New Art as of May 15th, 2010.
I have been much busier than I was expecting for the first third of 2010.  I think I could easily say it has been my best year for new acquisitions to date and it is only 4 months old.  One piece in particular made my year although there have been some amazing pieces come my way I could not have foretold 4 months ago.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - the star of the show.  I grew up with this poster on my wall.  I knew I would never own the original but I am very pleased to own a great, full-on recreation by Bill.  I was speachless when I saw this. There is a long story behind this but sufficient to say that in this case the ends make me forget the means.  The promotional poster for Elektra Assassin recreated by Bill Sienkiewicz.  Here is a scan Bill sent me as he was working on the piece as it started to come together.  Image of it framed here.

Bernet, Jordi - equally as mind blowing to me is a great commission I got from Jordi Bernet.  A big thank you to Miguel for putting together another great trade deal with Jordi.  I asked Jordi to do a jungle girl panel page and Jordi really outdid himself.  I might have to say that this is the best Jordi Bernet commission I have seen and maybe his finest panel page but of course I am bias:)  Also as part of the deal a few great sketch pages 1, 2, 3, 4 and Jordi even drew on the packing material he sent the art in. 

Risso, Eduardo - I know I have long extolled the virtues of Eduardo but this update found me adding what may be the 2 most important Risso pieces to my collection.  First is the page that started it all for me, the shower scene from 100 Bullets #1.  To me this page was like an urban myth.  By the time I had caught on to the Risso/Azzarello magic it had disappeared in to someone's collection.  I have long given up on ebay as a source for art and have stopped looking altogether but one day, for some reason I looked and there was this page.  I think destiny might have played a slight hand in this page finding its way to my collection.  The second Risso piece is a commission.  Not my commission but my favorite Risso commission.  I got it from a fellow collector and friend who knew I was interested in it.  Kojima's Lone Wolf and Cub ala Risso.

Williams, Kent - Hellblazer #37 cover - painted.  Huge and framed. Here is a scan of the printed image.

Williamson, Al - vintage western page from Gunsmoke Westerns #38 page 11.  Some of the finest work by Al I have ever seen.  The page was signed by Al and dedicated to Joe Orlando.  Also, an unused page from EC Crime Illustrated #3 that did not get published until years later in a reprint by Russ Cochrane.  Angelo Torres and Frank Frazetta get inking credits on this one.

Aragones, Sergio - huge Sergio double page spread from MAD Magazine.  This is a recreation done about a decade ago.  I was told that the originals no longer exist.  Huge, poster sized art.  Also, another funny, funny MAD gag.

Pope, Paul - Spiderman Tangled Web page.  After owning my first Pope piece I knew it would not be long until a second found its way into my collection.  Just about everything I like about Paul's work on this page.

Darrow, Geof - Great Big Boy and Rusty page.  The page speaks for itself.

Carnevale, Massimo - 4 covers by the Italian master.  Scoprio, Lancio, scorpio and Martin Hel #6.

Matthews III, Menton - easily the highlight of my trip to c2e2 (Chicago) was being introduced to Menton.  A brilliant new artist and a very grounded and wonderful person.  Look for more art by Menton in future updates.  I bought 3 of his Mememento Mori pieces 1, 2, 3, a page from Shuddertown and a pin-up/interior cover for Zombies versus Robots by IDW.

Kirk, Richard - look this guy up.  Great and challenging illustrations.  "The Longleggers Call on What is Required" and "One Imagines the Other".

Lemire, Jeff - Nice initial cover to Sweet Tooth #1 that was rejected and was redone.  Having seen the originals for this and the published cover, I think this is the better image. 

Severin, Alec - my good friend and great artist from Belgium sent me this as a gift for some artwork I sent him and to mark the occassion of me adding a McCay piece to my collection.  Alec never fails to amaze me.  As with every letter, remarkable doodles along with the text. 

Cooke, Darwyn - 911 tribute piece. 

In my ongoing love affair with Milton Caniff's Terry and Pirates strip, a few more Dragonlady themed pieces have found their way into my collection.  Artists corrupted include Mike Hoffman, Peter Gross, Doug Snyed, Guy Davis, Adriano Batista, Ray Fawkes, Richard Cox and Kelly Tindall.

Deitch, Kim - No Biz Like Show Biz splash.  Not really sure what is going on here but I loved he image.

Wilson, Colin - large page from Thunderhawks.

Not really a new addition but something that had not been scanned before, a Sienkiewicz Shadow sketch.

Not really comic art related but I got this really large and cool painting by Tone.  One other cool piece I wanted to show, a sculpture inspired by H.R. Giger.

New Art as of Feb 26th, 2010.
I think this is the biggest update I have had to date.  Not so much by volume although there are over 100 pages but in quality and diversity.  It was also a very expensive update:)  I am sure there is something of interest to see for all art collectors, I hit the entire gamut of superhero, classic strip art, indie art, manga, european and illustration art.

McCay, Winsor - nice illustration circa 1920.  This piece was done by Winsor as a rebutal to the posted editorial cartoon by TAD, another famous cartoonist.  This was given to the owner of a bar across the street from the publisher in NYC and has remained on the wall of the bar until the current owner brought it to Illustration House to sell.  I love this one.  It has everything I could want in a McCay and second only to a Little Nemo.  I had been focused on finding a Rarebit Fiend or Sammy Sneeze but when this one came up I knew I had finally found the right piece for my collection.  It is quite large and signed in full by McCay.

Finlay, Virgil - nice pulp illustration.  I do not know what his if from but I really liked the way the figures were rendered and the sense of motion and fluidity in the piece.  True illustrative skill on display here.

Raymond, Alex - Jungle Jim sunday 1/22/39.  It is hard not to like Raymonds work.  This is a gorgeous, prime period piece and I am really happy to add it to my collection.  I had that great Flash Gordon Sunday I got a few years back and parted with last year.  It wasn't because I don't appreciate Raymond is that for that price tag I need to be knocked off my feet by the art and that didn't happen with the Flash Gordon so I am quite content to settle for a few nice Rip Kirby's, and x-9 and this great Jungle Jim.  The first panel is a bit strange, a little stiff and that leg bothers me but the other 3 panels are all gorgeous and girls galore.    Also added in this update is a Rip Kirby Daily from 1953.

Kubert, Joe - Ragman #4 complete 5 page story.  Pure story telling with no dialogue as published.  pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.  Also, 2 new sketches by Joe, Enemy Ace and Hawkman as well as a Brave and the Bold page.

Andru, Ross - Amazing Spiderman #142 page 26.  This page is really not what I collect but it came to me and I love it.  The energy and fun in this page is tangible. 

Lee, Jim - Gen 13 #0 cover.  Another item out of my usual scope of collecting.  I know I am probalby in a very small minority but Jim Lee generally doesn't do that much for me.  I like his art but I am lost by what others are willing to pay for his work.  I am really happy to add this one as it is a nice example of his work, has a great image that I like and is a bit of a strange piece because it is painted.

Powell, Bob - Sheena splash.  Finally a Sheena splash to call my own.  Very pleased with this unexpected addition.  

Sale, Tim - Yeah Baby! sketchbook illustration.  Very cool and probably as close to a Dragonlady as I am going to get from Tim.

Davis, Jack - Two Fisted Tales #25 page from the story MUD.  Gorgeous work by Jack in his EC prime.  Also, a neat KoolAid piece by Jack.  

Kojima, Goseki - brilliant ink illustration by legendary Manga artist of Lone Wolf and Cub fame.

Risso, Eduardo - I was lucky to get on Eduardo's commission list again and ended up with a cool Blade Runner piece.  I also added another stripper page from Batman 621 to complement my other page.

Fisher, Seth - Tokyo Pop #4 page by the late and greatest.

Darrow, Geof - Shaolin Cowboy illustration.

Anacleto, Jay - Aria cover in Jay's trademark graphite technique. 

Staton, Joe - E-man #25 cover.  Loved this series when I was a kid.

Adams, Art - Tom Strong Jonni Future page.

Brown, Bob - 2 great Daredevil #122 pages from a happier time with the Black Widow.  page 11 and 14.

Bernet, Jordi - nice Clara page (nudity warning)

Adlard, Charlie - Walking Dead #23 splash.  One of my favorite recent reads. 

Huge strip art update, I'll keep this short and sweet.
McClure, Darell - Little Annie Rooney Sunday 9/13/53.
McManus, George - partial Sunday from 12/14/24 and 2 dailies from 6/21/46 and 8/24/38.  I never tire of these.
Tufts, Warren - Casey Ruggles 1/1/42 - maybe the finest I have ever seen.
McWilliams, Al - 5 Gorgeous Twin Earth Dailies from 1/19, 1/24, 2/6 and 2/7 and 7/31 plus a Davy Jones Dailies from 2/21.
Robinson, Paul - Etta Kett Daily 5/26/32.
Thorton, John - Flamingo Daily 11/12/52.
Norris, Paul - Partial Jungle Jim Sunday. unknown date.
Drake, Stan - 3 later Juliet Jones Sundays from 8/5/79, 8/6/78 and 7/29/7?.
Bald, Ken - Judd Saxon Daily 11/7/60.
Young, Lyman - a nice Tim Tyler's Luck Sunday 8/25/35 and 2 Curley Harper Sundays from 9/22/35 and 2/9/36.
McBride, Clifford - 2 swell Sundays 5/5/40 and 7/30/33 and 3 dailies(1, 2, 3).
Bishop, Wally - Muggs McGinnis daily 1/28/35.
Godwin, Frank - Rusty Riley Daily from 3/23/56.
Evans, George - X-9 daily 10/1/76.
Yager, Rick - Buck Rogers 2_1-51 daily.
Caniff, Milton - Terry Daily from 6/30/39. Dragonlady, April and Terry in this one.

Battlefield, Ken - 12 page Tiger Girl story from Fight Comics #73 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Pitarra, Nick - 4 cool pages to Astonishing Tales #3 page 2, #5 page 2, #6 page 3 and 5.  Check these out, they are a lot of fun with a great image of Spidie and Cap eating a happy meal.  Nice little homage/cameo by Seth Fisher in there as well.

Buscema, John - 4 Savage Sword of Conan pages inked by E.R. Cruz.  #204 page 43, #208 page 22 and 27 and #210 page 36.

Mortimer, Win - Spidey Super Stories interior cover Gag page.

Colan, Gene - a Demon commission and a David Bowie con sketch.

Fujitake, Dennis - Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers pin-up. Frazetta homage.

Frail, Seth - Flash Gordon commission.

Maroto, Estoban - Zantana #3 page 17 and Savage Sword of Conan #230 page 18 with Red Sonja.

Van Buren, Rae - beautiful girl pin-up.

Toth, Alex - small sketch sheet.

Post, R.K. - TSR Rulemaster gaming art.

Alcazar, Vincent - 2 page from Space 1999 1 and 2.

Chaykin, Howard - Hawkman #55 partial splash.

Gibson, Ian - cool 2000 AD page with a very Halo Jonesesque character.

Cravath, Glenn - 2 illustrations 1 and 2.

Ketcham, Hank - specialty Dennis the Menace illustration.

Lopresti, Aaron - Mermaid pin-up.

Dringenberg, Mike - Enchanter page.

unknown artist - 2 flapper era fashion magazine fashion design layouts.  1 and 2.  Delineator Dec 1926.

New Art as of October 14th, 2009
Some interesting new pieces have found there way into my collection.  Some cool commissions, my first big US con and a few trade deals have shaken up my collection these past few months.  Some great pieces so check out what I have just added.

Windsor-Smith, Barry - New Mutants Cover #47.  This came in on a huge trade deal with a great European collector. I really miss what I gave up in the trade but I don't think something like this would ever have found its way into my collection otherwise.  Here is the team battling Warlock's father. 

Lemire, Jeff - Cover to Essex County Stories #2 - Ghost Stories.  Probably the best comic I have ever read, certainly the best in the last 10 years and I got soooo lucky getting this cover.  I managed a few other pieces by Jeff including another con commission, a splash from Nobody, a great page from Essex County Stories #3 and a splash from Sweettooth that I have given back to Jeff as he has decided he doesn't want to sell any of the artwork from this book.  If you get a chance, pick up his books.  They are reprinting them in a complete volume this summer, this is one book everyone should read.  3 new pieces, the first image of Griffen from Nobody, a promotional piece for Nobody and a piece Jeff did for an interview he gave featuring characters from his 3 main works to date.

Adams, Arthur - Cover to Action Comics # 819.  A very cool cover to a comic I would never otherwise have an interest in:)  Guys like Art can get me to read just about anything. 

Risso, Eduardo - one of the biggest highlights of the NYC con was meeting Eduardo and long time friend Enrico. 
100 Bullets Issue 13 page  4, issue 15 page 16, a brilliant 2 page sequence from issue 90 pages 2 and 3 and finally the ultimate Dizzy page from issue 94 page 12.   100 Bullets #100 pages 7, 8, 10, 21, 23, 24, 38.  I was lucky to get first shot at these and I got some great pages including the final splash to the whole sheebang!  One more last minute edition, issue #48 page 9 - a great, great page. 

Sienkiewicz, Bill - it was good to see Bill up in Toronto again.  I asked him to do Magik with the Demonbear.   Being so long between updates, I actually met Bill again at a convention in Toronto and got these fine pieces. Sienkeiwicz, Bill  - I asked him to redo the cover of Elektra 4 with DD instead of Garrett and he really out did himself.  Bill also brought some art with him and I am happy to add  a nice color Elektra piece and a great page from Stray Toasters #4 to my collection.

Storey, Barron - until a few months ago, I had not heard of Barron Storey and now I find his influence everywhere in the field.  He taught Bill Sienkiewicz, McKeever, Muth, Pratt, Williams, Wood and others how to paint.  Here is a great piece with a Blade Runner quote as a theme.  A big thanks to Kasra for introducting me to such an important artist and letting go of this piece.

Bernet, Jordi - some great pieces by the Spanish genius including a Cicca en Rio page(nudity), another Cicca page, a page from Tex, a first page from Torpedo, a pin up, a sketch or two and a Dragonlady commission. 

Toth, Alex - a great page from Sinster House that also came in that big trade deal. 

Stelfreeze, Brian - meeting Brian and being lucky enough to get one of his "big commission" at the NYC con was one of the events that made the trip for me.  Brian did an O-ren-Ishi from Kill Bill for me and I also managed a Spirit illustration from Brian as well.  I have also recently picked up a nice catwoman illustration.

Fox, Nathan - also in NYC, I met Nathan who I have known and chatted with on line for a number of years.  It was great to put a face to the name and he did me a killer Dragonlady piece and I picked up this illustration as well. 

McKeever, Ted - also picked up in NYC, a commission arranged by Kasra from Ted of Flash Gordon and Dale by Ted and later an Elektra sketch.

Moebius - not really original art but most of his great City of Fire portfolio (3 large one's I couldn't scan) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
but I did manage to add one Moebius original, a piece that I had owned previously and had traded away has found its way home... not sure what it is called.

My Dragonlady commissions thrived as well and I am a bigger fan of Caniff than I ever was.  I have finished reading the entire Terry run over the past few months and it was brilliant.  Dragonlady by Jordi Bernet, Paul Rivoche, Steve Rude, Dan Parent, Seth Frail, Gene Gonzales, Jay Stephens, Ernie Chan, Takara and Darwyn Cooke with a little sketch on the back.

Maleev, Alex - a great commission at the Toronto convention by Alex.  I asked him to do a color piece of Elektra and DD with a bit more of a romantic tone and he really came through. 

Azpiri, Alfonzo - Added a nice piece that was intended for a cover but never finished with a partially finished panel page on the back as well as a finished splash page. 

Toppi, Sergio - a cool page from the master. 

Bianchi, Simone - still with a European trend, I added some great paged by Simone including 2 Astonising X-men pages from issues #26 and #28 and 2 great Shining Knights pages from #2 and #4.  Simone's work really needs to be seen in person to really get what he is doing.  The layouts on his x-men pages are what really made me decide it was time to get a page or four.

Williamson, Al - great EC page from Tales from the Crypt by Al. 

Sale, Tim - a great page from Solo.  It wasn't easy to get this but a great trade deal worked out fine.

Muth, Jon - two new and great Dracula pages. 1 and 2. 

Williams, Kent - a great page from Blood and a fantastic painting.

Bolton, John - Classic X-men page.

Cruz, E.R.  - on of my favorites and a very underated artist.  Here is a foreign language cover and a nice piece from the Witching Hour.

Disbrow, Jay - Valgar Gunnar page 1.  These are huge.  I have a few pages by Jay but I was always hoping to get my hands on one of these. 

Nebres, Rudy - maybe the greatest inker to ever live produced this great pin-up.

Redondo, Nestor - another unrecognized master with a foreign language page. 

Hernandez, Gilbert (Beto) - amazing page from Birdland, nudity warning.

Mayhew, Mike - nice Vampirella page.

Zulli, Mike - a nice angel series watercolor painting. 

Wood, Ashley - a really great page from LORE.

Anacleto, Jay - two early pages by Jay for Aster comics.  page 4 and 9. 

Maguire, Kevin - cool pencil page, looks to be finished pencils so likely not inked but published from pencils.  I am guessing an Avengers story but I don't know. 

Giordano, Dick - great Batman cover for Batman Hollywood.  This was not used but with Layton inks this is as good as any Batman cover of this era out there.

