Comic Book Collectors

[klingonmaquis]

Well only took a week and now I have my Dr Doom Marvel Masterpieces cards signed by Kevin Nowlan! No sketch on my index card but happy none the less.

[legendwithoutaname]

Got Tomas Bunk today. He signed a nice GPK print of himself.
Sent about 2 months ago I think.

pics on site: If You Are a GPK Fan Click Me

Tom Bunk is a cartoonist known for adding multiple extraneous details to his posters, cartoons and illustrations created for both American and German publishers.

Born Tomas Maria Bunk in Split, Croatia, in 1945, he studied stage design and fine art at the Academy of Arts in Hamburg, Germany. In 1973, he moved to Berlin, where he began rendering humorous subjects in oil paintings. After selling these paintings in three successful shows, he turned to cartooning and contributed to underground comics in 1976.[1]

His cartoon creations appeared monthly in the satirical magazine Pardon, other European comic magazines and comic anthologies. After collecting his comics in three books, he moved to New York in 1983 and began drawing for Raw, the graphic story magazine edited and published by Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. He drew Topps trading cards, including Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids. In 1993, he became a regular Mad cartoonist, and his contributions have led some to regard him as the modern-day replacement at Mad for Will Elder

[klingonmaquis]

Started scanning stuff...first up Herb Trimpe

[klingonmaquis]

Mike Maihack - artist writer for webcomic Cow & Buffalo
http://cowshell.com/cowandbuffalo/


Steward Lee - storyboards for Jackie Chan Adventures


Norm Breyfogle - Batman Artist


Peter Krause - one time artist on Star Trek TNG comic book


Bob McLeod - New Mutants co-creator


Barnaby Edwards - Dalek controller on Doctor Who (yeah I know not a comic book but still a sketch!)


Jason Howard artist on Astounding Wolf-Man


Aaron Sowd - one of many artists who worked on the Star Trek/X-Men comic


Aaron Lopresti - Artist on Ms Marvel

[revenantmedia]

Planet Comicon is next week. I'm totally geeking out. Will anyone be joining me?

[legendwithoutaname]

Some great stuff there.

I need some new sketches but no recent successes.

[TheORKINMan]

Very nice Herb Trimpe return today:

[JVazz29]

Hi.

I recently got into the whole TTM thing, and actually registered for this site after seeing this great thread. Outside of Stan Lee, I never thought of sending to any others in the industry.

Anyway, I used to go to the conventions, and here and there, would get lucky enough to snag a convention sketch. Some of the artists mentioned in this thread I would love to write to. How did you guys go about receiving a sketch from Herb Trimpe, Bob McLeod, and others?

I was going to cut down backing boards to a 4x6 or 5x7 size, and I thought about writing them a nice letter and request. Is this advisable? Or do you contacted them prior to writing?

Thanks!

[JVazz29]

I'll only throw this in here because people were mentioning some bad experiences at cons. I've typically had great experiences. Mike Oeming is awesome to hang with and looooooves to talk! Brian K Vaughan was just simply incredible to meet and speak with.

However, the ONE negative experience I had occurred at WizardWorld Philly. I was really excited to meet Andy Kubert and noticed that he and his brother (Adam) had a surprisingly short line. When I got up to Andy he gladly signed my TWO comics. Since I was last in line, I thought I'd ask for a quick sketch. He gave me a very dirty, what-did-you-just-have-the-nerve-to-just-ask-me? look on his face and said, "Look it buddy, I've been here longer than I should have. I just want to get out of here, how 'bout you act fairly and let these people have a turn?" I honestly did not notice the 10 or so people that lined up behind me. I sincerely thanked him and apologized to which he said, "Yeah sure you are." While I was putting my comics away I watched him sign about 30 books for the next person in line, the following person also had a large stack for signing.

Meanwhile, his brother, Adam, was all smiles - signing ridiculous amounts of books for each person while holding a conversation and looking at a portfolio of another person's for the entire duration I stood in line and got out...easily 15 minutes or so.

I did feel bad. Had I realized those people were behind me and that he was doing this as "overtime", I would not have asked. I never EXPECT to receive a sketch, and it is simply an honor to receive one. Yet, it was his reaction that I felt was a very rude. There are much better and much more respectful ways to say "No." Plus, he went on to sign stacks of books for the next people.

It just put a sour taste in my mouth.

[klingonmaquis]

Well I personally buy the unlined (unmarked) index cards from Wal-Mart and usually put one in the comic bag I have my comic in and put in a request saying, if you don't mind, would you do a sketch of anything you want on my index card.