My last purchase from Fan Expo 2010 in Toronto this past weekend. Chris had a giant stack of pages at his table that he was selling for $40 each: I flipped through and spotted this one featuring Tom Strong.
Much to my dismay Darwyn Cooke was not sketching at this year’s Fan Expo; luckily he did bring along some finished pieces. He had an amazing full colour Superman that I would have loved to own but it would have taken my entire show budget so it was a no go. The next best piece was purchased by the person just ahead of me: it was a great full colour torso shot of Powergirl.
I flipped through the art portfolio and spotted this beauty; while I’m not a huge Powergirl fan the single colour work grabbed my attention. A welcome addition to my collection.
My star piece from Fan Expo 2010 in Toronto. Paolo Rivera made his first appearance and was doing water colour headshots. I loved his recent Marvel 70th Anniversary work and requested Golden Age Namor. The water was a great touch.
Chris Sprouse was at Fan Expo again this year and I was able to get a great sketch from him; this time I remembered to request he leave the pencils on the page so his process is visible. He continues to keep his rates incredibly low for both sketches and comic pages.
Here’s my second patch of Joe Palooka pages. Another cute two page story with vintage art.
Some more items from my recent comic shop purchase. They’re clearly labeled Joe Palooka issue 52 pages 29 and 30, but no creator credits. A bunch of internet searching didn’t get me closer to that information, but Comic Book Database shows this issue drawn by Joe Certa. Unfortunately I can’t confirm if that’s the entire issue including backup features like Little Max. These caught my eye because they were “twice up” art pages, common before the seventies when most comic art switched to size we’re used to now. Page 29 is missing the masthead or logo for Little Max which would have been nice to have.
My second page, or panel, from the mysterious Daisy issue 12.
Picked up a few pages from my local comic shop: all older material. This looks like a newspaper comic by Art Helfant called Hector The Director, and it has a copyright indicating 1953 Harvey Features Syndicate. Along the border it indicates this page was for Daisy issue 12 page 22 bottom, yet I can’t find mention of a comic witt that title.
Was in Paris recently (see here for the full story) and Frank did a quick sketch in a book for me.
This one circulated the comics web over the 2009 holidays and was an instant classic. I spotted the original artwork in Michael’s book at TCAF and got it for a song.
