http://art.ebabble.net One man's trash is another's treasure Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another find from the Fan Expo: picked this up from the inker Drew Geraci.  As always I'm drawn to the black heavily inked pages. http://art.ebabble.net/patrick-gleason-green-lantern-corps-page.htm My highlight piece from Fan Expo 2008: a glorious Wonder Woman sketch from Darwyn Cooke.  I had spotted him around the show on Friday and I found out he would be selling some of his sketch books from artist's alley on Saturday morning.  Saturday I paced until I spotted him ... http://art.ebabble.net/darwyn-cooke-wonder-woman-sketch.htm First pieces online from the recent Toronto Fan Expo.  Tim Sale was one of the big names I wanted to get a piece from and he employs a unique system, or rather the two or three associates he had with him employed.  Tim does about ten sketches a day and ... http://art.ebabble.net/tim-sale-doctor-strange-and-hulk-sketches.htm Two items from the Art Symposium.  Ramon had pages from his JSA Classified run with him: I couldn't afford the flashback splash pages that I really wanted but did get this beautiful page with Wildcat and Catwoman.  I didn't want to squander an opportunity so I requested an Alan Scott ... http://art.ebabble.net/ramon-perez-green-lantern-sketch-and-jsa-classified-page.htm At the Toronto Symposium I picked up a commission piece from Michael Cho.  I had emailed him last spring about it and he told me it would take awhile but I didn't mind.  He's a great artist and love his single colour work; in fact he was finishing up one at ... http://art.ebabble.net/michael-cho-dr-fate-and-dr-strange-commission.htm I attended the Sequential Art Symposium in Toronto this past Saturday. It was held prior to the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards in Toronto. It sounded like an exciting event that would have a large community of Canadian creators, in theory at least. I was there for three ... http://art.ebabble.net/sequential-art-symposium-2008.htm Final item from the April Toronto show.  Maleev had a short list so I was able to get a commission from him the same day.  He works quickly so that helps, but the price didn't.  The piece was done but I asked that the amulet be added, and neither of ... http://art.ebabble.net/alex-maleev-dr-strange-sketch.htm One of three Dr. Strange sketches from the Toronto show.  I really enjoy the perspective of this piece.  I'll be sure to get something from Karl every show since he's from Ontario. http://art.ebabble.net/karl-kerschl-dr-strange-sketch.htm Saw Paul at the April Toronto show and requested a sketch: he's doing wind elves for a new project and was kind enough to do this sketch for me.  Paul does a lot of work on animation backgrounds and he really shows off his skill in this piece: a few ... http://art.ebabble.net/paul-rivoche-wind-elf-sketch.htm Another item from the April Toronto show. Francis is at every Toronto show diligently producing sketches for free. He asked what I wanted and I left it up to him: received this very nice Hellboy sketch. http://art.ebabble.net/francis-manupal-hellboy-sketch.htm