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Post by chaykinstevens on Jan 29, 2020 11:01:41 GMT -5
^^ Nice page, rberman . You can spot Mandrake's inking a mile off on that page. I think this would have only been Mandrake's second credit for Marvel. To me, the inking looks fairly similar to the house style established by Bob McLeod. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jan 29, 2020 11:31:57 GMT -5
 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. Is it possible that some of the captions and balloons have dropped off the page since it was published and have been imperfectly reattached? Sherman was probably best known for his time on Legion of Super-Heroes, where he was the main penciller between Mike Grell and Joe Staton, and far superior to both to my eyes. He would surely have been a much bigger star had he not thrown his toys out of the pram and quit in the middle of the Earthwar storyline, the first two parts of which were among the best DC offerings of the 70s. I wouldn't have guessed Sherman had drawn your page, as it doesn't much resemble his earlier collaborations with Josef Rubinstein on Superboy and the LSH #236 and House of Mystery #270.   |
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Post by rberman on Jan 29, 2020 12:14:48 GMT -5
Interesting that the Sherman/Rubinstein combo looks less detailed in the X-Men example compared to your other two examples. I believe you are right about some of the captions having fallen off and been subsequently reattached imperfectly. I have since received a couple of other pages with this same phenomenon, including two for which I had to re-attach the captions myself.
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Post by MDG on Jan 29, 2020 14:12:18 GMT -5
Interesting that the Sherman/Rubinstein combo looks less detailed in the X-Men example compared to your other two examples. I believe you are right about some of the captions having fallen off and been subsequently reattached imperfectly. I have since received a couple of other pages with this same phenomenon, including two for which I had to re-attach the captions myself. What are you using to re-attach the captions? Originally, they were probably put on w/ rubber cement, but I'm sure collectors would point you to archival glues. (Many would tell you to leave it off entirely)
I have a couple of older pages where lettering corrections were made by cutting out the original and gluing or taping another piece of board from the back. Also have a Glanzman Battle Album DPS where the statted logo has fallen off. now, I just have it positioned in the portfolio.
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Post by rberman on Jan 29, 2020 14:21:19 GMT -5
Interesting that the Sherman/Rubinstein combo looks less detailed in the X-Men example compared to your other two examples. I believe you are right about some of the captions having fallen off and been subsequently reattached imperfectly. I have since received a couple of other pages with this same phenomenon, including two for which I had to re-attach the captions myself. What are you using to re-attach the captions? Originally, they were probably put on w/ rubber cement, but I'm sure collectors would point you to archival glues. (Many would tell you to leave it off entirely)
I have a couple of older pages where lettering corrections were made by cutting out the original and gluing or taping another piece of board from the back. Also have a Glanzman Battle Album DPS where the statted logo has fallen off. now, I just have it positioned in the portfolio.
I experimented low on a low-value page with Elmer's glue. On a higher-value page I put a smidgen of glue from a glue stick onto my finger, and put a tiny dab of that on a small caption, which was enough to get it to re-adhere. If someone has a recommendation for a particular product I should use, that would be great. The related challenge I have is that my Hellraiser and Bizarre Adventures pages have the lettering on a tracing paper overlay (taped to the top of the art page) which obscures the art, making it difficult to both display the art and protect the tracing paper at the same time. |
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Post by rberman on Jan 29, 2020 21:16:27 GMT -5
The third Swamp Thing page. Note the Arabic-dressed man in the back row. Is he a terrorist and the culprit in the coming plane crash? Nope, he's as surprised as anyone else by the flock of geese clogging the engine.   |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 22:30:43 GMT -5
realized I never shared more. I have a TON of original pages from many artists. . but most of those are filed away. . . so here are pics of some of what I have on the wall of the comics room: Black Canary sketch by Brian Stelfreeze  Katchoo (Strangers in Paradise) by Terry Moore (one of his "standard" quick sketches. . I believe this one is from SDCC 2005  & a page from "Elementals" #5 by Bill Willingham, and the page as published (with Behemoth & Annihilator beating the crap out of Monolith. . with Morningstar sneaking up behind them)   |
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Post by rberman on Feb 5, 2020 21:06:13 GMT -5
I just picked up this 17x11 pin-up by Eric Baldusana. Frame-worthy!  I also discovered that the Swamp Thing pages above are not 17x11, the usual comic book art size. Instead, they are 13x19.625, too big to fit in any of my storage solutions. I'm surprised there's so much variance in the size of paper for original art, since comic book production is an industrial process. |
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Post by rberman on Feb 6, 2020 23:04:10 GMT -5
I recently read David Mack's Kabuki series. He has impressive knowledge of Japan for a non-native. Plus some anime references that probably slipped by his university degree advisors, when he submitted Kabuki as his thesis. Anyway, I got a sketch by him of the title character.  |
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Post by rberman on Feb 8, 2020 14:51:03 GMT -5
To represent all the phases of comic book production, I got a colorist's page. This one is Glynis Wein's work on Fantastic Four #236, page 26 (1981). One day maybe I'll own an actual Byrne FF page, but they're in awfully high demand.  |
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Post by rberman on Feb 10, 2020 14:19:09 GMT -5
I got a page from the very non-"classic" Joker/Harley: Criminal Insanity #1, which is brand new art by a Filipino named Mico Suayan. It has more in common with Jessica Jones than it does Suicide Squad, with a decidedly non-zany Harley Quinn.  ETA: I got the finished book. It's one of DC's new "Black Label" imprint. Wider than a usual comic book. Card stock front and back cover. Glue binding instead of stapled. No issue number or date on the front or back cover; it's in fine print in the indicia on the interior back cover. Some of the interior pages are full color painted, and others are black and white, including the one above. I couldn't find an online scan of it, so excuse the flash flare on my photoed page below:  Mike Mayhew turned in an impressive cover which will surely go on the trade volume.  |
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Post by rberman on Feb 13, 2020 16:50:44 GMT -5
I got a pair of pages from the Threeboot Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes #23. On the first one, Triplicate Girl encounters Chlorophyll Kid while looking for renegade robots in the city's seedy underbelly. He acts suspicious of her.  As you can see, it's penciled by Barry Kitson and inked by Mick Gray. Here's the finished page.  |
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Post by rberman on Feb 15, 2020 23:14:35 GMT -5
The following page is a little oddball, in that it apparently existed first as a final-size ink sketch on transparent vellum, for purposes of blocking the light and dark:  Then as a usual pencil/ink large page:  Then as the final product, with two of Triplicate Girl's persons finding the third embraced by Element Lad.  The vellum page was an unusual touch in my experience; I'd like to ask Kitson more about it. |
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Post by badwolf on Feb 17, 2020 15:43:39 GMT -5
I recently read David Mack's Kabuki series. He has impressive knowledge of Japan for a non-native. Plus some anime references that probably slipped by his university degree advisors, when he submitted Kabuki as his thesis. Anyway, I got a sketch by him of the title character. Great artist but I've also noticed swipes from Japanese model photobooks. |
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Post by badwolf on Feb 17, 2020 15:50:09 GMT -5
I bought this original piece from Rudy Nebres at a local convention a couple weeks ago: |
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