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Blue Bolt / Heft-Reihe
Krisko and Jasper
cover: Jack Warren
Novelty Press / USA 1943
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
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Rusty Comics / Heft-Reihe
"Hurry John!"
cover: ?
Marvel (Hercules Publishing) / USA 1948
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I know I've been a regular Memesy McMemesyPants lately, but this one struck a chord with me; the idea was to grab cover images for twelve comics which were influential on you (as a cartoonist or a fan, I suppose. I'm kind of doing it as both).
The books I've chosen were:
Hellboy by Mike Mignola: Hands down my favorite comic of the last decade, top-ranking art and world-building.
Daredevil by assorted hands: The first super-hero comic I began collecting on my own. My parents both grew up reading comics and continued to read them on their own. Daredevil was the first comic I chose to read independently of their interests.
Hansi, The Girl Who Loved The Swastika by jerks: The comic which started Gone&Forgotten and my love affair with utter crap.
Hembeck: Fred Hembeck is the greatest comics nerd ever, and spurred my love for understanding comics history as much as the comics themselves
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow by Alan Moore, Curt Swan, Kurt S. and George Perez: One of a handful of perfect Superman stories
The Spirit by Will Eisner and Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor Mckay: Two classic masters who influcned my style.
Pip and Norton: Believe it or not, my first exposure to Dave Cooper, who revitalized my love of cartooning.
Doing the Islands with Bacchus by Eddie Campbell: A groundbreaking fusion of fantasy, whim and history.
Warrior: One of two British comics (the other being Captain Britain) that I started reading when I was a kid, introducing me to the British style of superheroes.
The Tick: The first comic book I remember being laugh out loud funny.
Metamorpho: The most perfectly crafted supporting cast and anti-heroes in comicdom.
There, those're mine! I could've added a hundred more, I'm sure, but I think this is a nice summation.
Fight Comics / Heft-Reihe
Rip Carson
cover: Dan Zolnerowich
- Shark Brodie / "They murder! They loot! They destroy!"
(art: Art Peddy)
- Senorita Rio
(art: Nick Cardy)
- Dusty Rhodes / "We're off again!"
(art: Lee Ames)
- Chip Collins / "Bombs over Japan!"
(art: Alex Blum)
- Hooks Devlin / "You gotta stop hangin' around the Marine post..."
(art: Rafael Astarita)
- Brigadier-General Jimmy Doolittle
(art: Pagsilang Rey Isip)
- Kayo Kirby
(art: Al Camy)
- Lt. John D. Bulkeley
(art: Pagsilang Rey Isip)
- Rip Carson / Sky-Devil's Mission
(art: Bob Lubbers)
Fiction House / USA 1942
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CO2 COMICS BLOG
May 21, 2012
Comic Art, Trash or Treasure?
Monday, May 21st, 2012
You sure wouldn’t know that the world is in an economic crisis by looking at the prices that have been paid recently for original art. Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses, who’s recent auctions collectively tallied $266,591,000, established record sale prices for pieces of art including the most expensive work ever sold at auction, Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ which garnered a whopping $120 million!
Fans of comic art began to scream themselves when Roy Lichtenstein’s painting, ‘Sleeping Girl,’ sold for $45 million, a record price for any of his works. Lichtenstein is often criticized by comic art enthusiasts for not having credited the long list of comic artists whose work he used as subject matter for his paintings. Comparisons of ‘Sleeping Girl’ and the Tony Abruzzo panel which it is derived from, as well as dozens of other comparisons, can be seen here. David Barsalou deconstructs Lichtenstein with a vengeance and it is well worth following his crusade on the internet and in his facebook group.
The good news is that, though comic art has been generally viewed by the fine art community as “low brow” and is still not in a position to command the kind of money that Munch or Lichtenstein’s pieces do, original comic art is beginning to command some very respectable prices. It has long been known that there is value in collecting comic books. The highest price paid so far for Action Comics #1 being $2.16 million. The same comic book is estimated to be currently worth about $4.3 million.
