2000 AD Online Forum

Hey Thrill Seekers!
Please come and check out My new Website, www.artdroids.co.uk. We're the Official Representatives of some of the finest Artists working in the UK and abroad! We Represent ARTHUR RANSON, CARLOS EZQUERRA, DAVE GIBBONS, GARRY LEACH, CLIFF ROBINSON, HENRY FLINT, VINCE LOCK and sell TREVOR HAIRSINE's 2000AD Art (check out Splash Page Art for his US Work!!) We also stock loads of vintage UK/2000AD art which we will keep updating on the site regularily. So bear with us through any growing pains, we hope you'll find something you like! Feel free to drop us a line with Want Lists, Queries, Sales Enquiries or if You'd like to be Repped!
 WWW.artdroids.co.uk
Email- rufusdayglo@yahoo.co.uk    or
artdroids@googlemail.com

Link: Link

Bloody hell but that is an awesome site, Rufus!  Congrats on what already looks to be a successful venture!

Bah. Where's these ?40 Dredd's I keep hearing about???

Acutally, it'd be kinda cool to have a select by price range - I'd like to own more original stuff, but me budget won't stretch very far at all...


- pj

Here's one...



Nice work Rufus. Good to see your site finally up and running. I'd thought you'd given up on it in favour of ComicArtFans.



Cheers,



Wake

Link: Simon Davis gallery

Hi Rufus,



Excellent, well worth the wait :-)



It's great to have a website dedicated to the U.K.

market (especially now that John and Jason have knocked Brit Comic Artwork on the head).



Good luck (not that you'll need it).



Cheers



Mark

Hah! You're such a shill, as a matter of fact I have one of Simon's colour pages that is rather lovely :)



- pj

Thanks Mark and Wake,

 We got there in the end!

 Thanks for the feedback Paul, I'll ask if the techy ninjas can come up with something.

And if you want to have art up yourself, drop me a line!

:-) Rufus

Superb site Rufus! Excellent!

"And if you want to have art up yourself, drop me a line!"

Does Mr Wyatt know you're his pimp?

:-)

Aw crap, that's just beautiful so it is.  That Trevor Hairsine splash on the front page is a revelation, but the full-page B&W of JD breaking heads... That could be on my wall, if only I hadn't chosen to reproduce.  Ah well.

I cant see as the front page kills my machine!

:-(

One thing I'm finding frustrating is that the "
All pages within the collection" lists don't clearly show which pages are already featured above. Personally I'd rather that the lists were for "Other pages in the collection" and didn't include the featured art.

Cheers,

Wake

pricey !

cheaper to use a photocopier ;)

Christ I so much want that Trevor Hairsine Dante cover.

Rufus - why do you tempt me so????

and no I can't at the moment else I will be boiled in oil slowly by the other half.

:-(

(how about a ?10 a month for around 3 years? :-) )

Wow!


Rufus, you didn't include my Rian Hughes pastiche? Verily I am upset!!!!

None of your artwork there Rufus?

I'll not be buying anything though as it's all exceptionally expensive. But then those artists tend to be!

Nice- crisp, uncomplicated.

What happened to the Flash animations?

I've been checking in every other month since you mentioned the site at Bristol last year- good to see it up and fully operational.

Rufus, that is the frickin dogs bollox.

Delighted to see this up and running and it looks soooo sweeet!!

Needless to say I want some, so expect email in the near future.

Worth the wait and the very best of luck with it.

Hope to see you soon.

J.

The site looks amazing and as soon as something amazing happens to cure all my financial woes then I'll be snapping up some. All the best with it!

Bah. Where's these ?40 Dredd's I keep hearing about???

PJ, that's your pages that is.

Thanks for All the Feedback!
   True, good art isn't cheap. (although sometimes, happily, you do/can find it cheap!)
        I'm happy to be making money back for these hard working artists, many of whom toil for less than grand wages.
        It frankly depresses me when I see good artists selling their art to cheaply, they can only sell it once.
               Comic Artists get no sick pay, bank holidays,redundancy, pensions, etc. and their artwork ( and other jobs they have to do to scratch a living!), so they must look at their body of work as their asset.
       So apologies if some pieces are out of some collectors price ranges, but that's the beauty of collecting, you work your way up! Nobody starts their art collection with rembrandts and Picassos!
See you all in Bristol I hope!
:-) Rufus

Peej. would you be interested in a trade? I have some original art that I'd be interested in swapping for a page of your own...

Nothing to apologise about, I hope it didn't come across that I didn't think they were worth the asking prices because they definately are. It's something I've always wanted to buy for our place and the fact that it is a little out of my price range means when I finally get something it shall be treasured. In the meantime I'm getting a lot of enjoyment just from looking at the stuff!

The Esquerra stuff is particularly nice. The executioner is my all time favourite Esquerra Dredd. Very tempting, but I'll probably leave it. the idea of commissioning something is nice. I wonder how much Carlos would charge to do the cover to my fanzine?

With money no object I'd love to score me an Ezquerra Dredd piece, and I can envision the Garry Leach Anderson(from the meg cover) above my mantle. Beautiful.

See, I don't get it(collecting original comic art that is)...

Covers and posters yeah maybe (If I had the cash.), they're single dynamic images. but individual pages?

Apart from the odd exeption, like the Ezquerra double page spread mentioned above, they're rarely complete scenes, and when they're unlettered they just tend to look (to me) like a random collection of images.

