Simply astonishing !! 4 photos of art that just mesmerized me !!

[Jokerman]

 

 

Amazing!! Thanks for posting the pics.

 

 

Joker--

 

 

[newshane]

Ingels > *

[lhcomics]

Very very very cool art. Thanks for sharing

[Artboy99]

Thanks for sharing!

I would love to see those pages, wish the show was close to home.

 

[MetalPSI]

 

To think that someone..... somewhere on the planet actually owns these......just shook me...... I mean, there is only one of them.... ONE !!

 

And by their graciousness....... I was able to stare at it from 6 inches away, for as long as I wanted

 

That is just beautiful. On a side note, my wife would like to know where you got that shirt She's a huge Spy vs Spy fan

[thehumantorch]

Hey Mike, thanks for this thread. God that art is beautiful.

[Senormac]

On a side note, my wife would like to know where you got that shirt She's a huge Spy vs Spy fan

 

Spy vs. Spy is the best !! I got it here Tee Fury

[MetalPSI]

Thanks, some great stuff

[wombat]

[Senormac]

Hey Mike, thanks for this thread. God that art is beautiful.

 

Yea.... it's really something to look at them closely Dave. I noticed that some people were READING the stories. There were a number of stories with every single page of the OA. I found that I was almost completely uninterested in the stories, probably because I am so familiar with them already, but to look at the artwork was something different altogether. I only read one tale in its entirety.....a H. Kurtzman war story about a GI by a river in Korea where dead bodies keep floating past. Soon after he gets into a hand to hand battle with an enemy.

 

I could have taken pics of it all, but decided against it. I thought about people who go to Disneyland or somewhere and spend the entire experience behind their video cameras and I just wanted to enjoy the exhibit while I was there.... in the moment.

 

 

[Senormac]

Here's the rest of the pics I took.

 

 

 

 

 

[Ken Aldred]

I only read one tale in its entirety.....a H. Kurtzman war story about a GI by a river in Korea where dead bodies keep floating past. Soon after he gets into a hand to hand battle with an enemy.

 

 

Corpse on the Imjin.

[ygogolak]

Amazing!

[Senormac]

I only read one tale in its entirety.....a H. Kurtzman war story about a GI by a river in Korea where dead bodies keep floating past. Soon after he gets into a hand to hand battle with an enemy.

 

 

Corpse on the Imjin.

 

That's it !

 

I was really looking closely at Kurtzmans brushwork on that story. I bet he could work pretty fast.

 

Also, and my wife commented on this too.... the lettering on these pages is perfect. I mean, amazingly straight, uniform, equal, balanced and perfect ! I would not be surprised to learn a machine did it.

 

One more thing, many of the works have logos, numbers, titles and even artwork glued in place on them. You'd never know of course looking at a printed book, but you could see all the production work when looking right at the originals. Like the Basil Wolverton cover for MAD #11. His ugly girl artwork is glued to the center of a bristol board page with the title glued to the top, a photo of some buildings glued to the background and all the other little details that made the final cover come together as we see it in comic form

[Weird Paper]

I only read one tale in its entirety.....a H. Kurtzman war story about a GI by a river in Korea where dead bodies keep floating past. Soon after he gets into a hand to hand battle with an enemy.

 

 

Corpse on the Imjin.

 

That's it !

 

I was really looking closely at Kurtzmans brushwork on that story. I bet he could work pretty fast.

 

Also, and my wife commented on this too.... the lettering on these pages is perfect. I mean, amazingly straight, uniform, equal, balanced and perfect ! I would not be surprised to learn a machine did it.

 

One more thing, many of the works have logos, numbers, titles and even artwork glued in place on them. You'd never know of course looking at a printed book, but you could see all the production work when looking right at the originals. Like the Basil Wolverton cover for MAD #11. His ugly girl artwork is glued to the center of a bristol board page with the title glued to the top, a photo of some buildings glued to the background and all the other little details that made the final cover come together as we see it in comic form

I believe that the EC lettering was something called Leroy Lettering which was some sort scalable stencil system that engineers used to use. I have my Grandfather's old kit somewhere.

[jpepx78]

I was really looking closely at Kurtzmans brushwork on that story. I bet he could work pretty fast.

 

Also, and my wife commented on this too.... the lettering on these pages is perfect. I mean, amazingly straight, uniform, equal, balanced and perfect ! I would not be surprised to learn a machine did it.

 

EC Comics used a mechanical Leroy Lettering set for their perfect lettering.

http://potrzebie.blogspot.com/2011/09/wroten-on-wind.html

 

Leroy lettering set in detail:

http://www.benzilla.com/?p=5433

 

[Robot Man]

Here's the rest of the pics I took.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OMG! MAD #2 is my favorite MAD cover. That WS #20 is my favorite from that title. I wonder who is the lucky stiff that actually owns these? That CSS is just off the hook. I know Jim Halpern from Heritage owns the WSF #29 Frazetta cover. Probably some of these as well.

 

I remember seeing VOH #30 (the hanging arm cover) at SD Con one year. I must have stared at it for 10 minutes with my mouth hanging open.

 

[Ken Aldred]

I was really looking closely at Kurtzmans brushwork on that story. I bet he could work pretty fast.

 

Also, and my wife commented on this too.... the lettering on these pages is perfect. I mean, amazingly straight, uniform, equal, balanced and perfect ! I would not be surprised to learn a machine did it.

 

EC Comics used a mechanical Leroy Lettering set for their perfect lettering.

http://potrzebie.blogspot.com/2011/09/wroten-on-wind.html

 

Leroy lettering set in detail:

http://www.benzilla.com/?p=5433

 

I knew about the Leroy Lettering, but I'd never actually seen the system itself.

[Azkaban]

Hey Mike, thanks for this thread. God that art is beautiful.

 

Yea.... it's really something to look at them closely Dave. I noticed that some people were READING the stories. There were a number of stories with every single page of the OA. I found that I was almost completely uninterested in the stories, probably because I am so familiar with them already, but to look at the artwork was something different altogether. I only read one tale in its entirety.....a H. Kurtzman war story about a GI by a river in Korea where dead bodies keep floating past. Soon after he gets into a hand to hand battle with an enemy.

 

I could have taken pics of it all, but decided against it. I thought about people who go to Disneyland or somewhere and spend the entire experience behind their video cameras and I just wanted to enjoy the exhibit while I was there.... in the moment.

 

 

 

[Senormac]

I was really looking closely at Kurtzmans brushwork on that story. I bet he could work pretty fast.

 

Also, and my wife commented on this too.... the lettering on these pages is perfect. I mean, amazingly straight, uniform, equal, balanced and perfect ! I would not be surprised to learn a machine did it.

 

EC Comics used a mechanical Leroy Lettering set for their perfect lettering.

http://potrzebie.blogspot.com/2011/09/wroten-on-wind.html

 

Leroy lettering set in detail:

http://www.benzilla.com/?p=5433

 

Cool. Comic book trivia ! Thanks for the links. I didn't know any of that but thought it was just hand lettered by some very skilled persons