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Ecclectica

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    Would you have the writer sign the original art?

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    Posted · Edited by Ecclectica

    On 5/20/2022 at 6:46 AM, Peter L said:

    Is this a good idea or does it add anything to the art?

    If that means something for you, yes.

    I have in my collection a page from a New Mutants story Chris Claremont choosed 10 years ago as one of his personnal favorite single stories for a TPB.

    Clearly, if CC come again to a convention near my home, I suppose we will be both happy if he signs it.

    Need Help Identifying Some 1950s OA

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    Posted · Edited by Ecclectica

    Another thing you could do would be to browse the websites that display digital versions of comics that are now in the public domain, because luckily, these probably are.

    For example, I could find Sterling comics cbrs on this site (but apart from what you have already found, nothing else in it it seems) :

    https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=840

     Sterling didn't have many books running, so I wouldn't be surprised the unidentified pages weren't published by them. 

    I knew I should have bought this velum

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    Posted

    On 5/13/2022 at 8:41 PM, GreatEscape said:

    Even worse, looks like a fake board with “Dr. Strange 32” written at bottom plus a fake Romita signature to complete the snooker.  Uggh.  If so, ComicConnect should pull this down for the fake signature alone. 

    Yes, a fake board indeed. I didn't insist on it to make my subject short, but you're perfectly right.

    Maybe it's not the fake signature that irritate me the most, but the "Dec, 4, 1986" at the right for a comic published in the 90's...

     

    I knew I should have bought this velum

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    Posted · Edited by Ecclectica

    Some months ago, I should have bought this John Romita SR velum when I saw it... but necessarily not for the only reasons you would think...

    I was already engaged elsewhere in a difficult transaction, and couldn't push my mind to do the move.

    I discovered a few days after it had fallen in the wrong hands, well known here, trying to do easy money on it, adding a printed "blank" cover (a fake) under it to make it lot more desirable. An attempt with an outrageous price on it, and with a crude photo manipulation to present it as if he was hold by JR SR.  

     

    This velum has just reappeared now. The @"$&#£ saw he couldn't do the easy money with it, so now he tries to get rid of it.

    "What's the problem ?", you will tell me.

    Well, the butcher has cut the upper side of this velum to make it suit his custom made cover : 

    https://www.comicconnect.com/item/958710?tzf=1

    Here is like it was (archive of the ebay ad where it appeared first) :

    https://originalartcover.com/rare-original-john-romita-sr-art-dr-strange-32-cover-prelim-1991-silver-surfer/

    I'm sick of this kind of guys.

    If only I could have made the move, to preserve this velum.

    Just a velum, okay, maybe, but what an...

    WTB - Mike Zeck Spider-Man Sketch/Commission

    in Original Comic Art Marketplace

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    On 2/1/2022 at 6:36 PM, Ecclectica said:

    This one ?

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/393900106328?hash=item5bb646a258%3Ag%3AHlUAAOSwgWJh8QYg&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338181027&customid=958&toolid=10049

    If you think the original price was too expensive (I was thinking this, too !). You have to know that the ad was redone as an auction, starting at a more suited price :

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/393933448530?hash=item5bb8436552:g:HlUAAOSwgWJh8QYg

    Maybe worth waiting for the last minutes...

    Website for buying directly from artists and directory of websites to purchase from

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    Nice effort

    But I am asking myselft if it's a good idea to mention B. Anderson in this list...

    As you will see in the news section of his website (from 2020), he says no artwork is currently for sale, and last time, some months ago, I asked him if I could buy something from me, maybe, in some of the tiny time "slots" he mentionned, he told me there wasn't even anymore any slots and that he didn't sell artwork anymore, so...

    Just my 2¢

     

    Sleepwalker and speedball OA?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted · Edited by Ecclectica

    On 1/27/2022 at 3:55 PM, ignimbrite said:

    @Ecclectica @John E.This information really helped! While I do have some OA pieces and have been dabbling for a few years I still have a lot of learn. I have always wondered why finding pages for some of these more obscure books was so difficult. My assumption was people, like me, who had an affinity to this character, simply held on to them.

