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Best of 2020 - Share your votes
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alxjhnsn

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I vote for pieces that I would like to have the most. So, my choices tend to reflect my odd taste. Also, that means that I don’t vote for my own submittals since they are already in my collection. :)
 
I’d like to compliment Bill & Company on the improved voting and organizing method. It really helped especially in the popular categories.
 
 

Published/Unpublished Comic Book Covers

There are so many excellent example of our favorite art form that voting was a challenge. That said, the new mechanisms are a dream come true. Still, it’s a tough call! Especially since I had a special entry of my own in the crowd!
 
The five I picked to support are, in alphabetical order:
 
Monty B’s Don Rosa Cover Scrooge McDuck A Letter from Home
I have an irrational love of Don’s work and this one is an excellent example
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Fabio C.’s Topolino #3343-44 cover - Mickey, Donald, Scrooge, Daisy, Goofy, Minnie
Hmm…  I may have an irrational love of crowd scenes, too!
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Dries Dewulf’s Richard Sala - The Grave Robber's Daughter - Back cover
I’ve always enjoyed Richard Sala’s work when I encountered it and I really like this scene. What happens next? She doesn’t look like a helpless woman!
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Those Hernandez boys always have something going on. Plus it makes me smile! Excellent work by Jaime.
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Zaddick L’s Will Eisner
I’m a sucker for Spirit covers and splashes - every time!
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Honorable Mention
 
 
 
Stan Sakai is one of the world’s best cartoonists. His Usage Yojimbo series is one for the ages. This is an excellent example of his splash pages. Congrats!
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Steve Kriozere’s Tor #1, page 2-3 DPS
I’m a big Joe Kubert fan and this piece from his creator owned Tor is a terrific example of his work
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DC had a great line-up of funny books back in the day with some of the best cartoonists around - [Dean Martin and] Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, Fox and Crow, Sugar and Spike and on and on.
Bob Oksner was one of the best doing these books.
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Dan P’s Fables #27
Loved Fables! Love this splash. A rare moment indeed!
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Nestor Redondo’s Rima was one of the most beautiful books on the stands. This is effective story telling beautifully executed.
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Honorable Mention
Jason Schachter’s Superman For All Season #2 p.2-3
 
Miki Annamanthadoo’s Adventure 355 page 13 by Swan
The Legion and Swan/Klein? Yes, thank you very much!
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Half a page is way better than no page! What a great find. The CAF description explains how rare this piece is.
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Mark Levy’s Redondo - Sweet Rima Page
The art in this series was lush and beautiful. It ran for too short a time.
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A very significant page in an excellent story with Sienkiewicz’s art reaching new heights. Wow!
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Smith and Everett is a wonderful combination!
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Honorable Mentions
Steve . M’s Aster of Pan page 113
A really nice page of story telling.
 
I’m a Heath fan especially when it comes to his war machines. This is an excellent example of that.
 
I passed up a Frazetta? 
 
George Hagenauer Atomic Knights
Murphy Anderson’s pencils are a pleasure - all great inkers can draw or they really wouldn’t be great inkers. The Atomic Knights is a guilty pleasure. Glad to get the collected edition.
 
Hans Kosenkranius’s J. Kirby - Thor #139
First I pass up a Frazetta and now a Kirby? It’s a terrific page.
 
Every page of Kingdom Come is a treat.
 
 
 
Brian Peck 
Tarzan Statue design
Lovely drawing by one of the greats - Burne Hogarth.
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ALFREDO QUINTERO 
The Amazing Spider-man
This is a terrific Romita Spider-man. Love to have it to put in my Romita Artist’s Edition next to MJ.
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Darrow is one of those guys that never stops in his drawings. Crowded, but every figure distinct. Amazing work.
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I’ve always enjoyed paperback book covers and this is a really excellent example. Love the lighting.
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Larry Wilson 
Batman & Robin Portrait
It’s hard to rank Batman artists. The best I can do is alphabetically - Adams, Aparo, Rogers, Sprang, <your pick here>. I love Sprang’s work and I’d be thrilled to have this.
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Honorable Mention
Zaddick L 
Robert Crumb
Pretty much classic Crumb. No clue as to the story, but I’m sure it’s quite unusual.
 
Beautiful drawing and wonderful choreography! It really does look like a Sunday strip
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Hans Kosenkranius 
MUTTS Daily 6/21/99
I have a weakness for Mutts to start. Plus, I am the least observant person that I know and I believe that this could happen to me. Neither Ozzie nor I will be Batman!
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Bill Morrison 
Li'l Abner Sunday 8-27-44
I love L’il Abmer and this is a terrific example of the strip. 
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Quite simply, it’s my patriotic duty to vote for this piece.
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Greg Starr 
Peanuts Sunday
Home plate, Charlie Brown, not dinner plate! This hits all the Peanuts bases.
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Honorable Mention
It’s a beauty hard to believe that I didn’t pick it.
 
