Ecclectica

Ready to listen to horror stories. 

On 5/9/2023 at 8:17 PM, BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES said:

That's a part of the "Howard the Duck" movie's storyboard, right ? Who pencilled it ?

On 5/3/2023 at 10:51 AM, New School Fool said:

That ALF cover where Alf is doing questionable things to a seal....

Yes! Why didn't I think of it first?

It makes me laugh each time I see it.

On 5/3/2023 at 3:38 AM, J.Sid said:

Scarlet Witch giving Wonder Man a handjob.

I congratulate you on your sense of observation.

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

On 4/28/2023 at 12:56 PM, Rick2you2 said:

Here MS means Multiple Sclerosis. 

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

On 4/28/2023 at 8:46 AM, JC25427N said:

I'm sorry this has nothing to do with anything but it's just eating away at me, what does "MS" stand for here

mini-series.

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

On 4/1/2023 at 10:51 PM, KirbyCollector said:

I like and appreciate well-drawn art featuring women. Maybe it is my age... or the fact I have a 21 y.o. daughter... but JSC's rendering here of tied-up teenage girls creeps me the f--- out.

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...

On 3/22/2023 at 5:53 PM, thehumantorch said:

Congrats, that's a beautiful piece.  Do you mind telling me what the full asking price was?

Google cache is your friend.

On 3/18/2023 at 5:06 PM, vodou said:

Er, like this?

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 ?

On 3/18/2023 at 2:07 PM, KirbyCollector said:

A long time ago someone I know who was friends with a famous artist was invited with that artist to visit Walt. Walt decided to show the dealer some of his art, so he went to get it from the closet where it was kept. The art was not in portfolios, mind you, but simply stacked in a giant pile from floor to ceiling. I was horrified to hear this, thinking of the all the ways it could be easily damaged in such a setting (bugs, humidity, water, fire etc). The dealer thought it was no big deal, which confused me -- until I visited the dealer at his house and saw he stored art the exact same way 

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...

On 3/18/2023 at 12:36 AM, Buzzetta said:

Also younger but I know that Marcos Martin has pretty much kept everything under his lock and key.  Most of the stuff that is out there is inked over his blue lines. 

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...).

On 3/17/2023 at 6:15 PM, fsumavila said:

It was Jim Shooter who allegedly caught Kane red-handed, no?

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.  

On 3/18/2023 at 3:00 AM, babsrocks31 said:

They are all over the map. Got some fair deals and seen some ridiculous ones like this... 

Sad thing about this is it doesn't even look that great.

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).

On 3/18/2023 at 12:38 AM, Buzzetta said:

He offered it this past week on Dueling Dealers... 

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...

On 3/7/2023 at 6:50 PM, hmendryk said:

Frank Miller Sin City: Family Values Splash page 58 - Miho sold on Heritage on October 1, 2022 for $12,500.
https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/frank-miller-sin-city-family-values-splash-page-58-deadly-little-miho-original-art-dark-horse-1997-/a/7273-61028.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

Now being sold on CAF for 30K
https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1901880

Wouldn't it be one of the usual suspects ?

Bump.

Still opened to an exchange.

On 2/16/2023 at 6:14 PM, Rick2you2 said:

Star artists have the audacity to expect more money. Disney has never been known for “giving it away”. So why bother paying more for a star if he won’t necessarily improve sales?

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.

On 2/16/2023 at 2:33 PM, Carlo M said:

(when was the last significant run penciled by Yu or McNiven?)

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...

On 2/15/2023 at 7:52 AM, Ecclectica said:

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"

 

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 :-)