Schroeder, Ernie - 2 cool and very different pages.  The first with great planes from the Green Hornet and the second from Boy Heroes #1.

Perez, George - interesting Brave and Bold page.  This came to me in a big trade deal.     

Colan, Gene - half page to Captain America #133 by Colan and Tomb of Dracula # 26 page 26 with Palmer inks.

Powell, Bob - one of my all time favorite pages, a great Warfront #1 page plus a cool 8 page Cavegirl story from issue #14.  pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 

Chaykin, Howard - a great painting by Howard.  Another mystery piece.

Gotto, Ray - Dinah from Ozark Ike illustration.  Not sure if it is Gotto art, it is not as polished as his published art that I own.

Drake, Stan - 2 Blondie specialty pieces.  1 and 2.

Epting, Steve - nice Elektra sketch from the Toronto con.

Keown, Dave - Hulk sketch.

Cazeneuve, Arturo - Green Hornet page.

Gibbons, Dave - Bruce Lee by the great Watchman artist.

Lark, Michael - Hawkman #41 page.

unknown - Jungle Comics #4 page 1, 2, 3 and 5.  Historic, the oldest Fiction House art that I know of and the oldest splash.

Kaluta, Mike - 3 great Shadow pages from the movie comic. #1 page 22  #1 page 23 and #2 page 8.  

Krenkle, Roy - Death Ray illustration. 

Liefeld, Rob - New Mutants pin-up

Armstrong, Jason - another great Lobster Jones page.

Meskin, Mort - great page from Black Cat #51.  One of the greats of the golden age.

Leonardi, Rick - New Mutants #52 page. 

Middleton, Josh - no update is complete without at least one piece.  A nice splash from NYX by Josh.

Pope, Robert - commission.  I asked Robert to do the Scooby Doo gang with my family, me, my wife and 3 kids.  My Mustang GT convertible makes an appearance as well.

Pope, Paul - a last minute addition to this update.  A great page from an FF back up story Paul did.  I have wanted a piece by Paul for a while and now that I have one I want at least another two:)

Pratt, George - Prince - I am a big fan of the musician despite all his quirks.  I can still listen to When Doves cry over and over again.  In France a skinny man dies of a big disease with a little name. By chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she does the same.  Alright, enough Prince talk, this is about the art.  I never saw this publication but I'd have bought it.  No idea if it is any good but being a fan of both Pratt and the subject matter made this an easy choice.

Buscema, John - Rampaging of the Hulk #1 page 56 with Rudy Nebres inks.  Also a Buscema/Alcala SSOC #16 page that came and went already. 

Sekowsky, Mike - Adventure into Darkness end page.  Lots of Toth and Ditko influence in here. 

Gonzalez, Gene - space girl commission.

Sparling, Jack - several great painted pieces by Jack from Sick magazine, one of the many MAD copycats like Crazy and Cracked.  Painting including a Star Wars cover, Little Bo Peep illustration, Seasick Mariner, Smoke Signals as well as a monochromatic western fight painting and a painting that looks like it might have been for Playboy or a similar publication.

Veitch, Rick - 2 gorgeous Swamp Thing #67 pages with Abby and Swampy.  pages 6 and 8.

Romita, John Jr - cool Thor #25 partial splash.

Bolle, Frank - neato Tim Holt page.

Morales, Rags - Turok #22 page.

Garcia-Lopez, Jose - great vintage Wierd Western #33 page featuring Jonah Hex.

Severin, Al - a few more nice sketches that came with great letters. 1, 2.

VanBuren, Rae - great illustration "The Main Event"

unknown - great eight  page vintage Scooby-Doo # 10 eight page story. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Jan 2nd 2009

I can echo the first sentence of my last update again here, so much for slowing down.  Some great new art this update with lots of strip art.

The biggest new addition for my collection is some new Al Williamson X-9/Corrigans.  By some, I mean a boatload and I couldn't be more pleased but I am because I got to meet Al and his lovely wife through correspondence.  It was great to be able to tell him how much his art meant and to thank him for having such a profound influence on the field.  So, here it is, Corrigans galore!

1/13/69 and 1/14/69 - As close as I will get a dragonlady by Al.  It seems like Al used the vehicle of Corrigan to explore and re-explore every adventure genre he desired and we as the lucky readers got to follow this great oddessy.

7/22/69  this one is not actually Al's work, this one was by the great Aussie artist Stanley Pitt.  Check out my Silver Starr page last update for more of his fine and meticulous inkwork.

2/3/70 - gorgeous portrait in the last frame.  Al drew some of the most beautiful women that ever graced the medium.

2/25/70 and 2/26/70  - two dailies that showcase Al's classic use of shadows and more beautiful girls.

3/26/70 and 3/28/70 - two more great, moody dailies.  I have sent one as a gift off already.

6/3/70 - I always find certain things interesting in artwork and the treatment of waves and rain always fascinate me.

10/21/70 - one of my favorites.  One of the those rare quiet moments before another case starts.

11/16/70 and 12/10/70 - two nice dailies from the dinosaur story line.

6/3/71 - last but not least.

Aragones, Sergio - I have long lusted after a nice Groo piece.  I have had a few sketches but this is a cover quality illustration. 

Bernet, Jordi - I don't seem to be able to get enough of Jordi's work, each piece is so powerful and I couldn't pass up on this brilliant one. 

Fine, Lou - Dollman #24 half page.

Zulli, Michael - a finished watercolor by Mike.  I have watched Michael grow as an artists since his days on Puma Blues.  This one is entitled Red Angels Wait #2.

New Art Oct 31st, 2008

Well, so much for slowing down with the collection.  This has been a rather crazy few weeks since the last update art wise.  Lots of new things to show off.  There was a bit of competition for the top spot this update but it goes to my friend, Alec.

Severin, Alec - Tintin commission.  This was an unexpected piece and I couldn't be happier with it.  This was in exchange for some artwork and it was a total surprise.  I am a fan of Herge and I had asked Alec to send me on of his Tintin covers in exchange for the art but since they are all in the hands of a dealer,  he did this great piece for me instead and it is more than I could have asked for.  There is a resemblance to me of the guy driving the car.  Singh Singh is the name of a warlord in Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates.  Two nice sketches that came along with recent letters from Alec.  Self portrait and cowboy.

Stelfreeze, Brian - this was a deal that started a little over 2 years ago and was well worth the wait.  26 pieces in all (27 if you count another Stelfreeze piece from elsewhere).  Included are the covers to The RideTPB issues 1 and 2 plus a portfolio pin-up and a Dragonlady piece.  Then there is the complete interior to GunCandy #2, my favorite issue from this series. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and page 22.   I'll have to let the art speak for itself.   Also, a vintage Tony Harris/Brian Stelfreeze piece of a nude woman.  

Wright, David - I have had a few Carol Day pieces before and they were nice but now that I have seen some of these earlier pieces, I am blown away.  Wright is among the finest illustrators to ever work in comics up there with Frazetta, Williamson, Godwin, Salinas and Raymond.    Here are 8 brilliant examples 239, 344, 486, 470, 1340, 1341, 1342 and 1867.

Speaking of Raymond and Williamson, a great new one from each. 
Raymond, Alex - a great daily featuring Honey Dorian and some great lighting from Rip Kirby 2/20/53
Williamson, Al - a great x-9 featuring a Indiana Jones look alike from 12/17/70. 

Azpiri, Alphonso - 2 great commissions from the European master, the Dragonlady and Sheena a more finished piece of Flash Gordon and Dale plus the preliminary sketch.

Jije - Belgian artist Joseph Gillain who influenced much of what we consider a European style.  Moebius took great inspiration from him.  This is a page from Tanguy et Laverdure and was pieced together from a different format.

Middleton, Joshua - it is not like I could do an update without some new Middleton art.  Here is a cover to Runaways and a con sketch of Psylocke.

Marshall, Maxx - 2 great new commissions from Maxx of the Dragonlady and Flash Gordon and Dale.  Maxx really went all out on these and I just love his line, it has a european sense to it.  Also a Tintin piece from Maxx and a piece of a woman runner. 

Beatty, John - 2 commissions as well for the Dragonlady and Sheena.

Bernet, Jordi - a great Chica page and a page from Jordi's run on Jonah Hex.  Both great pages for so many reasons.

Sienkiewicz, Bill -  New Mutants 22 splash.  A very cool piece that found its way into my collection. 

Darrow, Geof - Big Guy and Rusty pin-up.  This is a large 18" x 24"piece on comicart paper (normally Geof does these on vellum)

Dezuniga, Tony - Jonah Hex cover prelim.

Fingerman, Bob - a neat page from Minimum Wage #7 page 7.

Zulli, Michael - Witchcraft #1 page 6.

Crandall, Reed - Flash Gordon #11 page 24. 

English, Hal - a great Sci-Fi cover from Australia featuring Star Quake. 

Chaykin, Howard - two con sketches a friend got for me.  Princess Leia and Red Sonja.

Pitt, Stanley - Silver Starr page.  These were taken from the original newspaper strip, cut down and redesigned into comic pages with some original art to fill in the spaces.  Pitt had a style that was influenced by Alex Raymond and it certainly shows. 

Good, Edmond - Monte Hall #47 page 7 from the 50's. 

Fisher, Bud - undated Mutt and Jeff daily.  This is large and vintage piece but I am not sure when it was published.

Postic, Nick - Impailer page with me being decapitated in the last panel.  Nick had asked me for some images/photos to use as a character reference and here I am losing my head.

Godwin, Frank - Rusty Riley Sunday 1-28-58.

Ditko, Steve - Spyman page.  Very cool and classic Ditko. 

Fletcher, Richard - Surgeon Stone Sunday 6/22/47. 

Voight, Charles A. - Petey Daily from 1919

Burroughs, John Coleman - page 17 to Tarzan "Tarzan and the Devil Ogre" circa 1940.  The story was never published by Burroughs but Jesse Marsh did the story for Four Color comics #134.  This art is huge and there is a wonderful pencil prelim on velum to go with this work.  Gorgeous art and inking.

Everett, Bill - Tales to Astonish #94 twice up Subby page.  GCD credits it as Everett pencils and inks.

Campbell, J. Scott- a little Freefall sketch.

Van Buren, Rae - a large illustration from The Saturday Evening Post circa 1930.

Matania, Fortunino - two illustrations.  The previous owner had given them the fitting titles of Christmas Dinner and Music Room.

Yeagle, Dean - a nice pencil piece by the Playboy genius. 

New art update August 20th, 2008

A longer period of time has passed since my last update.  I have had some pretty cool new pieces to show off.  Still hoping to have a new site and look soon...  Also, I was on TV talking about art last month, to see the clip if it is still active, click here.

Manara, Milo  -  Heavy Metal Pin-up.  I don't think I could have asked for a better piece.  I wanted a nice, finished Manara and this fit the bill in every way.  Nudity warning!

Moebius - two nice illustrations for portfolios.  The first was published twice in portfolios and the second is from 40 Days in the Desert. 

Krenkle, Roy - a fantastic finished illustration from the Carnavale books by the artist Williamson and Frazetta credit as one of their teachers.   This is such a fantastic piece, I have scanned it larger here.

Schulz, Charles - I never thought I would find a piece by Sparky for my collection.  Normally I wouldn't touch a sketch with most being forgeries out there but this one is good and had perfect provenance from an estate of an artist with many other personalized pieces (see caniff and others below).

Anacleto, Jay - after the Aria piece I picked up in the last update, I am happy to add a cover to my collection.  This is from Spawn Godslayer #5. 

Keown, Dale - a great page from Hulk by Dale.  Awesome finished pencils with some white paint for effect. 

Muth, Jon J- 3 great pieces by this very talented artist.  A splash from Dracula, a great page from M - Mystery Play and finally a page from one of my favorite comics of my youth, Moonshadow #10 page 6.  The M page is particularly cool as it is done in silverpoint which has been explained to me something between a pencil and pastel made with silver in it. 

Kirby, Jack - nice twice up Kirby Thor page from Journey into Mystery #110 page 2. 

Maleev, Alex - cool Daredevil  and Elektra art from Daredevil.  This is as close to published art as Alex produced for his legendary run on the series.  Alex would do these originals and then scan them in and photoshop the characters into the backgrounds he created.  These are the only originals with elektra and dd on them for the published art.  Here is a con sketch Alex did for me of Elektra as well. 

Michelluzzi, Atula - great page from Johnny Focus by the Italian master.  Ever since a friend introduced me to his art a few years ago, I have been waiting for a great example.  A bit of Caniff, Sickles and Robbins all rolled into one. 

Middleton, Joshua - what update would be complete without at least one piece:) Here is a great Mary Jane sketch.

Caniff, Milton - as I read and reread some of the Terry and the Pirate material in the wonderful new reprints from IDW I have grown to enjoy and appreciate Caniff more.  Here are a few new additions.  3 GREAT! Terry Dailies from 10/30/39, 12/12/38 and 8/8/38 plus an original sketch of Steve Canyon and a daily from 11/7/62. 

Speaking of Caniff, the Dragonlady collection has grown with some great new additions from Salgood Sam, Tom Yeates, Jeremy Bastian, Andy Belanger and Jason Armstrong. 

The Flash Gordon commission collection has grown with art by Tom Yeates and Greg Laroque.

My final collecting theme of Jungle girls has a few new additions by Herb Trimpe, Gray Morrow Sheena movie adaptation page and finally a Sheena page from Fiction house Sheena #18 page 5. 

 April 7th, 2008

It has been too long since my last site update.  I was hoping to have a new site up and running months ago and I have kept delaying an update in anticipation of this.    I still hope the new site will be possible but for the time being, the site will stay with its current set up.  It has been a crazy half year with the US and Canadian exchange rates and it is been hard to keep up.  Also, the last 6 months have shown some crazy price for art that leave me wondering if I can still play.   Lots of new art to show off and with con season approaching, I am hoping to add some nice new sketches to my theme galleries.

Raymond, Alex - Flash Gordon sunday for June 20, 1937.  I am not sure where to begin with this pieces description.  I never thought I would end up with one of these, it just wasn't something that I thought would ever happen but now that I own one...  it is all a bit surreal.  This page comes from the estate of Stanley Pitt, a well known Australian illustrator.  It came on the original art board which had a backing of dark cardboard.  I took my first venture into the world of restoration with this and 2 other pieces.  I had the art floated off the acidic cardboard and deacidified and then archivally framed behind uv protected glass. The sticker shock of this process was a bit much but in light of what I have done for the greater good of future comic art connoisseurs, I suppose it was a small price to pay.  I have also scanned details of each panel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.  Alex's brush work on the piece is amazing and the final panel with Flash in the middle of Mayhem is as good as it gets for me.  As a side note, I entered this piece in the comicart-l Best of 2007 strip art pieces and somehow won.  Sorry for the large scans, but anything less would not do the piece justice.

Iger studios - almost as big as a Raymond in my book, a nice full page splash from Kaanga of Ann.  Just to add to this, a second partial splash.  With the Baker Tigergirls I got in this update, it doesn't get any better for a jungle girl fan. 

Muth, Jon - just when I thought it couldn't get any better with the Dracula page I picked up last year, I found myself with another Muth Dracula and a splash(might have been art for a card) from Mystery Play and a page from Moonshadow.  The Muth Dracula is something I loved and poured over as an aspiring artist in my late teens.  I read Moonshadow several times as well as a teen and it really hit a chord with me.  As an adult I still appreciate the story but on new levels and I love this page with a bit of Little Nemo imagery thrown in.

Darrow, Geof - Shaolin Cowboy Cover and illustration.  I love this series and I have been a big fan of Darrow since I started to appreciate Moebius, Seth Fisher and Frank Quitely.  Now I can't seem to get enough of his art.  I remember HardBoiled coming out and at the time it was a little to much for me but I was looking at it from the wrong perspective at the time.  A huge thanks to jsid for picking these out for me at San Diego last year.  Also, a Big Guy sketch.

Moebius - nice finished illustration.  No idea where it is from but it is quite striking. 

Campbell, Eddie - From Hell #10 page 31.  Awesome panel page without any words featuring the main character.

McKean, David - I love his artwork.  I was lucky to get 2 nice pages from Cages, Issue 3 page 43 and   #9 page 46 plus 2 illustrations. The illustration are of a Boy with a Rabbit and of a Photographer.   The pages and one of the illustrations is already on hold for someone but the at is so great it needs to be shared. 

Kubert, Joe - for a limited time Joe was doing sketches with the purchase of his Tex book.  I took advantage of this rare opportunity and got a sketch brilliant sketches of Sgt. Rock and Tarzan.  I am almost speechless about both of these, I never expected more than a quick pen sketch and these two beauties arrived in the mail.  I later got two more as gifts for friends, a Tex and another Tarzan.  In total Joe did 100 of them and I have seen scans of a little over half of them and they are all wonderful, Joe is still at his peak.  I had met him about 6 years ago at our local con and he was such a humble gentleman like all the other greats I have met.

Romita, John Sr and John Jr - speaking of legends, three generations of Romitas were in Toronto last year and I was lucky to get the Kingpin/DD sketch from the pair of them.  I also got a nice Mary Jane cover recreation sketch from the engagement issue.  The sketches I got go well with this previous ebay pick up. 

