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Post by MDG on Mar 8, 2019 11:36:06 GMT -5
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 8, 2019 11:58:33 GMT -5
I'm reasonably certain your unknown artist is Lee Elias. And what's the story with "Role Model?" Why does the kid look like Calvin?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 8, 2019 12:06:30 GMT -5
I'm reasonably certain your unknown artist is Lee Elias. And what's the story with "Role Model?" Why does the kid look like Calvin? Cei-U! I summon the curiosity! It certainly looks like Elias to me as well. You can definitely see the Caniff influence. |
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Post by MDG on Mar 8, 2019 14:04:16 GMT -5
I'm reasonably certain your unknown artist is Lee Elias. That's not a bad guess--I thought that but wasn't able to find anything that proved it (GCD just lists the two Frazetta stories in that issue). The list I bought it from--pre-internet and a lot of times you'd buy without an image--had it down as "Berrill?" which I assumed was the guy who later did Teen Wise and Gil Thorpe, but again, no documentation.
Coincidentally, Lee Elias Black Cat pages are one of the few things that I see for sale and (almost) consider purchasing. (I'm pretty much out of the market since prices went nuts.)
And what's the story with "Role Model?" Why does the kid look like Calvin? That's from a story we wrote for Hamilton Comics' Grave Tales, which was a short-lived B&W horror title. When we were talking to Joe about it, we mentioned that we had been thinking of the kid as a "Bart Simpson type," but it wasn't working, so we started thinking of him as Calvin. Shocked when we saw that Joe actually drew him that way.
Another pre-internet sidenote: Hamilton wanted the option of printing these stories in a regular color comic later on, so they had Joe (and, I assume, the other artists working for them) ship the artwork to Arizona, where they shot films for the color versions. Then they shipped the art back to Joe so he could add the craftint tones, and he sent it back to them to shoot for the B&W books.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 12, 2019 6:51:04 GMT -5
Been meaning to chime in on this thread for a while now. Here are a couple of cool pieces of Astro City original artwork that I own and have hung up on my music room/office wall. These were drawn by Alex Ross and are character design sheets for the Silver Agent character. The top sheet shows costume design sketches and info for the comic's regular artist Brent Anderson, with instructions on how the Silver Agent's costume should be drawn -- I love that it even has Brent's fax(?) number on it! The bottom sheet is a much more detailed full costume illustration, and this very page was actually reproduced on the back cover of Astro City (Vol. 1) #2.    |
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Post by davidthegnome on May 14, 2019 19:53:53 GMT -5
I’m not sure if this is the thread for my question but... I recently received a poster as a gift, I’ve got no idea about it at all. Was curious if anybody could help me out . It has captain America and Spider-Man. The writing says captain America and captain America visit New Hampshire. Any help I can get is much appreciated
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 21:33:33 GMT -5
I’m not sure if this is the thread for my question but... I recently received a poster as a gift, I’ve got no idea about it at all. Was curious if anybody could help me out . It has captain America and Spider-Man. The writing says captain America and captain America visit New Hampshire. Any help I can get is much appreciated Get an image hosting site signed up (like IMGUR) and post this picture here and perhaps we could help you in this. Welcome to CCF! |
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Post by rberman on May 23, 2019 16:40:11 GMT -5
My thoughtful sister got me customized Lego minifigures of my two favorite superheroes:  |
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Post by rberman on Sept 2, 2019 22:07:16 GMT -5
