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[Bronty]

The OFFICIAL "This week in your ILLUSTRATION collection?"

Anything not published in a comic! 

By comic artists, non-comic artists, whatever!     Post your illustration pieces!

 

Got a Frazetta oil in your collection this week?   Post it here.

Got a wacky package original in your collection this week?   This is the spot.

Wrightson Frankenstein plate?   Here!

Get a 50s pinup piece?  You know this is the spot.

A book cover?   All are welcome here.   

Magic the Gathering art?   You bet!

Movie Poster art?  Please post!

Any pop culture OA whatsoever... as long as its not in a comic!

 

I'll start the inaugural post with the pencils for the Addams Family pinball machine.    Its the best selling and probably the best loved pinball machine of all time, but all I knew about that in high school was that it was the one machine I enjoyed playing.    Every lunch hour in grade 11 some friends and I would drop a few quarters into.     The voice acting by Raul Julia was incredible and twenty five years later I could still remember every sound effect.     (I since have bought the machine as well so some of the memories are more recent now, but even before purchasing the machine I remembered all of it).    A special little piece of pop culture, it was light years ahead of its time in 1992 and is considered one of the top machines of all time to this day.    I was surprised and thrilled to find these beautiful pencils to the backglass.     

 

 

Edited March 14, 2017 by Bronty

[BCarter27]

Thanks for this topic and great piece!

[Bronty]

2 minutes ago, BCarter27 said:

Thanks for this topic and great piece!

thanks!   Looking forward to seeing other people's additions as we go!

[ThothAmon]

Love the thread.  For me there is something about preliminary illustrations for later finished work that always caught my eye.  I've been collecting Krenkel for years now so I'll share a 6"x6" doodle recently picked up.  The caption under his initials reads "idea for a Conan illo".

 

[Bronty]

I dig it.   Looks like an interesting composition 

Edited March 14, 2017 by Bronty

[lobrac]

Thanks for starting this thread. Here is a Conan illustration by Esteban Maroto used as the first page to the 1981 Ace Books paperback "Conan: The Flame Knife".

Edited March 14, 2017 by lobrac
Typo correction

[vodou]

[Bronty]

1 minute ago, vodou said:

a little flat chested, but I dig it!!

[Bronty]

1 minute ago, lobrac said:

Thanks for starting this thread. Here is a Conan illustration by Esteban Maroto used as the first page to the 1981 Ace Books paperback "Conan: The Flame Knife".

lovely

[vodou]

3 minutes ago, Bronty said:

a little flat chested, but I dig it!!

LOL. Just a youngin' and clearly already serious back problems

[Bronty]

You don't know that.   I'm sure her back is fine.

I was expecting you'd post your jones oil

[vodou]

6 minutes ago, Bronty said:

You don't know that.   I'm sure her back is fine.

I was expecting you'd post your jones oil

Agree her 'back' appears built for the load. That oil was unfortunately last week

[Overthetopinc]

kudos to you Bronty for creating this thread. I have for awhile collected art outside of the comic realm. I happen to have two great examples from my collection up on ebay with no reserve. I dont expect to get my money back for them so please excuse the repeat post as I posted in the for sale section and saw this and thought hey why not =) If you are a fan of some serious skills you have to check these out...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kit-King-Original-Artwork-Painting-Origins-Greg-Simkins-Mark-Ryden-Bansky-/322451582863?hash=item4b139caf8f:g:IngAAOSwOgdYxz69

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Craig-Tapecat-Mccudden-Scratchboard-Poster-art-Original-artwork-Concert-Art-/322451585504?hash=item4b139cb9e0:g:IEkAAOSwTM5Yx0Kw

 

thanks,

Matthew

 

 

[Panelfan1]

6 hours ago, Bronty said:

The OFFICIAL "This week in your ILLUSTRATION collection?"

Anything not published in a comic! 

By comic artists, non-comic artists, whatever!     Post your illustration pieces!

 

Got a Frazetta oil in your collection this week?   Post it here.

Got a wacky package original in your collection this week?   This is the spot.

Wrightson Frankenstein plate?   Here!

Get a 50s pinup piece?  You know this is the spot.

A book cover?   All are welcome here.   

Magic the Gathering art?   You bet!

Movie Poster art?  Please post!

Any pop culture OA whatsoever... as long as its not in a comic!

 

I'll start the inaugural post with the pencils for the Addams Family pinball machine.    Its the best selling and probably the best loved pinball machine of all time, but all I knew about that in high school was that it was the one machine I enjoyed playing.    Every lunch hour in grade 11 some friends and I would drop a few quarters into.     The voice acting by Raul Julia was incredible and twenty five years later I could still remember every sound effect.     (I since have bought the machine as well so some of the memories are more recent now, but even before purchasing the machine I remembered all of it).    A special little piece of pop culture, it was light years ahead of its time in 1992 and is considered one of the top machines of all time to this day.    I was surprised and thrilled to find these beautiful pencils to the backglass.     

 

 

Love Addams Family.  The drawing is outstanding!  

