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Well, I was gonna send Vinnie and Sally around to 'educate' Mike about not dating his random artworks, but on the other hand, real collectors of (an artist's) artworks should have enough of a discerning eye to be able to slot works into a rough estimate of just a few years....
John, i heartily DISagree. I know about the Crumb homage to The Nightmare, for which my friend (Crumb's long-ago mistress) Kathy Goodell posed for, and subsequently Crumb gave her all rights to the image for whatever purposes (she was the publisher of the s&n print of it). HOWEVER, this Wrightson scenario is not in the slightest a reference to The Nightmare - unless you consider that a supine woman on a bed, with a beast hovering above, is enough to constitute such (it is not). Also, the creature in the Fuselli painting is not actively murdering the woman
I think it was done middle to late 80s, but not yet found any way to prove it. Obviously I haven't had it since then, only acquired recently...
just remember that strips printed in August were probably done at the very least three months before...
Yes, Hamilton Comics pubs was the first place i looked, but no dice. Nonetheless, i bet this was published somewhere - I doubt Gray did a piece this specific (and non-sexy) just on spec.
actaull, more like middle Wrightson, not late, as this was done ca. 1992-3, which is only halfway through his professional art years (1969-2015)
Agreed! (also, big JR fan, although not the last few since his broither has shared writing chores, which I suspect he already was doing for a few before those)
A couple of other pages from this same story were sold through Heritage a while back
A couple of other pages from this same story were sold through Heritage a while back
Thanks again - i have changed the description for this piece, and credited you with hepping me to the actual facts.
Much thanks for that! Can you point me to any comic book that has that Kaluta house ad? (I already have the Wrightson/Shadow house ad in one of my books...)
I think you're right (and am revising the description), Thank You! I just looked at my Moscoso Comix (1989) and elements like the Sphinx and palm trees are in the finished KSAN strip, though nothing exactly like this prelim - plus the prelim itself mentions "portable radio on back". This was Victor probably creating some basic images he would employ in the finished work. AS for buck-naked babes in thigh-high boots, they're damn near everywhere in his works, so that's no help!
Well, I used to hang at DC office's bullpen weekday afternoons after HS 1971-1972, and I was friendly with Carmine, so probably at the office. Most of the others in my sketchpads came from either the 1971 or 1972 NYCACs (Seuling JulyCons, for which I ran the dealer's room in 72 and 73) although the early Wrightson, Jones, Weiss, and Kaluta sketches came from me being at their homes, since they lived only a couple of blocks away from me.
NO doubt you're right, although Che in the backgorund IS a reference to Spain. Might you help me and spot other bits of artist tribute[s] (perhaps EC) that I didn't catch? ASLO, with this Albatross! piece ( https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1831284 ) the person who is speaking to the Danklefs character is obviously another EC personage. I was thinking Gaines (thick glases?) or Feldstein, but perhaps you might be able to say whom it is...?
