Recreation Covers?

[mister_not_so_nice]

I love the cover to BLACK CAT MYSTERY 31. Owning the OA wasn't enough. I needed a couple of recreations also

 

from DOUGLAS PASZKIEWICZ using his own characters.

 

 

And Matthew Kirscht putting his spin on the same cover

 

[alxjhnsn]

hey all, how do you insert an image into your post?

Here's my standard answer. Enjoy.

 

 

Posting images is actually very easy. There are two approaches depending on your desires.

 

Best,

 

Alex

 

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There are two ways to post an image:

1) Load the graphic in the post or

2) Link to an image

 

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To load the image in the post::

1) Click on "Switch to Full Reply Screen"

2) Enter the text of the post

3) Click on the "File Manager" button

4) A dialog box opens

5) Enter the caption of the image

6) Click "Choose File" to pick the image that you want to show

7) Click "Done adding files"

 

 

 

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To link to the CAF or other image source

 

If you want to show an image in your thread and you are already hosting it somewhere, e.g., Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, Photobucket, and the CAF site, you can use the appropriate BBC codes. It's really pretty easy.

 

 

Once you have the pictures hosted, it's pretty simple:

• Go to the picture source, e.g., the CAF or your website
  
• Right click on the image
  
• Choose the "Copy Image URL"
  
• In your CGC OA board post, choose "Switch to Full Reply Screen"
  
• Choose the third icon from the left and follow the dialog box.

 

If you use the CAF thumbnails, you get smaller images that are easier on the reader.

 

See! It's easy if you have the image posted somewhere, e.g., like I said above: their own websites, CAF, Flickr, Photobucket, etc.

 

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Once you do this, you'll see that you are embedding codes into your text message. The codes have a syntax like [] [/]. These are UBB codes and they are a simplified HTML tag.

 

You don't have to use the limited capabilities of the dialog box, you can type them in directly. Here's a link to a page on UBB codes: http://www.freebok.net/help/ubbcode.html

 

 

One of my favorite things to do is to not only show the image that I want, , but also make it pickable, using '>, so that it goes to my site.

 

I've done this to this image of Superman below. If you click on it, it will take you to it in the CAF. Try it.

 

 

Here's the syntax required:

[/b]]

 

In this case,

=http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=222850

=http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_10225/subcat_34812/SupermanBySwan.jpg

 

 

[Brian Peck]

I picked this one up in 2003: Enric re-did his Vampirella #28 cover sometime in the 1990s and put Vampi in her red Baywatch costume as opposed to her, um, European beach look shown on the published cover.

 

 

Can't believe I didn't mention the best recreation in my collection, José Gonzalez Vampirella #19 cover (and door poster). Only took Gene's post to remind me.

 

[StuporMan]

Wow, thanks for posting all these fantastic pieces!

[jick]

Re-creations and re-imaginations are a bit different. I prefer to have someone involved in the original issue do it, so he can add all the years of knowledge he has gained and revisit work from over 3 decades ago.

 

Feel free to click on the links provided so you can get a larger image, as well as a comparison with the original cover which I included in the additional images section. In some cases, there are even process pictures where the artist commissioned sent me such.

 

Here is a re-creation of Flash 254 by original cover inker Joe Rubinstein:

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=890565

 

Now, for the re-imaginations.

 

JLA 147 by original interior inker Frank McLaughlin:

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=918904

 

Green Lantern Green Arrow 97 by original cover artist Mike Grell, but this time he colored it:

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1191418

 

Marvel Super Villain Team-Up 14 by original cover artist John Byrne:

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1140695

 

Marvel Team-Up 62 by original interior artist John Byrne, doing his take on Gil Kane's original cover:

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=937211

 

The common denominator of all those covers are that they are from issues with cover date October 1977 which is my birth month/year. Hence that's why I commissioned the artist.

[Lucky Baru]

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[adamstrange]

LB Cole took a second shot at some of his covers from the 40s and 50s.

 

[StuporMan]

 

I love Platt's work

[StuporMan]

LB Cole took a second shot at some of his covers from the 40s and 50s.

 

 

WOW!!!

[buttock]

LB Cole took a second shot at some of his covers from the 40s and 50s.

 

 

Masterful coloring, but I can't imagine flying in traffic like that!

[Mark 1]

Really awesome covers guys. That Flash Rubinstein one is amazing!

 

Here's two I bought from Bob Layton a few years ago at a Con. I actually bought one and then regretted not buying the other so I chased him down the morning the next day to get the other.

 

 

 

 

[StuporMan]

Wow after seeing what that sketch went for in that other thread - I must say, well bought!

[Mark 1]

Wow after seeing what that sketch went for in that other thread - I must say, well bought!

 

Which one? I missed it. If you can send a link please?

 

Thanks!

[StuporMan]

It was a Perez sketch piece, but it looked a lot like the IM 256 cover re-creation.

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=9257564#Post9257564

[Mark 1]

Ok, thanks!

[Terry Doyle]

New in today . . . re-created cover art to Tales to Astonish # 35 (first Ant-Man in costume):

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1307991&GSub=169364

 

Bruce has done a great job re-creating this one for me . . . looks flawless (can't fault it).

 

Check out the art via the above link, should you feel so inclined . . .

[Mark 1]

Great cover recreation!

[Ironmandrd]

Bob Layton does quality work on whatever he works on--commissions, recreations, re-imaginings, etc.

[JadeGiant]

Bob Layton does quality work on whatever he works on--commissions, recreations, re-imaginings, etc.

 

So true. The man still cranks out a lot of very quality commissions at very reasonable prices

[Sharkey]

I've a few here on CAF including a nice one by Bob Layton and a couple of Ditko recreations by Tom Cook (he does REALLY nice work btw).

Recreations Gallery

 

But this one is my favorite - from the Sotheby's 1994 auction where they commissioned Kirby, Romita, and Ayers to do bunch of recreations of the early Marvel covers.