End o Summer Update

last modified: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 (11:16:24 PM CST)

I have finished scanning and updating the last items that arrived from Japan and from friends.

I have added new items to the following sections:
Ai Yori Aoshi Genga
Early Ranma 1/2
To Heart
Misc.

The main Prize can be found in the misc section and is an End Credit cel from the Pia Carrot 2 DX ova that just took my breath away when I first started watching it on YJ waiting a year &1/2 for the price to come down from the $1.2k starting price to an amount I was willing to pay.

I also rescaned several of the Cels that had been in my coming soon section and the colors (especially the To Heart cels) really came out more viberant.

I hope you all enjoy them.

Joe

Post Comic-con update

last modified: Sunday, July 27, 2008 (6:56:24 PM CST)

We got back from San Diego Comic-con and had a lot of fun there. Met up with RS'ers Jenn B.(Jenn's cel gallery) and Mark McHaley (Backward Paint)and enjoyed being tour guide to Leah (aernath)Friday & Saturday.
Thanks to Dave (Nichibei Anime)Leah was able to get in line early and secure a "golden ticket" to the Kubo Tite signing Viz had.
Viz being the people they are you had to be one of the 1st 50 in line to buy an overpriced bleach item to get a ticket.

A lot of the artists I collect did not have much new stuff so my wallet got off a little easy.

I did get a Werewolf sketch from Bernie Wrightson , an original work form Susan Van Camp, a couple of nice prelim sketches form Mark McHaley (1 a gift), some I"s ova post production cels and a Glycee from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards that was limit to only 20 copies. I had to come back Saturday to see him and get it signed. I still have to take pic's of it and upload it to the gallery.

Post AX update

last modified: Monday, July 07, 2008 (3:12:24 PM CST)

Well Maria and I had a lot of fun at AX meeting and renewing friendships. We did not see much of the con itself for we were busy helping Curt at the Asylum Anime booth.

Slugfest #4 was great with over 30 people attending and sharing their collections and new purchases.

We ending up with quite a few nice additions to our gallery.
Updated sections are: Oh My Goddess , Oh My Goddess OVA , Misc , Ranma 1/2 , To Heart and Girls Bravo.

Mike Mignola Interview

last modified: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 (8:55:27 PM CST)

A friend let me know he had found an interview Mike Mignola did in which he mentions the artwork page I bought from Mike at the comic-con in San Diego in 1999.
http://ryan.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=106231

The interview was conducted by Shawn Ervin-Gore for Dark Horse comics.

SE-G: Reguarding the new mini-series are there new characters in there that Hellboy fans haven't seen before?

MM: In the actual mini-series, we've got Egor Bromhead , who is sort of an Aleister Crowley-type wizard. He's good, and...

SE-G: No, he's not good, he's bad.

MM: No, he's bad , he's bad ,and he gets what he deserves. But he's a good character.

SE-G: Yeah.

MM: Other than that I don't think there's any new characters... Well, actually there is. We do trot out one of the big, high muckity mucks from Hell for the very first time.

SE-G: The guy at the end of the book?

MM: Yeah.

SE-G: I had to go ask Scott(Scott Allie, Mignola's editor at Dark Horse)who he was because I did not remember him from any other story.

MM: Yeah, on one hand I've got s sketch book full of all the big players, all the big Hell guys. But the way Hellboy has gone. I've been very nervous to actually bring those guys out. At verious times I've talked about doing a story that takes place in Hell.

SE-G: And Hellboy has never been to Hell has he?

MM: Not other than I guess when he was born. But, I've got this whole thing worked out where he came from and all this, you know, and actually was going todo it for the Christmas book this year, but I didn't. I want to go through Hellboy's origin in a flashback story. It would be so much fun to do, but it would be so radically different than what I've been doing, I think it's better that I just drop little bits and pieces of it here and there.

SE-G: So it kind of fits in eventually somewhere along the way?

MM: Yeah, so bringing out that guy in the end of the book was really the first big cosmic moment in the Hellboy Saga or whatever.

SE-G: Yeah, what's his name?

MM: Astaroth