Thursday, April 19, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Triumph & Torment
The Triumph and Torment page by Mike Mignola and Mark Badger should be here in a day or three. It has come over the ocean and went from NY toMA (?) and is now headed south again here to NJ. I'll show you when it gets here. I already own this one below, so now I will have two!
The new page is not an action page, but still a great new addition.
The new page is not an action page, but still a great new addition.
Sunday, April 8, 2018
MOCCAfest 2018
Today was a good day.
I spent a few hours with my daughter, picking her up at Pratt Institute and going to the MOCCAfest to see Guest of Honor Mike Mignola.
I was pretty proud of myself, I asked a few questions that ended with Mike talking to my daughter about creating art and vulnerability and chance taking and the never-ending quest for a style. That was a few minutes but it was basically the reason I went to the whole thing. I took her by Xaime Hernandez' table but he was not there; I had a whole other lecture planned on inking and linework that I had hoped to induce Xaime to give!
We went up to the gallery that they had and she was really impressed by the Migola pages/covers on display there. They had about 15-20 originals framed on the wall and I gave her a little lecture about how Mike likes to balance his blacks and whites within an image. It was easy to find examples of it in the pages although he does not do this as much as he used to from what I can tell; or perhaps it has evolved to a more subliminal execution. So that was a lot of fun, enjoying comic art with my daughter.
We also talked for 5-10 minutes with John Leguizamo and I bought a hardcover GN, cover price $24.95, for $40. He signed it to me and my daughter and we had a great talk. My daughter was really excited afterwards, saying "I can't believe I shook his hand" and I was a proud father when she said she didn't know what to say to him but "you just talked to him no problem".
So yeah, a good day all in all. I bought those three illustrations above and if Mike had taken credit cards I would have tried to buy the whole portfolio. Seriously.
Thank you to Mike Mignola for the nice talk. And to Ghetto Freak John Leguizamo as well, although you owe me $15 mother fucker!
I spent a few hours with my daughter, picking her up at Pratt Institute and going to the MOCCAfest to see Guest of Honor Mike Mignola.
I was pretty proud of myself, I asked a few questions that ended with Mike talking to my daughter about creating art and vulnerability and chance taking and the never-ending quest for a style. That was a few minutes but it was basically the reason I went to the whole thing. I took her by Xaime Hernandez' table but he was not there; I had a whole other lecture planned on inking and linework that I had hoped to induce Xaime to give!
We went up to the gallery that they had and she was really impressed by the Migola pages/covers on display there. They had about 15-20 originals framed on the wall and I gave her a little lecture about how Mike likes to balance his blacks and whites within an image. It was easy to find examples of it in the pages although he does not do this as much as he used to from what I can tell; or perhaps it has evolved to a more subliminal execution. So that was a lot of fun, enjoying comic art with my daughter.
We also talked for 5-10 minutes with John Leguizamo and I bought a hardcover GN, cover price $24.95, for $40. He signed it to me and my daughter and we had a great talk. My daughter was really excited afterwards, saying "I can't believe I shook his hand" and I was a proud father when she said she didn't know what to say to him but "you just talked to him no problem".
So yeah, a good day all in all. I bought those three illustrations above and if Mike had taken credit cards I would have tried to buy the whole portfolio. Seriously.
Thank you to Mike Mignola for the nice talk. And to Ghetto Freak John Leguizamo as well, although you owe me $15 mother fucker!
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Triumph & Torment page!
It has been a while but not too much has changed. I am still in pursuit of The Fifty in my comic art collection but have purchased one or two pieces that might not make it. Those old habits are hard to break.
I have been spending most of my hobby time selling a large collection of comics that I purchased from a gentleman in town. I got them in the first half of 2017 and am now slabbing some of the more valuable ones. But all the effort and time of the comic selling is to generate cash for comic art purchase and when I saw a page from Dr. Strange/Dr. Doom Triumph & Torment available, even at a bit of a premium price but not all that high given it is Mignola pencils (and I love the Badger inks, not as much as I love Mike's own inks but they are still groovy to me), I decided to jump on it.
I am doing 3 payments so I won't show it off yet (the ol' jinxy thing) but you'll see it in two months (or earlier more likely).
Otherwise, just waiting to plant the peas in my ever expanding garden. The garlic is growing though!
I have been spending most of my hobby time selling a large collection of comics that I purchased from a gentleman in town. I got them in the first half of 2017 and am now slabbing some of the more valuable ones. But all the effort and time of the comic selling is to generate cash for comic art purchase and when I saw a page from Dr. Strange/Dr. Doom Triumph & Torment available, even at a bit of a premium price but not all that high given it is Mignola pencils (and I love the Badger inks, not as much as I love Mike's own inks but they are still groovy to me), I decided to jump on it.
I am doing 3 payments so I won't show it off yet (the ol' jinxy thing) but you'll see it in two months (or earlier more likely).
Otherwise, just waiting to plant the peas in my ever expanding garden. The garlic is growing though!
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