I got a note from Nate today saying that he's a local collector of comic books who has a newsletter where he writes about them. His most recent post is a review of Awesome Con:
Showing posts with label original artwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label original artwork. Show all posts
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Original Comic Art at Second Story Books
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| Original "Lobo" Videogame Cover Art [Signed] By Simon Bisley Kemco Games, 2003. Original artwork for a videogame based on the comic book character, "Lobo.". Production of the game was canceled in 2005. Acrylic painting measures 11.6 in. x 16 in. Note from previous owner: "Original Game Art Painting 'Montage Poster' for Lobo Videogame. This is one of the original paintings Simon Bisley did in 2003 for the Lobo videogame developed by Kemco Games. Simon is best known for the greatest depiction of this famous character published by DC and licensed for videogame production. The piece was also signed by Simon Bisley in 2005 when he received the art back from the games company." $3,000 |
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Maslin's Inkspill on Library of Congress' Thurber originals
Thurber Thursday: Thurber Originals At The Library of Congress, Smith College, And The Art Institute Of Chicago
Michael Maslin
Monday, July 10, 2023
Greg Bennett collection of cartoon drawings at Library of Congress
Greg Bennett may have sold his share of Big Planet Comics and decamped to Northern Europe, but part of him remains here... at the Library of Congress. Most of these pictured are from SPX when Greg was more involved in organizing it. The Stan Sakai might have been done at a signing at the store, and I don't recognize Mike Luce at all, but I remember most of the others. Whatever happened to Joe Chiapetta anyway? Reference photos are by Sara Duke.
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| Bryan Talbot |
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| Craig Thompson |
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| Jonathan Ames by Dean Haspiel |
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| Bacchus by Eddie Campbell |
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| Farel Dalrymple, The Wrenchies, |
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| Jeff Smith |
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| Jessica Abel |
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| Joe Chiapetta |
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| Jhonen C. Vasquez's Squee |
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| Jon Lewis |
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| Metaphrog |
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| Mike Luce |
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| Ronja Berge from Tusj magazine, Norway |
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| Stan Sakai |
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| Unknown Mexican cartoonist |
[The Greg Bennett collection of cartoon drawings]
Published/Created
- [between 1992 and 2020]
More Information
LCCN Permalink
Description
- 41 items ; sheets 61 x 46 cm and smaller.
Rights advisory
- Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see: "Copyright and Other Restrictions...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html opens in a new window
Access advisory
- Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html opens in a new window
LC classification
- Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2023:074
Contents
