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Best of 2016 ..... Results are in
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JadeGiant

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First time participant in the Lowry. I think I have done everything right. Feel free to have a stroll and let me know if anything looks amiss.

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/mylowry.asp?gsub=1186

 

Sal Buscema Hulk splash for issue 228

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1362015

 

 

Chris Stevens variant cover to The Fallen issue #1

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1359007

 

 

Commission from Alan Davis and Mark Farmer

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1345459

 

 

Opening splash from Infinity Crusade issue #5 by Ron Lim and Al Milgrom

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1291356

 

 

Hulk comic strip by Larry Lieber and Joe Sinnott

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1305321

 

 

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RICKYBOBBY

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Not many choices this year.. had only 3 pieces to add.. a cover, an interior page and a cover recreation.

 

Jack Kirby Super Powers (V1) #2 - Cover

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8570

 

Amazing Spider-Man #68 pg 18 - Interior page

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8571

 

Journey Into Mystery #83 - Cover Recreation

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8572

 

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batman_fan

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Not many choices this year.. had only 3 pieces to add.. a cover, an interior page and a cover recreation.

 

Jack Kirby Super Powers (V1) #2 - Cover

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8570

 

Amazing Spider-Man #68 pg 18 - Interior page

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8571

 

Journey Into Mystery #83 - Cover Recreation

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8572

 

RickyB

 

All are great, but especially like the Spiderman 68 panel page :cloud9:

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Brian Peck

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Please only original art in the Best of 2016. No coloured prints or colour guides.

 

Also the Lowry is NOT a place for selling items. Please do NOT post sale prices in Lowry/Best of. Thanks.

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Not as many new acquisitions this year, but kind of hard to make a selection nevertheless.

 

The Best of 2016 in my Lowry:

 

Joëlle Jones - Lady Killer (Unpublished Sketch Covers/Convention Sketches)

Joëlle Jones was the Guest of Honor at Örebro Comics Festival 2016 and she was was kind enough to make this contribution in my sketchbook. Her protagonist Josie Schuller with just the right amount of red splattered all over it.

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8613

 

John McCrea - Tommy Monoghan, happy & content (Unpublished Sketch Covers/Convention Sketches)

At London Super Comic Convention 2016 I asked John McCrea (who is an incredibly nice person) if he could draw a smiling Tommy Monoghan, happy and content for the moment with his life? He agreed and started out in a very enhusiastic way, but nothing could have prepared me for the result of his work - this is a labor of of love and I think it shows! Tommy sitting at the bar in Noonan's with a cold one and lighting up a cigarette with a happy smile on his face. Looking at it I feel the same way as Tommy...

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8612

 

Eduardo Barreto - Robin Annual #6 - p32 (Published Interior Panel pages)

A wild chase on horseback in the dark. The storytelling is exceptionally good and the action moves swiftly along from panel to panel. Light and shadow look easy when a master has done the work. Eduardo Barreto should really get more appreciation for his craft.

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8610

 

Frank Robbins - Johnny Hazard - 6-4-1972 (Published Strip Art)

The magnificent Sunday page from June 4th, 1972. One of the last really huge (26" x 18 1/4") ones before Frank Robbins switched to 2-strip. The storytelling and attention to detail is incredible. In the early seventies I think there isn't much left of Noel Sickles and Milton Caniff in his style and he has come entirely into his own. As soon as I picked this one up at Comic-con 2016 I knew I had to have it. Never mind that is was something of a nightmare to bring along as an "extra additional item" on my flights back home to Sweden.

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8611

 

Joëlle Jones - Lady Killer #3 - p14-15 (Published Splashes, Pin-Ups)

I was really lucky to get my hands on this two-page spread from the third issue of the first story arc of Lady Killer. It is brimming with action, drama and meticulous detail - everything that makes Lady Killer such a great comic! Joëlle Jones have disclosed in conversation with me that what was really really trying with this picture was to get the staircase and the shadow of the bannister right. But I suppose that is what you have to deal with when you are staging the scene as something out of a Hitchcock movie!