[Bronty]

2 hours ago, Overthetopinc said:

kudos to you Bronty for creating this thread. I have for awhile collected art outside of the comic realm. I happen to have two great examples from my collection up on ebay with no reserve. I dont expect to get my money back for them so please excuse the repeat post as I posted in the for sale section and saw this and thought hey why not =) If you are a fan of some serious skills you have to check these out...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kit-King-Original-Artwork-Painting-Origins-Greg-Simkins-Mark-Ryden-Bansky-/322451582863?hash=item4b139caf8f:g:IngAAOSwOgdYxz69

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Craig-Tapecat-Mccudden-Scratchboard-Poster-art-Original-artwork-Concert-Art-/322451585504?hash=item4b139cb9e0:g:IEkAAOSwTM5Yx0Kw

 

thanks,

Matthew

 

 

Good luck with the sale Matt!   Yeah I hope people enjoy the thread... seems to me lots of us have interests that cross over

[Bronty]

54 minutes ago, Panelfan1 said:

Love Addams Family.  The drawing is outstanding!  

Thanks!   Aren't many opportunities to get OA that directly reminds me of times growing up.

[John E.]

Bronty, that is an awesome piece. How is that not a grail? I never played that game, however, it was everywhere! Funny, in 1992 I was a 9th grader and it was the last year the high school was an open campus. At lunch, I'd meet my friends at a nearby pool hall, pay $2 for two chili dogs and a drink (nutritious!), and play a G.I. Joe video game for quite some time on a quarter. That Addams Family pinball was in there. With a few minutes left before the bell, I'd walk a two doors down to the only comic shop in town and pick up my books (Da 90s schlock!) before geometry. Ah, good times!

[The Voord]

Good idea for a thread, Bronty.

Last week I received three more Movie Poster artworks.  If you want to see what else I got, check out my CAF at:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1865

I post lots of additional images, in addition to the write-ups, so ought to be worth a look for those of you interested in such things.

Here's one of my three new acquisitions . . .

Original conceptual movie poster painting for the 1974 controversial presentation, The Night Porter, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.

I remember seeing this movie during the time of its release. A strangely compelling tale, but one that ultimately leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Artist Vic Fair’s conceptual painting is a clever piece of design work. The (then) modern day continuing sado-masochistic relationship between the Bogarde and the Rampling characters are seen in the wardrobe’s front glass mirror reflection, with Bogarde in his Night Porter uniform almost seamlessly merging with the SS uniform hanging in the wardrobe’s interior. The blank area to the right of the artwork leaves an open area where cast and production details would have been added as captioned text in any resulting final design – though in this case the movie’s distributors ultimately opted for a photographic montage poster campaign that is actually very effective (see additional image as posted in my CAF).

"The Night Porter (Italian: Il portiere di notte) is a 1974 Italian erotic psychological drama film. Directed and co-written by Liliana Cavani, the film stars Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling, and features Philippe Leroy and Gabriele Ferzetti. Its themes of sexual and sadomasochistic obsession have made the film controversial since its initial release, with critics being divided over the film's artistic value.

The Night Porter is widely considered to be a Nazisploitation film and a cult classic.
The film depicts the political continuity between wartime Nazism and post-war Europe and the psychological continuity of characters locked into compulsive repetition of the past. On another level it deals with the psychological condition known as Stockholm Syndrome. The movie also raises the issue of sleeper Nazi cells and their control.

More basically, it explores two people in an uneasy yet inextricably bound relationship within the context of a greater political malaise during and after World War II. Lucia (Rampling) is not specifically identified as Jewish but as the daughter of a socialist. Max seems to have a guilt complex, given he's afraid of the light, and lives a modest lifestyle after the war. Allusions to sexual ambivalence can be seen in his relationship with the epicene male ballet dancer.

In responses to The Night Porter, Cavani was both celebrated for her courage in dealing with the theme of sexual transgression and, simultaneously, castigated for the controversial manner in which she presented that transgression: within the context of a Nazi Holocaust narrative. The film has been accused of mere sensationalism: film critic Roger Ebert calls it "as nasty as it is lubricious, a despicable attempt to titillate us by exploiting memories of persecution and suffering," while Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide in 2005 called it "sleazy" and "bizarre". In The New York Times, Nora Sayre praised the performances of Bogarde and Rampling, and the "dark, rich tones" of the cinematography, but began her review by writing "If you don't love pain, you won't find "The Night Porter" erotic—and by now, even painbuffs may be satiated with Nazi decadence." Vincent Canby, another prominent critic for The New York Times, called it "romantic pornography" and "a piece of junk".

In her essay for the Criterion Collection release, Annette Insdorf called The Night Porter "a provocative and problematic film . . . It can be seen as an exercise in perversion and exploitation of the Holocaust for the sake of sensationalism. On the other hand, a closer reading of this English-language psychological thriller suggests a dark vision of compelling characters doomed by their World War II past."
 

Edited March 15, 2017 by The Voord

[Bronty]

Nice stuff Terry.

thanks Jay and yeah I like the piece.   I maybe wish it was the painting and not the pencils but the painting is severely unavailable  so I'm just happy to have it especially as the pencils are large and detailed in their own right

thr gijie judging by the date may have been this?  

 

mmm chili dogs

[vodou]

Bronty...I know I prefer your pencils, so don't complain