This is actually a really clever strip - never heard of it before. I like how it's sort of a gag strip but also slice of life. 

That's a great page - I just picked up the following one. 

Holy moley! This is my first encounter with his work. Thanks for posting it - it's incredible.

I just realized that Jack put the bad guys in a Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet. That would indeed be a pretty fast car.

That checklist sounds very familiar to me as a source. Hey, were you at the Skirball for the opening?

I feel like I've seen this in a JKC publication, and it was part of one of Jack's San Diego chalk talks. (But I might be hallucinating that.)

Just fantastic! I love Chic Stone on Kirby Thor, and this is magnificent. Look at the textures on everything.

This is lovely - the drapery, her posture, the gesturing, the motion. Terrific piece of artwork.

So happy you've had enough therapy you can process your shame with us this way. Can't wait for the guy on the other side of the trade to take those kidneys off the ice and see how much rum is still coursing through them.

I've never seen this story, but I now know that I'm missing out on something well-done. What a great-looking page. I always think of Abel as the guy who inked Trimpe slightly less well than Stanton (heh) but here he's really doing well - not just getting every line but weighting them all properly. It could have looked really busy but it's just terrific stuff. Nice pick up.

Particularly nice use of color.

This is just so so so lovely.

Oh, hey, 20 years after you posted it, Still The Greatest! 

Yeah - I saw his portfolio at WonderCon and I knew I wanted to get a color piece. And he did so much with so little - the light source is incredible.

Gene Colan was drawing well into his 80s - so was Ramona Fradon, but yeah the list is very very short.

It's amazing that a guy whose work I loved in 1978 is still at the height of his powers.

It's been 16 years. I can finally admit: I am Pépé. Also, when I was a kid I lived on Curtiss Way. I still need to put some final touches on this cover - lmk.

You mean Anything with her expressed verbal consent, right?

Yeah, the choice of card was Jorge's, as was the can of spraypaint - I love the interaction with the text.

This is SUCH a great splash - well done! I know Silver Star didn't really move a lot of people when it came out but if you read it now as a story about PTSD, it's amazing. Jack was firing on every available cylinder here - the movement on the page is incredible. Nice pick up!

Also I love the economy of storytelling. A whole origin in three panels, followed by four issues of The Avengers in just one panel then just for kicks letting a soap opera take up three more panels. Dude was really good at tiers and getting you to turn the page.

i am JEALOUS!

BEEN THERE!

How have I never commented on this page? Back in...1999 (?) a dealer was walking across the floor in San Diego and he handed it to me and said he needed to sell it immediately. Unfortunately I was broke - this is to my eye one of the best pages in the book if not the best. There are moments where you just know Jack was drawing at 3 AM, no idea what was coming next, and a commercial for tires came on the Spanish language television station he always watched, and he thought "AHAH!" (I've wondered if he ever saw the Capiello Equipneu poster.) The level of detail in the last four panels is crazy, and the composition in each one is a perfect example of forcing the audience to participate in the action. Anyway, it's gorgeous!

I am late to everything. This is a great set of commissions and because of you I have just discovered Filipe Andrade. This piece is just plain perfect.

I somehow missed this when it went up - verrrrry cool. What's its size?

I was just looking at this again - it's really good. Every time you'd think Jack can't make motion vectors work yet another way, he pulls out some new kind of perspective and does it all over again.

It's amazing you managed to find not just the birth page, but the insemination page of the BikersVerse.

Also I feel like a history of the 1960s design class will study this page in the future - just the combo of the over the top lettering, all the text boxes, the angle of the characters, the buildings in the bg, all of it adds up like a Milton Glaser or Saul Bass pop-art production. Really lovely.

Your splash and my pages should have a dinner party sometime. 

This also made me laugh - seeing it in the NYer was one of those meta-meta-meta jokes that only gets better by owning the OA.

This is a great one, Hans! Every time Herriman does something involving film, I wonder if there are Hollywood in-jokes sprinkled through it. Kin-Chee Kitchen?

Holy cow! I love how horny this page is! Stormy is one flex away from having her ankle over the bus driver's shoulder.

This is an amazing piece of work - the inking is so secure and almost abstract at the same time. And Kirby does that crazy thing with perspective so we're looking down at the enemy and up at the approaching hero so you have to participate in the scene to really get it.

Wow, this is great - I am ignorant of his work. (Often saw the name; didn't really clock it.) This is fantastic - and the Steranko/Escher references are dead on. I'd add that he seems to also know his history, as there's some Eisnerspritz in there as well. Really satisfying - you could stare at this for hours.

Wow, what a piece of artwork! I could get lost in this all day. Was this reprinted in 1947 as per the marking at top or am I misreading that?

This is terrific - I bid on it, too. I love every panel, every texture, and every bizarre detail from the yo yo to the creatures to the crackle and the interdimensional travel to "the Silver Surfer only let's make it sperm" panel. Congrats on your pick up. It's gorgeous.

Ahah!

Panel 3. Another Judy Ann Taylor reference.

Gorgeous, enigmatic, deep and genuinely poetic. It feels intuitive and it taps into the uncarved block, seemingly effortlessly (but obviously not effortlessly). I love everything about this including how she did textures. Look at that skirt fabric! That hair! That tree! Even the choice in the penultimate panel of how to shade the armpit - it's just brilliant work.

Nice career summary, too. I miss Jeffrey and her contributions to discussions of art. White Mats! (Also she and I went back and forth a few times about her doing a Krazy Kat commission - she couldn't quite wrap her head around it, alas.)

I just stumbled over Shimizu's work, courtesy of Instagram suggesting women artists, and holy cats! This piece is just stunning, truly magnificent. I am sorry I didn't know about her before, but I'm happy to explore her work now.

Keep an eye out on my gallery this week - I'll have a (very small) update you might dig.

Sometimes, yeah, but let's just put it this way: if Colletta had inked this, it might have just ended up a bust shot : )

Nice pick up! It's got all the dynamism you want in Kirby pencils and none of the Colletta inking : )

Also this is just freakin' gorgeous - I love the Superman panel right where your shoulder blades go. And the verticals below it. The design is crazy and I am only an eensie weensie teeny tiny bit jealous that you got an ottoman, you son of a bitch. 

Welcome to the club (chair).

I loved caretaking this for 20 years or so - nice to see it with a collector who loves it!

I was always more of a Noel Toy fan till now - wow, what an image. I see that Forbidden City, USA has the photograph reprinted but not the pin up. What a mystery.

This is great - Geary's work seems to exist on some tangential plane. Also I'm not 100% sure the timeline works out but then again who counts years when we're dealing with miracles.

My goal now is to commission something that results in a set of Eminem lyrics from you

"Why, yes, this is a self-driving car - why do you ask?"
Also: what a cool strip! Nice pick up.