I met artist Daniel Cvammen at a convention a few months back (remember when people could go to conventions?) and was taken by his eerie, mutated versions of genre characters. I thought he'd be the rare artist who could render an interesting Warlock (from the New Mutants, not Adam Warlock), and I'd say he lived up to that. Here he is with the work, and then a close-up.

Superman #250 (1972) was published in a more innocent era in which not every #250 was a triple sized, foil-embossed anniversary issue. It was part of DC's "52 big pages for 25 cents" era, though. The lead story was a highly entertaining Cary Bates tale in which Terra-Man has an astonishing number of tricks up his sleeve to foil a super-opponent who really ought to be able to wipe the floor with him. If that weren't enough, it has an inventive B-plot about a man whose homemade smog filter backfires and causes his mere presence to erase the ink from any nearby money.




Those two plots were coming together as the story reached page 22:



As usual for the era, the art was by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson. Here's the finished page. As you can see, Superman has been turned into a feeble elderly man by Terra-Man.

Here's another page from the Abyss (issue #1 this time), with the pivotal moment at which Bud discards his wedding ring in the chemical toilet, then thinks better of it and fishes it out. He spends some of the movie walking around with one blue hand as a result. The wedding ring later saves his life. Symbolism!



Kaluta does a great job with the faces especially. Again I'm less than enthused by the coloring job, though there was an attempt to render Ed Harris' piercing blue eyes.

Here's a Life with Archie page I shared in another thread:


I got it because I felt it made a good companion piece to this one:

Maybe a bit late but I can recommend this product. I found out about it from an Asian art gallery that swears by it, it's gentle enough for rice paper, totally reversible, and doesn't leave stains. I thought it might work on sort of delicate newsprint but it's not a binder, it's for mounting one piece of paper on top of another, like the word balloons would be or for matting something before framing. Acid-free and of archival quality.

My kids have been enjoying reading a Pogo collection, so I got them a Pogo strip from 1967.

I just bought a piece today.  I haven't bought any original art in eons, but the price seemed right and it's a piece I think I can get framed and hang in my office at work.  

It's by Sam Glanzman and from West of the Dakotas.  I was completely unfamiliar with the book, but it looks like it was published in 2002 and was prose with comic art.  I was between about four different pages.  The one that probably would have been my first choice was already sold when I decided to pull the trigger.   I'll probably also get my Tim Truman Jonah Hex sketch framed to put up also.  And I want to find a western bronze to put on my file cabinet.