Middleton, Joshua - No update seems to be complete without a few additions to my Josh collection.  First a cover for JLA Classified, box/cover art for Heroclix and a nice Sky Between the Branches sketch which turned out to be a fake. 

Risso, Eduardo - not my commission but one I am very glad to own.  DD and the Widow.  There is so much I love about this piece and about Risso's work.  Also, 3 fabulous Batman #621 pages 10, 11 and 12. 

Anacleto, Jay - a nice page for Aria.  I have never seen his artwork before and so I was curious.  Very nice tonal pencil/graphite work.

Moore, Terry - Strangers in Paradise #54 cover.  I have just finished reading the entire saga for the first time from the beginning.  Great characters and an interesting story.  Katchoo is such a complicated character and I love the image and atmosphere of this cover. 

Bernet, Jordi - nice, moody Film Noir cover to issue 20 of Black (a series of Italian novels).

Stelfreeze, Brian - cover to The Ride Valkyre #1 , batgirl pin-up/sketch and a page of  sketches side 1 and 2.  Hopefully a lot more from Brian coming soon.

Miller, Frank - nice Janson/Miller page from Daredevil 189 (page 15).  By this point in the classic run Miller was likely only doing layouts. Death of stick page.

Baker, Matt - 3 nice Tiger Girl pages.  Thanks to Chris for picking these up for me and for thinking of me.  Fight Comics #54 page 7, 8 and 10.  There are some great good girl images by Baker on these pages. 

Hopper, Fran- Rangers #25 page 2 - speaking of good girls, this page has more than any other I have seen.  A neat nude seen and pure GGA. 

Severin, Al  - my good friend and artist extrodaire did me a favor.  He sent me some sketches to use for links and emails on my new website when and if it ever gets done.  In additions, i scanned the art off our letters.  Al always includes beautiful little sketches with each letter and I wanted to share them with the rest of you. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,  11 , 12 and 13.

Phillips, Joe - large double page spread for Blade Runner.  I am not sure where this is from but is cool and from my favorite movie.  I am such a big fan/geek that I named my first son Ridley and if my wife hadn't objected to Darryl or Sean for my daughter my youngest son would have been Harrison:)  The images is from a digital pic, it was too big for a single scan or two so when I patched the 4 scans together it just didn't look right.

Pittarelli, Jeff - in keeping with the Blade Runner theme, a nice, sultry image of Rachel (Sean Young) smoking.  Reminds me to go back and watch the movie again when the new 5 disk set I just ordered on ebay arrives:)

Lim, Ron - Silver Surfer #18 page 29.  My first Lim Surfer page, very cool final panel with Galactus and SS. 

Hamilton, Craig - very nice and detailed Peter Pan and Wendy page.

Corominas, Enrique - brilliant cover art for the front and back cover of 3 Jack Vance novels.  Here are 3 artists proofs of the final published covers of books 1, 2, 3.  

Sinnot, Joe - nice Thor sketch by Joe.

Infantino, Carmine - nice Pin-up to Batman #500, Joe Rubenstein inks.  Very moody piece from a great issue. 

McDaniel, Scott - very nice Robin cover.  I don't know what it is from but I love his style although I have not forgiven him for his run on DD with the armour suit.  That run made me give up comic collecting and forced me to find something new which led me to golden age comics, then ebay and then comic art.   I have Scott McDaniel to blame for my addiction to this hobby.

Bachalo, Chris - Shade #24 page 3. 

Castillo, Tony - nice Fangoria cover.  Tony told me it will be published as a cover on 2 occasions. 

Renaud, Paul - 2 pages from Cavegirl.  1 and 2.  Unfortunately these pages were badly damaged in the shipping process.  The item was well packaged between 2 sheets of masonite which had a hole punced right through the middle of it and the package was torn in half and not in a good way.  I will add these images to my terms page just so people know what might happen if an item is uninsured.  Damaged package pictures 1 and 2.

Morrow, Gray - 3 nice piece from the over 100 a friend commissioned from Gray in a Girls of ERB series that never saw print.  Balza, Gura and Kali. 

Now on to the theme galleries/collections.

Dragonlady - the more I learn about this character the more she is becoming my favorite comic persona and I love the response I usually get to asking for her as a commission subject.  A great Golden age Gala by Gerry Acerno which has lots of great golden age characters in there including my favorite two jungle girls.   Sheldon Bryant, Frank Brunner, Tony Castillo, Joe Pekar, John Lucas , Michael Lark and Alex Maleev all show us their impression of this character. 

Flash Gordon - after adding the Raymond to my collection, I had further inspiration to get more commissions with this theme.  Here are pieces by Gerry Acerno, Esad Ribic and Aaron Lopresti. 

Jungle Girls - in addition to the Matt Baker pages above, I added several nice pages by Adrian Batista's Jungle Girl  including pages 3 and 5 from issue 0 and page 16 and the cover from issue #1.  2 nice Hildebrant jungle girl sketches 1 and 2.  A Tim Sale jungle girl sketch.  A brilliant commission by Maxx Marshall, I love his line work on this piece.

Bianchi, Simone - Elektra sketch done at a Toronto con. 

Bryant, Shelton - a nice DD piece and a Dragonlady commission. 

Finch, David - con sketches of Daredevil and Elektra. 

Golden, Michael - convention sketches of Dr. Strange and Cleo. 

Comolo, Giorgio - nice commission for another fan that I am happy to give a home to.  I believe the them is a Trophy wall. 

Chantler, Scott - nice Dick Tracy drawing.  I was going to start a comic strip character sketch book and have an artist draw any strip art character they wanted from Flash Gordon to Garfield.  This one and the Flash Gordon by Gerry are the first 2 pieces.  Also, a nice Blondie Illustration Scott did for a tribute in the local newspapers where he recreated several strip characters.

Dietrich, Sean - interesting pages to his book Indurstriacide.  #1 page 10, #3 page 8 and #4 page 5 pluse pin-up/cover 1 and 2.

DeMoore, Bob -  2 nice pages from the 50's.   Bob was one of Herge's main assistants on Tintin and a lot of the Tintin art we are familiar with probably has Bob's pen in there. 

Nodell, Martin - nice Green Lantern sketch done as a promo piece for a Pittsburg con. 

Aragones, Sergio - groo illustration. 

I was fortunate to have 2 European friends send me several beautiful Graphic Novels I never would seen otherwise and each had a little dedication in them.  Here are scans of the dedications.

Biancarelli, Franck -  dedication in Le Livre des Destins.
Bramanti, Jean-Philippe - dedication in McCay vol 3.  Le Gardien de l'Aube.
Cabanes, Max - dedication in Dans les Villages  La Deroute des Synapses.
Demarez, Thierry - dedication in La Geste  Des Chevaliers Dragons.
Margerin - dedication in Felix et le Bus.
Mezieres, J-C - dedication in La Cite des Eaux Mouvantes.
Mourier, Jean-Louis - dedication in Trolls de Troy  Les Enrages du Darshan.
Rossi, Christian - dedication in West (Weird Enforcement Special Team).
Walthery, F - dedication in Natacha et les Dinosaures. 

Caza - prelim for card art of She Hulk.

Alary, Pierre - sketch.

Talbot, Bryan - sketch.

Last but not least and not original art related but I managed to find a copy of Tintin magazine from Belgium Oct 28th, 1948 which has my Herge illustration published in it. 

Colman, David - a little monkeyboy sketch to be used on my future website.

New art July 6th, 2007

The last few months have been a little slower in collecting so a bit smaller of an update.  Con season has started so some art from the Toronto con.  I have had some computer and scanner issues which are being resolved now.  I am also hoping to have a whole new site in the future but those plans are also not progressing as planned.

Hesh, F.  I don't know a lot about this artist.  I have had these pieces for years and have just now scanned them.  The nude is spectacular.   Nude, Ad art 1 and Ad art 2.

Muth, Jon - Dracula watercolor page.  I remember how impressed I was with Muth's Dracula GN.  This is an unused page from that book.  It is a large piece and framed so the digital pic is the best i can do. 

Kubert, Joe - Viking Prince page from Brave and the Bold 21, page 22.

Godwin, Frank - Nice Rusty Riley Sunday from 2/23/58.

Fabry, Glenn - Painted cover to Marvel Knights featuring DD and the Punisher.

Wilson, George - Cover to Korak #34.  A great painted piece by the Goldkey cover master.

unknown - Jungle Jim cover, painted Gold Key.

Biancarelli, Franck - A nice commision of Flash and Dale.  Pencils, inks and colors.

Williamson, Al - Flash Gordon prelim sketch.

Siegel and Shuster - Funnyman page.  What can I say, a page from these legends. 

Fisher, Seth - Williworld Splashes to page 38 and 51 and a very challenging page from Happydale.  The best part of this deal was getting to hear more about Seth from his mother.  2 prelim/sketches by Seth as well 1, 2.

Maroto, Estoban - Fantastic large sci-fi illustration.  This has everything in a Maroto I could want.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - nice vintage MoonKnight sketch and an early Storm Pin-up.

Keown, Dale - nice Jam piece with art by Dale Keown, Dave Ross, Lee Weeks, Ty Templeton, Ron Wagner and an unidentified artist. 

Bolland, Brian - nice pin-up done for a friend.  Originally had a photo stat of his friend's wife's face in the pic but that was later removed and the penciled face by Bolland was inked by Bob McLeod. 

Dragonlady commissions by Marc Campos, Agnes Graboska, Louis Paradis, Aaron Lopresti, Nicola Scott, Talent Caldwell, Steve Mannion, Dan Morton, Vince Locke and Terry Moore (Francine as the DL).

Campbell, Eddie - Very beautiful and strange page from Batman Order of the Beasts. (no "bat" man but just about every other kind of -man you could come up with. 

Bianchi, Simone - Jean Reno tribute piece.  Not sure what this was done for.

Smith, Jeff - Thorn and Bones sketches.

Infantino, Carmine - Adam Strange sketch.

Alexander, Jason - cool, moody page from Empty Zone The Secret

Middleton, Joshua - no update is complete without something by Josh.  Here is a nice Phoenix sketch and a Wolverine con sketch.

Mack, David - Nice multicharacter sketch for Bulleye, DD and Elektra.

Zeck, Michael - cool Wolverine Pin-up.

Lisner, Joseph - Dawn on Kaneda's bike.  Nice commission from the Toronto Paradise Comiccon.  The theme appealed to Joseph and he went with it.  I am happy how this turned out.

Stelfreeze, Brian - cool Laci color sketch.

Unknown artists - european knock-off's of Jungle comics cover, Pantera Blonde splash,  interior and mystery cover.

Bruzzo, Giovanni - Mister No page 203.  Very nice crime noir layout.

Portacio, Will - Wonderwoman head sketch.

Zulli, Michael - Puma Blues #16 page 6.  Page with the flying Manta's.

Nielsen, Terese - Code of Honor painted page.

Griffith, Bill - Zippy the Clown daily.  Very funny and thoughtful.

Stewart, Cam - quick Catwoman sketch.

Sim, Dave - nice con sketch of Cerebus reading a comic.

Colan, Gene - Batman and Howard the Duck con sketch. 

Comolo, Georgio - Giger tribute piece.  This is stunning in person.  The face of Li has so much subtle detail the scan can't pick up.

Sale, Tim - rapidly becoming one of my favorite artists.  I see so much more in his work than I use to.  Nice page from Daredevil Yellow and a pin-up for his sketchbook. 

Andrews, Kaare - two sketches from the Toronto con - Elektra and a Dragonrider.

Moore, Terry - Katchoo sketch and also a Francine as the Dragonlady.

Wagner, Matt - two quick sketches of Grendel and Elektra.

Locke, Vince - two great commissions.  Flash Gordon and Dale and the Dragonlady.

Nolan, Graham - Judge Dredd cover or pin-up.  Very cool and clean art.  If you know what this is from, please let me know.

Nord, Cary - Red Sonja sketch.

Bone, Jay - nice Tintin commission.

Moench, Doug - Spectre #23 cover featuring Deadman, Dr. Fate, Demon, Phantom Stranger and of course the Spectre.  D.C.'s fearsome 5.

Tucci, Bill - Elektra head sketch.

Golden, Michael - Jungle girl sketch.

Wood, Ashley - great Dragon painting for a european book.  Also a nice painted nude, duostar daily and a prelim for a Flash Gordon commission. 

Mini update February 12th, 2007

February 1st, 2007 Update. 

Well, the new year has started out fairly busy.  I have had some interesting things come in in the past 2 months and am anticipating a few really cool things shortly so perhaps I will have a chance to make a smaller update soon.

Moebius - a really cool page from L'Incal.  I have been looking for the right page for some time and this one works for me.  I really like the rendering of the female character and the background design. 

My jungle girl theme has had a great month.  It starts with what may be the best piece in my JG collection, a giant splash from Kaanga and a second panel splash from Kaanga as well.  Here are more Kaanga pages 1, 2.  Last of the published pieces is a 1940's cover to an Italian jungle girl, Panthere Blonde as well as 4 color acetate production art to a later version of the same character, Pantera Blonde and a color guide to another Pantera Blonde 30.

Also added to the Jungle girl collection are 4 sketches I got as an unexpected gift from a fellow collecting friend.  Jungle girls by George Perez, Rich Larson, Richard Case and Greg Land.

Raufeisen, Andreas - Sorayamesque painting.  What can I say, he does really cool work and this is a great piece.  It is a large painted and airbrushed original piece in the style of Sorayama. 

Middleton, Joshua - Yet another update with more Middleton art.  Covers to American Virgin 4 and 5.  Josh was kind enough to include 3 sketches he did for the cover of issue 4.  sketch 1, 2, 3.

Simon/Kirby good girl panel page from Stuntman #2.  I don't think there has ever been a more important team than Simon and Kirby (other than perhaps Siegel and Shuster) in comics.  The last 2 panels speak for themselves, here is a close up of the last panel.

Breathed, Berke - Bloom County Daily featuring Opus and a medical theme.

Forte, John - Seven Seas daily with some great good girl.

Godwin, Frank - 3 great Rusty Riley Dailies by one of the finest artist ever to work in the sequential art medium. 1/14/56, 1/18/55, 3/26/56.

Caniff, Milton - Nice Terry and the Pirates featuring the Dragonlady 9/16/49.

Prentice, John - two Rip Kirby's from Raymond's replacement on the strip.  7/6/67 and 8/4/67.

Drake, Stan - Juliet Jones Sunday from 7/6/69.

Starr, Leonard - Nice early On Stage daily 2/26/56. 

Weare, Tony - Matt Marriot daily.  A fantastic British illustrator who's work we don't see enough of over here.

Tufts, Warren - nice Casey Ruggles daily with a beautiful girl. 3/13/53.

Mayo, John - another nice Jungle Jim Sunday from 2/23/47.

Drucker, Mort - nice page from Mad or Cracked.  signed by Mort.

Bernet, Jordi - a nice sketch in a book dedicated to me by a friend.  2 other book dedications 1, 2 and a page of sketches all by the Spanish master storyteller.

Zeck, Mike - Master of Kung-Fu #5 page 17. 

Blum, Alex - Hooks Devlin 6 page story from Fight Comics #40.  pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

unknown - High School Romance #8 pages 1 and 2.  Killer splash.

Cazeneuve, Arturo - Speed Taylor page from Speed Comics #21, 1942

Beekman, Doug - nice Flash Gordon and Dale commission by Doug.

Dragonlady pieces by Scott Blair and Rachel Z.  Computer colored version of Scott's Dragonlady.

Stelfreeze, Brian - 2 nice sketches, one with a predator theme and a nice catwoman.

Bendis, Brian - Goldfish sketch.

Maleev, Alex - little DD headshot.

Severin, Alex - several more nice doodles that came along with kind letters from the Belgian master. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

McDonnell, Pat - a complete set of the first 5 Mutt's books with sketches. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Warren, Adam - 2 sexy prelims for Dirty Pair.  1, 2.

Last, but certainly not least,  a 24 page Tarzan Story by Igor Korday entitled Mugambi the Legend, a Tarzan Tale.
Very nice illustrations on all of these pages.  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

November 27th, 2006 Update.   Yeah, I know,  I know, a long time between updates but the move and renovations have taken up a lot of my free time. Next update in the new year.  Without further ado, new art.

Herge - Art doesn't get any more important to me than this piece.  I grew up reading Tintin, Asterix and Disney long before I discovered Marvel and DC.  The meaning of Tintin to me is hard to put into words but Herge has certainly been an influence on all my comic and artistic tastes.  I finally decided to pursue a piece and with so many fakes/forgeries and studio pieces out there I wanted to make sure I was getting the real deal.  This is an illustration from 1946 from Tintin magazine and from before the formation of Herge studios. 

Middleton, Joshua - great Inara illustration used for a print.  I can't seem to get enough of this great artist's work.

Hughes, Adam - Miss Adventure pin-up one and two plus a Wildcats cover prelim.

Baker, Matt- Speaking of good girl artists, none can compare to Matt.  Here is a great Tiger girl page from Fight #54.

Webb, R.H.  - Kaanga #7 page featuring Anne.

Bernet, Jordi - 9 new sketches, some rather detailed by one of the all time greatest comic artists. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Smith, Jeff - 2 sketches.  Fone Bone and Bartelby sketch and Phoney Bone.  I read the book for the first time recently and fell in love with the characters.  Dedicated to my 3 kids who will inevitably end up having this wonderful tale read to them several times. 