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8609

 

Quite didn't make it:

 

Dan DeCarlo - Bingo Wilkin pinup (Published Splashes, Pin-Ups)

It is not often you see a pinup by Dan DeCarlo featuring Bingo Wilkin and his girlfriend Samantha Smythe. At least not for sale on the market so I jumped at the opportunity.

Regarding it being inked by DeCarlo's son, James DeCarlo, this was determined by DeCarlo expert Dan Parent after a thorough scrutinization at Comic-con in San Diego 2016. I have no idea where it was originally published.

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1335735

 

Bill Galvan - Riverdale Revenge - Imaginary paperback cover featuring Betty, Veronica & Cheryl (Published/Unpublished Commissions)

When Bill Galvan and I tossed around ideas for his next commission for me I suggested that he should try his hand at doing a paperback cover with the girls of Archie Comics in the way it would have looked if drawn by the legendary Robert Mc Ginnis.

I sent Bill a few examples of what I was looking for and he went to work immediately and he grasped the essence of McGinnis perfectly. That it is a noir variation on the classic Archie image "three on a soda" didn't hurt either!

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1294585

 

Eduardo Barreto - Robin Annual #6 - p52 (Published Interior Panel pages)

While winding down the story towards its ending, Eduardo Barreto and writer Chuck Dixon pays hommage to The Lone Ranger. Beautiful.

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1304658

 

Fernando Ruiz - Sharry the Spy-Girl (Published/Unpublished Commissions)

Sharry the Spy-Girl was a character created by Tom DeFalco for "The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E."-storyline which ran in issues 610-613 of the Archie comic. She was probably as sexy as the editors would allow in that book (always showing a lot of cleavage and wearing a skin-tight jump-suit).

 

Of course I jumped at the the chance to have Fernando Ruiz drawing her as a reward in his and Dan Parent's Kickstarter-campaign for their creator-owned comic "Die Kitty Die".

 

According to himself he found it very fun to revisit the character, and I think it shows. Isn't she gorgeous?

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1335409

 

Jeff Shultz - Sabrina the Teenage Witch flying on broom (Published/Unpublished Commissions)

A few years back I got stiffed on an eBay deal involving several pieces of art by Jeff Shultz. One of them was a beautiful rendering of Sabrina Spellman riding on a broom in front of the moon among streaks of mist. Even though I had cut my losses on that one I never really could get that image out of my head, so I asked Jeff if he could recreate it for me?

 

Jeff, being the nice guy he is, agreed to do it (after he had found a small picture of the original image in his files) but also improved on it by adding Sabrina's aunts and giving it the full color treatment. I think it is a real beauty and unfortunately my scan can't do the colors justice at all!

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1306049

 

And here are the rest of my 2016 acquisitions.

 

There is no category for meet-ups with other fellow OA collectors, otherwise the dinner Thursday night at San Diego Comic-con would have been an obvious choice.

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JadeGiant

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In past years we could make comments on Lowry pieces, but I don't see that option now.

 

Am I missing it?

 

I wondered about that as well but just figured it was not a feature supported within the Lowry listing. For this reason I added a link to the original CAF listing within the description (plus that is where you see the full description and any additional pictures, comments, etc.).

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Madman1138

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I uploaded my 5 picks for the annual Best Of last night. No covers this year, but some amazing pages and trading card art. But I narrowed it down to these 5 and I hope people like what they see. :)

 

Best of SPLASH:

 

Prophet (vol 1) #5 pages 10 & 11 DPS by Stephen Platt (1994)

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8579

A grail piece for me and IMHO, the best (out of the 3) DPS's in the issue, which was Platt's first Image work after his explosive debut on Moon Knight for Marvel.

