Thanks, Mark.
I guess on can argue that comic book covers (these days), pin-ups and sketches
are more illustration art that sequential art.
Personally, I have never tried to make much of a distinction in my collecting.
best
Miki A
On 01/15/2021 1:24 PM Mark Nevins <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Miki,
That’s a really superb collection of SF illustration art. Kudos!
(I’m a big Michael Whelan fan. Whatever happened to him? And Don Maitz
too?)
Just to be clear: I love illustration art—my occasional complaint on this
mailing list notwithstanding. It’s just that illustration a different thing
than comic art. Comics are fundamentally about sequential narration.
Illustration is not. This is not a critique of anyone’s taste or collecting
preferences, it’s just a fact.
And yes, I certainly understand cases where “this is an illustration by a
comics artist,” but that’s not really the point. Michael Jordan played both
baseball and basketball professionally: that doesn’t mean those two sports
have anything in common. There are not many NBA players in Cooperstown.
Obviously I’ll deal with it. But I just really don’t see a place for
painted copies of photos of actresses in a comic art gallery, just as I
wouldn’t see a place for fresh vegetables or women’s clothing in a hardware
store.
Sorry to be cranky. I guess for me it’s about signal-to-noise ratio. If
I want to look at comic art I’d rather not have to wade through not-comic-art
to do it.
Apparently I’m in the minority.
Cheers,
Mark Nevins
Sent from my iPhone
> > On Jan 15, 2021, at 12:37, Miki Annamanthadoo
<mik1surf1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Here’s the link to my illustration gallery in CAF
>
https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=155962
The first piece is legitimately comic art but I included it in the
illustration gallery because the artist is more recognized as an
illustration artist.
Miki A
> > > On Jan 15, 2021, at 11:04 AM,
phillipdanielanderson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> >
Is it officially cool to have an illustration section of your>
CAF now? I missed that. I don’t have a ton, but am happy to put up what
little I have.
On this specific topic. Cool piece Ray!
> >