Darrow, Geof - Big Guy sketch.

Pitarra, Nicholas - speaking of Geof Darrow, Nick did this mindblowing commission for me as a tribute to Geof's work. Among the details, Starting top left...the character who's coming out of the building is the first character you see in hardboiled...the slogan on the opposite side of the same building just says darrow for ever (D,->, four fingers, ever) in the classic darrow sign advertisement style. The next building is the building from which the giant monster/dinasaur from big guy and rusty bust out of/is created in...the next building is the willeford building from hard boiled (they build cyborgs or something(its been awhile scince I've read it). The next building is the all you can eat seafood advertisement....the next is the seth fisher advertisement (it reads "Keep Fishing"he has a fishing reel in hand with a fish hanging out in front.Then the classic darrow pep boys advertisement...only now its the rapping badguys from shaolin cowboy issues 3/4. Kong and Godzilla are in the middle ground...both in the process of crumbling a building(look close in the crumbling rubble and see hundreds of bodies falling amongst the debris).The middle building has bigguys battle ship in a advertisement. One top of that same building...you see a small house size building...if you look real real close...you'll see "monkey boy jeff" spray painted on the side of it.going to the forground...you have the donkey...i refrenced the saddle to best of my ability (from shots darrow used in the book) I left out some of the detail on the donkey so he wouldn't blend in with kong. then you got big guy and rusty (I love them both)....then shaolin...then nixon from hardboiled further to the right. the building under nixon is covered in mutated monsters attacking people...in refrence to the mutated monsters that attacked the innocent bystanders in big guy and rusty....you can also see the car that runs over nixon at the begginning of hardboiled(its built into the building...and facing you(on the same building) The most devestating badguy of all time...the dinosaur from big guy and rusty (now holding a cola can...just an advertisement).....the building next to that building(moving left) is just a basic building with doohickies on the ruff(darrow uses that box advertisement allot as well,but mines still blank for now).the next building on the left is just a standard building with junk on top....oh yeah...i tried to put waldo ...of where's waldo fame,inside the donkeys horse shoe...but the it was so small that its hard to read....i got about five opened advertisements to filll in...i'm thinking of doing random characters that darrow has illustrated. oh yeah I forgot...on what little is left of kongs building(the one turned to rubble...you can see an adv. with the baby that just says "mine"....I'm sure theres more that i can't think of right now.....everything is darrow inspired....i had to throw the fisher ad. in there...he's got his chest hair shaved into a heart (like on his website). The stuff Nick Added since then are Electricity Boy sign from Seth Fisher's Tokyo Pop, Moebius Bill Board (starwatcher), Matrix Billboard, Miller/Darrow Billboard and finally, the far right billboard with Quitely, Fisher, Moebius and Darrow's names together representing the main players in this new comic art style.)

Comolo, Georgio - after looking at Georgio's work for so many years, I figured it was about time I got to see one in person.  Thanks to Enrico for setting this Kaneda from Akira commission up.

Briggs, Austin - Flash Gordon Sunday.  Not much to say about this piece that the title and art don't say.  Brilliant artist at his finest.  July 18th, 1948.

Mayo, John - Jungle Jim Sunday Feb 16, 1947.

Drake, Stan (Starr, Leonard) - Kelly Green artwork.  I can't imagine a better combination of artists.  Fantastic work by both.

Quesada, Joe - Daredevil Father # 1 page 23. 

Hollingsworth, A.C. - 2 Scorchy Smith strips. 1, 2.  Girls, guns and rocket ships, perfect sci-fi.

Buscema, John - 3 Savage pages. Issue #68 pages 19, 25 and 26.

Totleben, John - Werewolf illustration.

Miller, Frank - the "other" Frank Miller, really great Barney Baxter Daily 10/11/47.

Wunder, George - Terry and Pirates daily 1/27/47

Stewart, Cameron - Tank Girl pin-up, Island Girl sketch and Flash Gordon Head shot.

Leonardi, Rick - 2 pages from Cloak and Dagger, inked by Al Williamson.  Issue 12 page 1 and Issue 4 page 14.  Nice Beyonder appearance, now there is a comic character from the past I could have done without:)

Wildey, Doug - 2 page story from Alarming Tales #3, page 1 and 2.

Porges, Paul Peter - 11 illustrations from MAD Magazine #209.  Two different Gags, World Class Bordom and Exposed Jocks. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Edwing, Don (Duck) - 3 pages from MAD Magazine 293.  3 One pagers. "The Extraordinary Eulogy Entrapment," "The Chilling Chopper Chapter," and "The Astounding Aeronautic Adventure."

Clarke, Bob - Mad Disco cover.  Mixed media piece.

Coker, Paul Jr. - 22 gags from MAD Magazine # 182."Beat the Recession with These Helpful Mad Penny-Pinching Hints."
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22.

Jaffee, Al - one page Medical gag from MAD Magazine #302.

Grbic, Borivoje - Serbian artist I met on line.  Very nice work, looking to break into North American comics.  Beautiful Dragonlady and a Jungle girl sketch.

Perez, Ramon - Dragonlady sketch from Nov 2006 Paradise Fan Con.

Scott, Nicole - Catwoman Pin-up and Elektra sketch.

Unknown - Jungle girl pin-up.  Any help?

Sayger, Stuart - Poison Ivy sketch from a friend.

August 8th, 2006 Update.  It has been a bit slow for the last few months and so no update in a while.  We are moving soon so a lot of packing and preparation to do.  Regardless, some interesting art has found its way into my collection.

Pitarra, Nicholas - I met Nick online. He is the most amazing and friendliest artist I have met in some time.  I am a big fan of Moebius, Darrow, Quitely, Fabry, Seth Fisher, Nathan Fox and others who follow in this similar style.  I was amazed by the pieces I had seen by Nick and have been lucky to pick up 2 commissions and a third huge commission will be on its way shortly.  For now, Kaneda and Bike and Sheena.

Bernet, Jordi - Torpedo page.  This is probably my favorite Torpedo page that I have seen to date.  I missed it on ebay a few years ago but managed to get it in trade from the always friendly Joe Jusko.  Steve Morger also managed to hook me up with his new Clara book and sketches by Jordi in both his Clara book and in the other Bernet book I owned that Manuel Auad was kind enough to send me.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - Brilliant, large illustration from Delirium.  It is a true multimedia piece with linen/paper being applied to board and then painted with various media.  The scan doesn't do the materials justice but other than coming over for a visit, this is the best image you will get of this piece.

Middleton, Joshua - Poison Ivy sketch.  I didn't get this one in person, but a very welcome addition to my collection.

Stelfreeze, Brian - Catwoman/Wildcats #4 cover.  A great example of Brian's unique approach. It looks like the cover is upside down at first glance.  Very cool.

Harris, Tony - Legends of the DC Universe #27 cover.  This is a fully painted piece by Tony featuring Aquaman, Batman and the Joker.

Johnson, Dave - 4 recent pickups that were done or arranged at the Toronto comic convention but Dave wanted to scan and he sent them to me later.  Meagan(gone in trade already), Dizzy and Lono, Sheena and Dragonlady.  Amazing art by the 100 Bullets cover artist and very funny and nice guy to talk to.

Chaykin, Howard - American Flagg cover - actually used as a cover for comic journal American Heroes.  It is done in 3 parts, a main piece with Rueben and 2 overlays.

Sickles, Noel - a new Scorchy Smith panel that I traded for my previous one.  The other one went to  collector who had the other half of mine so he could put the full original back together. 

Jaffee, Al - I loved MAD magazine when I was growing up.  One of my favorite features was the MAD fold-ins and I am glad to add a funny one to my collection.  I also like the theme of this one.  I deal with victims of gun violence through my occupation and I feel strongly about stronger gun control measures.  Anyway, enough of politics, it is a fun image.  This is a scan of what it would look like folded.

Ingles, Graham - Haunts of Fear page 5.  Very nicely executed page by Ingles showing his fantastic use of lighting and some nice girl art.

Leonardi, Rick - Cloak and Dagger piece from Marvel Age Annual #1.  Austin inks.  I loved this series when I was growing up.  I have recently bought 2 more pages from this run but they have not arrived in time to add to this update so look for them with the next update.

Drake, Stan - a nice Sunday from later in the Juliet Jones run. 7/29/84.

Pittarelli, Jeff - great Kaneda and bike commission.

Guay, Rebecca - Black Orchid splash.

Peters, Michael - Dragonlady convention style sketch. 

Tan, Phillip - Everquest pinup, Ironman #79 pages 4, 5, 6 and 9.  The Everquest is my favorite, crazy detail and line work in this one.

Mannion, Steve - jungle girl pinup.

Chen, Sean - Kumori #1 cover.

Lark, Michael - Little Sister GN page.

Sevilla, Hector - Lullaby splash.

Mayhew, Michael - Mary Jane prelim 1 and 2.

Ormston, Dean - Monarchy page.  I really like Dean's work, his style varies a lot but when he is mimicking Mignola, I think he is at his strongest.  Also see the painting I have by Dean.

Conrad, Will - Red Sonja convention sketch.

unknown artist - cool and sexy sci-fi page.

Balan, Nadir - Victoria Secret Service Cover #4.  A moment of weakness.

THE NEW MANGA - recently I have enjoyed a number of Manga titles and have become a fan of the artwork.  I have been seeking out artists working in various comics that have a strong Manga influence and here are a few of he new pieces in this genre.
Tortosa, Wilson - Battle of the Planets #11 pages 2, 9 and 21
David, Edwin - Battle of the Planets #1 pages 4 and 5 and #3 pages 6 and double page splash.  Also a promotional splash and some art on the back of one of the pages.
Gossett, Chris - Elektra the Hand pages 10 and 13
Cowboy Bebop pin-up and Sakura Wars pinup by Brian Valeza.

Cardoselli, Stephano - Dragonlady, Jungle girls and Flash Gordon and Dale commission plus cover 1, back cover and pin-up.

Greene, Verne - 15 Mac the Medic Dailies.  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

unknown - 2 Jungle girl pages from All New Comics #4, pages 6 and 8.  If you know anything about the character or the artist, please drop me a line.

Pekar, Joe - nice sketch of the White Queen.

May 18th, 2006 Update.  This may be my last update for about 2 months.  Once again, I am trying to cut down on spending:)  This update features some real gems and the art I managed to get at the Paradise Comic convention in Toronto at the end of April.  Also, check out all the new art by the great rising star, Timothy Green II.   Enjoy!

April 21st, 2006 Update.

Well, it has been a busy month and a half for collecting for me.  Some rather big pieces for my collection and some pieces I have been working on for a while. Next month, Paradise Toronto con swag.

Kirby, Jack - Fantastic Four #42 page.  My first twice-up Kirby page.  I officially feel like a comic art collector today:)  I have earned a badge of distinction.  Vinnie inked this page.

Hughes, Adam - nice vintage Jungle girl sketch by Adam.  I can't believe this second theme piece I have looked at 100 times over each became available this month. 

Zulli, Michael - Puma Blues Trade Paperback wrap around cover painting.  I loved Puma Blues when I was a teen growing up.  I think it is the first comic where I just stared at the art for hours on end trying to figure out how Mike did it.  There were some brilliant still life pieces in that book.

Middleton, Joshua - 2 page with the now famous x-23 in her early appearances.  NYX #3 page 9 and NYX #4 page 20.  Also, a fun little con sketch by Josh.  

Salinas, Jose - a nice Cisco Kid daily from 11/14/52.  The inking in the final panel is brilliant.

Wood, Ashley - a great Elektra piece by Ashley.  Thanks to J.Sid for giving it up.  2 sketches from Ashley as well, Doctor Jeckyl and Mr. Hide theme and Vampire and girl.

Cardy, Nick - yet another Tarzan daily.  This is the third one I have it makes for 3 consecutive dailies from 1950.  Numbered 3405.  It is also signed by Nick which makes it all the more rare.

Quitely, Frank - All Star Superman sketch. 

Sienkiewicz, Bill - 2 sided large preliminary/sketch sheet.  Front and back.

Colan, Gene - Nice Daredevil #68.  Nice images of Daredevil and Gene doing what only Gene can do.  I just love the energy and dynamics that are on this page.

McNiven, Steve - New Avengers #10 page 14 and a nice girl sketch.

Opper, Frederick - Nice illustration from 1890. One of the greatest forefathers of comics.

Severin, Alex - another nice sketch in a letter from artist and friend from Belgium.

Torres, Angelo - 2 neat 4 panel pieces from Mad Magazine #277 with charactures of the cast of M*A*S*H and Gilligan's Island among others. 

Bagge, Peter - cool sketch done for CBLDF charity auction.

Bastian, Jeremy -  OK, are you sitting down.  Get ready for some really great detailed work.  I asked Jeremy to do a commission in the Flash Gordon and Dale theme and it came out brilliantly.  Flash may be ackward but the rest of the piece is more than I could have hoped for.  I also acquired the cover to Pirate Girl and an interior page and a pin-up piece of Pirate Girl.  Jeremy is a real talent and a nice guy to boot.

Richards, Cliff - 2 nice character design sheets for girls 1 and 2 and a cover for an unknown comic.  Cliff worked on Buffy and this certainly has stylistic elements of his work on the series.

Conrad, Will - a page from Serenity and a Red Sonja costume concept piece.  I could go on for pages about how cool a series Serenity was and how much I am enjoying the new Red Sonja series and its retro comic story feel. 

Oeming, Michael - speaking of Red Sonja, here is a cool sketch by Michael.

Mayo, Ralph - Jungle Comics #137 page 6.  Nice Camilla page to add to the biggest Golden age Jungle girl collection out there.  If you have any pages from ANY golden age jungle girl themed books, please contact me.

Beatty, Terry - Nyoka style jungle girl illustration.

Pound, John - Mad Magazine #297 pin-up.  Very poignant image.

Champi, Bill - Oh Diana! comic strip from 9/24/5?  A fun, racy piece with a lingerie panel.

Truman, Tim and Christopher Schenck - 4 watercolor pages from Robin Hood.  #1 page 13 and #3 pages 5, 18 and 20.

Salonga, Noah - Red Sonja #7 pages 9 and 19.

Tulka, Rick - 6 new age illustrations from Mad #290. Robot Footballer, Japanese Yen, Nyet Soviet, Segregation Chest, Steroid Ben and Mail-order Bride.

Adlard, Charles - 2 pages from Scarface #1.  pages 20 and 29.

March 20th, 2006 Update  

A few new pieces added to the collection over the last month and a bit.  I have some nice stuff on the way but as of yet it is not here so they will show up in the next update.

Risso, Eduardo - Red Sonja #5 cover.  It took me a while to "get" Risso's work.  I appreciated it but not until I read 100 Bullets for the first time this year did it click.  He is a true comic genius.  I would embarrass myself further by making any attempt at describing his greatness.  I am pleased to add one of his vary rare covers to my collection.

Severin, Alex - my friend and Belgian artist came up with yet another brilliant commission.  I am in awe of this one as well.  It was time to add a few new jungle girls to the collection and this certainly fits the bill.  In his correspondences, Alex often adds little sketches, here are a few 1, 2, 3.  Lastly, pencil prelims for the Jungle girls pieces.

Speaking of Jungle girls, nice early Adam Hughes Sheena. 

Kaluta, Mike - nice piece of finished, colored artwork (100% original) from Wizards of the Coast RPG. 

Bernet, Jordi - nice girl convention sketch.  Now to find a nice Torpedo page with girls:)

Baker, Matt - yet another update with Matt Baker art.  Short of getting a splash, this is one of his best panel pages I have seen.  It is from a Glory Forbes page from

Mayeryk, Val - Really cool Young Masters back Cover. 

Mayhew, Michael - Vampirella #11 comic page.  Fantastic pencil rendering.

Cardy, Nick - Aquaman #39 page.

McWilliams, Alden - Twin Earths Daily - another stellar example(pun intended) of Al's work on this great strip and his unsurpassed rendering of female beauty. 12/11/62.

Giordano, Dick - Dracula Lives #10 page.  Wonderful inkwashed paged by the veteran artist. 

Pagulayan. Carlo - Elektra #13 page with inks by Danny Miki.

Leav, Mort - Fight Comics #19 page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.  Really fun Kayo Kirby story. 

Lubbers, Bob - Firehair #11 page.  Great early use of duo-shade. 

Bellamy, Frank - Garth Daily 26/3/75.  Nice 2 panel daily.

Hasen, Irwin - 3 nice examples of an early unpublished strip pitch.  1, 2, 3.

Last, but certainly not least, a head sketch of Zee by Brian Woods.  This was a gift from a friend and fellow collector I have never met in person but feel like I have know for years.  He was going to the NYC con (disaster con this year) and I also saw Brian was attending.  Shawn was kind enough to get contact info for me and arranged this con sketch of the cool paramedic girl in DMZ which I am enjoying reading right now.

Feb 8th, 2006 Update

Well, this is the year of the Dog, my year and it came in with a howl.  Lots of new art that came in, and not just anything, some real gems as you will see.

Middleton, Josh - my favorite new artist and among my favorite all time artists.  There is something about Josh's lines that speak to me on a different level than I can comprehend, I just know they move me.  I have added the Shazam/Superman #1 cover, Shazam splash from page 26 from issue #1 and two nice panel pages from issue #2, pages 9 and 10.  As an added bonus, Josh include some rough sketches, a rare look into the process 1, 2, 3.

