Q&A with Ron S

Which piece in your gallery is your favorite and why?

It's a tough call, but my favorite piece is a Miller's run on Daredevil. It's from issue 169 and features Daredevil fighting with Bullseye in a movie theatre. I've written about this piece before (and the longer story is in the description of the piece), but this is the second time I've owned it. It won't get away again.

Please tell us a little about yourself.

I'm married with three children and a very, very tolerant wife. I've made a lot of good friends in this hobby, and I'm thankful for CAF for providing a way for all of us in the hobby to connect.

How long have you been collecting comic art and what prompted you to start?

I started in the late 70's, sold everything in the mid 80's and re-entered the hobby in the early 2000's. Comics have been part of my life as far back as I can recall, and having original art just brings me back to those times.

How do you display/store your collection at home?

Some is framed, much is in Itoyas or in mylar on acid free boards. I try to bring pieces out to look at as often as possible.

What are your top five most wanted original pages or commissions?

Very difficult question for me. I don't have a mystical top 5. But, I'm always on the lookout for any great pages/covers from the mid 80's on back.

Grail

Daredevil #169, page 12

Stop me if you've heard this one. In the early 80's, while in
college, I attended the Chicago Comic Con. At that time, it was
small, and the artists basically hung out in a mid sized room. I
wandered around getting sketches, and bought my first pieces of
comic art. One, I bought from a guy named Frank Miller. He was
quiet, but very easy to talk to, and I was loving Daredevil.
Anyway, he had a stack of pages (knowing what I know now, I should
have given him my tuition check and bought everything I could
carry), and I found what I thought to be the best fight scene I had
seen involving DD and Bullseye. I bought it for $90, which was not
insignificant, and certainly more than the $15 to $20 per commission
everyone was charging. Still, I loved that page. I had it framed
and it hung in my dorm room all through college, and then after in
my apartment. I had a small collection of art - about 8 pages
(Byrne X Men and FF, Sienkiewicz FF Cover, Anderson X Men annual
cover, Giffen Leigon, and some others - still looking for those!),
and some great commissions. I got married five years after
graduation, and my wife was generally accepting of the comic book
habit, but she just plain thought the artwork was scary. In
fairness, the Marshall Rogers commission of Batman chasing the Joker
across the rooftops at night in the rain was pretty scary looking.
Anyway, I digress. The artwork was too scary to hang up, and she
was convinced that if we ever had children it was going to give them
nightmares. I liked cartoons too, so animation cels was a
compromise. To buy those, I needed cash.

So, I sold everything.

Roll forward fifteen years, and I get the bug again, and start
buying original artwork. Still married, with three kids now, and
I've slowly been building my collection with work of newer artists,
and stories that I've really enjoyed. I've been lucky to deal with
a lot of nice people, CAF is awesome, I enjoy reading every digest
of Yahoo messages, and it's been great corresponding with some
interesting people, all of which love this nutty hobby. I've
recently started looking for older pieces, but all of the time, I've
been wondering where that Miller page was. And, the more that I
learned about what's out there, the more I realized that finding
that specific page would be impossible.

Until last week. David Mandel, a teriffic guy to deal with, had the
page I was looking for, and was willing to sell it to me - albeit
for a small premium over my original $90 purchase price (HA!). And,
it's once again home. Here is my Miller DD page. I believe most
will agree it's a great fight scene, and a perfect example of Miller
at his prime, but it means so much more than that to me. I hope and
plan to buy more Miller pages in the future, but this one is
special. Enjoy, and thanks for listening.

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