Gallery Comments by shaun clancy

Better than the original? You should add the published cover as an additional image so everyone looking can compare.

FANTASTIC Sojourn Promo piece! Can't believe this goes all the way back to between 2001 to 2003. You got it for exactly what it's fairly worth, no need for me to go lower! A bargain at any price!

Shaun, did you expect Starlin to just sopy the layout, but in his own style? If that's the case, I would've been pissed seeing this sent to me. Why pay a superstar artist to recreate a cover in the style of the other artist? On the other hand, if it was your intent to have it look as much like the original Sal B line art as possible, then I guess you got what you wanted.

This one is definitly my favorite commission of yours ...you quite achieved such a complete collection of Jim's best works but this one is unique and perfectly beautiful

Congrats Shaun  i never paid Jim for a commission and all the art i have collected didn't help him a bit while it profits everybody else..so looking at your commissions collection i think you are quite an amazing Starlin collector and i'm humbled by your collection of cosmic premium quality.

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Aw, come on, Shaun! Nothing to say about WHY you got two commissions by the same artist, of the same character, and they were both almost carbon copies of each other?

All the colors of the rainbow come to put together this scene of cosmic goodness! I only see one former Herald, though. Who's that chick with the dead dog on her head?

Shaun, is this a piece you paid to have 2 different gray tones added, or did this originally have some color that faded? Cool recreation either way!

Another great page! I can't believe the sheer quantity of quality, vintage Legion art you managd to pull from Miki! Which begs the question, WHEN are you going to reveal/post what you got in return, Miki?!?

Warlord sure has some great looking supporting characters!

Great cover recreation! But how many are out there and how many were done for you? I have one btw.

Nice, but why did you think her name was Tarsha?

Hunh, this is one Legionnaire I've never heard of before. Did she die early on or something? Nice drawing, by the way!

Outstanding! Murphy was still razor sharp even at this point of his career!

It's a really nice commission. Both the inks as well as the colors. Gotta admit though, I'd feel awkward hanging onto it given that it's also personalized to an ex-wife. I hope your parting was amicable and you're still great friends!

Ah, so those Amethyst covers were just acquired this past weekend!

You're familiar with a 2012 series? I thought you said you hadn't read new comics in decades.... So, you enjoyed the rebooted veersion better than the original?

Another lovely drawing but ditto what I posted about the previous one.

David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview started publicastion during the 1980's, didn't it? If so, why did he have so many creator photos going back to the 1970's?

Was this a photo taken by the famous photog Anthony Snyder?

Ooh, I see First Issue Special #8 on the left!

Romeo added a lot, obviously, but you really NEED to tell him to stop using such shitty tools, Shaun. Geezuz. It's like he feels it doesn't matter since it's not pro work for publishers. But it DOES matter. He does enough commissions that he can afford to buy himself proper inking tools. Come to think of it, even the coloring tools Bob used on this appear to be of far cheaper quality than what he has used on all your other pieces. You've been very generous to the artists you've given so much commission work to, Shaun, and I would still tell them they need to buy quality tools. But barring that, buy the tools for them if you have to.

I like that he's holding the cash too!

Notice that Byrne quickly pocketed the cash as he should.

Hey, where's the long hippy hair?!

Is this before or after he charged money for photo ops?  He was a big enough star to command the fee.

Did you ever ask him what he was doing earn a living in the time after he stopped doing comics in the 80's until he began hitting the convention circuit in recent years?

If Bob Sharen was going to color them, why did they already have yellow and blue filled in?

Shaun, I'm the FIRST person to voice my disgust at so much of the shoddy treatment of commission collectors by artists, but I'm also on the side of the truth and the truth is that the time to remind him was right after the show, not 13 years later. He's been easily reachable on Facebook for many years, so you could've and should've kept on him that way until he produced and sent you your commission. Shit, even now, 20 years later, I STILL say you should push him until he send you the commission.

In other news, that looks like Cary Nord to Haley's left.

Cool, first time I've ever seen Chris Warner. I met Emberlin at a con, though I can't recall which one, and he was a very nice guy to chat with.

If you got the negatives, make some nice modern larger prints to send.  Very affordable these days.

Nice.  The ol' NW rooms Seattle Center?

Man, this takes me back to just one year into reading and collecting! I loved the mystery in this house ad and it got me to buy the maxi-series. I'd live to read it again, and I would, if they'd collect it into a TPB. Congrats on getting such a fun piece, Shaun!

I really don't like that the two foreground faces were colored the same way as on the published comic. He really should've recognized that the effect was neededfor the published comic book cover, but not necessary for a private commission. But other than that, the rest of it is well done. What's YOUR take on it, Shaun?

This just recently sold at auction. Did you reacquire it? Great commission choice to select Fiction House's Jane Martin as the subject. It turned out beautifully.  

Another nice job by Grell. So if I understand correctly, Shaun, some recreations you had colored over the line art and others were colored over a photocopy?

Magnificent. Was this done recently?

Okay, out with it, Shaun. How many WCA covers did you have recreated, and how many by Morgan?

Holy Cow!  That's mindblowing!  I hope you have a lot of free wall space!

Wow, how many consecutive?

So.....exactly how many of the coversfrom this run did you get recreated?

Careful Shaun, people might start to think you love Isis!

Now you got the recreation and the original 12 years after!  He didn't just offer the cover up back then? 

Wow. Okay, I know you're not much for writing descriptions, Shaun, but for this one I INSIST you add the story details of how the piece ended up getting water logged!