     

    Well, if one day you see another Ditko's Speedball page (even a minor one) to sell which is not visible on the market, send me a PM. :-)

    (and for your assumption, it is probably right IMHO)

    Sleepwalker and speedball OA?

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    On 1/26/2022 at 5:34 AM, John E. said:

    The reason you don't see a lot of (early) Sleepwalker art is because Bret Blevins kept it all. And, since he didn't have an inker, there are no "inker pages" floating around either. I heard from a reliable source that a BSD black hole collector bought it all, so you won't see any of the Blevins work come to light any time soon. I do hope I got bad intel. About 12 months ago or so, CLink was auctioning off a couple of Sleepwalker pages by Kelly Krantz. I think a Joe Quesada Sleepwalker cover also sold on Clink about 3 or so years ago. That's about all I've seen.

    Reading all this remember me of a move I didn't do... (and I should bang my head on a wall again)

    3 years ago, Peter Koch offered on his website a page of an early Sleepwalker issue and I didn't jumped on it (it was only 50 USD)

    Here it is :

    http://cdn.kochcomicart.com/Images/Category_2/subcat_1169/leonardi-sw4pg8.jpg

    Yes... Do not forget that Rick Leonardi did a fill-in issue (#4), so nice Sleepwalker art exists on the market (and I can say "nice" confidentely not only because of Leonardi, but also because of Al Williamson inks).

     

     

    Jan Heritage Auction putting up some nice artwork

    in Original Comic Art

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    On 1/6/2022 at 3:35 AM, alexgross.com said:

    i guess it's been forever since i read it, but i'm amazed at just how terrible the artwork is to secret wars #8, esp page 24. my 7 year old can draw better than whoever did that fiasco of a page. i know it is credited to mike zeck and others, but knowing how good zeck is, i'm guessing that it's mostly 'others.' astonishing to me that this terrible page alone will likely exceed 6 figures.

    Well, let's say that, in that precise era, anyone, late, who inked the work at 5 in the morning, couldn't have the minimal consistency of, let's say, a Kyle Baker in that same situation...

    WTB: Batman Earth One pages

    in Original Comic Art Marketplace

    Posted · Edited by Ecclectica

    On 12/10/2021 at 11:50 AM, barneythecantankerous said:

    I mostly want to make up for my lack of volume 1 and 2 pages, so those are the priority, but I'd also consider volume 3 pages.

    Just in case : it seems this one just pop up yesterday :

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/294626898800?hash=item449921b370%3Ag%3A6ZwAAOSwSRlhtNFI&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338181027&customid=958&toolid=10049

    And there is this one too (the seller is a member of this forum) :

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/115026078899?hash=item1ac816acb3%3Ag%3AC9kAAOSw2r1gs-Uj&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338181027&customid=958&toolid=10049

    Claudio Castellini Commissions

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    On 12/9/2021 at 10:35 AM, Ghazi said:

    Thank you so much Ecclectica! I saw that and wasn't sure. Then late last night my time here I was able to find his FB page and make contact! Thank you so much for your amazing detective work! You are right he draws like a modern tighter JB. His examples of Thor, The Thing, The Hulk are especially amazing!

    Glad you could make the contact !

    If you still exchange with him, please tell him that some of us would be glad to see him back on an US comic project with a character he would find suited to his values (I was really happy to see "Man and Superman" to be finally published back in 2019)

    Claudio Castellini Commissions

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    Posted

    On 12/8/2021 at 8:34 PM, Ghazi said:

    Hi All,

    I hope you are keeping safe and healthy. I was wondering if anyone knew if Claudio Castellini was taking commissions?  And how I may contact him if so? Your experience with getting the commission would be awesome feedback if possible! Thank you so much for any help :) 

    Maybe you can try to contact the person who seems to be one of his agents here : http://www.claudiocastelliniart.com/contact/

    He seems to be still linked to Sal Abbinanti on Twitter too.

    Nice memories of Claudio Castellini's work at Marvel in the 90's. I loved the kind of modern John Buscema influence he put then into his drawings.