Signatures That Are "Right On The Money"

[MedicAR]

The window bag thread brought up a question that's bugged me for awhile. Is there a good (and polite) way to get signers to place their signature in the best possible place? Are some creators more receptive than others? Who are the best and worst to get a signature from in a specific place? To be clear, I'm not blaming any witnesses for the placement, it's the signers.

 

My personal votes for consistently worst placement are Stan Lee and Joe Quesada.

 

All that white space at the bottom and Lee and Sinnott both signed over the art...

 

And Quesada generally signs right over the face of the character......

 

I don't own any Quesada's for that reason...it just irritates me and besides that I'm not a huge fan in the first place.

[seanfingh]

 

Joe Kubert, Romita Sr. and Ayers normally all look for white space to sign, even without prompting. Linsner likes to find *ahem* creative places to sign on his books at times.

[MedicAR]

I was just about to say Joe Kubet would have to be on the "Best Placement" list.

 

[Par2ch]

Hey I resent that , thats my (was mine just sold on ebay) Daredevil #3 your showing (i did use the window bag) and I personally love silver sigs on comics and the red on Daredevils face is a nice dark area on the book to sign, In retrospect I would have liked him to sign on the moon.

[jonjesper]

Doug Mahnke

Chris Claremont (IMO, at least he signs on the logo)

[cheetah]

I've always liked Bendis' placement on this one. Really draws the eyes (as if they weren't already drawn there).

 

[MedicAR]

Hey I resent that , thats my (was mine just sold on ebay) Daredevil #3 your showing (i did use the window bag) and I personally love silver sigs on comics and the red on Daredevils face is a nice dark area on the book to sign, In retrospect I would have liked him to sign on the moon.

 

I didn't realize that was yours!

 

Just a perfect example of how he does it. I was actually looking for one of the Invincible Iron Man Philly books where he put his "Q" right on Shellhead's face every time.

[Jason Truong]

Quesada for the most part, always puts his sig on the face, which kinda bugs me, though I don't have many books signed by him. Maybe try window bagging a specific area, and closing off the face, whenever getting books signed by him.

[Mephisto]

Stan Lee is the worst.

[Mac Man]

When Comicgrinder took my ASM 50 to be signed by Stan Lee, I purposely sent it double bagged with the inner bag having the signature area cut out. JRSR did a bangup job signing for the best possible placement. The one JoeQ signature I have is actually a decent one--Sword of Azrael #1 (mini series) and it's off to the side. I hooked someone up with a Jim Lee signature (only needed two myself), and Jim had no problem with the signature bag.

[CollectingStanLee]

I've mostly had good luck with the way Stan Lee signs my books. Jim Lee on the other hand, seems to pay no regard to the art whatsoever when signing. I've never had him personally sign something, but everything I have with his sig on it looks like he hates signing comic books.

[NYComics]

I just got back about 30 Stan Lee books where he did an awesome job with sig placement....never had any problems before.

 

Only one I saw was with that big spider on that ASM 129 that time

[Mac Man]

Jim's placement has never been a problem (I have a few books signed by him), but he's handwriting is tough. Then again, so isn't mine so... :shrug:

[THE_BEYONDER]

We could eliminate a large percentage of terrible signatures if we would just keep the fat sharpies out of the hands of the artists/creators.

[MedicAR]

We could eliminate a large percentage of terrible signatures if we would just keep the fat sharpies out of the hands of the artists/creators.

 

Good point..... .......no pun intended.

[THE_BEYONDER]

We could eliminate a large percentage of terrible signatures if we would just keep the fat sharpies out of the hands of the artists/creators.

 

Good point..... .......no pun intended.

 

[EvilAsh]

but he's handwriting is tough. Then again, so isn't mine so... :shrug:

 

Hitting the homebrew a little early today?

 

[THE_BEYONDER]

Stan did a good job picking placement on this book. Would have been a little cleaner had he used a finer point sharpie. Still....pretty solid:

 

 

Had the opportunity to add Adams, so I decided to resub the book. Neal almost always has a clean & tight signature.

 

Well.....except when he's using a thick silver sharpie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Raphael]

Mark Millar has ruined a couple of my covers with his signature (signing right over the faces of characters), or made it hard to find his signature (signing in black in dark areas)

[Mac Man]

but he's handwriting is tough. Then again, so isn't mine so... :shrug:

 

Hitting the homebrew a little early today?

 

 

I wish! That was written during my 2nd to last class (yay for tests!) and I was definitely ready for some brew! But, Mrs. Mac Man made (ooooh alliteration!) her famous Cheddar Ale soup tonight, so that should count for something?-)