Comic Book Collectors

[Doug McD]

Who wants to hear a story?

I met Mark Texeira 2 years ago at Planet Comicon. Unless you bought one of his 20$ prints, he'd only sign a few items. He wasn't very friendly to me until I bought one of the prints, a DAWN piece. Apparently JM Linsner wasn't too pleased with Tex doing a DAWN print, so supposedly I got the last one. He did sketch Dawn's tears at the bottom though. He personalized and sketched a Ghost Rider on my copy of issue #1 Vol 4 (?).

The first time I met Gary Friedrich we was still pretty upset with the whole Ghost Rider movie/royalties he didn't receive from Marvel and made it very clear he was upset about it.

Arthur Suydam is a prick. He would also only sign 1 item for free. If you bought 20$ in his merch, he'd sign an additional 5 items. He was just an over all jerk to anyone who didn't buy something.

Angel Medina was awesome. He did a run on Sensational Spider-man. Free Secret Invasion sketch cover of Spider-Man for me and wouldn't accept a tip. Said it was his job to draw and if I paid admission into the con, I deserved a sketch.

Someone you all need to keep an eye on is Jeremy Haun. Batman: Streets of Gotham, Berserker, Battle Hymn, the Arkham Asylum lmtd series and now Detective Comics. He's a great guy and his convention sketches are amazing. He even colors them. I've had him color several sketch covers I've gotten.

Tim Seeley (HACK/SLASH) is another great con artist. Met him in Iowa a few years back and got 2 sketch covers from him. Spider-Woman and Ghost Rider. In fact, I had Haun color the Spider-Woman cover.

Dan Scott is another great con artist. I got a DOOMSDAY on a Dark Avengers sketch cover from him last year. Really nice guy.

As far as lines ... I waited in line for 2 hours to meet John Cassiday several years ago in Chicago. Granted, he was doing sketches for everyone who asked and this was the peak of Astonishing X-Men.

I think I've rambled enough for now

Seeley is great, Haun is awesome (in fact I still owe him scans of some commissions he did for me).

Unfortunately I agree with you on Suydam, the guy seemed to have no rhyme or reason to his line, everyone was unclear on if they had to buy something to get it signed, how much they had to spend, etc. He was even taking commissions on the side at the same time. I still dont know to this day if he was doing it for a charity or what, poor organization with lots of confused fans though.

The only other bad encounter that I had with an artist was Skottie Young who tried to douche me out of money, but other than that everyone has been real nice.

[TheORKINMan]

Shelden Moldoff is also in bad shape, letter back from his son today saying he is hospitalized with kidney failure.

[TheORKINMan]

Gene Colan sketch card purchased from his website of Captain Marvel:

[klingonmaquis]

Been emailing artists like crazy who have worked on the Marvel Masterpieces cards, here's hoping for some replies.

[legendwithoutaname]

Looks good. But 75 dollars good?

I am Jealous but not sure if it's worth the cash to me.

[TheORKINMan]

Yeah I may have overpaid a bit but it wasnt TOO far out there on price and I really wanted Colan. This was likely the only way I was gonna get him.

[legendwithoutaname]

I agree with you, If he would have done more the cash maybe. But this is trading card sized right?

[TheORKINMan]

Aproximately, it's about the same height but a bit wider.

[frankk_black]

Money comes and goes, but years from now that sketch is still going to be awesome.

[megatronthe3rd]

Who wants to hear a story?

I met Mark Texeira 2 years ago at Planet Comicon. Unless you bought one of his 20$ prints, he'd only sign a few items. He wasn't very friendly to me until I bought one of the prints, a DAWN piece. Apparently JM Linsner wasn't too pleased with Tex doing a DAWN print, so supposedly I got the last one. He did sketch Dawn's tears at the bottom though. He personalized and sketched a Ghost Rider on my copy of issue #1 Vol 4 (?).

The first time I met Gary Friedrich we was still pretty upset with the whole Ghost Rider movie/royalties he didn't receive from Marvel and made it very clear he was upset about it.

Arthur Suydam is a prick. He would also only sign 1 item for free. If you bought 20$ in his merch, he'd sign an additional 5 items. He was just an over all jerk to anyone who didn't buy something.

Angel Medina was awesome. He did a run on Sensational Spider-man. Free Secret Invasion sketch cover of Spider-Man for me and wouldn't accept a tip. Said it was his job to draw and if I paid admission into the con, I deserved a sketch.

Someone you all need to keep an eye on is Jeremy Haun. Batman: Streets of Gotham, Berserker, Battle Hymn, the Arkham Asylum lmtd series and now Detective Comics. He's a great guy and his convention sketches are amazing. He even colors them. I've had him color several sketch covers I've gotten.

Tim Seeley (HACK/SLASH) is another great con artist. Met him in Iowa a few years back and got 2 sketch covers from him. Spider-Woman and Ghost Rider. In fact, I had Haun color the Spider-Woman cover.

Dan Scott is another great con artist. I got a DOOMSDAY on a Dark Avengers sketch cover from him last year. Really nice guy.

As far as lines ... I waited in line for 2 hours to meet John Cassiday several years ago in Chicago. Granted, he was doing sketches for everyone who asked and this was the peak of Astonishing X-Men.

I think I've rambled enough for now

I love hearing stories. The comic book world is a close family. When artist/writers act like pricks the word gets out. I've already stated my Mark Texeria story so I won't repeat it. However a friend of mine ask him to sign one Ghost Rider comic from the 90's run. The one with the glow in the dark cover 15 I believe. He wrote TEX as big as the entire comic and stated, "This is how I sign for fanboys". I asked him why he acted this way and he couldn't figure it out. Then I met him. Complete ass.

I can understand everyone has a bad day but I have heard to many stories on Tex.

I wasn't going to even mention the Gary F thing but it's funny you did. He informed me and my buddy that he was in the process of suing Marvel over Ghost Rider and that he in fact own's the copyright? He didn't mind telling that story to anybody over and over who would listen.
He walked over to a dealer friend of mine, haggled over the price on a good copy of Ghost Rider 1, My friend sold it to him very reasonably priced thinking he might want it for sentimental purposes. He then laughed and said he was going to take it to his booth sign it and sell it for much more! It was weird yet kind of funny at the same time.