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Ralph Reese, Neal Adams, Alan Weiss, Bill Sienkiewicz: Superdupont commission original art (2016-2024).

Alan Weiss: "We assumed Neal Adams was to ink the stuff he penciled. When that was no longer possible, then Ralph Reese was to ink the whole thing, but he got sick. Ralph recommended another old original Crusty Bunker, who passed on it and suggested me. I did my part just a couple of months ago. It was a little weird, inking Neal for likely the very last time.

"Regarding the piece itself: don't ask me to explain it, other than to say everything on top is all Ralph, pencil and ink. The guy in the black beret with the SD on his chest is Superdupont, a French superhero. The bottom figures are drawn by Adams, with Bill Sienkiewicz inking the nude and me inking the other three. The original was about 17"x24". It was nice working on a piece with three of the best."

#Superdupont #Ralph Reese #Neal Adams #Alan Weiss #Bill Sienkiewicz

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Moebius: "Garage Hermétique de Jerry Cornélius" original art (1978)

#Moebius #Jerry Cornelius

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Joseph Gillain ("Jijé"): "Max Garac" strip original art (1956), written by René Goscinny.

#Jijé #René Goscinny #Max Garac

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Ken Steacy: Speed Racer #2 cover original art (1987)

#Ken Steacy #Speed Racer

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Winsor McCay: Buster Brown original art (1908)

#Winsor McCay #Buster Brown

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Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers: Two-Gun Kid #61 original art (1963)

#Jack Kirby #Dick Ayers #Two-Gun Kid

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Wallace Wood: The King of the World (Wizard King) page 11 original art (1978)

#Wallace Wood #Wally Wood #King of the World #Wizard King

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Lee Elias: Black Cat Comics #12 original art (1948)

#Lee Elias #Black Cat

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Guido Crepax: "Valentina nel metrò" original art (1975)

#Guido Crepax #Valentina

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Harvey Kurtzman: Silver Linings daily strip original art (1948)

#Harvey Kurtzman #Silver Linings

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Reed Crandall: Painting based on Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (1957).

From the seller's description:

"In 1954, the department of EC Comics he worked for was shut down after a sequence of Congressional Hearings on Juvenile Delinquency. This left Crandall, who would only pop back into the public eye again around 1960, in a serious existential crisis.

It was at this time, already it seems well into his alcoholism, that he met the United Methodist minister, John Farquharson Dow [1930-2019], then pastor and graduate of the Drew and New York Theological Seminary. They began to meet at John's house and took to reading Martin Buber, Reinhold Niebur, and Soren Kierkegaard together. But it was apparently Kierkegaard that occupied most of their time.

In April of 1957, Crandall painted the present for him as a tribute to their weeks together reading Kierkegaard's classic on Abraham and Isaac, Fear and Trembling. It was a gift for Dow's wedding on April 27, 1957.

Before John's death in 2019, he dictated a description of his memory of the painting, attached to the rear stretcher, 'Given to Betty and I by our dear friend, Reed Crandall on April 27, 1957, our wedding day. For several weeks prior, Randall [sic.] had been involved in lengthy discussions of Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and found great hope in Abraham and Isaac's faith as being 'beyond' modernism and rational inquiry, which he here represents in an apocalyptic vision of the faith of Abraham and Isaac slaying the robot-knight, bringing to mind both modernism and the enlightenment and rationalism in general.'"

#Reed Crandall

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Fred G. Cooper: Life Magazine original art and published cover (1928)

#Fred G. Cooper #Life Magazine

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José Muñoz: Batman sketches (1990s)

#José Muñoz #Batman

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Tony DiPreta: Joe Palooka original art (1966).

From Sports llustrated, November 14, 1966:

POW! BAM! SOCK! TCH! TCH!

As readers of the comics are well aware, Joe Palooka, the other heavyweight champion of the world, is finally defending his title after 10 years of antiquing in Norwalk, Conn. with his wife (SI, April 19, 1965). The challenger: King Abbso of Jyrobia, who seems to be a composite of the Shah of Iran and Pete Rademacher. The King already has beaten Joe in handball 21-14, 21-19, 21-12, 21-17, in tennis 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 and in golf—Joe shot a 79 to Abbso's 71. Tch! Tch!

Although an amateur, the King has had a fight with Billy Kaprone, Joe's last opponent, and knocked him out—and Kaprone went 15 with Palooka! What's more—more than Joe's title is at stake. As Abbso has explained: "Jyrobia has remained neutral in the struggle between your country and Communism! However…if you accept my challenge…and win…I shall have gained a new respect for Americans! And Jyrobia and the United States will be friends!" Says President Johnson: "Tell Joe Palooka to fight him…and to win!"

Says Tony DiPreta, who draws the strip: "I feel like I'm really drawing Joe Palooka, not a guy wandering around not knowing what his place in the comics is. I'm doing Nov. 25 now, and they're in the fifth round. Joe's taking a beating and he hasn't been hurting the King at all. Abbso has a wicked left hook. From watching Joe's movies, the King has learned that when Joe gets set to throw his left hook, he drops his right—the opposite of what Schmeling saw with Louis. Joe doesn't know how come he's being clobbered. Joe's down! He's up at eight!…"

Some years ago the McNaught Syndicate, which edits and distributes the strip, forbade Joe to box because the sport was in such disrepute. DiPreta was asked if the Abbso fight was a sign of a new beatitude in boxing. "No," he said, "we got a new editor. The old one was a woman."

#Tony DiPreta #Joe Palooka

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Jack Davis: Rawhide Kid #35 original art (1963)

#Jack Davis #Rawhide Kid

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Ty Templeton, Ken Steacy, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chester Brown, Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez: Batman jam comic done at the 1989 Toronto Comic Con.

#Ty Templeton #Ken Steacy #Bill Sienkiewicz #Chester Brown #Jaime Hernandez #Gilbert Hernandez #Batman

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Raeburn van Buren: Abbie an’ Slats original art (1946)

#Raeburn van Buren #Abbie an’ Slats