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I imagine that thing must weigh a TON if it's made of pewter! I hope you don't plan on wearing it! Seriously though, that's another amazing sculpture!

It's a pretty great one, though! But then, I'm biased.

Ha! That was a fun read! Great full story to own!

This might be goofy, but I figure it's a fun way for us to show off art and impress and/or make each other jealous (like we don't do that enough already). The game is simple. Post art that relates to the previous poster's avatar. You may have to be creative, depending on what the avatar is, of course. Then, after 1 person posts, someone else posts art related to the latest poster's avatar, and so on. Mine is easy since it's an image of a mainstream comic character.

I've been on a Red Sonja kick lately, comic book-wise, and just recently ordered her 1st appearance (Conan 23), her first cover appearance and main story (Conan 24), her origin (Kull and the Barbarians 3), her first story in a chainmail bikini (Savage Sword of Conan 1), and a handful of other books that I wanted to own and read. As far as art goes, right now I only have 1 piece with her, a prelim for a cover to a commemorative issue done recently by Greg Hildebrandt. I'll attach it and the published comic image to this post. But I'd like to see other members' Sonja art, if you'll share. Regarding my prelim, I got it on ebay from the source last summer. Greg's gallery was selling prelims and the final pencil art for the cover on ebay that he normally would've taken to conventions. But since COVID cancelled the conventions, they were available at auction instead. I just picked one that I liked and was affordable. He ended up switching her stance to favor the other side, and of course there are other characters and details on the final cover. It's an homage to the Star Wars movie poster painting he and his brother did many years prior (I'll include it, too). The comic itself is a reprint of Marvel's Red Sonja # 1.

Serves him right. Sorry you didn't get the piece. Ha! I love seeing intentional "extras" that artists occasionally add, knowing those parts won't be published.

These kind of weird stories always add to the fun of collecting. Good luck with your search!

Nice pieces! I found a typo on your CAF you might wanna fix, but maybe it fits if you got these as a purchase. You have Strong Guy labeled as Strong Buy.

So, I have a theory. Regardless of who does the finished strip, Jim Davis is quoted in the NY Times article floating around from 2019 (here it is: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/arts/garfield-art-auction.html ) that he does all the writing. As such, wouldn't it stand to reason that those rough prelims out there are actually hand-drawn by Jim? So with that in mind, and this recent forum Garfield talk, and my unabashed love of the strip and desire to own at least 1 actual Davis piece, AND the fact that a lot of the prelims go for cheap...I bought one. It's not a favorite or anything, but it's cute, and has a gaffe that's the sort of behind-the-scenes stuff we collectors like that the public doesn't see in finished work. So yeah, I like it. Eventually I'll add 1 or more published finished strips to my collection, but this is a start and it counts as something I can cross off (at least partially) my wish list! I'll attach the pic of the prelim and a photocopy of the finished strip that came with it.

Ha! That's a pretty great suggestion! If I ever have the chance to meet him in person, I may just do that!

"The purchase of this NFT also entitles the buyer to the original acrylic paint on board 36x36 inches, framed, signed."

Uh...near miss?

Oh, Didio. That man did a lot of damage to a number of "less popular" characters that still had diehard fans. For me, it was Batgirl (Cassandra Cain), who went from having a big heart, firmly believing in justice & good, and recently began learning to read and write after adjusting to spoken language not too long before, to going straight villain, attacking old allies, and being fluent in Navajo which she apparently used to use for secret communication in written letters to Robin...in the span of 1 year in continuity. Regarding Byrne's X-Men, if Marvel put it under their "new" What If label like Zdarsky's Spider-Man: Spider’s Shadow he could do whatever he wants. Well, to a degree of course, but it could work, I think?

Back stories always make pieces more special, and this has a great one. I always love seeing unpublished pages, too. Congratulations!

Great stuff! I'm glad you got the opportunity to do this. Thanks for sharing!

I occasionally see a listing or post where someone describes something as "twice-up." What does that mean?

And it even has Moira, who, while not super important in the classic mythos, IS very important in the current lore because she's finally unified the 2 ideals and mutantkind as a whole. She's basically the center of everything going on in X-Men right now, and with a solo book on the horizon, I suspect she will become a more popular character overall.

Congratulations, and great pickup!

@Unca Ben shared this: And in another thread, @Nuttzo shared this: And I got this a few months ago. I wonder how many pages were competed? If the full issue was done, I want to know why it wasn't printed. Does anyone have Pablo Marcos' contact info? I tried through his website but got an error message.

I see the Peanuts, but where's the Garfield?!?!

