grapeape Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 In 2019 Joe Satriani had to change the cover art for his album Surfing With The Alien. Marvel licensing fees were too costly. Also my understanding was that John Byrne received no credit or compensation for the use. I always admired that art and was surprised to learn the musician felt no correlation of his album concept to the Silver Surfer. Never the less, I thought this might be an opportunity to talk about comic art appearing in the strangest places. Album Covers Films? Museums Restaurants Garage sales pawn shops wherever you came across original art or a comic image (poster, cover) that started as original art. There's a lot of flexibility to approach this thread. Like with this album cover. Who owns the original John Byrne Art? Where have you seen ComicArt where you didn’t expect to see it. Think of this thread as an artists rough layouts. It’s a guide but I need your help taking this somewhere informative and fun. Run with it. 🍇 🦍 BuraddoRun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 music is not too surprising but this one caught my eye in wifey's collection cloud cloddie and grapeape 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapeape Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 10 minutes ago, Bird said: music is not too surprising but this one caught my eye in wifey's collection Jaime Hernandez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ShallowDan Posted November 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) Frank Kozik is generally credited for almost single-handedly bringing back the lost art of rock poster design back in the 90s. He would shamelessly borrow from lots of sources, with comics being a favorite. This poster for a Morphine show has always been a favorite: Edited November 13, 2020 by ShallowDan cloud cloddie, BuraddoRun, BlowUpTheMoon and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RBerman Posted November 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2020 In the current Netflix hit series "The Queen's Gambit" there are a few scenes set in an early 1960s drug store. It has a magazine rack and a comic book spinner rack. The spinner rack (as you can see in freeze frame) is stuffed with anachronistic comic books like Spectacular Spider-Man and Wolverine. (There is a Hot Stuff as well, which might be era-appropriate depending on the issue.) In a subsequent scene set months later, the same comic books are still there. fenip, BuraddoRun, tvindy and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowzilla Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 3 hours ago, grapeape said: In 2019 Joe Satriani had to change the cover art for his album Surfing With The Alien. Marvel licensing fees were too costly. Also my understanding was that John Byrne received no credit or compensation for the use. That's just silly. Unless he thought when he released it that it would go out of print, why would he get a license he had to renew with a variable fee? But certainly no reason for Byrne to get compensation, when you make the work or hire the company does what they want with the image. grapeape 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapeape Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 I still have this album from Korn 1998. Anyone remember the artist(s) responsible for the great artwork? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapeape Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 Jingle All the Way was a surprisingly amusing film. I remember the unexpected thrill I felt when I saw this mural in the kids room during a scene in the movie! BuraddoRun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glendgold Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I wish I had seen this with my own eyes, but back when grafitti on subway cars was a competitive sport (think 1976), famously someone had tagged an entire car with "GET DOWN AMERICA" and the huge Bernie Wrightson portrait of Howard the Duck. Couldn't find it in google images, but here's a consolation prize - taken from the cover of HTD 20, I think? BuraddoRun and grapeape 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glendgold Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 And Robert Sean Leonard tries to seduce Chloe Sevigny by showing off his Carl Barks original art in The Last Days of Disco, which someone seems to have screenshot: http://perusingcomics.blogspot.com/2014/09/67-last-days-of-disco-1998.html If she was unimpressed it might be because they seem to be color guides. delekkerste and grapeape 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapeape Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 That’s exactly one of the things I was hoping for Glen thanx. Comic art showing up in a surprising place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapeape Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 John Romita Sr. 1972 Rockomic Album poster 22 1/4 x 22 1/4 professionally framed. My first visit to a small record store in Southern California paid dividends. I went through hundreds of records and found myself in the very back of the store. I found this poster taped (egads!!) to the wall out of site. I inquired and was told by a store employee it was the owners and he would never sell. A phone call and $40 later made the poster mine. This poster came inside a Spider-Man album released in1972. I remember the album and poster from my childhood. I just never see this poster anywhere so I had it framed. Ok. I know. Poster. From a record. Found in record store. What’s so strange? I love records grew up with them. Been to so many record stores in my life. I just never see this poster so it was great to discover it. BuraddoRun and Unca Ben 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtlevy1 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Two come to mind... If you watch No Way Out (1987), there is a scene where Kevin Costner visits Iman's apartment (may have it backwards)...in any case, in that scene there is Barry Windsor Smith art from the Cygnus portfolio on the wall - not strictly comic art...BWS also did the art for a 1973 re-issue of The Byrds Preflyte Album RBerman, The Voord and grapeape 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 7 hours ago, mtlevy1 said: Two come to mind... If you watch No Way Out (1987), there is a scene where Kevin Costner visits Iman's apartment (may have it backwards)...in any case, in that scene there is Barry Windsor Smith art from the Cygnus portfolio on the wall - not strictly comic art...BWS also did the art for a 1973 re-issue of The Byrds Preflyte Album BWS has done art for a menu for a restaurant near him, I remember seeing in on his website. grapeape and The Voord 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Marino Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) Maybe more comics than comic art, but Fringe the TV Show in universe B comics were "fine art" and displayed on the walls of one of the characters apartments. One of the covers is on CAF (just found the other one is there too and added it) https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=731831 https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=783877 Edited November 13, 2020 by Pete Marino grapeape and BuraddoRun 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCarter27 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Also, this thread- grapeape and BuraddoRun 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhamlau Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 The Intro to the movie "Gentleman Broncos" is a collection of well known pulp and sci-fi magazine art, the actors and creators names replacing the original cover logos. My favorite is the Freas Analog cover (I think many of them are Analog covers the more I think about it). Heres a link if you want to watch it for yourself. BuraddoRun, JadeGiant and grapeape 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecclectica Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 15 hours ago, RBerman said: In the current Netflix hit series "The Queen's Gambit" there are a few scenes set in an early 1960s drug store. It has a magazine rack and a comic book spinner rack. The spinner rack (as you can see in freeze frame) is stuffed with anachronistic comic books like Spectacular Spider-Man and Wolverine. (There is a Hot Stuff as well, which might be era-appropriate depending on the issue.) In a subsequent scene set months later, the same comic books are still there. For that matter, they should have included an issue of Checkmate. ... but I digress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesium_7 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Sorry for the blurry image, but this Sal Buscema Spider-Man is hanging in an ice-cream parlor in Virginia (in the town where his wife is from). A promo for the ice-cream shop. grapeape, BuraddoRun, Twanj and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post exitmusicblue Posted November 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2020 Short story I wrote was recently accepted by a national literary journal. It features an OA piece of mine (as part of the story). Will share once it's out in the spring! Unca Ben, grapeape, tvindy and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...