I got several pieces at Dragon Con this weekend. First up is Erica Henderson with "Squirrel Girl vs Doctor Doom," which I commissioned. I just noticed all the nuts spilling from her pouch onto his head.  Tony Kordos did this nice "Zatanna meets Scarlet Witch" in 2012, and I'm happy to give it a home. Scarlet Witch apparently has some lumbar problems, but other than that it's a fun duo.  Yanick Paquette made me this shot (no pun intended) of the new Bulleteer he made with Grant Morrison for Seven Soldiers. I bought this page from Colleen Doran. It's from her creator-owned A Distant Soil #38. She does the lettering herself, right on the original page.  Richard Case drew me a male version of Rebus from Doom Patrol, as requested. Russian doll was a bonus!  Mike Grell made me a Wildfire, the only one that's pencil-only. I should have thought to get him to ink it too. Still looks good by itself though.  Gene Ha rendered this Shock-Headed Peter (from Top 10) headshot for me in just half an hour. It's the size of a business card, and he did it totally gratis. Thanks!  Another "beyond the call of duty" award goes to Barry Kitson. I commissioned Triplicate Girl and paid his fee for one figure. He gave me three! This is her best costume.  |
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Post by rberman on Nov 14, 2019 17:28:22 GMT -5
I picked up a Mike Grell page from X-Men Forever 2 #9 (2010) this week.  The published page below, with Nate Summers, young Ororo, and Lockheed.  |
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Post by rberman on Nov 22, 2019 16:51:19 GMT -5
I got three original pages recently. One is from the Teen Titans spin-off The Ravagers #1 (2012), with pencils by Ian Churchill printed and then inked by Norm Rapmund.  The printed page looks like this. Brighteyes' face is obscured by a digital glow in the right lower section, not evident in the paper/ink art, so her scared expression can't be seen.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 23, 2019 8:46:24 GMT -5
I am the happy owner of this piece by Louis Paradis; it’s displayed on the wall of our house’s library. Louis has mostly worked in the French-speaking part of the comics world, but also worked on some American comics in the past. Having seen him at work, I can vouch that he’s an amazing inker. |
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Post by rberman on Nov 23, 2019 9:52:58 GMT -5
Nice! I could use some help with an international piece myself. I bought this original page because (1) it's attributed to Milo Manara from Jolanda de Almaviva #35 page 56, and (2) unlike most of his work on that title, it's not a nude. Interestingly, the pages with nudes are substantially more expensive even though they are far more plentiful. Anyway, I'm trying to find the page in the original magazine to prove that what I've got is what it is. But I've not had much luck online finding either a copy for sale or a scan showing this piece in situ. Does anybody have any ideas?  |
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Post by rberman on Nov 24, 2019 8:04:54 GMT -5
The third piece I got is from one of the first comic books I purchased, Uncanny X-Men #151. Dave Cockrum provided art on the double sized #150, and he was never the fastest artist in the first place, so #151 featured fill-in pencilers Jim Sherman and Bob McLeod under inks by Josef Rubinstein. The story is not a fill-in though; it's the return of Emma Frost. Kitty's parents force her to transfer from the Xavier Institute to Massachusetts Academy. When Storm goes along to drop her off, Emma uses some gadget to switch minds with Storm and infiltrate the X-Men. That's what's going on in the page below.  I noticed two things about my original page. One is that it's missing one caption and one word balloon; those are the two yellowed areas at the bottom of the page. The other is that the attached captions and word balloons don't line up perfectly square on the paper, but they do on the reproduction in my omnibus edition. Look for instance at the top of Emma's word balloon in the middle panel, or the upper right corner of the fifth panel. I guess those were corrected in post-production?  I don't know much about Jim Sherman; he's certainly not a "famous X-Men artist" like some. But he handles the architecture well, and I like the spooky spying eyes on all the artwork in the Academy foyer. This may be the most chaste image of Emma Frost ever; she's dressed like the White Witch of Narnia, while Storm has a more pronounced widow's peak than she sometimes does. I like Kitty's brave-face banter. |
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Post by rberman on Nov 29, 2019 15:27:06 GMT -5
Christmas is coming early! I got a page from the Joss Whedon/John Cassaday run on Astonishing X-Men run. (#16, specifically, which I reviewed here.) The X-Men have been laid low by an attack on the mansion. Colossus and Cyclops are unconscious in the infirmary. Students Blindfold and Armor make their way there while hiding from a maddened Beast, as Kitty Pryde rises from being imprisoned deep within the Earth. Here it is alongside the finished page:   Fun to get a hold of one of the pages that got me back into comics after thirty years away! |
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