- 1. Darick W. Robertson, Damned space beavers, 2002, ink drawing; -- 2. Mark Burrier, [Underground pool], stamped Sep 23 2009, ink drawing; -- 3. Nick Bertozzi (artist), Bill Weaver (writer), Incredible drinkiN' buddies versus postmodernism, ©1998, 6 ink drawings; -- 4. [Drawing of man playing guitar flying over another man], graphite on tracing paper; -- 5. Brett Warnock, Cherry poppin' daddies, © 1992, porous point pen drawing; -- 6. Jon Lewis (writer and penciler), Dave Nothing (inker), and Jeff Mason, letterer, Veiled phantom, 5 drawings; -- 7. Thom Hartigan, [Sea captain], 9/17/97, porous point pen drawing; -- 8. Dean Haspiel, [Yellow man wearing suit jacket], 2008, watercolor and charcoal; -- 9. Jessica Abel, [Four people reading comics, perhaps SPX promotional art], 2007, ink drawing; -- 10. Joe Chiapetta, [Young child clutching crayons and drawing], 1992, ink wash drawing; -- 11. Pete Sickman-Garner, Hey, Mister comics #4, [1998], porous point pen drawing; -- 12. Tom Scioli, Philip K Dick Total recall, [between 2001 and 2020], porous point pen drawing; -- 13. Nick Bertozzi, Living with Dean [Haspiel], 1998, porous point pen on envelope; -- 14. Matt Wagner, For Greg [Robot lifting off into space], colored pencil, porous point pen on black paper; -- 15. G., [Four panel vertical drawing featuring a turtle, rabbit, and a fox, as well as a dachshund wearing "policia secreta"], ink drawing; -- 16. Hurricane Lamps, [between 1999 and 2004], ink and blue pencil drawing; -- 17. Tom Hart, Is that all of them?, 1998, ink and tonal film overlay drawing (w/letter); -- 18. [Comic about music in English and Danish, 5 out of 7 drawings], 5 drawings, watercolor, ink, and graphite with overlays; -- 19. Jeff Smith, [Presentation drawing featuring characters from Bone] [2013?], porous point pen drawing; -- 20. Brian Talbot, [Presentation drawing featuring a woman with her hair tied up and wearing a red hat], 2000, watercolor and ink drawing; -- 21. Jhonen C. Vasquez, [Presentation drawing featuring the character Squee], porous point pen drawing; -- 22. Stan Sakai [Japanese-American artist], [Presentation drawing featuring the character Miyamoto Usagi from the series Usagi Yojimbo], 2000, porous point pen drawing accompanied by letter; -- 23. John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs aka Metaphrog, [Presentation drawing featuring a turtle and a bee], 2001 watercolor and ink drawing; -- 24. Callum Campbell, [Presentation drawing featuring an insect-like creature], 2001 crayon and charcoal drawing; -- 25. Farel Dalrymple, Petite investigator gets in this sheet, [ca. 2013] watercolor and ink drawing accompanied by letter; -- 26. [Five design drawings for a mini comic cover] 5 ink wash and graphite drawings, some with blue pencil; -- 27. [J. J. Liu?], [Rat or guinea pig], 1997 porous point pen drawing; -- 28. Eddie Campbell, Eddie Campbell's Bacchus [2002?] porous point pen and opaque white drawing; -- 29. Mike Luce, [Drawings for and of iron, includes letter and illustrated envelope, 1997 ink and porous point pen drawings; -- 30. Jim Woodring, Small Press Expo 2011, 2011, 1 print accompanied by envelope; -- 31. Farel Dalrymple, The Wrenchies, [ca. 2014], 1 print; -- 32. Hope Larson, Salamander dream, [2005] risograph print accompanied by sticker; -- 33. Paul Pope, Pulphope, [2021?] photomechanical print on mount; -- 34. [Hurricane lamps logo design], [between 1999 and 2004], photocopy with ballpoint inscription; -- 35. John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs aka Metaphrog, [Character facing window in bedroom with robot Comforter] 17/50 photomechanical print; -- 36. Primal Groove Press, So distinctly Top Shelf, © 1996, photomechanical print; -- 37. Brian Biggs, Topshelf on parade, 1998, screenprint; -- 38. John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs aka Metaphrog, [Woman lying on bed] photomechanical print; -- 39. The first ever AdHouse patch, embroidery mounted on photomechanical print; -- 40. Craig Thompson, Neil Gaiman The last angel, [2000] screenprint; -- 41. Mike Zulli, Neil Gaiman The guardian angel tour, © 1994, offset lithograph, 2 variants
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Notes
- This catalog record contains preliminary data.
- Title devised by Library staff.
Acquisition source
- Gift; Greg Bennett; 2023; (DLC/PP-2023:074).
LCCN
- 2023631531
Thursday, November 03, 2022
Original art I picked up at Baltimore Comic Con
A pre-existing Thom Zahler sketch of Green Lantern Katma Tui, 2 drawings by Howard Chaykin who doesn't draw full pages any more, a nice Shadow by Andy Price, and a Batman and Batmobile sketch by the awesome Jose Garcia-Lopez. Not shown: a nice page from Amelia Rules by Jimmy Gownley.
