He finally decided to go live a few weeks before San Diego and that’s where I saw this piece. I contacted him immediately and was disappointed to learn that although the piece was available for sale, it was committed to a gallery showing and I would either have to buy it through the art gallery or wait for him to get it back. Not particularly wanting to get involved with a third party transaction, I pretty much just decided to let it go and concentrate on the upcoming Comic Con.

Long story short, when I stopped by Jon’s booth to say hello at the show, the piece was there. Apparently, he did get it back from the gallery just in time to bring it to San Diego. In person, the piece is even more impressive than the scan. For one thing, it is HUGE! And since it was framed for the gallery show, it was even bigger! The size was great, IF you were buying a new widescreen HD television! But for something you want to transport 400 miles in a car with three people, not so great. The good news is that Jon very generously agreed to bring the piece home with him and since he’s a local guy, he was able to deliver it personally to my doorstep. How’s that for service?

Anyway, the piece itself as I said is quite large. Not sure of the exact dimensions (and I will revise this description as soon as I can get an accurate measurement) but it’s probably bigger than 20x30, so it’s a big sucker. From what Jon has told me, this was the artwork for an album cover. Now I can’t help but think if this had been done before the advent of CD’s, it would’ve looked almost decent on an LP jacket (if some of you youngsters even know what an LP is, LOL), but when you shrink this down to CD size, well, that’s almost criminal when you think about all the beautiful detail that is lost. Anyway, for those of you who might care, I believe the name of the band is The Devastated. I think this is their only record and the band itself broke up in 2013.

I’ve been trying to get Jon to send me a bigger scan to post, but this is all I have for now. You might want to shoot over to his website to see if there’s a bigger and better one there. Of course since I have the original, I’m not all that concerned about it. LOL! Just a shame that you might be missing out on some of the gorgeous details that Jon crams into these pieces. Anyway, my thanks to Jonathan Wayshak, the mad genius himself. Appreciate you giving me a crack at this and especially for lugging it back home and then delivering it to me! You continually amaze me with your talent and creativity!

(9/19/11) Thanks to Jonathan for sending me a nice, new, big scan of this magnificent piece. Still doesn't do it justice, but way better than the previous image!

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