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P. Craig Russell Killraven Sketch

Artist: P. Craig Russell (All)

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P. Craig Russell Killraven Sketch Comic Art

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Title:	P. Craig Russell Killraven Sketch
Artist:	P. Craig Russell (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Convention Sketch
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	893
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	6/18/2020
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So I just got this on Ebay in 2020, a staggering forty-four years after it was drawn, possibly for FREE, for some fan, possibly at one of Phil Seuling's conventions. I met Craig at a con in San Jose a year later, '77, when I was 16 and he was my favorite artist. He had a stack of Killraven pages for sale for $35 each. Unfortunately, as he admitted, somebody had come by earlier and cherry-picked all the best ones out of the pile. Otherwise one of those pages would have been my first OA purchase. I still remember the one page that seemed almost worth the $35, and if it ever comes up for sale I will definitely pay some multiples to get it. In the meantime, this sketch has a soothing kind of full-circle effect on my tender fanboy psyche. It's drawn on some kind of odd 9 x 12 paper --I don't think the paper was ever white-- in blue pencil and fine point marker pen, not ball point. BTW, Marshall Rogers and Frank Brunner were at the con too, and they were charging way more, like $100-200 a page. Craig was very modest and nice.

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Mark Howland
Member Since 2004

Posted on 6/18/2020

Never underestimate the power of the "tender fanboy psyche." '76 was a good year, '77 also.

Red Raven
Member Since 2012

Posted on 1/2/2021

Very nice pièce prelim by the master !!

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