 

Best of INTERIOR PAGES:

 

Wildcats vol 2 #2 page 8 by Travis Charest (1999)

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8578

My first Travis Charest page and one that features Voodoo prominently, from Wildcats 2.0, considered by many to be Travis' best work.

 

Unity #1 page 6 by Barry Windsor-Smith (Valiant 1992)

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8585

A rare and awesome treat is getting a BWS Valiant page from the early '90s, but to get a page from Unity #0 or #1 is the ultimate if you loved those early days of Valiant. This page has the several key characters but also is penciled & inked by BWS, making it even more of a rarity as almost all Unity pages were inked by Bob Layton.

 

Best of PUB/UNPUB OTHER:

 

Fairchild - Gen13 Trading card art by Travis Charest (1995)

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8587

Another piece by Travis Charest that is just a stunning example of his early work, just as he was getting more into the photo-real style. A stunning piece of trading card art.

 

Mars Attacks: Occupation - original trading card painting by Greg Staples (Topps 2015)

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8590

This one is an incredible painting by Greg Staples for the Mars Attacks: Occupation trading card set that came out last year. Greg's work is always so real and lifelike that this piece pops with that in spades.

 

Thanks for looking!

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malvin

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In past years we could make comments on Lowry pieces, but I don't see that option now.

 

Am I missing it?

 

I wondered about that as well but just figured it was not a feature supported within the Lowry listing. For this reason I added a link to the original CAF listing within the description (plus that is where you see the full description and any additional pictures, comments, etc.).

 

I don't think you could ever put comments on Lowry pieces

 

Malvin

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Ok, finally have my entries up. You know you have a good year when your "finalists" number over a dozen and most of them would have been slam dunk decisions in previous year. So, in no particular order, my entries are:

 

1. David Mazzucchelli Vintage Batman Year One Sketch - I don't think I need to describe why this one made the cut :)

 

Lowry Link

 

2. Kaare Andrews Uncanny Inhumans Painted Variant Cover - The image just grabbed me when I first saw it. Who knew I would like yellow so much?

 

Lowry Link

 

3. Bloom County with Opus, Milo and Walter Mondale! - Bloom County! My second favourite strip where animals interact with people (I'm probably never getting an example from the one with the imaginary tiger...)

 

Lowry Link

 

4. Jim Starlin/Al Migrom Marvel Fanfare End page with Dr. Strange and Thing! - A great example from the classic Starlin Hulk/Thing crossovers!

 

Lowry Link

 

5. Gary Frank Hulk 340 (vs Wolverine) Cover Recreation - He hit this one out of the park! Lowry Link

 

of course here are the many others that would have been slam dunks any other year:

 

1. Art Adams FF 348 Title Splash

 

2. One or both of the Tim Sale Wolverine/Gambit Covers - Issue 1 and Issue 2

 

3. One of the 3 Kaare Andrews Spiderman:Reign Covers I bought this year - Issue 2 , Issue 3 and Issue 4

 

4. Alex Ross Supreme and Radar Painting

 

5. Walt Simonson Thor Pinup

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Malvin

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I'll play...

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Notebook Series: Raphael cover (SDCC 2016 variant) - Kevin Eastman (Published/Unpublished: Covers)

Kevin Eastman and IDW have done great things with the TMNT property in recent years. Eastman in particular has produced some great covers for both the main series as well as the various spin-offs and collections. I was quite thrilled to add to my collection this one featuring the classic team-up of Raphael and Casey Jones.

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8695

 

Superman/Batman #66, p.06 - Scott Kolins (Published: Splash Pages, Pinups)

Scott is one of my favorite current artists and I added a lot of his work to my collection this year. Despite having no particular attachment to either the comic or character in question, this page easily stands as my favorite.

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8689

 

New Warriors #16, p.18 - Mark Bagley & Larry Mahlstedt (Published: Interior Panel Pages)

A great page from my favorite arc of one of my all-time favorite series. I don't care how many issues of Spider-Man the guy has done or will do. For me, Mark Bagley = New Warriors.

