drewincanada

Love the ASM #33 (my fave Spidey cover) and the FF #100. Those took serious skill and dedication. Congrats to Mangbus and Sulphur Server!

A new addition to my series of oil paintings of my staff. Finished it this morning. Here's a link to the full Photobucket album: Staff portraits

That's one of my favorite features in the piece, too. The angle of the light is just about 180 degrees off, but yeah, it's still cool! The angle of the light and the shadow on the building are correct. It's the shadow on Bats' face and body that's wrong.

I've done a grand total of one deal with Steve for 2 pages. The prices he quoted were about 50% higher than market value at the time. He did give me a bit of a break on the package deal, though. Interesting thing is that we did this deal in January 2010, and he still has the two pages listed on his site. They're marked as "sold", but why leave them up there for nearly 3 years after the deal? It makes sense if these were covers or splash pages, but they were fairly run of the mill interior panel pages. I wrote to him about a year ago and asked him to take them down, but I never heard back. Andrew

Despite a few commission horror stories that I've read recently (NOT about the artist in question), I decided to take the leap and approach an artist about a commission. I'd heard nothing but GOOD things about Frank Brunner, so I wasn't really concerned. Here's the deal: on June 10th I sent him an email to inquire about his commission rates. We discussed the composition, characters, backgrounds, etc., and I sent him some reference materials. Frank did a pencil rough, and I asked him for a few minor changes. Today, on June 25th --- fifteen days later --- he sent me a scan of the completed pen and ink commission. I think he knocked it out of the park. If you know me, then you know my love of Howard the Duck #9. So I asked Frank to do his own take on the classic Gene Colan cover of Howard facing off against Le Beaver over Niagara Falls. It also seemed like good timing to revisit this cover, given last weekend's Wallenda high wire act. I should receive the final art in a week or so (unless Canada Customs holds it up), and I'll post a larger scan then. But in the meantime, here's a small scan of the final art: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=907298&GSub=127285 Thanks, Frank! Andrew

I'm confused. I see this page in your CAF gallery, Jeremy, and the description says that you regretted selling it, but now you have it back. So did you sell it again, and regret it again?

I got my copy today, too. Excellent packaging, as usual. And I got my Green Goblin sketch, as requested. Sweet! It's #205 of 250. Thanks Scott & Mike! A spectacular book. Beautifully designed and top-notch production.

The packing job on my Wood and Romita books couldn't have been better. There was absolutely no way they could have been damaged in transit, save for being run over by a forklift truck. Each book comes in its own box, and both boxes were secured within a much larger shipping box with something like 6" of padding on all sides. Perfection!

Any scanner should let you save the file directly to whatever drive you have connected to the computer... unless you're suggesting that you want to plug a flash drive directly into the scanner and bypass using a computer altogether. If this is not impossible (which I think it IS) then it's certainly not practical.

I bought the original edition and love it. But I also ordered the remarqued edition without a moment's hesitation. Scott posted here at noon, and I just happened to log in to the boards a few minutes later. Order placed and confirmed by 12:08 pm.

Next thread down! 100 copies.

Well, it makes my job easier (not only my painting job, but my job in general) by only hiring good looking employees!

Another in a series of portraits I'm doing of my staff.

Three recent paintings. I'm working on a series of portraits of my staff.

. You know nothing of the internets. I lost the user manual.

. You know nothing of the internets.

Three new pieces in my rather humble CAF gallery: • a Steve Leialoha duck sketch from the 1980 SDCC • a Gene Colan/Tom Palmer Tomb of Dracula page with a nice nod to EC comics (intentional or not) -- thanks to Jeff at art4comics for this one • a Gene Colan/Jack Abel Hostess Cupcake ad featuring Thor and Loki http://cafurl.com?i=17043

Fair enough. Some grades have seen gradual increases year to year. I saw those increases and didn't think much of them because I didn't think several hundred dollars was significant. But it's actually in the range of 10% per year for some grades. Guess I was viewing "significant" as more in the range of 40-50% per year.

Avengers #1 and #4 haven't really gone anywhere in the last 3 years. GPA average prices for both have crept up a few percent each year but they certainly haven't skyrocketed. This is true for most grades.

Yeah, it's from Hallmark. There are 4 in the series. The first three were a Supes, Amazing Fantasy #15, and Hulk #181. The Avengers #4 is the final one in the series. I believe it was just released this year. I've seen it online for anywhere from $17.95 to $22 or so. http://www.hallmark.com/Product/ProductDetails/1795QX8819_DK?FacetList=keepsakes%3EMarvel%E2%84%A2 The photo doesn't do it justice. You can't see the depth. Cap is a full three-dimensional figure.

I sold my Avengers #4 SS 7.0 (Lee/Simon) earlier this year, but one of my staff just picked me up a replacement: It'll be hanging on my Christmas tree this year. I love the 6 page comic inside the ornament. They did a credible job of distilling the story down to about 12 panels.

Jeff, you're really rocking the late 40s books these days. Amazing. I need to know what an "Anatomical Monster" is, though. "Oh my god!! It has arms and legs and.. and.. another appendage! Look at the size of it! Run away!!"

Great scan. What OS are you using? Mac OS 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard) I use the scanning software that came with the scanner: ScanWizard Pro 7.71, and I left it on its default settings. No sharpening, no contrast or saturation adjustments. With previous scanners, I've installed their Photoshop plug-in so I can scan directly within Photoshop, but I couldn't find a Microtek plug-in for Photoshop CS5. Glad to hear you got a scanner that you're happy with Andrew. I'm curious - is the off-white colour of the back cover and interior pages in the scan you provided representative of the actual book? As far as sharping/resolution settings are concerned, it is native to the controls of my scanner software and don't need to be tweaked in post-capture mode using any editing software. I'd say that the contrast and brightness of the scan are accurate, but the colour has shifted. The scan is too yellow. The actual book is a light cream colour. I haven't had time to play with the settings in the scanning software to correct this. Like your software, the app that came with my scanner has a myriad of controls to adjust the quality of the final scan. I'm so familiar with Photoshop, however, that I tend to my final tweaking there instead.

Great scan. What OS are you using? Mac OS 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard) I use the scanning software that came with the scanner: ScanWizard Pro 7.71, and I left it on its default settings. No sharpening, no contrast or saturation adjustments. With previous scanners, I've installed their Photoshop plug-in so I can scan directly within Photoshop, but I couldn't find a Microtek plug-in for Photoshop CS5.

I picked up a Microtek i800 Pro (legal size scanner), which had a number of positive reviews on the boards. Here's my thread where I posted my first slab scan. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=4&Number=4513655&Searchpage=3&Main=211514&Words=drewincanada&topic=0&Search=true#Post4513655