Sabrivira

Hmm ...
Do I have something to post here on Halloween?
-- Digging through files. --
Nope, nothing ...

Friend Karl-Erik Lindkvist to the rescue!
He just mailed me a set of step-by-step images of a recently comissioned Bill Galvan drawing of Sabrina as Elvira. Enjoy!

PS. Check out Karl-Erik's Comicartfans gallery for more original art by Archie artists. And if you liked this post my advice for you is to begin by clicking HERE.

Wanted

I'm looking for a nice page of original art from John Romita Jr's and Al Williamson's run on Daredevil. If you have the page below (from DD256) or any other page by that team for sale, please let me know. Thanx!

Lundin Land of Black Gold

Fans of Tintin might want to pick up a copy if this weeks issue of affärsvärlden.

The cover is, of course, paraphrasing the cover to "Tintin au pays de l'or noir" and is drawn by Hedvig. 
I love the concept (Tintin – Lundin) so whoever came up with the idea at affärsvärlden: Well done!!!

Godwin in Liberty

Now, browsing through old magazines will more often than not result in a surprise or two. As the case of the Hubert Mathieu illustration in the previous post.
I originally picked up that issue of Liberty on eBay because of the striking cover.

I just couldn't resist scanning both the front and the back...

The second surprise in that issue was three Frank Godwin illustrations.
They illustrated the seventh part of Erle Stanley Garner's Perry Mason story "The Case of the Howling Dog". And here they are. Enjoy!

The Hunter

A beautiful li'l illustration to John Erskines "The Hunter",
located in the back of Liberty Magazine Feb 24, 1934.

I wonder who the artist is.
Would love to see more.

Redwoodangels13

Update: Both these listings were ended early. "This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available." Either the seller saw this post or found a buyer who forked up a large amount of money...
His account (jnhcollectibles) at webstore.com has been closed. Seems that he sold mostly Peanuts forgeries there.
But he's still active at onlineauction.com with his Barks and Schulz forgeries. Check 'em out!

-----------
"Redwoodangels13" continue to amaze me with his bad forgeries on eBay. And this time is no exception.
Take a look at this "Barks" piece.

I guess you see the same as I do?
This time he's trying to auction something as a Barks sketch that wasn't even drawn by Barks to begin with. Redwoodangels13 probably browsed Heritage auctions and found lot 44042, the poster from Walt Disney's Comics and stories #357, drawn by Larry Mayer. It's a version of the cover to  Uncle Scrooge 19.
Ho and hum.
The Mayer version sold for $2629 at Heritage. Let's see how much this one goes for. 
(You can find a post about the Heritage mistake HERE. )
Currently 4 bids $ 60.89

PS. Redwoodangels13 is most likely the same person as solixirgreen aka sohocollectibles2012 aka Jamaal Hill aka J.N.H. Collectibles. (Probably also: blenheim, hollyschweiger, chickensoup, oichechiuin, nodogsallowed, Bpmsgog and cosmogirl. Aliases used to raise bids.)  
And read the "Our Sales Practice" on the JNH website...
BTW:  HERE he sold the above Scrooge image to himself...

Update: The seller is showing more and more greed. Here's his latest auction.  
Currently 7 bids $112.50 

Looks like our redwoodangel found lot 92039 in the Heritage archive ...

Spirou 1957

The full version of the Spirou story by Danier & Yann is now available on InediSpirou!
Great news indeed. :)

Want to buy a piece of art?

Update Oct 10: Added two more fakes below the first three!

Well, then stay away from these...

Fake 1

The above "Carl Barks signed Scrooge McDuck sketch" sold for $501.99 on eBay. 
Money that could have been spent wiser...

Fake 2

Fake 3

Fake 4

The above drawing is currently on eBay.
4 bids at $3.25. Will it reach $4? :)
Update: Sold for US $224.50.

Well, blow me down!
Just saw that the same seller,  redwoodangels13,  sold the drawing below for $183.50!!!
There sure are suckers out there...

(The sites where these items are sold can be reached by clicking "Fake 1" etc)

Muppets, ahoy!

Any Muppets fans out there? I bet there is. :) 
Bill Peckmann just sent me a batch of illustrations that I thought you might enjoy seeing.
It's his artwork for the Muppet movie "Treasure Island" merchandising style guide. "These were done flying blind, because the film hadn't even gone into pre production yet." Bill says. 

Enjoy!

 

Guardians of the Lost Scrooge Panels

Public service time again.
Here are the original versions of two pages ( 6 and 13)  from "Guardians of the Lost Library", not included in the recently published Don Rosa collection in Scandinavia. Thought that some of you might be interested in seeing what these pages looked like, before they were edited.

In case you wonder: The fifth panel on page 13 was moved to the third row of panels on page 15, and another panel was added after that to make up for the cut one.

Was looking through the Sept. 14, 1929 issue of Liberty the other day.
( Bought two years ago because of "Show Girl in Hollywood" by McEvoy and Striebel. ) To my surprise there were also a few Patterson illustrations. Enjoy!

And the answer is...

... Alex Raymond!

 He, without a doubt, pencilled them and signed them. Who inked them is another question wich remains open to debate. The panels below are taken from the final two weeks of "Bleak Prospects" (May 31 to June 12, 1948), IDW Rip Kirby vol 1, pages 256 to 259.

 

See how different the inking is compared to the style with heavy brushstrokes normaly used around this time. ( Even the lettering is different on these strips. ) The style reminds me of the work of Russell Patterson. Could it be him helping Raymond out? Or is it Raymond himself testing another style? Guess we'll never know.

Speaking of Alex Raymond and inkers. The weeks leading up to these final two weeks of the "Bleak Prospects"storyline are also inked by someone else than the regular inker. In that case I'm pretty sure who the ghost inker is.

 

Looks like Frank Godwin,  doesn't it. :)

/Joakim.

Who did this?

Time to play "Who did this?"

Parts from seven pieces of artwork by one artist cobbled into one.
Question is simply – you guessed it – Who did this?

Be aware, it's a tricky one... ;)

Just Between Us Girls

Back in the 20's Russell Patterson drew the vignettes for Lloyd Mayer's "Just between us girls" column in Life. These samples are from June 9 and 30, 1927.

My Friend Fanta, Part II

Here's the second part of "My Friend Fanta".
(Part I can be found HERE.)


"The fun part of doing these boards was that I didn't have to stay on 'exact' character model for these initial presentations. (I would not have been able to do that, even if my life depended on it.) Of course the final commercial had to be perfectly on character."

 "This was just about the time I became a super, duper Bill Peet fan, so I broke out my box of colored pencils."
 

 

 

"This board was my favorite board, unfortunately it was never used, c'est la vie."

 

"Another fun part for me was putting the different costumes on the characters for the various spots."

Here are the storyboards to the Wild West themed Fanta commercial!

And finally: Here's what the Wild West commercial looked like.



Thanks Bill, for sharing this with us!
 For more stuff from Bill Peckmann's collection make sure to check out Michael Sporn's SPLOG!