Eronen, Matti :: Alex Raymond

Rip Kirby 31.5.1954

Artist: Alex Raymond (All)

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Artwork Details

Title:	Rip Kirby 31.5.1954
Artist:	Alex Raymond (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,179
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	5/26/2019
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Description

Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby 31.5.1954 daily from the story "Stark Night of the Soul", published in this book:
http://loac.idwpublishing.com/shop/rip-kirby-vol-4-1954-1956/

To get this artwork framed in the same style with my small collection of Raymond's Rip Kirby originals (with diecast model cars, the cars which Raymond used in Rip Kirby) I needed now a pipe! ;-)
And it took quite a lot studying and double checking dimensions from several dailies, however this artwork offered a very good example. And so now daring to say that the pipe which pipemaker Adam Schorcht (https://www.facebook.com/adam.schorcht) made for me is the most accurately done Rip Kirby -style pipe!

I really like using floating framing for original artwork. "Normal" framing, meaning using passepartout on top of the artwork is fine for printed materials (in general just keeping the art away from touching the glass, for avoiding that picture would "burn" into the glass. And anyway the same amount of archival pH-neutral tape is need in both framing styles, to hang the artwork).
This floating frame, I hope, is more honoring the artwork itself, presenting it as whole and remembering how it left artist's desk when went to printing house. Using also museum glass there, it is almost without any reflections, so you can not see it, it is like air! Really hilarious feeling when trying to take the pipe and and hitting your finger into the glass which you don't see! ;-)

For those who have never seen Raymond's Rip Kirby originals, to give an idea about the dimensions, the pipe is 15cm long and IDW's book is printing this strip in 245x66mm, the actual inked artwork is 4-times bigger (circa 505x135mm)

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	Matti Eronen
Joined:	March 2017
Last Login:	September 2025
Website:	http://Illusi0n.com
Country:	FINLAND
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Thomas Ward
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/26/2019

Very cool! I love that adding the pipe into the frame and for posting the additional images!

Monty B
Member Since 2006

Posted on 5/26/2019

Wonderful daily and what a beautiful presentation!!!

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

Posted on 5/27/2019

Super daily!

Mark Yanko
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 5/27/2019

Pipe dream! (Ouch.) :-D

Ray Cuthbert
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 5/27/2019

Anytime someone adds a Raymond original to their collection, and angel gets its wings!

Jeff Singh
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/27/2019

Nice daily and a fitting presentation. I like the cut of your jib.

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