glendgold

So someone is offering $6800 for digital art?

I've had a couple of people tell me they had excitedly stumbled over what they thought was Kirby art in an "obscure" auction house, and they thought they'd gotten a bargain. This is a PSA for you: that doesn't happen. You should know that if an auctioneer is on the internet, it's not obscure. Collectors and dealers subscribe to key word searches so that there is approximately zero chance of a legit piece of comic book artwork popping up without getting bid up accordingly. (I can think of one exception - if it's ineptedly described. So keep hunting and keep dreaming but as Casey Kasem used to say, Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.) Shorter version: auction houses in Lima, Peru are the Nigerian Prince of Jack Kirby art. Each one of these is a tracing of an existing piece of Kirby art. I am once again fascinated by the nonsensical stamps they put on the back to make them seem real. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/173888_hrellis-collection-items-july-auction/?terms=kirby

I gotcher really extreamly nice thank you bonus package right here, fellah.

Needless to say I didn't supply them.

Cool idea. I have very little of it, but what I do is mostly Gorey. The Loch Ness monster is a TV guide illo and the cops and robber is from PENNY CANDY.

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Comic-Art-in-Museums I will probably write a review of this after I finally read it - I've been hearing about its progress for years. Sounds like a really interesting read. Here's some info from the press release: Contributions by Kenneth Baker, Jaqueline Berndt, Albert Boime, John Carlin, Benoit Crucifix, David Deitcher, Michael Dooley, Damian Duffy, M. C. Gaines, Paul Gravett, Diana Green, Karen Green, Doug Harvey, Charles Hatfield, M. Thomas Inge, Leslie Jones, Jonah Kinigstein, Denis Kitchen, John A. Lent, Dwayne McDuffie, Andrei Molotiu, Alvaro de Moya, Kim A. Munson, Cullen Murphy, Gary Panter, Trina Robbins, Rob Salkowitz, Antoine Sausverd, Art Spiegelman, Scott Timberg, Carol Tyler, Brian Walker, Alexi Worth, Joe Wos, and Craig Yoe Through essays and interviews, Kim A. Munson’s anthology tells the story of the over-thirty-year history of the artists, art critics, collectors, curators, journalists, and academics who championed the serious study of comics, the trends and controversies that produced institutional interest in comics, and the wax and wane and then return of comic art in museums. Audiences have enjoyed displays of comic art in museums as early as 1930. In the mid-1960s, after a period when most representational and commercial art was shunned, comic art began a gradual return to art museums as curators responded to the appropriation of comics characters and iconography by such famous pop artists as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. From the first-known exhibit to show comics in art historical context in 1942 to the evolution of manga exhibitions in Japan, this volume regards exhibitions both in the United States and internationally. With over eighty images and thoughtful essays by Denis Kitchen, Brian Walker, Andrei Molotiu, Paul Gravett, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, and Charles Hatfield, among others, this anthology shows how exhibitions expanded the public dialogue about comic art and our expectation of “good art”—displaying how dedicated artists, collectors, fans, and curators advanced comics from a frequently censored low-art medium to a respected art form celebrated worldwide.

Yeah, Kirby prices were soft for the most part. I hear what you're saying, Gene, but in my case at least I'm not bidding on things because I've seen them before, and at these prices ya kinda want the best possible example. That's not always what's showing up. I think that FF 95 cover has been owned by a couple of heavy hitters already, so they were out of the bidding, and the other folks with that kind of coin had seen it before, so... I really dug the ST 101 pages. They went around where I thought they would.

Big fan. You don't see originals around that much (when I first researched him in 2010 or so, I was told his family was holding onto them) but they do pop up occasionally at regional auctions.

Royer inking Sinnott! A+++ idea and execution.

I know zero about Dave Stevens - was this based on a life drawing? It looks that way: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/dave-stevens-chelsea-girl-illustration-original-art-1998-/a/7231-94108.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515&viewAdult=1

Well, if you're only going to have three pages... I know the FF 98 is the flashiest, but I also like the other one for its soap opera. Look at how all the gestures - the hands on faces - work in every panel. And Frenz was no slouch either. Sinnott was the perfect inker for him.

Summarized to the point of inaccuracy: JB: "If it's legal to murder you and the company murders you, it's your fault for working there" vs. FM: "even without specific regulations, corporations have moral responsibilities to their contractors/employees," each of which can be argued for...well, at least 33 years now, I guess.

One day I hope to make the grade.

The top tier was torn off in the warehouse as a show of "loyalty" to the guy running it at the time (the first three pages of this issue are similarly torn) so the Baxter Building images are just a photocopy. Sinnott says he always started a new issue by inking the final panel of page 2 so it's possible that Thing/Torch frackus is the first FF image he ever did. I was lucky enough to visit Joe and his son at his house two years ago. Incredibly sweet guy, still working on the ASM Sunday strip, still with it. Very devout, and proud of his collection of every piece of correspondence Stan ever sent him.

It is amazing, though I guess unsurprising, that we haven't moved one inch away from re-litigating what were essentially John Byrne vs. Frank Miller's positions in 1987. Except now we're doing it for some reason in a Heritage Auctions thread.

Yeah, this is pretty good, Terry. Thanks.

Darn it.

Could be worse - could be a Hulk splash. They cancelled him after only six issues.

It's weird that for four of the five recreations Ayers inked, he wasn't the inker on the original cover.

I hadn't noticed that c-link had failed to follow c-connect's lead in mentioning the issue. That's disappointing. Glen

This is what the CAF listing looked like, including my comment. I hope Ankur won't object to me adding that he told me he addressed those concerns in advance by sending links to the two HA descriptions to the buyer before they bought it. For those of you unfamiliar with the piece, it's apparently by Kirby and an unidentified assistant, and the amount of participation by each is unknown. There's approximately three hundred thousand pages of commentary about it on the internet, if you're so inspired to investigate. Short version: *

Way to go, Ace!

He drew one of the first pieces of art I bought as an adult, back in 1994, at WonderCon. He was sitting at a table with Dan Clowes, Adrien Tomine and Arielle Bordeaux.

I really liked that piece - I don't know a ton about Wally Wood, but years ago someone who was way more versed in his output said it was unclear how much Wood did in his Doom stories and how much was Larry Hama. I don't know if that's still unclear or got sorted out, or if that has any reflection on the price. You probably know more than I do about it.