Moebius - very few comic artists have such a voice and presence as Moebius.  His influence on European art is immeasurable and he is certainly a big influence on modern artist like Geoff Darrow, Timothy Green II, Seth Fisher, Frank Quitely, Glen Fabry and others that follow this movement.   This piece was obtained believing it was 100% original.  It is a very long story but it has been determined to my satisfaction the following facts.  This is the original art used to make a print for "City of Fire" portfolio.  The original pencils are by Geoff Darrow and inks by Moebius.  The original penwork was then copied and this piece has that copied linework that was later painted by Arno.  There is white out and blueline pencils on this piece so this is the original line transfer and color art that was later made into a print.  The pencil signature by Moebius is original. 

Bisley, Simon - nice acrylic painting by the Biz. 

Mignola, Mike - Hellboy page from Box Full of Evil.

Commission are one of the main themes of the month. 

I have gotten a Dragonlady and a Flash Gordon and Dale piece by Alex Perkins.  Alex also included a lot of prelims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Alex Severin, a charming and talented Belgian artist also did a brilliant Flash Gordon and Dale piece and a nice Dragonlady piece. 

Michael Peters also contributed a commission to my Flash Gordon and Dale theme. 

Jeff Pittarelli did a fine Irish McCalla as Sheena and Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon for my collection.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - a nice vintage Hulk sketch.

Romita Jr, John - 4 nice pages from his monumental run on Daredevil.  DD 252 pg 21, DD 259 pg 2, DD 266 page 11 and 13.

McWilliams, Al - nice Buck Rogers #17 page 7 and a fantastic 10 page story from Starstream #2  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Jordan, Syndey - Jeff Hawke Daily H6811 from 1980.

Renaud, Paul - cavegirl sketches 1 and 2.

Mazzuchelli, David - Batman con sketch.

McKimson, Tom and Chuck - Roy Rogers Dailies from 3/27, 3/28, 3/29, 3/30 from 1950.

Tufts, Warren - 7 new Casey Ruggles Dailies.  7/20, 7/22, 7/24, 7/25, 7/26, 7/27 from 1954 and 1/18/50.

Yap, Guan - Samurai #3 cover.  I remember the Aircel comics fondly from my early years of collecting.  Also Samurai pin-up and a multimedia illustration.

Blair, Barry - 3 early elflord pages (5, 10 and 18) from the first series as well as a nice color page from the second series.   2 unknown Blair pieces as well girl and page.

Giacoia, Frank - Sherlock Holmes Daily 11/22 circa 1954-58.

Barry, Dan - Tarzan Daily 2777.  English language text covered for overseas publication.

Lubbers, Bob - Tarzan Daily 9/27/52.

Dec 30th, 2005 Update

I am a little late with an update this month.  I have found a few new gems for my collection.  A little bit of everything from the classic strip and golden age comic art to new artists. 

Kubert, Joe - Tarzan #239 Drums of Death layouts.  This is the highlight for me of this update.  I don't think I have the words to do this find justice.  page 1, 2-3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

Baker, Matt - it seems like no update is complete without some new art by the greatest good girl artist.  Here is a Kid Kane story from Atomic Comics #4.  Some classic girl images by Matt. page 2, 3, 4, 5.

Baker, Matt - Fight #51 page. 

Schultz, Mark - Xenozoic Tales unpublished page.  Most of Mark's pages for this series have never been sold.  This page was to be published but got delayed in the mail and so Mark redid it for publication.  Just prior to publications the originals showed up and were published.  So I have been told this is one of 4 or 5 pages that were slated as replacement publication pages but were not used.

Darrow, Geoff - Hardboiled page.  Nice detail on this non-character page. 

Sienkiewicz, Bill - no update is complete without something new by Bill.  Elektra Assassin #7 partial splash.  No Elektra but a great piece and an image I remember well from the series.

Middleton, Josh - my favorite new artists.  X-23 sketch.

Staples, Greg - Batman splash from Riddle of the Beast.  I am told the other characters are Robin, Zantana and a dead Riddler.

Byrne, John - Fantastic Four #215 page(Sinnot inks) and Alpha Flight #25 page.  Nice partial splash of Vindicator.

Cardy, Nick - Nice Tarzan Daily from the 50's.  One of the rare signed pieces by Nick.

Rio, Al - Exposure #1 page.  Modern good girl art.

Berg, Dave - 2 pages from Mad Magazine.  page 2.

Recreations - 3 recreations by Jerry Butler Famous Funnies Cover #213, Buster Crabbe Cover #5 and Zoot Comics #16.

Caniff, Milton - 4 promotional pieces done in the late 60's and early 70's.  1, 2, 3, 4

Cardoselli, Stephano - Azurek Stories Cover.  Nice painted art to an Italian comic.

Pearson, John - Daredevil color illustration.

Giolitti, Alberto - Starstream #1 splash by an Italian master.

Keefe, Jim - Flash Gordon and Dale illustration.

Firchow, Stephen - More Than Mortal #8 pages 2 and 7.

Longaron, Jorde - Friday Foster Dailies 30/7/71 and 29/7/71.  Two nice dailies featuring Friday and Petal.

Maleev, Alex - DD con sketch from 2003.

Biancarelli, Franck - nice dedication by a friend in his new graphic novel Galfalek. 

Freas, Kelly - four preliminary drawings 2, 3, 4.

Fujitani, Bob - nice golden age splash from Boy Heroes #1.  Likely published elsewhere, I don't find a record of this comic in Overstreet.  Regardless, nice art by one of the unsung heroes of comics.

Grimm Ghost Stories #14 - 5 pages by Frank Bolle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Al McWilliams page and a great 6 page story by Ricardo Villamonte 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Mahfood, Jim - Girl Scouts pin-up.

Prentice, John - House of Mystery page by the man that had to fill Alex Raymond's shoes. 

Massey, Devon - 2 sided sketch piece used in Cavegirl pin-up book.  back.

Roland, Harry - Jungle girl illustration.

McManus, George - Bringing Up Father Daily from 1/5/42.

Bode, Mark - Miami Mice sketch.  What can I say, I have nostalgic weakness for funny animal books from the early 80's.  I bought these comics in High School.

Ormstom, Dean - Wizards of the Coast artwork from an RPG. (D20)

Burns, Jim - Penthouse Comics cover prelim.

Hamner, Cully - Double page splash from one of my favorite comics of the year.  The Ride.

Rivoche, Paul - Paul's tribute to Will Eisner's the Spirit for Comic Book Artist magazine.

Godwin, Frank - Rusty Riley Daily 3/13/56.

Tuska, George - Scorchy Smith Daily 3/12/5?

Moore, Terry - Strangers in Paradise page.

Miller, Frank - long before the Frank Miller of Dark Knight and Sin City fame, there was the comic strip illustrator of the same name.  2 fantastic Barney Baxter Dailies 10/9/42 and 10/20/42.

Bolle, Frank - Robin Hood #6 page.  Contrast this to the other work by Bolle in my update, quite a difference.  This page is gorgeous.

Thompson, Jill - Black Orchid #3 page 13.  Nice large panel page with Orchid.

Romita Jr., John - Daredevil #272 page 27.  Williamson inks.

Drake, Stan - Heart of Juliet Jones Sunday 12/3/67.  The Sundays for this series are very rare.

Jones, J.G. - Fatale T-shirt design.  Nice sexy splash-type page.

Gross, Peter- page from Lucifer #47 page 13 and a sketch.

Kirby, Jack - The king at work in 1961 from the World Around Us #31.  Don't know the inker?

Kirby, Jack - Nice vintage page from 1954.  In Love #3.  Unsure on the inker.  This is apparently a story about a comic book artists.

Dominquez, Luis - a 2 sided romance cover illustration front and back and a sketch book page of girls.

Goldberg, Stan - Millie the Model #43 page with inks by Bill Everett.

McBride, Clifford - Napoleon Daily 9/2/3?.  Fantastic art work on this rare strip.

Gotto, Ray - Ozark Ike Daily from 5/12/50.  Nice blue wash, my scanner did a major injustice to this piece.

Blake, Bud - Tiger Sunday from 2/11/73

unknown - Flash Gordon page #4.  Not sure which series or who the artists are.

Haut-Koenigsbourg, Carmona - Les Aventure d'Aline.  A page from a French graphic novel.  That is all I know about this page.

October 16th, 2005 Update.

This has been a great month for my collection.  I got lucky and found a nice lot of golden age jungle girl pages, the stuff that really scratches my collecting itch.   I think I have added more pages to my theme in the last month than I have in the last 4 years.

Tiger Girl pages by R.H. Webb from Fight Comics #66, Fight Comics #67 page 5 and endpage and Fight Comics #71 pages 6 and 7.  The Grand Comic Database attributes all these pages to Jack Kamen.

Matt Baker Tiger girl page from Jungle #155 page 2.  This is original art that has be taken from a previous story in Fight comics.  All the paste-ups are original. 

Matt Baker - a page from the only Flamingo comic story that Matt worked on.  Great article on him in Alter Ego a few months ago.

Ralph Mayo Camilla page from Jungle Comics #146.

Lily Renee Ranger Comics #30 page - good girl art.  I believe a Werewolf Hunters story.

S. Benrat page from Ranger Comics #44 from Sky Rangers.  Not an artist I am familiar with but some very nice and detailed work.

R.H. Webb Firehair pages from Rangers #53 and #63.  More great girl art.

A really cool page from Monster #2?  Not sure who did it but it has a strong Eisner influence.

Williams, J.H.  - Chase #8 splash with inks by Mick Gray.

Murphy, John Cullen - Big Ben Bolt Daily 3/26/68.

Chatton,R.T. - Buck Rogers #100 page. 

Colan, Gene - Savage Sword #133 splash inked by Pablo Marcos.

Romita Jr, John - Man Without Fear #4 page - Amazing Kingpin Splash.

Beekman, Doug - I met Doug online and we worked out a great trade.  Interior cover to Savage Sword #161 and an uninked Jungle girl page.

Swayze, Mark - Slam Bang Comics Jim Dolan splash.

Ziegler, Bill - Draget Daily 10/7/52.  Brilliant panel work on this piece.  The 3rd panel is among my all time favorite panels.

Fabry, Glen - Vikings #1 page 13 - full splash.

Grell, Mike - Tarzan Primordial #2 splash.  Mike Grell doesn't get any better than this amazing piece.

Chaykin, Howard - Conan #83 page.  I finally found a Jungle girl page by Howard.  What can I say, it is a pretty lonely world as a Jungle girl fan:)   Also a great Red Sonja pin-up that I am told was published in a Marvel black and white magazine.

Mignola, Mike - Hellboy.  Not much else to say other than WOW.

Larrocca, Salvador - Heroes Return #1 page.

Sparling, Jack - House of Secrets #143 Cover.  Cool horror cover from one of the great comic pioneers.

Drake, Stan - Juliet Jones Daily 2/20/62.  Another piece I was drawn to by a single great panel.

Lago, Ray - small watercolor.  Beautiful art that is a total mystery to me. 

Waller, Reed - Omaha the Cat Dancer page.  No nudity but some great dialogue.

Norris, Paul - Flash Gordon daily from 10/22/83.

Phipp, Robb - Sheena and Rulah piece. 

Godwin, Frank - Rusty Riley from 10/26/55.  Nice last panel with Rusty, Patty and a horse.  First panel is also nice with 5 figures in a great dynamic group image that only someone like Godwin could pull off.

Sale, Tim - Catwoman When in Rome #2 page.

Gulacy, Paul - Marvel Comics Presents #75 - Shanna story.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - prelim for a movie poster.  Really nice multimedia piece.

Buscema, John - Savage Sword #12 page 9.  Alcala inks, brilliant first panel.

Buscema, John - Savage Sword #17 page 6.  Another great Alcala inked page.

Gan, Steve - pages 58 and 60 from Solmon Kane story in Savage Sword #13.

Harris, Ron - Star Trek Dailies from Nov 81.

Stelfreeze, Brian - Lily White illustration.  I really liked Brian's covers for Gun Candy and the Ride but they were gone and so this will hve to do as the theme is similar.

September 4th, 2005 Update. 

I have been fairly active collecting this month and the Toronto Comic con also added a fair number of new pieces to my collection.  In no particular order, here are the new ones for this month.

Finlay, Virgil - Amazing Stories illustration from January 1959  from "The Blonde from Space" by Henry Slesar.  Finlay is one of the great illustrators of the pulp magazines who also crossed over into comics for a short time.

Godwin, Frank - 2 nice illustrations from unknow publications.  1, 2.  In my humble opinion, Godwin was the finest illustrator to work in comic other than Frazetta. 

Tuazon, Noel - 2 nice children's illustration destined for my kid's bedroom.  Hopscotch and Whale.

VanBuren, Rae - nice Abbie and Slatts example from 4/8/47.  The first 2 panels are beautiful examples of VanBuren's illustrative technique.

Quitely, Frank - Transmetropolitan #6 Cover - after having met frank and having had a chance to see more of his work I had to get a nice representative piece by him.

Williamson, Al - Secret Agent Corrigan daily 4/18/74.  Fantastic last panel.

Cole, L.B. - Nice page from Wild Animals which I believe was likely a World Around Us feature.  Regardless, this has been one artist I have wanted to get a piece from for years.  The portrait in the last panel is as classic a Cole image as I can imagine. 

Nodell, Martin - Nice illustrative page from Classics Illustrated by the famous artist of Green Lantern.

Wunder, George - a fine Terry and Pirates daily from 7/31/57 featuring one of Wunder's beauties.

Perez, George - Logan's Run page from Perez's prime.  #2 page 26.

Lubbers, Bob - Cowgirl Romance #11 page 6.  Nice good girl art from the golden age.  Also Ranger #32 page 2 which features Firehair by Lubbers.

Guice, Butch - Dane pin-up.  I understand this was a pitch for a comic that didn't make it.  Also 2 pages from Olympus #1 (page 6 and page 20) as well as a pin-up of a cyclops.

Boring, Wayne - Davy Jones daily from 10/2/6?.

Sale, Tim - some nice panels on this page from Deathblow.  In particular the girl panel.

Debeck, Billy - strip art from Feb 5th, 1931.  Nice early example of this strip likely a Barney Google.

Elkin, Mac - nice EC page with a time machine!  Weird Fantasy #9 page!

Burrows, Faith - nice Flapper piece from 1928. 

Granov, Adi - pages from Iron man #2 page 9 and 12.  Adi has fantastic pencils which he applies after the inks as well.  His illustrations are beautiful in person and the best pieces of art on this series are the talking head pages.  Check out this panel and this panel.

Chaykin, Howard -  like I need more Chaykin art:)  I couldn't resist this large pin-up when I saw it.  I am sure I have seen it in print before but I can't place it.  Any help?

Hoover, Dave - Jungle girl piece from 1987.  This piece has special meaning to me as my wife gave this to me for my birthday without me knowing she was buying art.  This is the first time she has bought art and it will always have a special place with me.  I think she is finally given up hoping I will stop collecting:)

Webb, R.H. - Jumbo 162 page 6.  Some nice good girl panels at the bottom of this page.  Some nice early experimentation with lighting and other techniques on this page.

Kane, Gil - Savage Sword of Conan # 85 page 13.  Inks by Bulanadi.  Nice dynamic panel layout and classic Kane anatomy.

Frenz, Ron - Ka-zar #16 page 6 and Ka-zar #20 page 17.  The first is a fantastic Shanna and Ka-zar page and the second has a nice image of Shanna.  The second page is also my first experience with art that has been colored after it was used for production.  I think it came out well on this page but I am still not sure about the whole idea. 

Looney Tunes illustrations - 1, 2, 3, 4.  Two house ads and possibly 2 covers from Loony Tunes.  The two house ads feature many of the main characters from the series and these two will soon be up in the kid's bedroom as well.

Mannion, Steve - nice piece that Steve did with a Klimt theme.  I think their styles merged very nicely on this piece.

Moebius - Nice sketch inside a hardbound graphic novel.

3 various pages from Rangers Comics by Fiction House.  Issue #7 page 24 by Paul Isip featuring a potential injury to eye panel in this Glory Forbes story.  Issue #25 page 4 by Lily Renee from Senorita Rio storyline.  Issue 32 page 2 by Bob Lubbers in this Firehair story.

Alphona, Adrian - Runaways #2 page 13 and pages 11 and 15 from issue #3.  I like Adrian's line work and his unique approach to facial emotions. 

Roach, David - Star Trek NG Avalon Rising #1 page.  Beautiful inking in on this page, check out panel 2.  wow!

Gulacy, Paul - Shanna page from Marvel Comics Presents #77 page 13. 

unknown artist - Shanna pin-up.

Bachalo, Chris - Shade the Changing Man #11 page 21. 

unknown - Shanna story - unpublished.  Nice page, on the back Alan Weiss written.

Immomen, Stuart - Sojourn #7 page 9.  Fantastic work characteristic of Immomen.  Few people use lighting and shadows as well for dramatic effects.

Rival, Rico - 3 pages from a Jungle girl comic from the Philippines. 1, 2, 3.

Javinal, Frederico - 2 pages from a Jungle girl comic from the Philippines. 1, 2.

