Never thought I'd live to see the day...

[Bronty]

Here's a topic I know at least a little about.

 

Dave often frames his own pieces knowing that the pieces would need to withstand prying fingers and dust. The Sandman pieces haven't really been together since Four Color had them back in the 90s before the sell off. I do believe I remember these being framed similarly to the McKean piece I have hanging on my wall at home. Of course the Sandman covers being inteded for publication, they were kind of cobbled together a bit more to get the shot. Some of them have been "edited" by McKean for various reasons since the photos for the covers were taken.

 

Dave's art has certainly evolved a bit since the Sandman days, and his finished products are a bit cleaner and more stable, but they still require the display framing J mentions above. In the case of the large Nitrate series paintings he has been producing, the frame is about 42" x 42" x 4" deep. The glass is all the way forward on the piece. The depth allows for all the things going on with the surface, and the collaged found objects and whatnot to have room.

 

Some pieces use coiled wire, collage, fabrics, etc.

Mine's got that and more from the garden. It's take forever to list it all out. point being it's the fragile stuff, but affixed for permanence. Something the Sandman covers were not necessarily intended for.

 

There's a good head-on shot in my CAF.

 

The frame has to be screwed directly into the studs in the wall to carry the weight. This piece was pretty farkin heavy. I know those shelves with their objects have got to be worse.

 

Back to the Sandman covers though, as much as there are things about them that would bother me, and the fact that I turned a couple down myself in the past, the pros for those 2 outweigh any cons. Scott is one lucky SOB.

 

-e.

 

Interesting thanks

[comix4fun]

I don't get it guys, why would so many of you be scared to own them? Because they don't fit in your art portfolios? To me the scale is a good thing, they are probably a lot more impressive than your average comic cover in person due to being a) in color and b) probably 4x the area of a standard page. As for the delicacy... I assume all of the elements are glued down.... don't really see what there is to be worried about

 

 

Scale has nothing to do with it. I have several pieces that are 2 feet by 3 feet or larger.

 

Take a closer look at those pieces, glass bottles, leaves, several other items that could shatter, tear, break or be destroyed with not much effort.

 

With a piece this important would you want to be the one that had a child, dog, friend bump it and break something irreplaceable? I wouldn't. This think is a classic piece of the last quarter century, and a lot of it looks like it could snap off or break with a breath.

 

C

 

I guess I'm just not seeing it the same way you are. In those boxes scott has them in (original? not sure) they look pretty solid to me especially with the front of the box glassed in. Hung high enough to be away from the kids and dogs you mention I don't see the risk. I guess we'll agree to disagree

 

 

Scott's pictures on CAF have them on the floor. Probably because of their weight and size (can you imagine this being hung on a wall and the anchor failing?)

 

Having owned collage-art in the past, I have seen time, sun, temperature, and visitors do some interesting things to pieces like this.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love it, would love to call it my own, but it looks like a museum piece to me. That's all I am saying.

 

C

 

 

 

[Herman Wang-migration]

I remember "the key". I saw it hanging at Mr. McKean's booth at the 1992 San Diego Comicon. Also remember the stack of Arkham Asylum pages for $75 each he had for sale. Memories...

[Eric Seffinga]

Was that Rob R. in NYC that owned them ?

 

I don't know who bought them from 4 Color first. I just know the last time the run of covers was together was during the show that Ken & Laura's Four Color Images Gallery did back in the mid 90s. It was the source of the 1/1 prints done as "originals" for the digital covers, since Dave wanted to get the digital pieces out there with the paintings and collages.

 

Cool to see them again. Cool to know where they are. Now to go bug Scott for a peek.

 

-e.

[tylerdurden-migration]

Was that Rob R. in NYC that owned them ?

 

I don't know who bought them from 4 Color first. I just know the last time the run of covers was together was during the show that Ken & Laura's Four Color Images Gallery did back in the mid 90s. It was the source of the 1/1 prints done as "originals" for the digital covers, since Dave wanted to get the digital pieces out there with the paintings and collages.

 

Cool to see them again. Cool to know where they are. Now to go bug Scott for a peek.

 

-e.

 

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