

Yes, this one here. Niederberger has not logged into CAF since March 2022.

This looks like a legit (and well heeled) collector. https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=175395

I got a dozen small pieces for prices I was happy with. Watch the Molock thread for details.

I got a Hildebrandt Bros painting of Guri from Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. Details about her character here: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1908989#Comments

Ouch, that's terrible! When I contacted him to discuss this piece (which I got from another collector), he was friendly and mentioned that he was taking commissions. I asked for details, which he never sent, so I did not pursue the matter further.

A while back, I acquired all 22 interior pages of District X #6 by Perkins and Hennessy. It's a cop story involving Bishop and his human partner, hunting a mutant they wrongly think has harmed the human cop's daughter. This week I was able to get the final four pages of the previous issue (#5, by Yardin and Sicat), which show that the girl was actually shot accidentally by her younger brother, because dad left his service revolver at home. Here's the whole collection. It plays pretty well as a silent movie, which shows good storytelling by all involved.

I bailed on some to save funds for Lake Como. But I was pleasantly surprised to get good examples from four artists I didn't have yet, from two pieces by the Hildebrandts and Trimpe/BWS.

I was in on this one for a bit as well. Love that bottom panel! Big-head Luther or no. How many pages are there with bullets bouncing off Superman's face? The skew border in panel 4 is atypical for the era.

The purpose of covers has radically changed since the days of spinner racks. Originally, a cover was supposed to advertise the action inside the issue so an eight year old boy would part with his dimes to buy a comic book instead of a candy bar. Check out all the "Don't miss this one! It's the one you've been demanding!" hype text cluttering the art. With the rise of comic book stores, an older readership was placing orders for upcoming issues, sight unseen. The hype text becomes worse than superfluous; it became a detriment to enjoying a piece of art which was selected from an inventory of striking pieces that needed to be able to go on top of any particular issue in the series. Marvel started doing this a lot in the mid 80s; here's the last issue of that same title for comparison. The preference for "action scene reflecting the interior" vs "Well done portrait" partially reflects childhood familiarity with the interiors of the particular issue in question.

Try this if you are a member of the private "Comic original art sale, trade, show" Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/100761773610059/posts/1955157461503805/

Here's someone from Sydney, Australia named 'David Richardson' selling a Romita Sr (incorrectly identified by him as Romita Jr) color Spidey, framed, from 1993. He joined the group three weeks ago; his Facebook account has posts since 2017. Different guy? https://www.facebook.com/groups/100761773610059/user/100010051785240/ It says "To Nicholas" but he says Romita did it specifically for him.

The 130 page was tempting. A key moment in the Dark Phoenix story.

Hey ho, it's time for some more cheap art in my favorite category, "detailed pencils." First a pair of Yvel Guichet pages from the 2012 iteration of Stormwatch. They're both "gathered around the conference table" scenes, but not from the same issue. Next, an undated pair from Joe Phillips which I suspect are unpublished try-out pages in which two villains tear into some sky-cycle cops. And next, an unusual look at the Marvel Bullpen circa 2014. The artist is evidently named Kevin Snyder. And finally, Adriano Batista's cover to Jungle Girl Season 2 #5. Or rather, a perfect 8x12 recreation of the 11x14 published cover. I have great difficulty telling the two images apart except for their size.

His Micronauts work was excellent. I am on his list somewhere as well.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Terry Moore still had Rachel Rising pages available. This one not only advances the story of Rachel discovering she is undead, but also functions as a one page gag.

When Heritage was offering all those early 70s Swanderson pages over the last couple of years, I got a few, all from issues I had actually read as a kid. I can't say those pages are objectively better or more valuable than the ones i passed by. Indeed, I stopped bidding on some precisely because their value to somebody else was more than I was prepared to pay.

Manuel Alves on Facebook.

I don't want this in the dealer's "for sale" listings forever, any more than I want a car dealer's lanes filled with blow-up balloons representing the cars he already sold. But I do agree that an aggregated record of all past sales would be valuable, all on one web site somewhere. Just like those web sites where you can see what all the houses in your neighborhood previously sold for.

I have a few of Netho's pencil pages; it's solid work.

This is why I stopped visiting the Romitaman site. The "new items" pages are clogged with sold art. Some dealers' CAF pages have a similar problem; they leave sold items in their "for sale" galleries, and you have to click on each page individually to discover whether it's actually available. Not worth it to look at dozens of pages that way.

At a small convention this past weekend, I got an ink wash page from indie werewolf book Night Wolf: And its spin-off Snow Paw:

I just like modern comic book art and don't find it all the same. I know that posting panels doesn't speak to Justadude's observation about page flow, but none of these are splashes.