Friday, January 14, 2022
The Post notices 2 pages 0f Spider-Man art goes for the price of a minor Impressionist painting
Spider-Man comic-book page sells for a record $3.36 million
Washington Post January 14 2022
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
Original art of Ding, Lolly, and... Carl Ed's Victor Veribest? (UPDATED 2x)
by Mike Rhode (updated 11/19/21 with scans)
So a clump (gaggle? flock? murder?) of cartoonists walk into the American Visionary Art Museum's giftshop...
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Sure, it sounds like a shaggy dog story, but this past weekend I went to the museum with a group of local cartoonists, and someone opened a flat file drawer in the gift shop, and pulled out a 'Ding' Darling panel.
Scan, with caption cut off
There were 3 of these, which appear to tell the story of a young potato growing up into a crop. Barbara Dale said she and another friend had already bought 2 others on a previous visit. I bought this one.
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| Lolly June 21, 1970 |
The next strips I pulled out were 'Lolly' by Pete Hansen, a working woman gag strip that I read in the New York Daily News as a kid. It started in 1955, but these are from the 1970s when I was reading it.
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| Lolly Sept 3, 1972 |
Finally, there were 3 strips by Carl Ed of 'Harold Teen' fame. These 'Victor Veribest' strips seem like they might just predate 'Harold Teen' that started in 1919, or more probably, be running parallel to it as an advertising strip for an Armour Hour radio show of which I've found mentions of for 1929 and 1933-1935. I'd be glad to hear from anyone with more knowledge about them.
UPDATE: My friend, the crack comics historian Rodrigo Baeza, comes through "I found a sample of the Victor Veribest strip that ran in 1933: https://the-avocado.org/2018/
Monday, May 17, 2021
Sports cartoons found at estate sale - Christy Walsh and Morris Scott
I grew up in the tail end of the life of the sports cartoon. Bill Gallo was still at the NY Daily News, and the local Bergen Record had a sports cartoonist. By now, the field is mostly gone, but as Eddie Campbell has written about it, in its heyday, it launched the careers of many a cartoonist.
This past weekend I found an original sports cartoon and a pritnted comic strip at an estate sale.
The original cartoon is by Christy Walsh, a failed sports cartoonist. However, Michael Cavna, of the Washington Post, used to be a sports cartoonist himself and he put me on the track of finding out Walsh was the Kevin Bacon of his day and knew everybody. He might have not been a great cartoonist, but he became a fantastic sports agent and syndicator and became a rich man, representing Babe Ruth and others. (UPDATE 5/26/2021: I gave this to the Library of Congress' Prints & Photos division)
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| Blue, All-American First Baseman, 1923 |
Comics historian Steven Rowe tells me "Blue is wearing a cap with what seems to be the letter D.
Since Lu Blue played first base for Detroit in 1923, Blue is indeed likely to be Lu Blue."
The other item is a clipping of a comic strip about the World's Series in baseball by Morris Scott from the Boston Post, October 8, 1913. The New York Giants are facing the Philadelphia Athletics.* I've cleaned the image up; the original is perfectly legible, but yellowed from being displayed for years.
Two crack comics historians helped out with tracking this bit of history. Rodrigo Baeza provided me with the artist identification, and Art Lortie found a couple of the articles that Rodrigo suggested from Newspaper.com. Here's 3 items about Morris Scott, who appears to have died rather young, as well as another comic strip from 1918.
*Rod Beck sent in the following bit of baseball history - "Frank Baker (shown on the back of the elephant) was known as Home Run Baker. The year 1913 was in what is called The Dead Ball Era. Baker led the American League in home runs from 1911 thru 1914 with 11,12,10 and 9 homers respectively. The Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants 4 games to 1 to win the 1913 series."
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| Boston Post March 3, 1918 |
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| Obituary, BP Dec 5, 1922 |
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| "Scott with Squad," BP March 3 1918 |
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| Funeral, BP Dec 7, 1922 |
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