Original comic art, on the other hand, is now gaining in value as well. The most expensive piece of comic art ever sold is reportedly a full page panel by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson from ‘The Dark Knight Returns.’ The piece sold to an anonymous collector for $448,125 as part of Heritage Auctions’ Vintage Comics and Comic Art Auction in 2011.
In the past week Heritage auctioned two more significant pieces that collected big bucks. Contradicting the earlier report Heritage claims that a Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott original from Fantastic Four #55 featuring a half page splash of the Silver Surfer and signed by scripter Stan Lee achieved the highest price paid for a page of panel art selling for $155,350, roughly one third the value of the Batman piece.
Another work of original comic art that proved its muster was the first ever drawing of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird that fetched $71,700.
Forbes recently ran an article on their site that lists good reasons for investing in comic art but neglects the obvious: Supply and Demand.
Though it may seem that there are tons of original comic art proliferating in the market, and there are, how many show significant images of major characters drawn by masters of the industry or are pages from historic works? Not as many as you might think and now that a lot of art is created digitally, the chances of hard copy future original art surfacing for sale are dwindling.
The idea that there are over seventy years worth of original art numbering in the millions of pages trafficking around the collectors market is false. Most comic art that was created prior to the mid sixties was simply destroyed by the publishers, considered by them as nothing more than waste once the printable films were made.
Flo Steinberg, secretary at Marvel during the early years of the ‘House of Ideas,’ was quoted in David Anthony Kraft’s COMICS INTERVIEW #17 saying, “We used to throw it out …when the pile got too full…it was like ‘old wood’ to us.” Likewise, there are stories of Neal Adams dashing across the office at DC to rescue original art that was about to be destroyed in a paper slicer! Any art that survived that slaughter was generally given away as gifts or just managed to filter its way out of the office as random souvenirs. The scary part is that most of the artists just accepted this practice as the norm!
By the late sixties when fandom started to prove that there was a secondary market for the art through the establishment of comic conventions and comic shops, artists began to demand that their art be returned. This was a tricky process since several people generally worked on any given issue. The art would be split up among the writer, penciler, inker, and even the letterer. Colorists usually would get back the color guides that they made for the color separator. Because of this practice entire issues are nearly impossible to acquire.
By the 1980′s the independent movement gave creators many more rights and more creators were responsible for their work in its entirety but still, usually, would sell off pages at conventions, one at a time, to support themselves economically.
Today more and more comics are being created digitally and hard copy originals don’t even exist. The work and creative talent that goes into creating a comics page is once again being trivialized as an unfortunate part of the process. Instead of ‘old wood’ it is now just a collection of magnetic data hogging up a hard drive, facing obsolescence with the next wave of new technology.
The printed version may remain as the only collectable hard copy of future comic works and even that is challenged by digital delivery of comics. The art of making comics is finally being recognized as something of value yet its new found respect is threatened with its own potentionally temporary creative process.
Criticize Lichtenstein as much as you’d like, but his copy of a single panel, swiped from a forgotten romance comic, will exist for a long, long time and will only become more valuable while the original line drawing it was lifted from has probably been trashed for fifty years. How can we come expect the art world, or anybody, to respect comics as more than source material for pop art parodies when we continue to allow the originals it to be disposable.
Is comic art trash or treasure? As comic artists, we need to decide for ourselves.
Gerry Giovinco
Tags: Action Comics, Batman, Christie's, color guides, color separator, colorists, comic art, David Barsalou, DC Comics, Edvard Munch, FANTASTIC FOUR, Flo Steinberg, Forbes, Frank Miller, Heritage Auctions, House of Ideas, inker, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Kevin Eastman, Klaus Janson, letterer, Marvel, Neal Adams, original art, original comic art, penciler, Peter Laird, Roy Lichtenstein, Silver Surfer, Sleeping Girl, Sotheby's, Stan Lee, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Dark Knight Returns, The Scream, Tony Abruzzo, writer
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Sleeping Girl 1964
January 4, 2012
From Paulson, Laura
To 'barsaloud@yahoo.com'
Dear David,
It was nice to speak with you and thank you for the information regarding "Oh...Alright".. Thank you in advance, as well for the reference to Sleeping Girl 1964. I look forward to hearing from you,
Sincerely,
Laura
" lpaulson@christies.com"
My direct line is 212-636-****
From: DAVID BARSALOU [mailto: barsaloud@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 05:36 PM
To: Paulson, Laura
Cc: David Barsalou
Subject: Re: Sleeping Girl 1964
Laura… My apologies - have been fighting a cold for over a week. Thought you were referring to " I Can See The Whole Room... " which is from a Steve Roper Sunday dated 8/6/61
"Oh...Alright".. and Sleeping Girl are comic book images.
