A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

This is another one for Alex Borders, who probably wonders why I haven’t shipped this yet. He ordered a set of remarqued edition books. Each one has a character portrait in it.

Over here at ebay, cash is king. Art sales have been steady, but prices on many pieces are lower than a year ago, no doubt due to the economy. I did not put reserves on any of these auctions.

While I am vaguely horrified at a few of these low auction prices, I am happy for the fans who appreciate the pictures and will give them a good home! Of course, I appreciate some of the fine prices which have come in for some of the major pieces. Quite nice, and thank you!

I found some odd pieces from 20 years ago, including art from Swords of the Swashbucklers, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, and some of the Big Books from DC Comics’ now defunct Paradox Press. There’s a page from a satire about Ingrid Bergman! I can’t believe I still have these. I am pretty sure I have one more page of a story about Governor Jerry Brown, too!

I spoke with Walt Simonson the other day, and we laughed at how fun it is for an artist to go over their old work. We writhe at the sight of our meagre early efforts, but we get lost in it for hours!

I’ll dig up a few more things for final auctions on Wednesday, and then I’m done with auctions for awhile. I may post individual pieces on the site at retail next year.

Thank you SO MUCH to my patrons Brian Holst, David Kirkpatrick, Michael Todasco, Didier, Shawn Low, Anthony Buscemi, Rui Alves and David Rowe for your support!