How do you display them? Do you wait until you have every page of a given story and hang them all on your wall in sequence?

Now if each page was broken up into separate panels I could understand it...

Not that I'm suggesting anyone take the scissors to their pages, but if each page had been produced as a series of individual images...

The artists would have more pieces, which they could thus sell at a lower price, everyone's a winner, no?

Carl Critchlow draws each panel on a separate piece of paper. I should eventually have some on my site, mostly priced at ?10-?15 per panel.

The recent books of Durham Red by Mark Harrison were also done mostly as colourwash on small pieces of paper for the figures, etc. with the backgrounds and pages constructed on the computer, so again there is the possibility of buying less than a page worth of art. Empty Suns may be full pages of colourwash art though. Again I'm hoping to eventually have some on my site.

Cheers,

Wake

Link: Mark Harrison Portfolio

    Part of the thrill of individual pages is seeing master story tellers picturially doing their thing!
 Composition, renderingof figures, corrections, chnges, pencil work and layouts.... you see it all on the original.
 It's a slice of their work, and working method.
  Nothing heartens me more than knowing that even Pros make mistakes or change their minds.
 It's like having a private show from your favourite Band.
;-) Rufus

I like the way original artwork reveals the story of it's construction too.

Here's an example of an abandoned Kevin Walker page from Childhood's End where it looks like he penciled the whole page, inked the first three panels, and then painted the first panel before deciding (for whatever reason) that he didn't like it and wanted to start again.

Cheers,

Wake

Lovely stuff there, Rufus.  Time to start saving up my pocket money...

So what you're saying Rufus is it's like the difference between seeing a painting in a gallery, getting up close to see all the brush strokes and bristles stuck to the canvas and all, and buying a cheap-ass print from Athena?

And wake, I've been looking at that Kev Walker piece for a while now, trying to formulate a response that doesn't make me come across as a petulant moron...

I'll get back to you :)

when they're unlettered they just tend to look (to me) like a random collection of images.

One of the good things about older artwork is that they still have the lettering. When I'm buying unlettered artwork one of the things I consider is whether the page makes sense in it's 'silent' form. Here's an example of one such page that I bought from Rufus. I like it because we get to see Anderson's face from several different angles and with several expressions as the scene develops.

Cheers,

Wake

Link: Click to enlarge

The thrill of individual pages can also be purely in the sentimental value that they hold for the owner.

This Halo Jones page isn't very dynamic, but because of what it is - a page from the first episode of one of my favourite 2000ad strips - it holds a special place in my heart, pride of place in my studio and i couldn't see myself selling it.

Link: Out.

" I don't get it(collecting original comic art that is)"

Having never owned any original comic art I don't really know how that feels, but a couple of christmases ago my girlfriend managed to find me an original piece of Tool art(my favourite band) done for one of their tour posters and I still get a thrill from looking at it and I think it must be the same with the comic stuff.
There's a thrill to knowing that no-one else has it and also I think it's a form of expression to decorate your home with things that are an extension of your love for something(like Tool, or comic books). I can also see it from your perspective though.
I wouldn't want loads of stuff, just maybe one really good piece. Like The Dude's rug, it would hold the room together nicely.  

I agree with you Rufus about the money going right to the artists, much deserved.
Seems like there might be a demand for maybe non published pieces in a standard form ata  lower price as well as commissions?

To Scutfink:
To get a whole story is very unlikely in a lot of cases. I collect pages from stories I really like, individual pages that mean something to me.
Like my Halo Jones cracking eggs page is from one of the first progs I ever bought.
In the case of some artists you don't just see what they drew up, you get to see every brushstroke. The Devlin Waugh pages by Colin McNeil are actually wonderful paintings of great detail that is just not possible to reproduce in print.
Unfortunately due to space restrictions all bar a few pages are in art folders under this desk I'm at. Our walls don't hold any weight.

I also love the detail on original art that the printed image doesn't capture. The pencil lines, the amount of tipex Jock uses up, the bits of paper stuck on over mistakes etc...

Now that I'm financially sound again I'll certainly be picking up more pages as soon as I get the chance.

I'd love to own some original artwork but so far I haven't found a piece that has really grabbed me, although I think this is mainly due to only looking at them online. I think if I was presented with a selection in 'the flesh' so to speak I would find loads I wanted to spend my money.

In particular I want to own some Cabalistics Inc, some Charlie Adlard (Savage or even Walking Dead) and going on the same path as others have posted a page of 'From Grace' as it started in the first 2000ad I bought and was the first strip I really latched onto.

I've bought nearly all of mine online (as I don't go to cons etc) but when I did see some in the flesh it was very hard to resist :)

blimey Rufus i didnt recognise you with an icon n all .

great that the sites now up & running, i shall be drooling at it...mind you i'm running out of wall space.

That was some awesomely delicious colin macNeil stuff at bristol that we were squinting at from different angles to see all the brush strokes.

i never did capture dom and his faeries, by the time he was sellotaped down art was rather off the agenda..  

once i got my new job i shall buy the whole WORLD*   WHA HA HA HAA !!!




* or possibly just pay the rent & c'tax.

Sorry I didn't get a chance to say Good Bye to you , Your Bouness!
 I'll track down dom's faeries fer ye.
;-)
Love from London Towne...
rufus

och just shove that rapscallion young droid in a padded envelope & i'll sellotape him to the drawing board here..

sorry i shuffled my hungover feets away without doing the rounds, anyway goodbyes suck x