I got 2 pieces in today. I posted 1 in the manga thread so I'll link to it there if you want to check out Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider: Issue 5, Page 5 by Takeshi Miyazawa. The other piece I got is Batman: White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn: Issue 6, Page 7. This was one of the least expensive of the pages available from this series over at Essential Sequential, but I gotta say, even in this not-so-flashy page, seeing Matteo Scalera's work in person...it's really detailed and amazing. I'd love to add more of his work to my collection in the future. An interesting note if you're not familiar with the comic: in this issue, Harley is gifted a new suit by Batman that is black and grey, so the uncolored ink page still captures the new suit's look perfectly.

This is interesting. I got a piece in today from Takeshi Miyazawa. He's done a lot for Marvel and other Western titles, but he lives in Japan now and does his work from there. So, instead of this page being drawn on Marvel's branded board, it's actually on a smaller, Japanese board, the same size and brand that Yuusuke Takeyama used for one of the pieces in my post above. So, it's technically not manga (or maybe it technically is manga?), but it's definitely reminiscent of the typical manga style. This is from Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider # 5.

This sums up how I feel about this sort of thing. I don't necessarily like to see it, but it happens everywhere in the collectible world, and is just the nature of the beast. Regardless, this topic is fun. And it helps keep we potential buyers more informed.

I have no idea who the artist of this is but the signature looks like it may say "Vela." I have a coworker named Vela, but the only art he's good at is con. LOL!

One of the things I really enjoy about this hobby is researching OA I get that isn't fully credited. I've picked up pieces that didn't have a listed artist, didn't have a listed title, or didn't have a listed issue or page number. Any time that happens, I do my best to hunt down that missing information, and sometimes uncover interesting stories about the artwork itself, or its creators. I've posted a few of these stories in this thread: But, I want to know some of the things you've researched and discovered about pieces you own! Here's a couple more of mine I recently had to do my homework on: 1. This piece was listed on Anthony's website for cheap, and didn't credit an artist or title. I liked it because the art was somewhat classic, and there was a funny interaction with an arcade game. First, I Googled "Bill," "Pam," "brother," "sister," and "comic," based on the story on the page, and after searching through images and articles/blogs, I found out it came from Dynamite Duo, which was published serially in Dynamite Magazine. Then, I found some old Heritage auctions that gave general information like, "Dynamite Duo, Chic Stone, circa 1970s." From there, I found various pictures online that had story numbers in the title. The way Bill and Pam looked changed over the years to match the current times, and I eventually found a pic that looked like it came from around the same time my page did. From there, I resorted to buying a random issue off ebay. I had learned that Dynamite Duo didn't start getting published until a bit later after the magazine started, so I bought a late issue first. Unfortunately, it ended up not having a Duo comic in it. Then, I bought an older issue, but it had an older comic. From there, I simply counted issues to my estimated story number, and bought yet another issue. I was close, but still not there. Then I counted a little more, and found a listing that had a scan of the title page in it. Why hadn't I thought of that before?! I could look for listings with scans and/or PM the sellers to ask. So I emailed that seller. He told me his mag did indeed have a Dynamite Duo story in it, and he scanned it for me. As it turns out, that story was my story! Unfortunately, it was just Part 1, and mine must've come later, because it wasn't in that mag. But, that would mean that surely my page would be within the next 2-3 issues. I looked for listings with scans, and literally found every issue with my story in it EXCEPT for my specific page's part! Still, there was 1 issue in-between the rest that didn't have scans. So it had to be my issue, right? I purchased it, and sure enough, it was my issue! Dynamite Magazine Issue 83, page 18. Dynamite Duo # 47, by (most likely, according to multiple sources) Chic Stone. 2. I've had this manga piece for a while, but I bought it at a time when I was collecting anime cels and not comic art, so I grouped it with them. The listing was in Japanese, and Google translate gave me a name, but the listing just said "illustration by" and didn't label where it came from besides the artist. To top it off, the translation of the name was off, which I didn't know at the time, so I resigned to just having a cool art piece of unknown origin. But, literally last night, I was reading old posts about manga, and anticipating some manga OA that was scheduled to arrive today, and I remembered that piece. So, I dig it out of my old cel Itoyas, and took another look. Then, I went through my Mandarake purchase history, and reran the listing through Google Translate. This time it gave me the correct name of the artist. I did a search with the Japanese name as well, which confirmed it and got me to a page that listed his work. I searched through those titles and found something that sounded like it fit the theme of my art (Geopolice Joe), and when I puled it up, it definitely fit! OK, now I had the title of the book, but where was my art? After some more Googling, I found an auction on Yahoo Japan that had pictures of the front and backs of the first 2 volumes of the collected manga, and there it was! It's on the back cover of the 2nd volume! Anyhow, I was about to bid on the auction, because I like getting the finished publications where all my OA are, but then Googled some more and found a used manga store in Japan (this title is out of print unless I want a digital version). So, I placed an order for all 3 volumes, because why not? I'll attach a pic that I stole (shhhh) from the Yahoo auction page as well.