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Archive for September, 2011
37 items.
More unpublished art added to my shop, including a Wonder Woman cover, and a Death Gallery prelim
My auctions will continue for a few more weeks. ALL my work, including all book sales end mid-October. I will be out of the country and cannot ship. If you want ANYTHING for Christmas, please don’t wait! I won’t be doing any US appearances for about 8 more months, either.
FOLLOW ME ON MY NEW TWITTER ACCOUNT!
We’re already over 1,000 followers on twitter. When we reach 2,000, a random drawing will be held and the winner gets an original page of art AND a set of books!
The Facebook fan page is here. When we reach 1500 members, we will have a drawing for a page of original art!
UNPUBLISHED Star Wars, Sandman/Death, Wonder Woman, Lord of the Rings, Distant Soil now for sale
on September 5th, 2011Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work
OK, my art and book sales end in four weeks and all my web sales are fini until at least March 2012. Maybe later. Can’t handle the workload. If you want to get original art or books from me, PLEASE ORDER NOW. I cannot do any sales after the first week of October.
Here’s this week’s selections in my ebay shop.
A Death Gallery preliminary sketch on the theme of The AIDS quilt. Circa about 1994. Sketches of Death sewing patches on the quilt. I went with a Holocaust theme instead. Unpublished and never before seen.
A very nice never seen Star Wars Clone Wars Artist Proof sketch card of Anakin Skywalker.
Completely authentic. Not aftermarket, not ACEO.
The original drawing for The Hobbit Feet is now offered for a limited time at $1000. If it doesn’t meet this price, it goes back off the market, because I know it will meet this price when The Hobbit comes out. This art has won several awards, was created for an official New Line sponsored show, and features the feet of Sam, Merry, Frodo and Pippin. It has been published.
Wonder Woman unused cover art. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.
Final art AND all prelims for a page from Mascot, an original novel with comic book insert written by Peter David. This is a 3 page lot.
A very lovely portrait of Seren from A Distant Soil, which received bids from a buyer that did not pay their bill. So back on the block it goes. Bargain price:
The same bidder failed to pay for this auction: A classical study of a Greek youth.
All auctions are updated weekly, and most of these items end THIS WEEK. Please check back often.
More unpublished art added to my shop, including a Wonder Woman cover, and a Death Gallery prelim
My auctions will continue for a few more weeks. ALL my work, including all book sales end mid-October. I will be out of the country and cannot ship. If you want ANYTHING for Christmas, please don’t wait! I won’t be doing any US appearances for about 8 more months, either.
FOLLOW ME ON MY NEW TWITTER ACCOUNT!
We’re already over 1,000 followers on twitter. When we reach 2,000, a random drawing will be held and the winner gets an original page of art AND a set of books!
The Facebook fan page is here. When we reach 1500 members, we will have a drawing for a page of original art!
Once upon a time, a top level editor at DC Comics didn’t like my work. He’s not there anymore.
But when he was there, my work was declared girly, inkers were ordered to make my art look more masculine, and any stray signs of estrogen were rejected outright. Including an entire issue of The Legion of Superheroes I was to write and draw (story approved, art killed in progress,) and this rejected cover art for the Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story graphic novel, circa 1998.
I was so certain of my cover design, I did this super-tight comp thinking I’d get straight approval and go right to finals. Instead, this was summarily dismissed, and another cover design ordered, something more butch. I was allowed to do a painting, which was then rejected, and replaced with an inked version of the alternate cover drawing. (The editor credited on the book is not the editor I mean here. A higher up guy. And now gone. Neener neener.)
Anyway, shop and compare.
This was the cover painting I did after, which was also not used. This is flawed work, to be fair. For obvious reasons, it was a rush job. And I was told to try making it look more like Alex Ross. I failed miserably. (OK, I think the headshot looks nice.)
And this, the final cover.
No offense, but I’m not thinking either revamps are an improvement over the first version.
For the record, since this editor has not had any influence over my destiny at a comics publisher, it’s been smooth going, my beloveds. And I get to ink my own work now.
Anyway, Wonder Woman: the Once and Future Story by Trina Robbins was a wonderful tale, and since it involves an ancient Irish version of the Wonder Woman legend, I simply must mention my upcoming graphic novel for Vertigo, Gone to Amerikay, written by Derek McCulloch, a story of Irish immigration.
For those who complain that there are no positive, female-centric superhero tales, this is highly recommended. Wonder Woman confronts the problem of spousal abuse. You can get copies of this book at very reasonable prices. Hope you’ll check it out.
Also, click on the WONDER WOMAN tab for more of my art from this book, and some of my conceptual art for Wonder Woman as well.
The original Wonder Woman cover drawing is now for sale in my ebay shop. Seems strange to have put it away long ago as a failure. Because it looks good to me, now.
