It’s juvenile. It’s ridiculous. It’s another Lord of the Rings parody.
It stars my personal love slave Cliff Broadway as Gandalf. One of the above isn’t true.
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43 items.
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An unpublished page from The Book of Lost Souls issue #7, showing the new villain who will probably never get published now, using tarot cards to scare the crap out of a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!
Also, FIFTY followers will get an autographed comic from me! ANY follower in the first 2000 can win!
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Unpublished Element Lad, Star Wars, A Distant Soil, Lord of the Rings
on September 14th, 2011Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Comics, Culture, Comics, Comics History, Culture, Literature, Fantasy, Lord of the Rings, Culture, Star Wars
I have truly enjoyed meeting so many new art collectors, and going through my files for all these pieces. GO DIRECTLY TO MY ART SALES HERE.
Once again, all my web sales will end in a few weeks because of my travels out of the country and heavy workload. I won’t have direct sales again until March 2012 or later. We’ll see how it goes.
First up, this page of Element Lad and Shvaughn Erin sketches, which is drawn on 1985 dated DC Comics Baxter paper. It is much larger than standard comic art size. It was probably drawn around the time I worked on The Legion of Superheroes #27, but might be later, since I can never get enough E-Lad! But this is obviously very old work on very old paper, so it probably was done while working on that book.
Here, a Star Wars Widescreen Clone Wars trading card for Topps. And a quick prelim sketch which was used for the base card in Star Wars Galaxy 4. You can see the base card here (oops forgot link, FIXED)
This Elrond portrait card for The Lord of the Rings Masterpieces sold so fast via Buy It Now that I didn’t even have the chance to remove the art from the scanner before it was gone! But at least I can show it to you all here!
Never published interior page from issue 10 of the publisher zero edition of A Distant Soil. I completed this issue but walked from the company because of a creator rights dispute. So this has never seen the light of day. I rewrote and redrew the entire series at a new publisher!
Early short story work circa about 1986, “Eugenie”, originally published in Renegade Romance and then reprinted in an issue of A Distant Soil. A tribute to The Rose of Versailles, my favorite manga by Ryoko Ikeda and the work of Aubrey Beardsley. Based on a true story about cabinetmaker George Hepplewhite and his unrequited love for a young girl. Would love to do more work in this style.
Book of Lost Souls prelim. Got halfway through this page, changed my mind about something.
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