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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (page 230-231)” (2021) by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim

Artists: Carson Grubaugh (All) , Dave Sim (Writer)

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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (page 230-231)” (2021) by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim Comic Art

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Title:	“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (page 230-231)” (2021) by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim
Artist:	Carson Grubaugh (All)
Artist:	Dave Sim (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,463
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	5/9/2021
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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (page 230-231)” (2021)
by Carson Grubaugh (1981- ) and Dave Sim (1956-)
22 x 17 in., brush and ink on 2 Bristol boards
Coppola Collection

In "The Strange Death of Alex Raymond," Dave Sim, legendary creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, and Carson Grubaugh, talented and creative artist across multiple media, explore and examine the line-making techniques of some of comics' greatest photorealist creators.

The art is impressive. And thanks to work of master production designer and line-smith, Sean Michael Robinson, the integrity of the printing and reproduction is truly unmatched.

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is self-contained in a 320-page, 8.25x12 inch oversized hardcover book.

From April 28 – May 22, 2021, the book is available for its normal retail price at a pre-sale Kickstarter, along with (as long as they last) a S/N limited edition.

Kickstarter.com, search for "The Strange Death of Alex Raymond."

There was also one (morbid) reward tier in the Kickstarter, a 1/1 edition with the original art for the bookplate affixed to the book along with a few pages of original art (“morbid” because the tier price of $906.56 is the date of the titular death).

Yes, yes… that was me who got it. I also picked up some other art that I liked from the book.

This is the original art from pp 230-231, integrating the panel with talk of chemistry (the art from the individual panel is posted separately). One of a few layouts featuring Despondent Dave by Crafty Carson (um, Smilin' Stan did alliterative nicknames better than I do).

You can infer the reason why Carson ended up doing that "chemistry" panel on a real human scale (the panel posted at the site). Check out one of the "detail" images from this two-pager. Somewhere in the middle of trying to do that one panel at small scale, Carson gives it up and writes himself a note: "F&%$ doing Raymond at 1,000,000 times reduction."

bwahaha ha ha

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 5/9/2021

Is that original lettering done by hand or stats of the comics?

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 5/9/2021

Marcus Wai wrote:

Is that original lettering done by hand or stats of the comics?

Hi Marcus. Everything you see in black is inkwork by Carson, done over a blueline printout. From a process perspective:

(1) Dave/Carson collaborate on layout using photocopied images and create a collage of the final page(s), including placement of captions and word balloons for the author-written parts of the book

(2) the final version of that is scanned and printed in cyan on comic art board; that is what Carson inked, and that is what you see in the posting, so that lettering in the strips (and all the ink) is all Carson

(3) of note, part 1: the Alex Raymond panel of the girls talking about chemistry was just too small to be able to redraw it on that scale (points to Carson for trying); but he finally said "f--- this" (actually, that note is on the panel, written to himself, but I've not included a high res version of that... haha); so he drew the panel at a human scale (I posted that at CAF, too) and then they scanned, reduced, and inserted that panel digitally

(4) of note, part 2: Dave's final dialog and captions were all added digitally, later

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 5/9/2021

Brian Coppola wrote:

Hi Marcus. Everything you see in black is inkwork by Carson, done over a blueline printout. From a process perspective:

(1) Dave/Carson collaborate on layout using photocopied images and create a collage of the final page(s), including placement of captions and word balloons for the author-written parts of the book

(4) of note, part 2: Dave's final dialog and captions were all added digitally, later

OK... the note is funny. It's in there now.

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