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Heading out in a little bit for this show. I have to make a detour first for Bobby's Burger Palace and get a Santa Fe (burger with chopped green chilies, queso cheese and tortilla chips....hmm hmm good!)

Just sold 6 Thor issues on FB, a rare buyer who didn't haggle. Also may have sold 2 slabs ASM300/301 but he wants to pick them up so that may or may not work out. (Trying to set up a meet at JPs Old Bridge show tomorrow for that but not confirmed.) So FB continues to be a nice alternative for me, I listed the slabs yesterday and the Thor issues this morning.

I added a bunch of early Bronze FF and Thor today. Now go get'em!

UPS man just left this for me

The pages I was looking at end today. The Shadow cover for $21K is a surprise to me.

I have linked my cgc for sale threads to my Facebook but I wouldn't share prices there as I think that would be having them for sale in two places. I view the rule as being there to drive people to the boards. As I understand it you can advertise in other places as long as people have to come through here to buy the book.

I added 14 slabs to my Facebook page today, slightly lower than gpa on almost all. Whites pagers mostly as well. Catch me here or there, say the code word MAGDY and get a 10% discount. Good time to score a few that have dipped a little lately like ASM 300.

Matthew Dow Smith, comic artist who was writing a young adult novel. I left a comment the other day that the girl I was planning on reading this with is now in college, 8 years or so overdue. He recently said that it is close to done. I am supposed to get some art fromthe book but it has been forever and is very disappointing. I see Darryl Banks mentioned earlier; he was always top notch in delivering commissions on time so I would expect that one works out.

Sorry, can't answer! Just joshin'!

Yeah I even got some of my comments wiped before threads got locked yesterday I was teasing someone that they can’t claim to not be a troll and correct grammar in the same post!

Good for you I was annoyed I missed out on that book but who knows you might have beat me out anyway and you deserve it great job

It starred a teenage Jean Claude Van Damme and Claire from facts of Life.

Don't sell yourself short, I am sure you've wasted much more of your life than that!

More T&T pages showing up here than I expected.

He also offered new artists a chance to showcase their fledgling comics in the back of Cerebus at no charge. Bone was one of the books that got this treatment.

It has been two years since I saw him but here you go. Usually has sketches but sometimes has pages/covers. Sketches are $300 and up with Hellboy more expensive. I don't recall them going over $600 or $700 in 2017 but mostly $300-$500 IIRC. No color that I have ever seen. He had most of a portfolio full in 2017, so about 20+ or so, weird sizes but relatively small, 6X9 or so, definitely smaller than 8.5x11. He is very personalble and fun to talk to. I brought my artist daughter (she goes to Pratt for fine arts painting) and asked him a bunch of leading questions that he answered thoroughly. Like "you're skulls aren't really skulls, just an idea of what a skull is distilled to its'simpler parts...how do you know when to stop on something like that, how to distill it down?" Then we went and talked to John Leguizamo who was there promoting his GN Freak and she was more amazed that I could just ask him about his stand-up even though Mignola was the prize that day!!!

Dave Sim put more thought into the contents of Cerebus than most creators ever have or will put into their comics. He even made up a new card game (which I have a few sets of). But more seriously, his thoughts on drinking and violence and how that plays out in the comics are brilliant and thought provoking. (Once you enter the pub and drink you cannot leave until you are sober. Therefore most patrons stay for days.) He was finding his voice in the earlier issues (I agree that you should read them in order to see what is what though) but by the middle he was a social satirist of the highest order. And he could draw, boy could he draw. Gerhard's backgrounds are lovely as well. Guys, Jaka's Story, High Society, Church & State, all great reads.

There was a time when the X-Men had a story about The Twelve which was intriguing but it had a less than awesome resolution

I started on Prodigy dial up baby! 1990 or so

This right here is how you go bye-bye.

Yes, and I think he may still do so but they go immediately. Not 100% sure though. The best way to get art is to see him at a show. I bought a cover (regrettably since sold) at a NYCC one year but have been getting the smaller sketches in recent times. I like the smaller drawings, they have a personality lacking in the panel pages I think. I have some $$$ saved and am hoping to add to it before seeing him in April, I would rather get a bunch of the sketches than a panel page with the same money. I got three last time I saw him in 2017 and hope to get a few more than that this time. Sometime in the last six months or so he posted one on twitter that he said he did for fun and I asked him to bring it to the comic art expo, hopefully he does and I can snag it!

Yes, and I was just outbid on another!

I was outbid on two of the pages at auction today! I may go back for more torture on those and lose anyway. I am certainly planning on getting a few sketches should Mike bring some to the comic art expo. This was shown on Facebook today, Mike Mignola's tribute to Moebius! I cannot stop looking at it!