Welcome

I've been a comic book fan since I was 10. And if you've found this blog, you probably are a fan too.

I've also long been both an artist and a fan of art (really? does that even need to be mentioned?), especially comic book art. When I was younger, I followed the "hot artists" like virtually everyone else in the late-80's/early-90's.  But as I've gotten older and the styles of comic book art have become more varied, from highly stylized to photo-realism to quick and simple and everything in between, I've really started to appreciate all of the different ways that comic book art could be used as a way to decorate.

I started out by diving into the deep end and acquiring some original art from artists that I really liked when I'd run into them at conventions. There was something really appealing about buying the original pencils from the cover of a comic, even if it wasn't a horribly popular one (Wildcats Nemesis #5) by an artist that I really liked (Talent Caldwell) and hanging it up on my wall to see it in its raw form. I had it framed and matted and soon after, picked up another piece from the same artist. I then ended up finding a great deal on a good interior page and on and on until very quickly, I had blown through a couple grand and had a few too many pieces of art for my little studio apartment.

Over time, and as wall space provided, I've picked up some prints and other pieces of comic art that were designed at least generally to be hung as wall art. But I realized something... the original art and the prints and everything were great, but I'm buying pieces of art regularly with the individual issues. Why would the raw pencil art of the cover be "art" but the polished and printed version not be? Because it was only 7 5/8"x10 1/8" instead of 11"x17"? What's keeping me from hanging up or displaying the individual issues somehow? Why shouldn't they also be used as a piece of art to decorate my house?

So that's what I'm dedicating this blog to. Comic art of all kinds. It could be an old-school poster or a framed piece of original art or the way you or I display a 3,000 or 10,000 comic collection. I'll be posting some of the things that I've done or hung or whatever in the next few weeks and some descriptions of what I've got planned or how I did this thing or that, in case you wanted some ideas for your own home. And if you've got your own suggestions, feel free to submit them and I'll write them up for you.

Because I think we can all agree that Comics Are Art