Rick2you2 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 I recently went looking for some artwork by Phil Winslade, and after contacting him, he responded that he doesn’t sell his art. Checking on CAF showed that there is, indeed, very little published work of his out there that has been sold. As a convenience to the community, I was wondering what other artists, aside from Walt Simonson, also make it a practice not to sell. Even then, some things will occasionally slip out, or the artist does’t follow that rule, like with Simonson’s preliminaries. I also don’t count commissions since their whole purpose is to be sold. So, anyone to add, with qualifications or otherwise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timely Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Seems like a lot of the strip artists hold on to everything! grapeape 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Kelley Jones Jeff Smith Art Spiegelman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhamlau Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Terry Austin pretty much held onto everything he got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christosgage Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Ditko, of course. What's out there is either stolen or from the inker, as I understand it. Chris Samnee used to not sell his published work, but as his body of work has gotten bigger he's sold some stuff, like Captain America pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hekla Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 I've reached out to Michel Fiffe about his published work and he doesn't sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonebone6166 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Same with Gleb Melkinov (sadly) - love his current work on the Robin series tho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybuck43 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 On 1/30/2022 at 3:32 PM, John E. said: Kelley Jones Jeff Smith Art Spiegelman? Spiegelman's art has been sold, just nothing from Maus. Personally I was always shocked he had sold the prelims for Prisoner on the Hell Planet, which is the early Comix that he did about dealing with the death of his mother, and a few pages were included in Maus. John E. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Seth -- at least Wimbledon Green. Not sure about the rest. Mazzucchelli -- Imagine what Year 1 would bring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weird Paper Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 On 1/30/2022 at 2:32 PM, John E. said: Kelley Jones Jeff Smith Art Spiegelman? Cool! I have 2 of the 3! John E., Rick2you2 and vodou 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Collector Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Charles Burns won't sell any Black Hole pages but did let the covers go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor G Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 P. Craig Russell, although he's been selling some of his Elric art. Because he kept his art, he has self-published (through his rep Wayne Harold) several artists editions. Beautiful stuff. Andahaion, cloud cloddie and Kohei 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick2you2 Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 7:40 PM, Taylor G said: P. Craig Russell, although he's been selling some of his Elric art. Because he kept his art, he has self-published (through his rep Wayne Harold) several artists editions. Beautiful stuff. He doesn’t have to keep the originals to retain the copyright on them. He can self-publish, lawfully, with copies. The buyer of the page does not acquire the copyright, just the image, and has no legal right to publish and sell them. But, he may just want to keep them because they are his “babies”, a fair reason to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hekla Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 5:39 PM, The-Collector said: Charles Burns won't sell any Black Hole pages but did let the covers go. Actually, same with Stan Sakai and Usagi Yojimbo; he keeps all the interiors and sells his covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 7:15 PM, Hekla said: Actually, same with Stan Sakai and Usagi Yojimbo; he keeps all the interiors and sells his covers. I was just about to say Stan Sakai. And it’s my understanding that Paul Chadwick sells his covers but not his interiors. Also in the “I won’t sell art from” category, Derf won’t sell art from his My Friend Dahmer graphic novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNegovan Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 (edited) Jeremy Bastian. There's a piece of his up on eBay now. It takes him forever to do a page of Cursed Pirate Girl, you never see them in the wild. Edited February 1, 2022 by TNegovan added photo Legion of Goom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter L Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 1:54 PM, buttock said: Seth -- at least Wimbledon Green. Not sure about the rest. Mazzucchelli -- Imagine what Year 1 would bring. My understanding is Mazzucchelli has not sold most of Born Again, except art from the last two issues, and none of Batman Year One. Ecclectica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 8:39 PM, Peter L said: My understanding is Mazzucchelli has not sold most of Born Again, except art from the last two issues, and none of Batman Year One. Three issues of BORN AGAIN and one YEAR ONE cover. Ecclectica and Twanj 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter L Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 9:54 PM, Nexus said: Three issues of BORN AGAIN and one YEAR ONE cover. What are the circumstances regarding the Year One cover? I thought it was only one house ad that was ever sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion of Goom Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 I've yet to see any Eric Powell work from Chinatown in the wild, but haven't explicitly asked him to verify. Alot of the vintage published Dawn work Joe Linsner did is also no-go. Apparently one Cry for Dawn cover got sold, and he's vowed that it won't happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