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8686

 

X-Force #16, p.04 - Greg Capullo & Harry Candelario (Published: Interior Panel Pages)

I know this page has been around the block a few times here on CAF, but it's new to me. There isn't another page in my collection that pushes my nostalgia buttons quite like this one. While they almost always disappointed in the end, this page nicely sums up everything that was great about those giant X-Men crossovers that seemed to rule the comic scene for a time in the late 80's/early 90's. I know Capullo is more well known these days for Spawn and Batman, but with all apologies to Rob Liefeld, I will always remember him as the definitive X-Force artist.

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8693

 

Flash vs. Zoom commission - Scott Kolins (Published/Unpublished: Commissions)

The Johns/Kolins run on Flash is a personal favorite, with the highlight being the introduction of Zoom. No matter what Johns has done in subsequent years to relegate Wally to second-tier status, he'll always be "my" Flash. When I contacted Scott about doing a commission, there was really only one choice of subject matter in my mind.

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8688

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Detective Comics 617 pages 17, 18 & 19, pencils by Norm Breyfogle, inks by Steve Mitchell

This thing is seriously HUGE! This piece repeatedly makes The Wife stand up and yell, "I am the Bat!". Breyfogle upended the way Batman was drawn and brought him into a new era. His cape and use of both regular and inverted silhouettes brought an energy at least equivalent to McFarlane's webbing. Norm's work on Detective was illustrative and emotive in the faces when necessary and then flatly graphic and even downright geometric when things needed to get really intense!

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8512

 

 

This is EPIC.

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Detective Comics 617 pages 17, 18 & 19, pencils by Norm Breyfogle, inks by Steve Mitchell

This thing is seriously HUGE! This piece repeatedly makes The Wife stand up and yell, "I am the Bat!". Breyfogle upended the way Batman was drawn and brought him into a new era. His cape and use of both regular and inverted silhouettes brought an energy at least equivalent to McFarlane's webbing. Norm's work on Detective was illustrative and emotive in the faces when necessary and then flatly graphic and even downright geometric when things needed to get really intense!

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8512

 

 

This is EPIC.

 

Thanks! You've got some amazing pieces by him as well. It really ticks every box - fav artist, nostalgia, Bats, DPS, even a nice mat setup. Credit to my wife who saw it and was trying to grab the mouse out of my hand to buy it right away!

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RICKYBOBBY

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Not many choices this year.. had only 3 pieces to add.. a cover, an interior page and a cover recreation.

 

Jack Kirby Super Powers (V1) #2 - Cover

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8570

 

Amazing Spider-Man #68 pg 18 - Interior page

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8571

 

Journey Into Mystery #83 - Cover Recreation

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8572

 

RickyB

 

All are great, but especially like the Spiderman 68 panel page :cloud9:

 

Thanks Greg!.. hangs right above my desk where I work 8 hrs a day. Never get tired of looking at it :)

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Detective Comics 617 pages 17, 18 & 19, pencils by Norm Breyfogle, inks by Steve Mitchell

This thing is seriously HUGE! This piece repeatedly makes The Wife stand up and yell, "I am the Bat!". Breyfogle upended the way Batman was drawn and brought him into a new era. His cape and use of both regular and inverted silhouettes brought an energy at least equivalent to McFarlane's webbing. Norm's work on Detective was illustrative and emotive in the faces when necessary and then flatly graphic and even downright geometric when things needed to get really intense!

http://www.comicartfans.com/LowryPiece.asp?Piece=8512

 

 

This is EPIC.

 

I remember this went up for sale on the boards.. and it sold in like 2 days!

Congrats on the great pick up!

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I'm curious... what category would you put an unpublished illustration in. It's not a commission, as I didn't ask them to do it. And it isn't a con sketch, since it is a fully rendered piece. So, would that put it in the "other" category?

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