Artists Who Don’t Generally Sell Their Work? 2 2

[Nexus]

On 2/1/2022 at 10:55 AM, Peter L said:

What are the circumstances regarding the Year One cover?  I thought it was only one house ad that was ever sold.  

A friend of mine did Mazz a favor. In appreciation, he let my friend get this cover:

Longtime listeners of the podcast can probably fill in the blanks.

[Peter L]

On 2/1/2022 at 12:54 PM, Nexus said:

A friend of mine did Mazz a favor. In appreciation, he let my friend get this cover:

Longtime listeners of the podcast can probably fill in the blanks.

That is amazingly generous.  I think I can fill in the blanks.  

[New School Fool]

Phil Noto...?

[jqa3]

On 1/30/2022 at 4:13 PM, zhamlau said:

Terry Austin pretty much held onto everything he got.

Yeah, but he pretty much didn't.

Note that the following isn't a brag (humble or otherwise), just wanna set the record straight.

I think I've posted before when this has come up.  I bought my first page of comic art in 1979 and I decided to write to artists via the company (Marvel/DC) and ask about pages for sale.  Terry was one of the artists who replied to my inquiry and we became "pen-pals" of sorts where he would send me (USPS) mail with a list of pages/prices (BONUS - he added me to his x-mas card list - YES!)  I know I still have those letters/cards and could scan & post but I wouldn't want to be responsible for having your head explode when you see his asking prices for pages he offered way back when.  Or have you tell me what an insufficiently_thoughtful_person I was for passing on all the pages I did.  I do not need any help to kick my own self in the , thank you very much.

I'd have to dig into my records to see which I actually bought from Terry but here's a partial list of Austin inked pages (& purchase dates) I own or have owned.  

JLA #200 page 10 - B. Anderson pencils (1981 or 85)

W. C. Avengers Ann. #4 page 23 - Byrne pencils (1990)

X-Men #137 page 19 (I think) - Bryne pencils (it was either this page or the one where Wolverine throws the fake Storm over his head)

Alien Legion #2 page13 - F. Cirroco pencils (1984)

Capt. Atom #51 page 11 (15) - C. Doran pencils (June 1999)

Marvel Comics Presents #36 page 8 - E. Larsen pencils (April 1996)

Ultraforce #5 page 24 - Perez pencils (April 1996)

Inc. Hulk #350 page 50 - J. Purves pencils (June 1989)

Detective #468 page 13 - M. Rogers pencils (Aug. 1982)

X-Men/Titans page 26 - Simonson pencils (May 1982)

Marvel Premiere #50 page 27 - J. Sinnott pencils (April 1982)

I know I bought some of those directly from Terry.  As with the old cards/letters, I still have some of the cancelled checks (whatever non-boomers - it was an additional way to get an artist's signature!) I paid Terry with.

Again, this isn't intended to be a brag, just want to be clear that, while Terry may keep everything now (or decided to keep at some point), there was a time when he did sell pages via USPS to a goofy little fanboy who wrote to him c/o Marvel Comics.  You can't even imagine how much I appreciate his generosity and willingness to trade letters with a fan.  Believe me - back before e-mail & social media, that was a really big deal.  If you don't know what a SASE is, you have no idea...

Now get offa my lawn you younguns!

 

[jjonahjameson11]

Terry also had quite a bit of art available for sale for years via The Artist’s Choice.

likewise for David Mazzuchelli

[SuperBird]

On 1/31/2022 at 10:13 PM, TNegovan said:

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.

I never got the impression he didn't sell his work. Although there is very little of it, I've seen perhaps 50% pof CPG pages in the wild on various sites over the years. Does he keep pages to himself not to sell? 

[SuperBird]

David Aja doesn't sell his artwork, from what I recall.

[zhamlau]

On 2/3/2022 at 3:07 PM, jqa3 said:

Yeah, but he pretty much didn't.

 

 

Fair enough, I have heard different and that he kept a strong majority of his work especially earlier. But if you were able to pick up some pages from him in the late 70s and developed a relationship with him over the years as a collector, good for you that’s cool. 

Edited February 4, 2022 by zhamlau

[Chaykin Stevens]

On 2/3/2022 at 8:07 PM, jqa3 said:

Marvel Premiere #50 page 27 - J. Sinnott pencils (April 1982)

Do you mean Tom Sutton pencils?

[artdealer]

On 2/4/2022 at 11:04 AM, zhamlau said:

Fair enough, I have heard different and that he kept a strong majority of his work especially earlier. But if you were able to pick up some pages from him in the late 70s and developed a relationship with him over the years as a collector, good for you that’s cool. 

I know what Terry has, as I did an appraisal for him.

[Bird]

On 2/3/2022 at 3:59 PM, SuperBird said:

David Aja doesn't sell his artwork, from what I recall.

I thought it was because he is digital?

[modelmaker]

On 2/1/2022 at 8:27 PM, Shin-Kaiser said:

Phil Noto...?

Phil hasn't sold any of his work ever since he went totally digital, which has gotta be at least 10 years by now.  There are definitely pages floating out there from his analog days, but they are usually from less popular titles.  His style has evolved so much since his analog days, that those earlier pieces really aren't that appealing imo.  With each passing day, more and more digital artists are offering monoprints of their work; artists like Pepe Larraz, RB Silva, Pasqual Ferry, and a bunch of other artists that are repped by Chiaroscuro Studios, Artcoholics, and Essential Sequential.  Nice income supplement there!  It would be cool if Phil ever decides to go that route.

[modelmaker]

Frank Cho will sell covers, but not his interior pages or strips.  He posted the following to his Instagram late last year.  Frank must be sitting on a minimum of a couple of million $'s there.  I just hope he has the right home insurance policy.

Edited February 5, 2022 by modelmaker

[zhamlau]

On 2/5/2022 at 12:58 AM, modelmaker said:

Frank Cho will sell covers, but not his interior pages or strips.  He posted the following to his Instagram late last year.  Frank must be sitting on a couple of million $'s there.  I just hope he has the right home insurance policy.

...wow...how cool is that?

[SuperBird]

On 2/4/2022 at 7:41 PM, Bird said:

I thought it was because he is digital?

Not always or not all of it, to the best of my understanding. 

https://www.cbr.com/conversing-on-comics-with-david-aja/

[Bird]

On 2/5/2022 at 9:25 AM, SuperBird said:

Not always or not all of it, to the best of my understanding. 

https://www.cbr.com/conversing-on-comics-with-david-aja/

from the article "I used to sketch on computer then print it out on boards and ink it, but right now with Hawkeye I'm doing almost everything digitally." that was ten years ago now though. I had heard here on the boards he was digital so

[Blastaar]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen any early MacFarlane Spawn or Erik Larson Savage Dragon. 

[SuperBird]

On 2/5/2022 at 9:33 AM, Bird said:

from the article "I used to sketch on computer then print it out on boards and ink it, but right now with Hawkeye I'm doing almost everything digitally." that was ten years ago now though. I had heard here on the boards he was digital so

Now he seems to be fully digital, based on his twitter

 

[troydivision1]

To my best knowledge, Jhonen Vasquez hasn't sold any of his original artwork.

[jqa3]

On 2/4/2022 at 7:28 PM, Chaykin Stevens said:

Do you mean Tom Sutton pencils?

Yes, thank you.  The tiny font I used on the last printed hard copy art list I have doesn't really cooperate with my much older eyeballs.