Mikesell, Nick - 3 jungle girl illustrations. 1, 2, 3.

Toronto Comic Convention Swag August 2005.  Below is the art I picked up at the show.  I was fortunate enough to find some really fine pieces at the show.  It was a 3 day show and I got to catch up with a lot of friends and acquaintances as well as having a chance to meet Frank Quitely and to see Josh Middleton again.
 Now for the art.

Land, Greg - 2 pages from Sojourn #33, pages 5 and 10.  Although Greg wasn't sketching, he did bring some art that was phenominal to see in person. 

Middleton, Joshua - probably the highlight for this con was getting a nice sketch from Josh.  He did the Branches character from Sky Between Branches and it is stunning.  I also picked up this cover piece that Josh had done for a promotional comic for the NBA that will soon be released.  I also recently got a Meridian page as a gift from a fellow fan and collector, Meridian #6 page 14 (thanks Aubrey!).

Jungle girl sketches from Frank Quitely, Dan Day, Yanick Paquette, Francis Manapul and Nick Postic.

Dragonlady sketches from Dale Eaglesham, Leonard Kirk and Mark Bagley.

Steward, Cam - catwoman head sketch.

Laird, Peter - sketch of the 4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Miyazawa, Takeshi - Mary Jane sketch.

Injejikian, Azad - another Sammy sketch.  If you have not checked out his 4 issue image run of Sammy, you are missing a fun read.

Andrasofszky, Kalman - one of my favorite local artists.  I picked up a cover to Witchblade/Tombraider, 2 more I-Candy pages (14 and ?) as well as an I-Candy commision.

Adorjany, Attila - 2 concept pieces of female characters for a video game entitled Breathe.  1, 2.

Chiu, Bobby - an illustration artist who set up at the con.  Nice spacegirl sketch.

Wheaton, Ken - Phantom sketch by the current artist.  A gift for a friend.

Quitely, Frank - not really original art but a piece of interest.  This is the promo poster for Superman.  I asked Frank to deface it with a thought balloon and he signed it with both his pseudonym and his real name.

Day, Dan - last but certainly not least.  Local vetran artists Dan and Dave Day (brothers of Gene) set up at the con.  I was amazed to see Dan's work on Sherlock Holmes which was published over the years by 4 publishers but the majority through Calibre press.  His pen work reminds me of the Frank Godwin and other artists who took influence from Gibson and Flagg(thanks Doug for educating me on these pioneers).
I couldn't help my self, 10 pages from various books, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.  # 10 is probably the most amazing of the lot but each has its merits.

August 1st, 2005 Update:

Eisner, Will - Spirit Sunday page from 1950, Oct 22nd.  Although no Spirit on this page, fantastic panels and everything that Eisner is famous for. 

Godwin, Frank - Book Illustration from The Book of Courage c.1929.  Also, a great Rusty Riley daily.  The middle panel is just brilliant.

Sickle, Noel - Scorchy Smith partial daily.

Caniff, Milton - a promotion piece done c.1968

Everett, Bill - Tales to Astonish #87 end page.  Great Subby page with pencils and inks by Bill. Twice up.

Serpieri - Beautiful Druuna pin-up.  Fantastic shading on the Druana character made famous in his graphic novels and in Heavy Metal Magazine.  Nudity Warning!

Jungle girls!  No update is complete without a few new Jungle girl images.  A nice R.H.Webb page from Fight comics #72 featuring Tigergirl, a Nyoka #41 splash with Nyoka tied up and a nice Sheena pin-up by Don Marquez.  Also, Bill Black redoing a Matt Baker Tiger girl page for AC comics and Nyoka Cover #2 from AC comics as well.  A 4 color separation production art to Pantera Biondi, an Italian Jungle girl from the 50's.   Rick Taylor also drew these 4 fantatic Jungle girl pin-ups 1, 2, 3, 4.  A 2 sided sketch page by an unknown artist, front and back.  

Finally, a cover from Newton Burcham who was once one of my favorite semi-pro artists and someone I considered a friend until he absconded with $700 of my money which I paid him for commissions in advance when he was down on his luck.  I still like his art but if anyone knows him, please ask him to do the right thing.

Biancarelli, Franck - great european artist I met on line.  Here are two great page from his graphic novels LE LIVRE DES DESTINS #1 and GALFALEK #2. Franck was also kind enough to agree to a Flash Gordon commission which is among the favorites I have gotten.

Stout, William - Tarzan color piece.

Jones, Jeff - Gorilla ink illustration.

Hsu, Peter - Quadrant painted cover!  You don't see a lot of art by Hsu around, let alone a cover.  This is a large piece of painted art from a series I remember well from my teens. 

Romita, John Sr. - blue line pencil romance page. 

Bilau, Anthony - Great painted Sci-fi cover.  Nice art by South American artist who I have been told died tragically at a young age just after breaking into comics.

Strip art update - Roy Crane Buz Sawyer 1953.  Framed so sorry for the lousy scan.  Leslie Turner Captain Easy 12/16/5?.  Matt Marriott strip c. 1960 by Tony Weare.  Russ Westover 1/5/29 Tillie strip in 2 pieces.  Fantastic Terry and Pirates Sunday by George Wunder 9/21/52.

Blondie 173 cover - unknown artist, possibly Fung. 

Estrada, Ric and Pablo Marcos - Amethyst Annual #1 page.  A comic from my first month of comic collecting.  I remember riding home on my bike with this comic trying my best to maintain the near mint status of this book for future riches:) 

Beachum, Mark - page from Penthouse comics Backlash story.  sketch on the back. Nudity warning!

Guay, Rebecca - Black Orchid pages. Issue #7 page 19, Issue #26 page 8, Issue #15 page 28.

Bourone, Marc - sketch.

Leonardi, Rick - cloak pencil sketch.

Heck, Don - Danger #11 page 1 splash.  Great classic comic art by one of the pioneers.

Dorian, Colleen - Distant Soil splash.

Green, Timothy - 2 more pages from Fraction #5 page 4 and 9. 

Hickey, Tom - golden age partial page from Black Cat comics.

Johnson, Lynn - calander art.

Newell, Eddy - Spiderman sketch.

Walthery - sketch in a graphic novel Natacha.

R.G.Taylor is a distinguished artist with a long history in comic books including his own series Wordsmith.  In addition Rick has worked for DC's Vertigo line and has worked on American Splendor among other books I don't recall.  I bought a large collection of art from Rick recently.  There are a number of nice pin-ups of Betty Page and other models below as well as 10 pages from Sandman Mystery Theatre.  The Betty Page pin ups were intended for a book that fell through due to licensing issues.
Betty Page pin-ups - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and the cover
Girl pin-ups (some nudity!) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Sandman Mystery Theatre #10 page 8, 10, 19, 20
Sandman Mystery Theatre #11 page 5, 12, 14
Sandman Mystery Theatre #12 page 12, 25, 28, 29 and 30.
Wordsmith covers - Color Wordsmith #2, #6, unknown, unknown2
Wordsmith pencil covers (finished art as published) a, b, c, d, e
Even easier, it can all be seen in the New R.G. Taylor Gallery

Kane, Gil - Tarzan sunday art for

3 Williamson/Frazetta Flash Gordon prints 1, 2, 3

May 4th, 2005 Update:

McKean, David - Black Orchid page.  Nice page in beautiful frame.  Already on hold for another collector.

Frazetta, Frank - Ace McCoy Daily.  Stunning inking with great figures and a nice girl panel.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - Shanna commission.  Bill did this piece at the Toronto Comic convention May 1st, 2005 for me.  It is easily in my top 5 favorite pieces of all time.  I will let the image speak for itself, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - Elektra sketch.  An Elektra Bill did at the con as well for me.

Green, Timothy - I got another package of art from my favorite new artist.  Here is the cover to Fraction #6 from DC, issue # 3 page 1 (chicken page) and two pages to a European graphic novel called TimeBrigade(Brigade Temporelle).  These are large pieces of art and the detail on them is crazy. page 6 and 16. 

Middleton, Josh - another of my favorites.  A nice Kidden Nixon sketch from NYX and pages to NYX #1 page 12, NYX #3 page 10 with a few panels of X-23 and NYX #4 page 6 with a cool flashback scene.  I like the technique Josh used in the NYX#4 pages, it has an Adam Warren feel to it.

Mignola, Mike - Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #4 end page.  This is my favorite art by Mike, his style was newly formed and very fresh and exciting.

Granov, Adi - Original art for Marvel card to soon be published.  Nice example by this up and coming artist.

Andrasofsky, Kalman - Nice page from I-Candy #2.

Wright, David - Carol Day daily #2718.  Nice example from this brilliantly illustrated British daily.

Chantler, Scott - I caught up with Scott at this years Toronto comic convention.  I got a great illustration he did for a business postcard with a fun retro theme, a dragonlady sketch and a piece featuring characters from his graphic novel Days Like This.

Dragonlady sketches from the two Nicks(Postic and Marinkovich), Scott Chantler, Eric Kim, Greg Boychuk, Kalman Andrasofsky and Francis Manapol.  I am running out of local artists to get jungle girl sketches from so I have a few other themes going including the classic villianess of Terry and the Pirates. 

Keown, Dale - Sheena sketch.

Grummet, Tom - Jungle girl sketch.

Azad - Jungle girl sketch and a cool piece of Sammy down on his luck.  If you haven't read Sammy the Tourist yet, you are missing one great character.

Sim, Dave - Cerebus as Flash Gordon with backgrounds by Gerhard.  Fun sketch by one of the great comic book creators.

Mavlian, Vatche - I picked up a cool Sherlock Holmes page by Vatche and he sat down at the ACTOR booth long enough for me to get a Flash Gordon sketch from him.  This guy is among the best illustrators working in comics.

Mack, David - Elektra sketch.

Chen, Sean - Sheena head sketch.

Chaykin, Howard - Pin-up to American Flagg issue unknown.

McLeod, Keagan - Jungle girl sketch.

Craig, Wes - Sheena sketch.

Postic, Nick and Nick Marinkovich - Promotional piece for Underworld Movie adaptation.  They also did a stunning Dragonlady for me and an Underworld sketch for a friend in Europe.

Staton, Joe - E-man pin-up.  I am not sure where it was published but a great piece of one of my favorite books when I was growing up.

Mychaels, Marat - Demonslayer #1 cover. Inks by Robert Jones.  This is a bad ass cover.  It is a cover, it is bad and you can figure out the last one yourself.  It was one of those impulse purchases that when I opened the package I had to ask myself, "what were you thinking?" 

Bakerish? - 8 pages from Atomic Comics #2.  Art has a strong Matt Baker feel to it and he is know to have done other art is this book.  Beautiful splash and pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 but the last page or two are missing.

Sink, John - 5 page romance story First Love #25.  Some of the most striking good girl art I own.  No wonder the boys were reading "girlie comics" :) page 2, 3, 4, 5.

Astarita, Rafael - Jan of the Jungle story page from Rangers #62.  Beautiful inks.

Mannion, Bill - Sea Goin' L'il pin-up

Gil, Armando with Mignola inks - Ka-zar #28 page 22. Shanna page.  Really corny page. 

Wunder, George - Terry and Pirates daily 9/16/49.  Nice early example of Wunder's long run on this series.  Beautiful girl art.

Hollingsworth, A. - Nice Scorchy Smith Daily 5/5/?

Bald, Ken - Judd Saxon Dialy 2/9/?

Torres, E.E. - Wrap around cover 1968 Phillipines comic.  18 girls!

April 2nd, 2005 Update

Gates, Art - Crash, Cork and Baron - Three Aces Story page from Speed Comics # 19 page 3. 1942.  Beautiful golden age art, the first panel is lush and there is some great "Ju Jitsu!" action.  Check out the pick-up line in panel 2.

Kaluta, Mike - girl sketch.

Kirby, Jack - Silver Surfer Graphic Novel page 18, inks by Sinnot.  No main characters, but some classic Kirby motifs and layouts with the decadent inks of Sinnot. 

Ingles, Graham - Planet Comics #25 page.  A girl, a hero and a monster, it doesn't get any more classic than this.  Close up of first panel, fantastic  detail.

Cho, Frank - Daredevil sketch.

Ushler, John - unknown (and possibly unpublished) war comic strip circa 1950.  Very cinematic layouts and great action.

Fox, Nathan - another commission by one of my favorite new artists.  Nathan certainly brought his style and sence of humor to my Jungle girl theme.  The back of the art had a decent prelim for another take on the commission, here is a scan.

Suydam, Arthur - Nice Swamp Thing page by Arthur.  It is a partial page, not sure if it was ever used in anything.  I was told it was a tryout piece by Arthur for the Swamp Thing series. 

Fox, Gil - 3 more Jeanie Dailies, Undated.  1, 2, 3.

Fastner & Larson - Jungle girl color piece.

Robbins, Trina - Leopard girl sketch.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - Early Batman con sketch.

March 2nd, 2005 Update

January 23rd, 2005 Update

Green II, Timothy - one of my favorite new artists.  I love the detail in his work that my scans are unable to convey. Fraction #3 cover(and color rough),  Fraction #3 page 20, Fraction #2 page 9, Synn #5 page and Heavy Metal Snake Charmer pages 1 and 9.

Powell, Bob - Jungle girl story from First Love #19.  Classical good girl art and melodrama.  page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Kelly, Ken - 4 sketches by the fantasy master.  #1, 2, 3 ,4

Zulli, Mike - Puma Blues #18 splash,#22 page 35 and #12 page 16 plus a nice sketch of Europa.

Webb, Robert - Another nice good girl page by the master.  Fight Comics #52.

Leonardi, Rick - Cloak and Dagger splash page from issue #14.

King, Frank - Partial sunday circa 1950's.

Enriquez, Rol - Jungle girl pin up.  Nice pin up with blue line pencils underneath.

Sparling, Jack - Wow!  Good Girl Hap Hopper Sunday!  July 5th, 1942.

Penn, Nick - two untitled dailies c. 1950? 5-9 and 9-9.

Tuska, George - Nice good girl Rangers Comics page, issue 19 page 42.

Wildey, Doug - The Saint Daily 10/10/?.

DeZuniga, Tony - Savage Tales from issue 9 featuring Shaana.

Iger Studios - two nice good girl pages from Secret Romances #13.  page 28 and 31.

Jones, Rob - Dick Giordanos assistant does a Sheena commission.

Keefer, Mel - Wambi #10 page by the E.C. great.

Perez, George - Avengers #193  page 22.

Celardo, John - Nice Kaanga and Anne page from Kaanga #18 page 6.

Astarita, Rafael - Jungle comics #46 original art.  More vintage Jungle girl art featuring Anne and Kaanga.

Spiegel, Dan - Terry and Pirates Daily featuring sharks and the Dragonlady. 

Baker, Matt - Glory Forbes page from Rangers #46.  What can I say,  I like good girl art and no one does it better.

Suydam, Arthur - Beeman illustration.  Nice characteristic work by Arthur on a interesting theme.

Bryant, A.S. - Champ Comics #20, 1942. page 34 and 35.  Very nice artwork for this era in Twinkle Twin storyline.

unknown - El Capitan story page from unknown comic (perhaps Hello Pal).

Berrill, Jack - Gil Thorpe Daily 27/8/67

Bald, Ken - Judd Saxon daily 28/10/60

Burles, Kent - Sheena/Irish McCalla commission.

December 2nd, 2004 Update

Caniff, Milton - Terry and Pirated Daily from 1936 featuring the Dragonlady in all 4 panels.  Nice blue ink wash on this one.
Mayo, Ralph - Camilla splash/title page from Jungle comics #148.
Plunkett, Sandy - Jungle girl commission redo.  Nice jungle girl image, recreation of a a well know piece.
Ayers, Dick - Sheena and Rulah commission.  Great golden age touch to my theme collection.
Jaffee, Al - Trade Paperback Cover with sketch on the back.
Williams, Kent - painted piece from Blood.
Hickey, Tom - Chamber of Chills #11 Single page feature.
Spinger, Frank - Dazzler #4 featuring Doom.  Bulanadi inks.
Elias, Lee - Mystery in Space #92 - nice silver age sci-fi page.  Twice up.
Webb, Robert - Fight #32 9 pages of a 10 page story featuring Rip Carson. page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10
             This story has some great good girl art, in particular the splash and on page 2 the execution scene.
Fabry, Glen - Global Frequency#3 (page 7)page showcasing Glen's talent.
Fisher, Seth -  Nice page from Flash:Time Flies #1 page 14.
Chaykin, Howard - I just can't stop loving his work.  Splash to Men of War #14.
Sienkiewicz, Bill - 2 pages from Hulk Magazine featuring Moon Knight.  #14 page 9 and #? page 7.
Phipps, Robb - Jungle girl sketch.
Buscema, John - Alcala inks on this great Ka-Zar #6 page 30.  (already gone in trade)
Kubert, Joe - Our Army at War #192 page 19.  Nice classic kubert layouts and pencils with inks by Jack Abel.  A pairing that I initially thought of as odd but they work out great together. 
Andru, Ross - Flash 180 splash and page 19 from the same issue.  Esposito inks of course. 
Finch, David - 4 pages from Ascension.  I have some previous art from this as well.  He put 2 pages on a single sheet of 11 x 17 comic art paper.  Featured in these pages is a splash and some girl art.
Bald, Ken - Dark Shadows Daily 9/29/71.  Nice image of Barnabus.
Heimdahl and Stoffel - Bugs Bunny daily strip from 7/10/71.  I don't know much about this particular genre but it is a fun strip.
O'Barr, James - Crow sketch.  Nicely executed and moody piece from 2004 titled Isolation.
Cooke, Tom - Drift Marlowe Daily, uncertain year.  Real cool layouts and blacks in first panel.
Lloyd, David - Nice wasteland page with art very similar to his V for Vendetta masterpiece.
Godwin, Frank - 2 nice Rusty Riley Sundays.  3/24/57 and 7/27/58.
Grell, Mike - a cool Sheena commission.
Baker, Matt - Fun and sexy 6 page Tugboat Tessie Story.  Despite it only being six pages, 2 pages are dedicated to Tessie's beautiful daugher stripping down to her underwear and swimming.  Lots of nice Baker girl and lingirie art.  Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.  Nice pencil sketch of skygirl on the back of the last page.
Hannon, Mark - Rear cover painting to 1985 Heavy Metal Magazine.(scan pending)

November 5th, 2004 Update
Grell, Mike - Green Arrow Long Bow Hunter Limited Series #3 pag 22-23.   Awesome and huge 2 page spread.  The first panel is an oil or acrylic painting that is pasted on the board.  The other colors are all watercolor or acylics.

