You know you've ben collecting for too long when...

[nicktf-migration]

...You can't even remember buying a Quitely X-page when you find it in your portfolio. Then I saw the crease and it all came flooding back.

 

Just posted this year's purchases to my CAF - 4 Sink New Mutants (anybody want to offer me some more?), A Vess pencil piece, The aformentioned Quitely, and the three pages that make up the death of Girl One from Top 10 (Thanks, Si!). (I've also got the three pages that make up Edie's demise from X-statics, is this the start of a weird theme?)

 

Cheers

 

Nick

[GotSuperPowers?]

Ha! I just left a comment on one of the Top 10 pages much to the effect of what you just said...that you're sick! Love that Vess piece, the scan is much nicer than what I remember seeing on the eBay auction.

 

Simon

[Timulty]

You have some truly great sketches. Thanks for sharing them. It's great to see Vess, Quitely and Thompson pieces. You can never get enough of those!!

[cheekyj2112]

...and the three pages that make up the death of Girl One from Top 10 (Thanks, Si!). (I've also got the three pages that make up Edie's demise from X-statics, is this the start of a weird theme?)

 

Cheers

 

Nick

 

Well, maybe we should be consolidating collections.

 

http://www.gotsuperpowers.com/cheekyjoe.html

 

Sick minds clearly think alike.

 

 

Joseph

[GotSuperPowers?]

Joseph, you're the sickest of all...

[fable]

Nick - what scanner do you use? - those scans look really great.

[nicktf-migration]

Thanks - it's an old SCSI Mustek A3 which I picked up cheaply from eBay. I scan full colour at 300dpi which produces a huge image - I then use the "GIMP" open source editing tool (http://www.gimp.org/) to resize this by 50% and I keep these images as masters - I've uploaded one to here (the high detail is lovely - click the image if your browser resizes it)

 

http://www.btinternet.com/~nicktf/large.jpg (1mb download)

 

For the CAF, I then resize this image with a width of 600. I'm rescanning all my stuff (slowly) using this convention. An A3 is great until you come to those early twice-up Bill Sink New Mutants pages - they need to be scanned in two parts and stitched.

 

Cheers

 

Nick