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rgtichy Posts: 124
5/2/2020
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This is pretty much my whole collection of fan art:
(There is one pic missing, I have an "Arcane" in his spider-form by Steve Bissette, also from the Saga of The Swamp Thing era.)
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
5/3/2020
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Nice stuff.
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5/3/2020
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Yeah, I remember being so flustered at having spent $120 on that full color Swamp Thing by Totleben, in 1985. I regretted it for a couple of weeks, even, because it represented so many comic books and I was making maybe $5 an hour. But, the following year, Totleben was in Chicago again and I asked him to do the Woodrue facing the other way. Totleben said he could not do the color pieces that year, they took too long. (Totleben was not a fast artist, with all that detail.) And then, later that year I drove to the Mid-Ohio Con in Mansfield, OH and I got the Steve Bissette pieces.
BUT, great regrets, in 1996 I met Bernie Wrightson and did not commission a Swamp Thing from him. (He may not have even been doing any fan art, at that point. He was not a fast artist, either.) I did buy a poster from him that I got autographed. He was amazingly young, to me. He said he started working for DC when he was just 19 or so.
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
5/3/2020
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I met Wrightson and talked to him, but I opted to get an original art page from Paul Gulacy instead.
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rgtichy Posts: 124
5/3/2020
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Yeah? Where was that, and when?
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BasementComics Posts: 783
5/3/2020
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I met Berni a decade ago at a show in Colorado. I bought a few prints of his and got lots of Marvel Knights Punisher signed. I guess I thought they would be worth something someday. I have a pretty decent (7.5?) copy of House of Secrets #92. Really need to get it graded.
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
5/3/2020
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rgtichy wrote:
Yeah? Where was that, and when?
Atlanta... Dragon Con. I don't remember the year, but I'm guessing 2004.
It seems like I bought a lot that year...
Gulacy art page, Olivia preliminary watercolor sketch, Brunner preliminary cover art (to an indy comic)... and more.
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