The Definitive CAF Galleries

[Mac Man]

So, I spent some time perusing CAF tonight and stumbled into some really awesome galleries, some of board members, some of people I don't know. Anyhow, I'm just wondering which galleries do you go to drool over? Is there one gallery that is the definitive place to find a particular artist, character, title, genre, etc?

[jbud73]

Michael Lovitz for George Perez art, especially New Teen Titans Perez. He's got 82 Perez covers and owns most of the memorable Perez pieces from my childhood. I've won a few panel pages, but unless he's on vacation in Tasmania its tough sledding for the better Perez NTT stuff.

[Pirate]

I like John Higashi's Star Wars collection.

 

Miki A has a wonderful Legion Collection

 

Anthony Carpenter has a nice Kitson Collection.

 

Chris Caira's Trophy Wall.

 

 

tons of great galleries

[PhiGam-migration]

tyler's vinci gallery and Kevin boyd's vinci gallery

[Mac Man]

One of the ones I love going back to over and over to browse is Aric Shapiro's Batman Commission gallery. The sheer amount of artists he has covered is pretty impressive and the quality of the work in that gallery is even more so.

[Khazano]

Bill Woo and Alex Gonzalez

[comix4fun]

Dave Mandel

 

AKA AKA

 

several more....

[*paull*]

 

Stephen Fischler

 

Jon Berk

 

Albert Moy

 

Philippe Queveau

 

I forget his name now (Leif _____?), but I think he took down his CAF collection. He had some amazing Gold and Silver pages, including a colored Jack Cole Daredevil splash that was unbelievable.

 

 

[clemso]

Bill Weekley

[mister_not_so_nice]

Some of "THE BEST" I have seen

• BEST Public Display Of Affection
  
• BEST Display Of Cover Art
  

[Mephisto]

Some of "THE BEST" I have seen

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• BEST Display Of Cover Art
  

 

I don't really like the fact Lou has his art mere inches from the baseboard heaters. Not sure that's the best place for the art to be hung.

[easyt63]

Ronald Sonenthal, AMAZING gallery.

 

linky

[Meeley Man]

My Top 10 CAF Gallery picks (in no special order):

 

Robert Plunkett

 

My Favorite Comic Art

 

Kenneth Zenuk

 

Jim D'Amico

 

Jimmy Hung

 

Eric Delos Santos

 

Craig Macmillan

 

Raul Lao

 

Patrick Yeung

 

Thomas Vanderstappen

 

All of these galleries show a diversity in artistic styles/flair and a concerted effort for high quality work. This puts them among the best galleries CAF has to offer (I can only hope my gallery will make it there someday (thumbs u )!

[Nexus]

All amazing galleries...got most of them on my watch list. The updates never disappoint.

 

A couple of notes:

 

-- Many of these guys only put a portion (sometimes just a small portion) of their collections on CAF.

 

-- There are still some amazing collections out there with zero CAF presence.

 

We all know the "big" galleries (the aforementioned along with guys like Eric Roberts, Kelvin Mao, et al). Here are some "sleeper" galleries that deserve some attention:

 

Dan Maull's incredible Matt Wagner/MAGE collection:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1445

 

Han Park's STAR WARS collection (smaller than John Higashi's, but some truly significant pieces):

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=13911

 

Only six pieces in Terry Crewes' entire collection...but what six pieces!:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=37681

 

Tom Coker has "the goods":

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=4787

 

Richard Martines has some of my favorite Neal Adams art:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1007

 

Also, I appreciate the artists who keep a CAF presence, like Frank Cho and Adam Hughes...love seeing their stuff.

[*paull*]

Right.... I forgot to mention Richard Martines'

[Mac Man]

Thanks for the heads up on the Neal Adams gallery! I agree--very, very cool stuff there! This is part of why I was posting this thread as a "directory" of sorts for those collectors who have some of those definitive collections.

 

All I can say is MORE! (definitely a great distraction from grading papers!-)

[easyt63]

Great thread Mac, its a ton of fun to search CAF, but getting together and telling others what galleries they should check out, its even more fun. If you guys have any more suggestions, i cant wait to hear them, like who has the best batman collection, Daredevil, Supes, Silver age, Golden Age..... lots of great stuff out there.

[bocaratondefense]

Great idea for a thread! I was not aware of some of the collections listed above.

 

 

Andrew Van Embden

 

Andrew has a very well rounded collection, but his collection of Daredevil splashes is incredible.

 

Matthew Ellis

 

Matt has one of the best McFarlane Spidey galleries out here.

 

 

 

 

[Mac Man]

Great idea for a thread! I was not aware of some of the collections listed above.

 

 

Andrew Van Embden

 

Andrew has a very well rounded collection, but his collection of Daredevil splashes is incredible.

 

Matthew Ellis

Matt has one of the best McFarlane Spidey galleries out here.

 

 

 

Next for me to visit....

[Bronty]

I think Tom Coker's buster crabbe cover is the best piece on caf