Boyette, Pat - Cool Flash Gordon #15 cover from Charlton.  Classic Boyette art with a classic sci-fi theme.

Norris, Paul - cool Flash Gordon page from Four Color #204 page 34.  Cool golden age Flash Gordon art from this classic run.

Even more sci-fi with an Adam Strange page by Lee Elias from Mystery in Space #100.  Nice images of Adam and his jet pack.

Doran, Colleen - Distant Soil unused page. 

Martin, Heather - cool Sheena and Rulah commission in 3 pieces.  Inks, pencils and color.

Orsak, Joe - Jungle girl pin-up.

Iger Shop - Cowgirl Romance #7 4 page story.  One of the best Good Girl Art Stories I have seen!  Lots of the best classic headlights, suggestive scenes and a great catfight panel.  Ahhh, the good old days:)  page 2, 3 and 4.  Here is a close up of the middle 2 panels of page 2(cat fight and headlights).

Gotto, Ray - an Ozark Ike Sunday from Dec 21, 1947.  This was actually in my collection before traded away and than later sold to someone else.  It has now found its way home.  I think this was the first piece I let go of in my collection, before that I was one of those Black Hole collectors where nothing ever left.  This is one of the two pieces I most regretted parting with and so I am glad to have it back.

Stroman, Larry with Al Williamson inks.  2 pages from the Cloak and Dagger Graphic Novel.  page 1 and page 13.

Colletta, Vince two fantastic golden age pages by the most maligned inker of the silver age.  New Romance and Popular Romance.

Newell, Eddy - con painting/sketch.  

Lubbers, Bob - Tarzan Sunday 4/19/53.  This is a huge piece of art, took 9 scans pasted together to get this image.  Not a lot of Tarzan but some fantastic art none the less. 

Oct 20th, 2004 Update.   
A few new pieces this month. 

Adkins, Dan - Tales to Astonish #93 page.  Nice large art featuring Subby. 

Raymond, Alex - Rip Kirby daily from 3/10/53.  Melodramatics galore.

Lopresti, Aaron - Jungle girl pin-up.  Full color piece.

Fastner and Larson - convention style sketch.  Original line work is a copy, the coloring and shading is original. 

Reese, Ralph - 5 Flash Gordon Dailies.  Star Wars influence apparent. 

Bushmiller, Ernie - Fritzi Ritz Sunday.  Nice early example of this strip, 1941.  Fun gag and nice girl art. 

Certa, Joe - 5 Page Story with Atom Bomb Splash from Chamber of Chills.  page 2, 3, 4, 5

Whitman, Maurice - 3 page of Kaanga art from Kaanga 19 2nd and 3rd page.

Raboy, Mac - Flash Gordon Sunday.  (not here yet)

Nebres, Rudy - XL cover.

Mager, Gus -  Hawkshaw Sunday 6/27/37

Suydam, Arthur - Libby page from Penthouse comics #2.  (nudity warning)

Forte, John - South Seas Daily.  I am a sucker for these.  Nice girl art by one of the greats of the golden age.

Simon, Joe - Magic Man illustration on this page.

Ayers, Dick - Bee Man Illustrations on Letter pages from Double Dare #2, page 2

Sparling, Jack - Gladiator illustration from Double Dare #2

Complete color guide to Double Dare #2.

Kotsky, Alex - Apartment 3-G Sunday 11/4/6?.  I have had this one for a while but for some reason never scanned it before.  Nice 3 tier piece.

Andriola, Alfred - cool sketch piece of Lova Moore from Kerry Drake.

Aparo, Jim - Aquaman #41 end page.  Really cool Aparo art on this half page. 

Williamson, Al - nice jungle girl sketch and a second sketch with 2 girls.  Lastly the ultimate sci-fi print by Al.

Stanley, Hugh - unknown Deco British strip art. 

Robbins, Frank - cool page from Daredevil #155 with Springer inks.

Fox, Nathan - Daredevil and Elektra commission.  One of two commissions, the second is yet to come.  Nathans gritty style came out great on this piece.

Barry, Dan - Flash Gordon Daily 2/12/59.  Nice early Daily by one of comics greatest legends.

Evans, George - Senorita Rio page from Fight Comics#54.  Nice early art by one of the Golden age greats.

Foust, Mitch - another nice jungle girl piece by Mitch.

Anderson, Brent - 2 page splash to Ka-zar #11. 

Mahfood, Jim - page to Spiderman Tangled Webs #19 page 9.  Some really fun images on this page.

Baker, Matt - Rangers #46 Glory Forbes page by Matt Baker.

Godwin, Frank - 10 Rusty Riley Dailies from the top 2 or 3 illustrators ever to dabble in comics.
                Rusty 1  10/19
                Rusty 2   10/22
                Rusty 3   12/24
                Rusty 4   1/24
                Rusty 5   3/2
                Rusty 6   5/12
                Rusty 7   8/17
                Rusty 8   8/30
                Rusty 9   9/21
                Rusty 10   9/3

Miller, Ian - Swamp Thing Quest of the Elements Cover rough.  This piece is huge, larger than twice up art and detailed pencil and inks with a wash.  

Wunder, George - Three Terry and Pirate Dailies dated 11/7/70, 11/6/70, 11/5/70.

A few quick ones.
Byrnes, Gene - Fantastic Reg'lar Fellers Daily that blew me away.  I am a big fan of Pat McDonnell's Mutts and this piece made me look twice.  I am sure Pat must have drawn inspiration for his strip from this fantastic series. 

Johnson/Bulanadi - 2 Daredevil pages of no significance other than they were among the first comics I read as a kid.  Daredevil 198 page 22 and Daredevil 203 page 7.

Manapol, Francis  - Battle of the Planets cover preliminary. 

Lark, Michael - Con sketch of poison ivy. 

Flemming, Tom - Elektra detailed pencil sketch.

Chua, Ernie - Batman #269 page.  Nice Batman action page from 1975.

September  1st, 2004 Update - Toronto Con Additions.  Although no longer a comic con, I managed to pick up a few pieces at the convention this year.  I have started a new theme in addition to Jungle girls, I am also getting Flash Gordon and Dale as a commission theme.  After Mike Kaluta hit a home run with his sketch last time, I was inspired.  With that said, it was a hard choice deciding who to ask Adam Hughes to do, so I left it up to him. 

Hughes, Adam - Flash Gordon and Dale commission.  Adam was among the the nicest and most gracious artists I have met.  It was a pleasure to meet and deal with Allison as well.  By far the best part about the con was Adam Hughes and getting a sketch was just icing on the cake.

Kirk, Leonard - Flash Gordon and Dale commission.  Nice addition, even being relatively unfamiliar with the character, he captured a real golden age feel to it.

Eaglesham, Dale - Flash Gordon and Dale commission.  Another nicely done example.  I also managed to pick up a Daredevil splash from Dale.

McLeod, Kagan - Also did a Flash Gordon and Dale piece.  Well done but the Dragonlady he did last time for me is still my favorite.

Marinkovich, Nick and Nick Postic - Flash Gordon commission.  These guys are amazing and they did another fantastic job on this piece.  See recent updates for other work by them.

Lee, Andy -  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Ten fantastic painting of Flash and Dale by Zen master Andy.  The energy and flow in Andy's work is only surpassed by his ability to wield those calligraphy brushes effortlessly. 

Tuazon, Noel - a very nice Raymondesque Flash Gordon and Dale.  I love Noel's work and a nice guy to sit and talk with.

Deodato, Mike - Elektra commission.

Laird, Peter - Ninja Turtles sketch.

Stewart, Cameron - Catwoman head sketch.

Andrasofszky, Kalman and Janet Hetherington added to my Jungle girl collection.

Young, Skottie - Sheena commission in Skottie's unique style.

Morales, Rags - Hawkgirl pen sketch.

Repovski, Peter - Phantom pin-up,  Zendra unpublished pin-up and an inking exercise page.

That is it for the con.  Other pieces added in the last month.

Middleton, Joshua - NYX #1 splash.  One of my favorite comic images ever.  A near grail acquisition for me. 

Mack, David - Nice page to Daredevil #19.  David signed it at the con for me.

Montanta, Bob - Archie Sunday art.  I have been looking for an example since I traded away my last one.  Although a little later(1963), Montana never lost his touch.

Darrow, Geoff - Nice page from Heavy Metal.  It is huge and framed so the only image will be this poor digital pick.  Very detailed work and very impressive in its size.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - New Mutants #18 page 30.  Real nostalgia piece for me signed by both Bill and Chris Claremont. 

Chaykin, Howard - cool page from Batman.  Nice images of classic Chaykin girls and the Batman.

Hoffman, Mike - I picked up this cool 22 page sketchbook on ebay.  Take a look.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

Materna, Frank - 3 cool Steve Roper Sundays. 16/8/98, 25/8/02, 14/3/99

Baker, Kyle - Page from Alice in Wonderland.  Neat interpretation of this classic tale.   Words are on an acetate overlay not show in the scan. 

Wood, Ashley - Spawn Blood and Shadows - sexy, splashy page featuring Ashley's unique style. 

LeBlanc, Andre - 2 pages from Phantom #23 by King Comics including the splash and page 3 of a 4 page story.

Coll, Charles - 2 Golden age pages from the Shadow #4 page 4 and #12 page 12.  The Shadow was not drawn on the original art but on vellum overlays.  This was done to give it a different look on the printed page.  I haven't owned any of these comics so I don't know how it worked out but cool Golden age art and comic art history.  page 4 without overlay and with overlay.

Young, Chic - Blondie Daily from 1957 about "making love".  Fun and innocent comic strip featuring one of the most enduring of all comic characters.

Mosley, Zack - 2 Smilin' Jack Dailies.  6/7/59 and 7/7/59

Mason, Rolfe - Brenda Breeze Sunday c. 1950.

Belfi, John - Golden Age Daredevil #33 page.  John was the inker but penciler unknown. 

Messmer, Otto - Felix the Cat original art from Felix the Cat #14 c. 1940.  Wow, original art by one of the great comic pioneers.  Felix is classic in the final panel but the action and fun on the rest of the page is equally as spectacular.

Sagendorf, Bud - Popeye splash from #14 1951.  Page features Popeye, Olive Oyl and Swee'Pea. 

Nordling, Klaus - Good girl art from a Kid Dixon story, unknown issue of National Comics.

August 3rd, 2004 Update.  A few new items.

Baker, Matt - 6 page Kayo Kirby story from Fight #54 by the kind of good girl art.   page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Peters, Michael - brilliant Sheena and Rulah commission.

Hollingsworth, A.C. - a Holly's Follies panel and a fun golden age piece.

Powell, Eric - 3 pages from a 9/11 tribute.  page 1, 2, 3

Bernet, Jordi - 2 new sketch pieces, page 1 and page 2 front and back

Leonardi, Rick - Daredevil 249 page 24, Williamson inks.  Cool page, also features some guy with big claws.

Weeks, Lee - Daredevil sketch

Holtz, Kyle - 3 pages of art from Destroyer, #7 page 3 and 5 and page 2 from issue 8.

Gallego, Blas - pencil jungle girl sketch.

Hybsier, Anna - Sheena and Rulah commission.  Nice color piece.

3 unknown golden age pages from Italian comic Luci Del Lunapark.  Great inkwashed art page 1, 2, 3

Middleton, Josh - NYX #1 page 19.   A surprise from a friend.  Nice page with Kiden.  Also, near grail piece coming by Josh soon issue #1 rave splash!

Ortiz, Jose - 2 cool pages from Vampirella #106 page 4 and 7.

Palumbo, Giuseppe - cool page from Sherlock Holmes from Martin Mystery Special 17.

Pratt, George - sketch inside Graphic novel.

Taylor, R.G.  - Tanya Roberts Sheena sketch

Hansen, Marc- Ralph Snart sketch.

Brigone, Willi - Frazetta sketch reinterpreted.

Kirchner, Paul - The BUS strip from Heavy Metal comics. 

Marsh, Jesse - Robin Hood Sunday 21/9/52

July 9th Update.  A very small update although some really nice and notable pieces.

Fox, Matt - Journey Into Mystery #102 page 5.  Larry Leiber pencils.  Groovy Sci-fi page from 1964. 

Infantino, Carmine - Flash Splash from Issue #303. 

Krenkel, Roy. G. - 2 sided sketch page.  I have a few other Krenkel pieces but this is my favorite by far.  Awesome.  back side.

Ivy, Christopher - great Sheena/Rulah pencil pin-up.

Maleev, Alex - 2 pages from Cloak and Dagger in Strange Tales.  Chris Ivy inks. page 9 and 11.

Johnson and Bulandi Daredevil #200 page 27.  My ongoing quest to putting the first comic I read continutes.  If you have any pages or know where they are, drop me a line. 

Mens Magazine Illustration by Bruce Minnie for Gothic Tales of Love, June 1975.  Drug Adventure Story. 

Pat McDonnell of Mutts original specialty piece.  It was done for Cartoon Artists Professional Society (CAPS) Fundraising Auction. 

Next update will hopefully be in August. 

June 24th Update. Mostly sketches from the Toronto Comic Convention.

Another amazing commission picked up from Alex Perkins.  Rulah.

Jungle girl sketches by Stuart Sayger, Azad, Nick Craine, Amanda Conner, Micheal T. Gilbert, Cary Nord, Ty Templeton and Willow Dawson.

Dragon Lady sketches from Kagan McLeod and Sean Ramsey.

Tintin by Chris Zdarsky as well as a page from Prison Funnies.

The Ultimate cons sketch by Mike Kaluta of Flash Gordon and Dale.

Cerebus by Dave Sim, one for me and one for a friend in Germany (Hi Thorsten!)

Horn, Greg - quick headshot of Elektra.

R.G. Taylor Tarzan and Jane piece for a friend in the US (Hi Aubrey)

Burles, Kent - 2 gaming illustrations of Sci-fi and Fantasy women.  1 and 2

Fowler, Tom - 2 illustrations.  One of Robot surgery and another city scape that reminded me of an Eisner cover.

Van Buren, Ray - a sunday(3/3/68) and a daily(29/11/67).

Andrasofsky, Kalman - 2 pages from I-Candy.  1 and 2.

Levins, Tim - DD sketch and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6back  perlims from various comics.

Davidson, Pat - inks over a blueline copy of Terry Dodson art.  Not the published version, an inking exercise that looks great!

McLeod, Kagan - Infinite Kung-Fu page and a brilliant sketch of the Dragon Lady.

McNiven, Steve - page 2 and 3 from Meridian # 36. 

Holdaway, Jim - Nicest Modesty Blaise Daily I have seen for sale.  Little sketch on the border as well.

Fox, Nathan - 3 pages from Harley Quinn #31 page 15, 17, 20.

Paradi, Louis - nice 2 head sketch.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - Bill's Inks over Wilshire pencils/layouts.  Looks like a pure Sienkiewicz cover.  Red Sonja #8. Image without logo.

Terral, Lawrence - 2 page splash from Bloodfire #12 (pages 8 and 9)

Vess, Charles - Page from Warriors 3

Dawson, Willow - page from Mother May I.  Great page design and lots of well though out details.

Last but certainly not least.  I met Nick Postic and Nick Marinkovich who work together.  They created the comic adaptation for hte movie Underworld.  These guys are amazing.  I bought 2 pages from Underworld from them (page 1 and 2).  Here are 1 and 2 sketches done at the con as well.  The first is Nick Postic doing everything and the second is pencilled by Nick Postic and inked by Nick Marinkovich.  This second sketch is among the top 2 or 3 convention pieces I have.  These guys are really doing great work.

June 18th, 2004 update. 

Middleton, Josh - New Mutants #4 cover and a cover for Playstation Magazine

Baker, Matt - Tiger girl page from Fight Comics #53 with Tiger girl, female slaves and all things that make Matt Baker the king of the good girl artists. (sell me your golden age jungle girl art)

McKean, Dave - Rouge Trooper #6 Cover.  Large multi-media piece.  Published version here.

