Top 5 Grail Art Day!

[delekkerste]

I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time and managed to get into a 4-way deal that landed Steve Morger one of his grails (the Rima #1 complete story by Nestor Redondo, as detailed on ComicArt-L recently) and me one of my top 5 grail pieces - the Vampirella #39 frontispiece by Jose Gonzalez. It's definitely the best known of his 28 published pencil frontispieces and one of the definitive images of Vampirella. I'm thrilled to reunite this with the inside back cover of Vampirella #39 which I picked up earlier this year. Thanks to Steve and everyone else involved in getting the stars aligned and this piece into my collection!

 

Gene

 

[delekkerste]

As published:

 

[heartened]

I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time and managed to get into a 4-way deal that landed Steve Morger one of his grails (the Rima #1 complete story by Nestor Redondo, as detailed on ComicArt-L recently) and me one of my top 5 grail pieces - the Vampirella #39 frontispiece by Jose Gonzalez. It's definitely the best known of his 28 published pencil frontispieces and one of the definitive images of Vampirella. I'm thrilled to reunite this with the inside back cover of Vampirella #39 which I picked up earlier this year. Thanks to Steve and everyone else involved in getting the stars aligned and this piece into my collection!

 

Gene

 

 

Congrats, buddy! Let's see a scan of the inside back cover (did you post it?).

[delekkerste]

Congrats, buddy! Let's see a scan of the inside back cover (did you post it?).

 

Ask and ye shall receive!

 

[spider9698]

Gene

Another fabulous piece. Congrats.

Stephen

[COI]

Nice, though I still think your watercolor version is the nicest piece in your collection.

[Nexus]

That's the sure sign of a grail: You're willing to give up quality to get quality.

 

Congrats to you both! Not just for achieving your respective grails, but for pulling off a FOUR-WAY trade! I'm going to call Steve "Billy Beane" from now on (even moreso because he's an A's fan).

[The Troll King]

OH MAN! If you ever decide to give up either of these pieces PM me!

[Khumbu]

Man that is gorgeous! That is one piece I would love to have!