Ecclectica

Yes! Why didn't I think of it first? It makes me laugh each time I see it.

I congratulate you on your sense of observation.

Glad to see one Steranko's old drawing of the character.

Thanks. Is there an abbreviation for "mini-series" ?

mini-series. Correct me if I don't use the correct short word for an US audience (and sorry in that case).

Well, don't know what to really think about the prices... but I bought the MS and read it. It's a comic book, after all. On the art side, at first, I thought it was a sadomasochist move from my part, but I can say the guy has talent, and psychedelic art is not normally of my taste... There are some pages with very small incredible panels like in the origin recap here : I have convinced several other people around me ("This is going to rip your eyes at first, but you will see some great things after"). Glad to see an artist like this one. He represent the kind of diversity I like in comics (and it's a relief from the myriad of pages done in realistic way nowadays).

Don't worry : this splash already creeped me 25 years ago and I was 25 years younger, so...

I think Sal is renewing himself, in fact, and tries to stay contemporary... We should thank him for that. Here, he is showing the ravages of the plastic surgery on a lady who, after all, has been around for a long time.

I'm a bit surprised by the latest "commissions" batch by Sal. Don't get me wrong... I like him at lot and I have a page from him in my collection but I couldn't help to stop laughing seeing this Scarlet Witch : I'm still happy to see him drawing for his fans, but...

Google cache is your friend.

Well, remember, I added "without a protection of any kind". What I can see here in these stacks : lots of mylars, protective papers, wood layers and probably others things that I can't see ! (and no broken frames parts in the middle that would disturb the balance...) That's indeed neat stacks (and we aren't on a booth here !). How could I criticize that ?

I would have reacted the same way. I don't understand the concept of stacks of art, without a protection of any kind, at dealers' tables or anywhere else. I didn't like it 25 years ago, and even less today. At dealers' tables, it almost a horrible vision to discover prices in "K" in stacks like these... Too bad I lost some pics about a really messy famous booth seen three years ago... (art pieces under broken frames mixed with stand- alone art pieces, all in "K" range, for example... and the guy relaxing comfortably in his chair). It was really funny to see him realizing after 5 minutes why I was taking all these pics of his booth...

If I remember correclty, we have seen somewhere, on this site, that Frank Cho keep his interior art pages (just tried to find the nice picture with all his portfolios stored together, with the issue name and number on the side, but couldn't succeed...).

Probably. Kane had then to "take refuge" to DC Comics the whole remaining time of Shooter's tenure at Marvel... So he went back only years after (1990 on -> some 1990 Spider-Man Annuals, his Two-Gun Kid story from MCP #116 from 1992, and so on...). Time had done its work... You can get glimpses of this story in the really interesting read from Howard Chaykin "Hey Kids! Comics!" vol. 1. Here, in HKC #4, for example : (if you consider it now as a potential tempting read, beware of everything that evoked in this book, vol. 2 and probably the upcoming vol. 3 : even if "Ray" has huge bits of Kane, some others characters are composites of several artists, and even some situations are composites. Let's say that's part of the fun reading this kind of comics) I have often wondered how many art pieces finished on the "market" back in the 70's due to Kane incursions to the "Vault"... Which are now on Heritage, several owners later. Let's say every person has his dark side. At least, IMHO, in retropect, this incident gave us more wonderful Superman/Green Lantern/Atom, self-inked, stories there, instead of wrongly suited inks by Danny Bulanadi on Kane's Conan or Micronauts issues... And knowing that didn't prevent me several years ago to add Kane pieces to my little collection. Guess I separated the man from the Artist here. After all, he was a heck of an Artist. That was one of his bright sides.

Yes, it's so heavily over-inked here by Rubinstein that I thought, at first glance, it was even a fake Miller... (and the unusual FM signature doesn't help - he doesn't use this one very often but it's his pencils underneath indeed). Thanks. Well, understandable nobody took it... Now, the wrong indexing will not help to see it go... I think separate the 2 two inputs is a better thing to do for this kind of sketches, like in these "twins" coming probably from the same con : https://www.comicartfans.com/ForSaleDetails.asp?ArtId=6764619 (already sold) (And even Rubinstein seems more inspired here.)

Hi everybody, Just to know what you think of this : . https://www.anthonyscomicbookart.com/gallerypiece.asp?Piece=89798) Maybe I need an explanation...

Wouldn't it be one of the usual suspects ?

Shouldn't it always be like this ?

Bump. Still opened to an exchange.

Sure. I was even not considering Disney, in order to expand the time scope (<2009), but you're right, on all whole scope, it's even an amplifying factor.

McNiven had the medias attention in 2018 for the Return of the Wolverine MS (because he tried to emulate BWS style). But I don't want to contradict you. My remark is only a sideline on your example. At the contrary, I agree on your argument as a whole. I think Marvel do not want anymore, basically, to really rely on star artists and their abilities. They got their lessons from the time of the creation of Image comics, after all...

Maybe if someone of the board has bought the page in the meantime, he will give me his opinion ! (I wouldn't have bought anyway :-)

In the defunct Vertigo line, other examples can be found. I have a 2003 Fable page (coming from a special issue) with ballons and letters too.

What do you think of this "Byrne" ? https://www.ebay.com/itm/225423630113 At first, I told myself : "fake". Next : "elaborate fake". And then : "possibly penciled by Byrne as a comm and inked by an amateur ("+" signature at botton right) but the lack of pencils traces in the hair bothers me"

Right. An opinion, if it would have been the original one ?