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Wasn't there a topic here called something like show me your framed art in the past? Hopefully it's OK to post individual pieces here instead of a gallery wall! Anyway, here are the two newest framed pieces. My brother and I are getting into woodworking a bit, and making our own frames. First is a simply cherry frame with a large inner chamfer/taper (hard to see in the photo) for one of Tony Millionaire's portraits (this one of Yukio Mishima) from his book 500 Portraits. Then a purple heart with curly maple inlay frame that I completely messed up the measuring on for a Harry Potter scene commission from Mike Dubisch, this one called The Cave. We bottom-weighted the matte because I screwed up so bad, and maybe will add an engraved nameplate there or possibly a copy of the chapter title page from this chapter of the book. Very happy with how the frame looks, very unhappy with my dumb measurements.

Hard to get a shot without glare but framed up my Ken Kelly album cover prelim for the Coheed and Cambria album "No World for Tomorrow". The two pieces on either side of it are also Ken Kelly paintings from the album interior! This one was tricky to frame. It is 20x29, and not quite square. It was painted in oil on tracing paper mounted (with only one piece of tape) to foam board. We added the gold fillet to the distressed wood frame to accent the keywork (big triangle symbol) and also to cover a bit of the edges so it wouldn't be obvious the piece wasn't perfectly square. Didn't want to leave it exposed since it was just on tracing paper, so it's framed behind glass. We also added a full spacer around the glass so none of the art touches even though it's a bit "wavy".

Haven't added anything new in a while. I love this cover! It is the cover to Godzilla: Rulers of Earth issue 2 by Matt Frank.

Purchased my first page from eBay a few months after getting back into comic books my summer break before college. I was browsing the auctions looking for Valiant Turok comics to buy, and this page showed up from my search. I bought it for only $20. Doubt it's worth any more than that now--it's a page from the unpublished Turok/Shaman's Tears crossover, issue 2! I love the composition.

New piece from Tony Millionaire! This was in his 500 Portraits book. I first read Yukio Mishima's work right out of high school. I'm fascinated by post-war Japanese cinema and literature. Mishima's "Confessions of a Mask" was the first book of his I read, followed by "The Sound of Waves." Both of them are so strikingly different and contrast so shockingly with the image of Yukio MIshima people know nowadays so much that I just couldn't get enough. When I first learned of him, he was this crazy man who formed his own militia and tried to stage a coup of the Japanese government before botching seppuku and dying. His writing, though, is so gentle and inspiring. Anyway, I love Yukio Mishima and I love Tony Millionaire. I also love it when two of my hobbies blend themselves together!

I know it's not on par with some of the stuff the serious posters here put up, but I'm so happy to have this splash! From Sonic the Hedgehog issue 183, page 17.

Thanks!

If I want the rigid sleeves for my art, like a baseball card hard top loader but bigger, what is that called? Had a piece of art shipped to me in one and I'd love to have some! I was always under the impression that the mylar sleeves were flimsy and basically just a protective film?

Received five more pages of a five issue story arc that I am trying to complete and bring back together. I think most people try to collect one issue and put it back together, doing it to a story arc is difficult! Had to hunt these five down and got lucky! There are three others out there in the wild that I've located, but can't convince the owner to part with. Fun stuff!

Just got my two Ken Kelly paintings back from the framer. I didn't want anything too crazy, I'm happy with them.

^ my thoughts exactly.

Just got my Mike Dubisch Harry Potter commission. I love this piece!

When I first got started in the hobby I saw everyone's advice of sticking to a theme. I thought that sounded monumentally boring. Now I buy pretty much one theme and all the pieces I thought demonstrated how "eclectic" my collection was before only make me think it's scatterbrained. Some lessons we learn the hard way

I can vouch for Will. One of the good guys in this hobby. (thumbs u +1! Sold me my first Bloom County daily at an awesome price.

Great guy in my books. Can't praise him enough.