The specific info is somewhere in my research archives-
~ Will find it for you tomorrow.
I have been working on this project since 1979.
Best regards,
David Barsalou
Re: Sleeping Girl 1964
FromPaulson, Laura
January 4, 2012
To barsaloud@yahoo.com'
David, no worries, I have been fighting, but lost to my cold..not at
all pleasant.
Many thanks again,
Laura
From DAVID BARSALOU January 5,2012
To Paulson, Laura
CC David Barsalou
Oh... Alright … 1964
DC Comics
*****
Sleeping Girl 1964
DC Comics
*****
Laura -
It took a really long time to find all the source imagery for DRL
~ Please acknowledge my research whenever possible.
Thanks and regards,
David Barsalou MFA
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein © 2000
From Paulson, Laura to you January 7,2012
Re: Oh... Alright … + Sleeping Girl
David,
Thank you again, I did find Girls Romances, which is great .
How would you like to be credited/acknowledged should we use this in a Christie's publication?
Best,
Laura
Re: Oh... Alright … + Sleeping Girl
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From DAVID BARSALOU
To Paulson, Laura
CC David Barsalou
Laura… If you can't locate Oh… Alright...
I can E-Mail a scan without watermarks.
This acknowledgement would be fine -
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein © 2000
David Barsalou MFA
Carnival Comics / one-shot
cover: Joe Beck
[Generally believed to be the "missing" #13 in the series of short-run titles linking Scoop Comics #8 to Red Seal Comics #14, although there is no number anywhere on this issue.]
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1945
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Jungle Comics / Heft-Reihe
Juggernaut of Doom
cover: Dan Zolnerowich
Fiction House Magazines / USA 1942
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Scoop Comics / Heft-Reihe
Master Key
cover: Charles Sultan ?
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1942
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Today i had a photoshoot with melissa. The theme of todays shoot was comics. Probably the coolest thing about her is she is into alot of nerdy things. You don't find many girls that are into nerdy things that look like her. She plays video games and is into comics and super heroes. Kinda embarrassing when i show off my nerdyness around her but she's cool. Her, I and her boyfriend Dominic ran all over town to get the materials for todays shoot. We first had to visit a local comic book shop and get some comics since the ones i ordered off ebay never showed up. We got a great deal of 3 for a 1 so we pickedup 30 of them. We then headed to home depot and picked up two pieces of particle board to make the back drop. Then we dismantled the comics and stapled them to the particle board. The shoot was really fun and i think turned out well.
Strobist: sb-800 on the left of the camera with shoot though umbrella, sb-600 on the right of the camera with shoot though umbrella. triggered with nikon cls in ttl mode.
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Today i had a photoshoot with melissa. The theme of todays shoot was comics. Probably the coolest thing about her is she is into alot of nerdy things. You don't find many girls that are into nerdy things that look like her. She plays video games and is into comics and super heroes. Kinda embarrassing when i show off my nerdyness around her but she's cool. Her, I and her boyfriend Dominic ran all over town to get the materials for todays shoot. We first had to visit a local comic book shop and get some comics since the ones i ordered off ebay never showed up. We got a great deal of 3 for a 1 so we pickedup 30 of them. We then headed to home depot and picked up two pieces of particle board to make the back drop. Then we dismantled the comics and stapled them to the particle board. The shoot was really fun and i think turned out well.
Strobist: sb-800 on the left of the camera with shoot though umbrella, sb-600 on the right of the camera with shoot though umbrella. triggered with nikon cls in ttl mode.
Condorito / Album-Reihe
art: Pepo
Verlag: Editorial Televisa Colombia (Bogota / Kolumbien)
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