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Q&A with Neil & Leigh Mechem
| Q: | Which piece in your gallery is your favorite and why? |
| A: | Like a lot of us who are passionate about comic art, I'd say it's impossible to narrow it down to a single piece. However, I'm a huge fan of David Finch's pencils, and the all-too-brief segment of the Dark Knight run with Scott Williams' amazing inking ranks up high on my list. The 2 page spread of the Demon clobbering Ragman is by no means a high-ticket piece, but inch for inch, the art is truly outstanding. |
| Q: | Please tell us a little about yourself. |
| A: | Dinosaur seems an appropriate description. I'm more-or-less retired, having spent most of my working life in the graphic arts and advertising industry. For us old geezers in our 50s, we've seen a lot of styles come and go, and I'm fortunate to have found artists that I like covering most of the spectrum from the 1960s to the present. |
| Q: | How long have you been collecting comic art and what prompted you to start? |
| A: | I've been going to comic shows since the mid 1970s, and started buying sketches and collecting autographs early on. I've always loved art and drawing, so it was a seamless progression into buying original pages, such as I could afford. Mostly I aimed for artists who were working on the comic runs I was trying to fill in, back in those pre-Internet days when you had to go to the shows to do it. |
| Q: | How do you display/store your collection at home? |
| A: | I'm trying to lean away from portfolios of pieces that I'm not that excited about, so I've been trimming down what I have in terms of volume. I like to display the art in mylar sleeves with acid free stiffeners that I can change up from time time. It helps keep me looking at the art when I don't leave the lineup completely static, which is one of the downsides to permanent frames. Also, space is indeed the final frontier, but that's shelf and wall space, not the outer galaxy kind. |
| Q: | What are your top five most wanted original pages or commissions? |
| A: | Hard to say, and some of that is a generic answer rather than a specific piece that I'm busting for, but... 1) Jay Anacleto commissions and covers, mostly with female figures 2) David Finch covers & splash pages from the 2005 to 2010 zone 3) Jim Lee/Scott Williams page from HUSH with Catwoman 4) Mark Schultz Xenozoic Tales-type piece with Hannah Dundee 5) Steve Ditko splash page from the original Sinister Six, not that I could afford it! |
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