Skizz

Some people here seem to swear by him. But my only experience with Spencer Beck was having to email and chase him half a dozen times for a period of seven months, just to inquire whether some pieces of art on his website were available, before I got an answer. I’d be extremely reluctant to try to buy anything from him again.

My early X-men key collection is slowly coming along. I think I missed the boat on an X-Men 1. I need to have #12 graded and #2 re-graded by CGC. But being in the UK, it’s a real hassle, with taxes to pay in top of the grading fees.

@delekkerste I’ve been following your collection chronicles on Instagram. I’m @rudra_untold I say this as someone who has zero interest in sports cards; I find your posts quite entertaining and educational. As was your brief analysis at the beginning of the podcast of the broader economic factors affecting the collectibles market. Many thanks.

I’m ready to do my part in conserving comic art by becoming an eccentric shepherd-farmer.

The bidders would likely say that there are only four MS #5 graded at 9.8 on the CGC census and given the black cover, more are unlikely to come out of the cracks in the future.

Got a few Alan Moore written first appearance issues recently.

My only experience with Bechara/Nostalgic Investments is from nearly 10 years ago when I was a still a student and hadn’t quite discovered collecting comic art yet. I saw his booth at a comic con in the UK and approached to ask how much something on his wall was. Without looking at me he replied “Too much”. I had never been spoken to in that condescending way before (or since then for that matter) and walked away with a bad taste in my mouth. After getting into comic art, I saw him again at a comic con few years so and realised it was the same guy. I decided that I’d never buy from him, irrespective of what art he has.

And what a top ten you have left !

He attended some comic cons in 80s and signed books there. He doesn’t attend comics cons any more but signed editions of his novels and more recent literary works, that he owns the right to, are available.

This is an awesome thread. Here are the top ten comics in my collection, which is focused on X-Men, Alan Moore and Jack Kirby. Swamp Thing 21 and Watchmen 5 are there, mainly because these are signed by Alan Moore. I got the ST21 at an eBay auction but wasn’t entirely sure if the signatures were legit. But a friend contacted Stephen Bissette to ask and Bissette said that he believed the signature were real. Watchmen #5 was bought at a comic con without realising it was signed. Only found out months later when I cracked it open for a re-read of Watchmen. This is the first time I’ve seen these books laid out together. Now I’m mesmerised and can’t stop staring.

Congratulations dude, this will go great in your collection.

This arrived today from Todd Klein. Best $20 ever spent

Thanks for the info. Just got one of this to add to my Alan Moore signed prints/comics/books collections

This is awesome!

Wondering what these are? Haven’t seen them before

Although I’m mainly an original art collector, I do have a few items signed by Alan Moore that I thought I’d share. Various signed bookplates A print from Nemo: Roses of Berlin signed by Moore and Kevin O’Neill Watchmen #5 signed on the first page. I got this at a comic con without realising it was signed. Only found out months later when I cracked it open for a re-read of Watchmen. Swamp Thing #21 signed by Moore, Bissette and Totleben. I got this at an eBay auction but wasn’t entirely sure if the signatures were legit. But a friend contacted Stephen Bissette to ask and Bissette said that he believed the signature were real. Miracleman #1 Gold that I got recently. And finally the thing that started my Alan Moore collection. Two signed hardcovers of Providence Act 1 and Cinema Purgatorio that I got for backing the Kickstarter.

Awesome page from a great issue! Congrats on owning it.

@Jasonmorris1000000 Thanks. Yeah, the board name’s based on the Moore written 2000ad character. I mainly collect (or at least try to collect) original art from Alan Moore and Skizz is one of the first ones that I got. I’ve kept a running diary of original art collecting over the last few years in this thread. Seeing as my collecting focus is Alan Moore, figured it might be appropriate to share it here: Here’s my original art collection from Alan Moore’s comics: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerydetailsearch.asp?artist=Alan+Moore&GCat=121983

Finally got a ye olde copy of this in my collection Recalled edition of League of Extraordinary Gentleman #5. More information in the link below if anyone’s interested ... https://recalledcomics.com/LeagueOfExtraOrdinaryGentlemen5RecalledMarvelAd.php

In my case I just sporadically checked eBay for a few years until one showed up.

Thrilled to say that after a few years of searching, I’ve finally joined the Miracleman #1 Gold club with #113

Or in the case of Watchmen, it’s like getting 9 small covers for the price of one 😁

This is very first page of comic art I ever bought (or even saw in person). Picked it up at a local comic mart in Birmingham UK for a mere £10. Although it didn’t lead me to collecting OA (that bug came later), this piece of unpublished art from Marvel UK’s Deaths Head II by Salvador Larocca has been on display on my wall for nearly a decade now.

I didn’t get a page Silver Surfer: Black when these went for sale some weeks back. But I did manage to pick up these two pages of Tradd Moore art at the previous drop. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1660473 https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1660476 This first page is from Tradd Moore’s debut work, Stange Talent of Luther Strode. This isn’t one of the flashy action pages from that book. Instead I went for a quiet moment between the protagonist and his mother as he tries to sneak out of the house. Much has been said about Tradd Moore’s precise and detailed line work. But one thing that I feel doesn’t get talked about enough with Tradd’s comic work is how balanced and symmetrically his layout and panelling is. In this page the first and last panels at the opposite corners of the page (and also the panels at the other two corners) are mirror images of each other, with the main story beat, i.e the protagonist getting caught by his mother, being placed in the middle row. A perfectly balanced page that clearly tells the story visually even without the word balloons being present. The second page is from The New World. And it’s another (in fact, even better) example of a well balanced and symmetrical page. The central visual element of the page is in the middle panel and the rest of the panels fan out from there. Much like the last Tradd Moore page I got a few months ago, I was baffled that this page was still available on the artist’s rep website and hadn’t been snapped up already. Many thanks to @Nexus for working with me on these pages at a time when I’d stretched myself a little too much with art purchases.

Huh, whaddya know.