Whitney, Ogden - page 8 and 21 from Undercover Girl #5.  Some of the nicest golden age art I have seen and with a good girl theme.

Noto, Phil - Nice page from Danger Girl, Viva Las Vegas

Immonen, Stuart (Marzan inks) - Action 742 page 8.

Garcia Lopez, Jose - Deadman #5 page 22 - partial splash.

Harmony, H - Art deco magazine Illustration.

Glanzman, Sam - Sheena and Rulah Commission

Stamm, Russell - Invisible Scarlet O'Neil Daily 1947, personalized to the great Don Sherwood.  Really fun story.

Sparling, Jack - Hap Hopper Daily 1942.  Holy Head lights:)

Keaton, Russel - Flying Jenny Daily, 1937 - one of the most well drawn strips ever.

Beroth, Leon A. - Don Winslow of the Navy c.1937.

Romero, Enrique - Axa Daily.

Severin, John - Fantastic Enemy Ace story page.

Wood, Wally - Unearthly Spectacular #2 page 9 of Earthman story.  All the classic Wood elements, girls, guns and gadgets.

Anderson, Murphy - Sci-fi page from possibly Fantastic Worlds.  Fun story with a giant net catching a space man, nice rockets, girls and space suits. 

Romita, John Sr. - Daredevil #18 page 12.  Nice twice up art from the classic DD/Gladiator storyline.  Romita's style and understanding of storytelling flow from this page. 

Gulacy, Paul - Terminator #2 page 12.  Some of the nicest Gulacy art I have seen.  The top image is classic and lower image is done on a duoshade board.  Really well laid out, reminds me of the great Warren spanish artists.

Sale, Tim - one of the hottest talents in the industry today.  Three cool pages from Savage Hulk showing the hulk in partial splashes in 3 classic poses.  page 46, 49 and 52.

Golden Age goodies - 3 Nyoka covers.  These covers are the photos and stats used to produce the cover.  Nyoka 72, Nyoka 73, Nyoka 64 and the original photo with airbrush for nyoka 72.

Elgin, Jill - 7 pages from a Girl Commandoes story from 1945, All-New Comics #11. Fun girl adventure with the prerequisite bondage, suggestive scenes and action.  Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Celardo, John - Tarzan Sunday 1965.  Some of the nicest Tarzan panels I have seen by John. 

Morrow, Gray - Tarzan Sunday 10/13/85.  Although Gray is on of the most underrated artists and among my favorites,  I have not always been a fan of Gray's work on Tarzan.  This is one a few Sundays I have seen where he was working at his full potential. 

Nino, Alex - 2 page spread for Savage Sword of Conan #228. 

Bisley, Simon - 3 pages from Body Count. 8, 12 and unknown 2 pager.

Timm, Bruce - Wonder Woman and Superman Drawing.

Russell, P.Craig - Elric #3 page 13. 

Crane, Roy - Buz Sawyer Daily 1/11/47.  Fantastic example of this pioneering strip.  Original Signature in final panel. 

Buscema, Sal - Tarzan Annual #2 page 9 and 17.  Pages inked by veteran professional Frank Matera. 

Bishop, Harry - Tarzan and Maneaters - 2 pages from TV Tornado #4.  page 1 and 2.

Yager, Rick - Buck Rogers Daily - 13/6/51.  Classic Sci-fi daily

Williamson, Al - Small sketch circa 1950 for space girl and guy. 

Texiera, Mark and Gil, Armando - Buckaroo Bonzai #2 page 30 art.  One of my favorite cult movies and the source of my email handle monkeyboy. 

Onibi -
weird weird anime sketch.

Geier, Earl - 1985 Seduction of the Guilty comic strip.  A take-off on all the Seduction of the Innocent (SOTI) material. 

Unknown Artist - 21 page Nyoka story.  Scans to come.

Hickey, Tom - True Love Pictorial Page about eloping.  Provocative stuff for the 50's. 

Palais, Rudy - Chamber of Chills #22 page 24.  Cool title page with a crazy elephant panel, devils and mummy's. 

Sheena 3D art.  In the 80's Blackthorne published a Sheena 3D comic with a Dave Stevens cover.  This is the story from that comic.   It is mostly full size stats of the original art published by Fiction House with touch ups.  The main Sheena character in the first page is totally redrawn and may very well be the work of Dave Stevens.  Those in the know think so.  Cool jungle girl art all the same. 
page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12  close up of Sheena in first page, could anyone else pull this off?

Update May 6th, 2004.  Some cool new pieces and a fair bit of art has left my collection.

Manning, Russ - Korak #11 page featuring La.

Powell, Bob - Cavegirl #  splash.

Boyette, Pat - brilliant Toth-esque 7 page Jungle Jim story with cover, pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Boyette, Pat - even more impressive 14 page Jungle Jim story page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Colan, Gene - Daredevil #40 end page.  Tartaglione inks.  Speaking of DD art, Issue #256 page 8 Typhoid Mary.

Middleton, Josh - NYX #1 page- Kiden post-rave.

Morrow, Gray - Alladin from Classics Illustrated.  Interesting Golden age pages from early in Gray's career. Pages a, b ,c

Forte, John - 7 Seas #6 pages 12 and 13.

Webb, R.H. - Fight Comics #32 page 7 and 8 from Senorita Rio story.

Sienkiewicz, Bill - Moon Knight sketch.

Jungle girl art by Mark Heike,  Irish of the Jungle by Heike, and a Femforce Newsletter header also by Mark.

Tuazon, Noel - 1, 2, 3, 4 nice Jungle girl illustrations. 

Baptism art by -Torre, Eman

Brereton, Dan - JLA art with the full team.

Salinas, Jose - Cisco Kid daily 1959.

Wunder, George - Early Terry and the Pirates Daily.

Jonathan Steel artwork by Luca Raimondo.

6 Brenda Starr Dailies by Brigman and Richardson. 1, 2, 3.

O'Neil, Kevin - Marshall Law page.

Bachalo, Chris - Witching Hour page.

Davis, Phil - Mandrake Strip 1938

Falk, Lee - Phantom Strip 1945

Trimpe, Herb - HULK #175 Cover

Romita Jr., John and Al Williamson Typhoid Mary Page from Daredevil #256

Finally got scans of my Jeff Jones Painting (1,2)and my Joe Kubert poster size sketch(detail).

I also finally got some decent scans to the Batman #11 preliminary artwork page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 4back, 6back

Mini update March 18th, 2004, some cool piece arrived from trades and friends.

Middleton, Josh - Kiden from NYX sketch.  Huge thanks to Aubrey for getting this for me.  Thank you!
Frazetta, Frank - White Indian page - #15 page 21.
Liefeld, Rob - New Mutants Annual #5 page 27. 
Suydam, Arthur - Death Dealer page.  Unfortunate damage to the piece. 

New art as of March 12th, 2004.  I have been a little slow in this update, more to come in the next few weeks.

I am pleased to announce that Brian Postman will be selling art and accepting commissions through this site.  He is a comic professional that has worked a number of comics for Marvel.   Please follow this link for more information and images.

Will Eisner - Spirit page from Nov 10th, 1946.  Dynamic and fluid.  Only Eisner could pull off something like this and make it look effortless.

Davis, Jack - Ace's High page.  A Davis E.C. example as it is best.  Although not a lot of action, Davis's eye for layout, cinematography and storytelling make this a great page.

Craig, Jim - Saddle Justice page.  Lingrie page with some classic Craig lighting.

Baker, Matt- Fight comics #56 Kayo Kirby page.  Baker girls and legs. 

Webb, R.H. - Fiction House pioneer - 3 examples of the comic strip The Hawk 1, 2, 3.  Also a Tiger girl page from Fight comics #72 and a page from Firehair #3.

Thornton, John and Forte, John - 2 classic strip pieces from the 50's.  Flamingo Daily and South Seas Daily.

Mazzuchelli, David - Daredevil 223 page.  Great vertical half splash of DD.

Golden Age Jungle 23 art, pages 6 and 9.

Maroto, Estoban - 3 pages from various Warren publication.  Creepy 51 page 6 and 7.

Mayo, Gonzalo- Creepy #? page 8 splash. 

Torrents, Ramon - 4 pages from Vampirella #36 page 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Romero, Enrique  - Modesty Blaise daily #7100

Bald, Ken - Judd Saxon daily 7/3/59

Nostrand, Howard - page from Black Cat #44 and Tomb of Terror #10.  Cool Harvey horror art.

Aviason, Al -  Warfront #27 8 page story(page 2 missing). Fantastic rainy art. page 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.  Also, a 2 page Green Hornet #46 story - fun mystery page 1 and 2.

Leonardi, Rick and Williamson, Al - Marvel Cloak and Dagger #15.  Hard to find art from this classic run. 

Chiodo, Joe - Black Widow partial splash.  Great girl art.

Valenzuela, Carlos - artist from Chile who has published stories with Vamperotica.  Jungle girl pin-up and nude pin-up(warning).

Brown, Bob and Jim Mooney - Daredevil #134 page.

Springer, Frank - Cool Daredevil inventory story from the early years.  Incomplete.  Pages 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

Unknown European artist - a gift from a European collector and friend.

Elias, Lee - 5 page story from First Love #64. (I have been informed that these pages are likely Jack Sparling) page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Mayo, Ralph - Camilla page from Jungle Comics #146 and a splash from Indians #2.

Noto, Phil - Robin cover 118 modification.  This was done to replace the Robin image on the original art which is here(I don't own this one).

Belcastro, John - Planet Comics 71 page- strong Eisner influence. 

Ponticelli, Alberto - unknown endpage splash.

Redondo, Nestor - Rima #7 page 9.  Fantastic and rare art from this Jungle girl series.

Ross, Alex - pencil prelims for Teen Titans, then and now.  Fantastic sense of design.

Schultz, Mark - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs cover preliminary sketch.

Adkins, Dan - Sheena centrefold from Paragon Press.

Ricca, Gus - Slam-Bang comics #2 page 18.  Great early golden age artwork.  (correction, I have been told this is by Pete Costanza)

Simons, Dave - Amazing Spiderman sunday featuring Daredevil.

Unknown artist - Teenage Bride 18 - looks like a Marvel story page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Celardo, John - Tarzan Sunday from 1959.

Breitweiser, Mitchell - 2 pages from x-men 120.  Finished pencils. page 19 and 21.

Hoover, Dave - TSR annual art with a jungle girl.

Blazquez - Tumac strip art.  Very similar to Kubert's Tor and Tarzan.

Usero - sketch of Don Quiote.

Lubbers, Bob - Long Sam sunday 7/14/57.

Kremer, Warren - Stevie #1 page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Tuska, George - Daredevil 145 page(Mooney inks).

Keefer, Mel - Dragnet daily 8/13/5?

Foust, Mitch - Jungle girl pin-up

Romita, John Jr and Al Williamson - Hulk 39 page.

Dedato, Mike - Elektra #1 page.

Gilles, Shane - 4 sketches 1front/back, 2, 3,4.

Giunta, John - Jaguar art from Laugh Comics 131.

Matt Baker - Tiger girl page with slavery and bondage from Fight 53.  The golden age at its best/worst.  Another Matt Baker page from Lorna Doone.

Howard Chaykin.  Two new painted pieces from Hulk Magazine 1 and 2.

New Jungle Girl art by Bruce Timm, Mike Royer, Terry Beatty, Jungle comics 152, unknown AC page, Commission by Christopher Schenck and a Kane Starhawks strip that could pass for jungle girl art:) Golden age pages from Jungle 146 and 148.  Nyoka 46 pages 27, 28, 34.

Campbell, Eddie - From Hell art book 6 page 6.  Awesome page that I have friends like Scotty and Jerome in Paris to thank for making possible.

Daredevil art by Gene Colan DD 73 page 23, John Romita Jr DD 252 page 23, Cary Nord DD 365 pg page 17, two Alex Maleev DD sketches 1 and 2 and Elektra by Mark Texeira.

Marsh, Jessie - Tarzan page from Tarzan 161. Here was something next to impossible to find.  All of the ERB collectors have this art and no one else can find any:)

Cardy, Nick - Tarzan daily.

Davis, Phil - Mandrake strip from 1945 and it has a jungle girl:)

Norris, Paul and Mike Royer - 2 pages of Tarzan art from # 194.  pages 2 and 22.   Page 22 is gone already as a gift to a friend.

Powell, Bob - 5 page romance story.  Really racy dialogue under the paste ups that have since fallen off.  Wertham would have loved to get his hands on this.  Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Bernet, Jordi - cover to Andrax, a European comic.

Yeates, Tom - cool Aztec Ace #14 comic cover.

Lieber, Larry - Rawhide 114 cover.

Frazetta, Frank - a little jungle girl sketch.

Silke, Jim - a Betty page story panel page and a pin-up.

Warren, Adam - panel page from unknown book.  Partial inks.

Draut, Bill - Title/opening page to Alarming Tales #6.

Sketches by Simon Bisley, Bill Sienkiewicz 1 and 2, Dave Gibbons Rorschack, Roel robot girl and a sketch from Baru (European artist, thanks Thorsten).

Schultz, Mark - several sketches 1, 2, 3.

Robbins, Frank - 2 new dailies from 1958 and 1961.

Robbins, Trina - daily.

Starr, Leonard - new Mary Perkins On Stage daily.

Bagge, Peter - Hate page.

Kaluta, Mike - great Madame Xanadu illo.

Fujitani, Bob - golden age page from Blue Bolt comics.

Buscema/Sinnot Hulk page.

Hannigan, Ed - Kull 16 pg 27.  Tiger girl on back.

Harris, Tony - FF cover preliminary.

Ploog, Mike - sketch.

Lubbers, Bob - Rangers #34 page 6.

Sad sack page.

New art as of Nov 15th, 2003

Robertson, Darick - Transmet #32, pg 2.  I have been looking for a nice published page from this book with both spider and some cool cityscape.  I got Darick to sign it for me in Toronto last weekend.  As well, another new jungle girl sketch by Darick after his great commission.

Luke Ross/David Tischman - American Century #12 pg 1 splash.  Nice iconic splash from this under-rated series.

Aparo/Sienkiewicz - Batman 533 pg 11 and Batman 534 pg 11.  Nice moody inking by Bill on these pages with classic batman imagery.

Walt Simonson - Battlestar Galactica #15 pg 11.  Janson inks.   I was looking for an nice example of Simonson artwork.

Jordi Bernet - some nice sketches picked up at the Toronto comic charity auction.  Page 2 and page 3

Bill Sienkiewicz - Magik ink sketch

John Romita Sr/Sinnot - Captain America 142 page.  My first piece of JrSr. art and I am amazed.  Sinnot is brilliant and can ink anyone.  The Romita layouts are spectacular.

Val Semeike/Colleta - Conan 204 pg 23.  Red Sonja storyline.

Harry Kramer collection - it always saddens me to see art from Harry's collection for sale.  I know Harry treasured his collection and I was glad to add a few of these pieces to my collection.  David Day Star Wars piece,
Lethargic Lad cover, Lethargic Lad jam piece, Fricke Trollords page and finally a Seth Mr. X Page.

Kent Burles - 2 nice color pieces from the comic convention.  The DD for my collection and the Magnus will be on its way to Europe soon as a thank you to a French lister that helped me out.  Merci Jerome.

2 nice ink/crayon pages by an artist I forget the name of but will find out soon.  A gift from a fellow collector who knows how much I love Daredevil and Elektra.

Kaare Andrews - Daredevil sketch

John Romita Jr./Williamson - Daredevil Man Without Fear page.  Elektra and Matt...  the good old days.

Dave Ross - Daredevil pencil sketch.  Really nicely done but not really scannable.

Vatche Mavlian - the finest artist around today.  He has all the finesse and style of Wrightson and Frazetta but brings his own look to everything.  It is always nice catching up with Vatche and I have several new pieces in my collection from him.  Spiderman and Wolverine Issue 2 pg 6 and pg 18, Issue 3 cover, pg 6 and pg 9.  A little Daredevil head sketch as well.

Charles Dougherty - Illustration work 1, 2, 3

Steve Rude - Elektra sketch from the Toronto con.  Also a European cover and prelim to Arcana.

Kevin Eastman - Fakk2 sketch.

Lily Renee - Fight comics #51 pg 2 - Senorita Rio story.  Nice example of art from this rare Fiction House character.

Terry Moore - Katchoo sketch from Toronto con.

Jim Mahfood - Election day Stupid Comics (warning political content)

Francis Manapol - Magdalena sketch

Paul Rivoche - Mr. X sketch 1 and 2.

Rosa, Don - scrooge sketch

New Jungle girl sketches from Scott Chantler, M Cherkas, Arthur Dela Cruz and Tom Fowler.

Dan Brereton - jungle girl color sketch (nudity).  As well, a really eerie 3 part Simpsons art 1, 2, 3

Mike Kaluta - my first meeting with Mike and he was as nice and friendly as I had heard.  A real pleasure meeting with him. I managed to get two sketches from him through friends at the convention.  Jungle girl 1 and 2.

Robb Phipps - jungle girl sketch.

Alex Perkins - Sheena commission by new comer.  Brilliant work in his illustrative style.

Ian Boothby - more Simpson's art.

Jill Elgin - Girl Commandoes splash from Speed comics #40.

Bruce Timm - Fantastic Four - World's Greatest comic splash from #4