 
 
 
 
George Hagenauer 
Mille Marie Commission
I love commissions where something is going on; I’m not so interested in posing characters so that definitely influences my choices. This one definitely fits my criteria and uses a character that people too often forget. Good choice, George, for both topic and artist!
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Though this is a single character and a mere torso shot, I find it haunting. I find the back story on Mr. Freeze poignant as well. Nicely done!
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 I love this one. I haven’t read a full Blacksad story so nostalgia doesn’t play a direct role, but I do have a soft spot for tales of this type.
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If you are a fan of Caniff or Manara, you have to love this one.
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I love Eisner’s Spirit. This image captures him perfectly. Might be my favorite out of the bunch. I really liked Rob T.’s other Spirit submittals as well, but this one really makes me want to read the story.
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Honorable Mention
russ carreiro’s Soloman Kane (excellent representation)
Ray Cuthbert’s Dorman, Dave - Recreation of Frank Frazetta's A Princess of Mars (which is spectacular)
 
 
I have a hard time in this area because it’s just not my favorite for of comic art. That said, there are some really nice pieces here.
 
I like this image because it captures both of the Beast’s sides - intellectual and the physical.
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I love this “period” piece of Bernie. He looks like he just stepped out of Frankenstein.
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A really striking image which is not easy to do in the confines of a sketch cover.
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Hans Kosenkranius 
Supergirl
Supergirl, the way she should be, happy!
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Honorable Mention
Rustin Green 
Ever - Terry Moore
 
A poster that I remember well. This Tolkien fan was largely disappointed with the movie (not a rotoscope fan), but it definitely had its moments and I’d have happy bought tickets to follow-on movies. I liked the character designs a lot. 
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I’m not a real fan of Scooby Doo, but I’m a sucker for team shots that capture the characteristics of the team members and this one does that! Looks good, too!
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A fun drawing well executed and historic as well.
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Honestly, I really am not a big fan of Scooby Doo, but I like this image.
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Ingrid Neilson 
Daenerys & Khal Drogo
Striking image that properly represents these characters from the show.
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Honorable Mention
 
 
 
There were so many great examples in this section. Sigh…
 
James Cawley 
Phantom Tollbooth
I’ve never read the book, but if this was the cover, I probably would. I might anyway.
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No clue as to the story it represents, but what a neat looking cover!
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Floating houses! What a subject for a drawing. :) I don’t know Chris Riddell, but I like his work.
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I want to know what’s going on. When that happens, I know it’s an engaging piece of artwork. What is the story?
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Imagine If 
The Return of Ulysses
Terrific representation of a critical scene from a favorite book. Yay!
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Honorable Mention
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Not much more to say than “Take a look at that” and “Wow! Dave Stevens was so good!"
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Another artist whose work I need to know more about.
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I’m a sucker for a crowd scene or drawings with all or most of the characters from a book. This hits that spot.
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I really like the way David tells stories, draws, and paints. I also like that he shares his universe with his fans. He will do commissions (on occasion) that show the mice at various jobs - something like this.
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I was expecting a second drawing of the little boy jumping up and running off to play. :)
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7 hours ago, The Voord said:

Where'd everybody go?  (shrug)

The problem with declaring who you voted for . . . you pizz off those you didn't vote for!

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Interesting and for some this may be true...a bit sad that some people are so 'tit for tat', isn't it?   I'd like to think our community is somehow above that behavior but I imagine that is a bit wishful.  I published my votes in the other thread as I find reading others' selections fun so I did the same...isn't  getting more enjoyment out of this esoteric hobby the point of the boards?  So post away!

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2 hours ago, mtlevy1 said:

Interesting and for some this may be true...a bit sad that some people are so 'tit for tat', isn't it?   I'd like to think our community is somehow above that behavior but I imagine that is a bit wishful.  I published my votes in the other thread as I find reading others' selections fun so I did the same...isn't  getting more enjoyment out of this esoteric hobby the point of the boards?  So post away!

Sorry, I wasn't declaring my own strategy as I always vote for what excites me . . . I was just wandering if the deafening silence to this thread was due to the possible reason I suggested?  I have always listed my voting choices in all the years this thing has run but forgot to note down what my selections were this year.  I know I voted for the Ditko ASM pages for sure!

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13 hours ago, The Voord said:

Sorry, I wasn't declaring my own strategy as I always vote for what excites me . . . I was just wandering if the deafening silence to this thread was due to the possible reason I suggested?  I have always listed my voting choices in all the years this thing has run but forgot to note down what my selections were this year.  I know I voted for the Ditko ASM pages for sure!

No Sorry required at all - I wasn't assuming this was your strategy, just commenting on those that may have the concern

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There were a lot of real nice items this year making it a bit hard to pick just five for many categories.  Hopefully people don't get upset if they don't get many votes, heck I am just excited I could enter since it means I found something I liked enough to pony up and buy to add to my collection. :banana:

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