Popular Post Bronty Posted August 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 11, 2020 (edited) great stuff everyone. With Space Usagi suddenly being hot with the upcoming show I am reminded that I have some late 80s Groo pages where Stan Sakai was conceptualizing Space Usagi on the backs of the pages while he lettered Groo. 3-4 years? before the first appearance of Space Usagi. Fully inked I think? I'll try and dig em out sometime. *** So I took it out and.. before I take a pic or anything... it is Space Usagi, but by Aragones and in 1987 (on the back of a Groo #26 page). Keeping in mind the first space usagi story is 5 years later, I wonder if Aragones gave Sakai the idea? Or helped him conceptualize? I'll have to ask one of them how that came to be, unless someone here knows the story?? Edited August 11, 2020 by Bronty Shepherd, BuraddoRun, ESeffinga and 2 others 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post RabidFerret Posted August 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2020 (edited) This is a fun topic:) Here's a great 'flip side' piece I lucked into. Long, long ago I was buying art from Whilce Portacio's brother-in-law and they had just broken up a couple of early Punisher issues. He was raving about how gorgeous some of the art on the back was. When I bought a few pages he tossed this page in for free. Pencils by Whilce Portacio. Inks by, I believe, Scott Williams/@stinkininkin The front side is nothing special. Streets, sidewalks, and characters out of costume. The back side has 3 different Punisher heads penciled by Whilce, that were then later partially inked by Scott. Far cooler than the front:) Edited August 12, 2020 by RabidFerret Spider-Variant, Twanj, John E. and 3 others 6 Link to post Share on other sites
BuraddoRun Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I currently own just 6 pieces, and most are blank or just have that proprietary company copyright disclaimer stamp. One of my Batgirls has some very rough pencil sketches, though. It's not much, just the artist trying to figure out the poses he was going to use on the front. exitmusicblue 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MIL0S Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I purchased a Mark Texeira Batman pinup and was pleasantly surprised to find a page prelim on the backside when I received it. Does anyone recognize what it’s from? BuraddoRun, cloud cloddie and John E. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Shepherd Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 (edited) Batman on the backside of a wolverine page by Leinil Francis Yu. Edited August 13, 2020 by Shepherd BuraddoRun, Andahaion, cloud cloddie and 1 other 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Rick2you2 Posted August 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) For those of you who want to see both sides of a piece of art, I had bought something by Jerry Grandenetti a while ago (for my better half). The artist did a first take of the subject which he didn't like very much (presumably). So, he redid it on the other side and colored it. Since I wanted to have both sides viewed, I went to my local art supply house and found this interesting double-sided glass frame. I then put it on a little easel in front of a mirror she has. Now, both sides can be seen. If you are wondering, it is called "Getting to Know Each Other". I would have simply called it a good date. Edited August 19, 2020 by Rick2you2 cloud cloddie, OtherEric, John E. and 2 others 5 Link to post Share on other sites
John E. Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I don’t know what we both read Cloddie, but I was going to start this exact same topic, only you beat me to it. I mean I’m barely getting around to respond. The only difference is that I was going to name my thread, “Show Us Your Backsides.” Rick2you2, BuraddoRun and cloud cloddie 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Bronty Posted September 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2020 Just bought some more groo art and there’s this lovely illo of Sergio accosting Mark with story ideas on the back vodou, BuraddoRun, Latverian Tourism Board and 5 others 8 Link to post Share on other sites
Bronty Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 ^ I just noticed that in the last panel the seagull is literally in the middle of taking a dump 😂 cloud cloddie 1 Link to post Share on other sites
malvin Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 I often see scribbles or just the mirror image of the art on the back but once in awhile its full blown drawing CAF Link to Leinil Yu page with lots of sketches on back including Batman Thanks for looking Malvin BuraddoRun and cloud cloddie 2 Link to post Share on other sites
filmboyuk Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Just received a Jim Cheung Ultimates cover, and it was cool to find this prelim sketch on the back: Twanj, cloud cloddie, Shepherd and 1 other 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post zhamlau Posted October 15, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2020 Picked up an Art Adam’s Longshot origin page from 5. As it shows up the guy tells me there is stuff on the back. Indeed there was. What a perfect Adam’s Surfer among other good work. RBerman, Twanj, mtlevy1 and 4 others 7 Link to post Share on other sites
exitmusicblue Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Sometimes prices, like $20, $50. Sigh... cloud cloddie, BuraddoRun and vodou 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites
malvin Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 15 hours ago, zhamlau said: Picked up an Art Adam’s Longshot origin page from 5. As it shows up the guy tells me there is stuff on the back. Indeed there was. What a perfect Adam’s Surfer among other good work. Nice, but who is the inker? Sometimes those doodles are the inkers warming up Malvin Link to post Share on other sites
vodou Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 2 hours ago, exitmusicblue said: Sometimes prices, like $20, $50. Sigh... I'm both proud and pleased that I've actually paid those numbers "back in the day", direct from the artist's table. The other day something came in for a friend, he paid over a grand and on the back...$7.50 (from the 1970s) exitmusicblue 1 Link to post Share on other sites
zhamlau Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, malvin said: Nice, but who is the inker? Sometimes those doodles are the inkers warming up Malvin Whilce Portacio, but like the rest of the drawings in the back it was pencilled before being inked. So potentially it’s adams/portacio Edited October 15, 2020 by zhamlau Link to post Share on other sites
cloud cloddie Posted October 15, 2020 Author Share Posted October 15, 2020 5 hours ago, exitmusicblue said: Sometimes prices, like $20, $50. Sigh... I picked up something for low five figures earlier this year and it has $100 written in the corner. exitmusicblue 1 Link to post Share on other sites
vodou Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 1 hour ago, cloud cloddie said: I picked up something for low five figures earlier this year and it has $100 written in the corner. Most (all?) of Mike Zeck's 1980s covers have $50 on the back. Paul Neary's 80s covers 50 GBP and/or $75. cloud cloddie 1 Link to post Share on other sites
John E. Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 20 minutes ago, vodou said: Most (all?) of Mike Zeck's 1980s covers have $50 on the back. Paul Neary's 80s covers 50 GBP and/or $75. Every wonder what artists did with that money? Pay bills? Pick up the tab at the bar? Link to post Share on other sites
comiconxion Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 On 10/15/2020 at 6:16 PM, John E. said: Every wonder what artists did with that money? Pay bills? Pick up the tab at the bar? Yep - That was pretty much how Zeck and Beatty spent the money from those covers. But, $50 was for the better covers! Some were only $40! When Jim Warden took over as his art rep, the price went up to $75 for most covers. That was around 1987-88. John E. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
