I set aside many more pieces of art to sell, but I just can’t take it any more. This is the last round. I won’t be posting anything else for at least six months.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your VERY generous support. Not only am I absolutely amazed at the great response to these sales, I am so very happy to know I can rely on my pile o’ art to fund a good deal of the end of A Distant Soil next year. How far that will go, I do not know. But I had no idea people would be so interested in my sketches and prelims. Holy cow. Very flattering and encouraging!
OK, here’s the last of it.
A very nice and tight Sandman prelim intended for The Sandman Gallery. I am stunned to find this. I did not know when I got the assignment that I’d have an opportunity to paint a piece, and did this sketch with inks in mind.
One of the few pieces I have ever made available from the A Distant Soil prequel Seasons of Spring, which is out of print. This piece was a promotional pin-up showing the Scott family with tiny Jason and Liana, siblings, mom Jessica, and alien dad Aeren. Pen and ink.
An unused splash page from Power Pack issue #1, showing Julie Power battling a snark. Pencils.
An unpublished page from The Book of Lost Souls issue #7, showing the new villain who will probably never get published now, using tarot cards to scare the crap out of a football jock with a girlie underwear fetish. This was part of the Kranner Art Museum’s exhibit “Out of Sequence”.
And wow, here’s a treat. Back when I was in high school, I was in The Legion of Superheroes apazine, INTERLAC. Keith Giffen saw my art in the zine and asked if I would like to audition to be the series artist on Legion. Alas, I already had a letter of agreement with Publisher Zero to do A Distant Soil. And we all know how that went.
But behold, my audition page. I doubt I would have gotten the job, but I was cognizant of the need for speed as a pro artist, and wrote in the margins how much time it took me to draw each page. This page took 3 hours and 28 minutes.
At some point, I went through that page and erased all my lettering. I did not know artists weren’t supposed to add that stuff. And my writing sucked.
I have a couple of other auctions up as well, but the big stuff is all Lord of the Rings collectibles, payment from a vendor who owed me a lot of dough. I got paid in Samwise Gamgee heads. Among other things. Since I am going to New Zealand in a matter of weeks, what better way to finance cocktails at the base of Mount Doom then by selling a few of these babies? Check out the great low prices on a few of those toys!
I’ve been hanging on to this stuff for years hoping to get my investment back. Providence, don’t let me down!
After all this, a frantic week of shipping. Oh, boy!
And we are only 225 people away from my 2000 followers goal on Twitter. When I hit the magic number, ONE of you will win a $300 prize package of books featuring my work and original art from A Distant Soil. You’ll get Orbiter by Warren Ellis, The Book of Lost Souls by J Michael Straczynksi, Amazing Spider-Man 326, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #600 AND an advance copy of MANGAMAN, my NEW graphic novel by Barry Lyga, not in stores for a month!
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