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Hook Jaw Original Artwork

Started by esoteric ed, 16 November, 2007, 03:50:33 PM

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esoteric ed


Hi all, I just wanted to pop in and share my latest purchase, an original page from ACTION comic featuring everyone's favorite shark "Hook Jaw". I understand Rufus and Moose own pages also as seen on Moose's cool Action website.
Anyhow I was just really pleased to finally grab a piece of history here and thought I'd share.

Cheers

Ed

Link: http://www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/originals/originals.htm" target="_blank">Action Artwork

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Pete Wells

Lovely that Ed!

Does it piss you off that there's writing all over it? I've got some lovely pieces that have got biro, yes biro all over the margins. Sheesh, it drives me mad!!!

paulvonscott

With the few bits of art I have I don't mind all the production marks around the edge to be honest.

If some gimp had scribbled on it later I might be annoyed :p

esoteric ed


Cheers gents, you know I actually find the writing around the border somehow adds to it although if I decide to frame this page I'd crop it so it wouldn't show.

But if writing/doodling had been added "afterwards" I think it would tarnish it somewhat, it's a bit like buying a second hand annual with "Merry Christmas to someone else" inside the front cover! ;-)

Is there really only a handful of orignal Action/Hook Jaw pages left then? what source was used for the graphic novel reprint earlier this year?


Ed

Found this in a copy of Monster Fun...

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Last of the V8's

Well done Ed, a superb page.
I own the last chapter in the McNally saga. Pics in this thread below.

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esoteric ed

WOWSA those pages are incredible Capt, that page where McNally loses his leg really utilises the JAWS/Great White imagery that was floating around at the time.

I paid a small fortune for the page which I really shouldn't have at this time of the year but I'm sure the pain will pass, most people and friends outside of collecting/fandom don't always understand or appreciate why I would pay for good £££s for something like this, but I'm beyond caring and let them roam around on planet X Factor, Big Brother etc :-p

Thanks Capt and I'll take a good read through that thread and as you can imagine that page has found a great home in my JAWS collection. :-)


Ed

esoteric ed


I see mention of Bellardinelli's sad passing in the previous thread :-(. I picked up a page of the man's Blackhawk artwork several years ago as part of an offer via the AAAGH Original Comic Art company, along with several other pages I just felt I had to have. I only have have a small collection of original artwork but every now and again a page appears and you know you just have to go for it, my treasure is an Ian Gibson page from the climax of Robot Wars.

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Pete Wells

Three luvverly pages there Ed. My brother owns the inks for that Jason Brashill page, it's nice to know who's got the painted version!

Going back to the production notes 'debate', it really makes my blood boil. You can see that an artist has put hours and hours and hours of work into a piece then some sloppy sod comes along and just scrawls 'Reduce to 180mm' in biro. It just seems a bit disrespectful to me.

esoteric ed

Cheers Pete, Re: Colour Dredd page, am I right in thinking what I own here is a "copy" of Brashill's artwork hand coloured by Dondie Cox? that's what I've always considered it was. As you can guess the Robot Wars is my fave, I also have an original A4 Ezequerra sketch idea for an Apocalypse War reprint cover.

I do see what you mean about the artwork being scrawled upon afterwards, I guess perhaps it was the nature of the printing trade, deadlines, non artists handling the work afterwards etc. I used to work as a graphic paste up artist and saw many of my artworks manhandled after it left the board, I guess it's lucky so many pages actually survived.


Ed

Pete Wells

Am I right in thinking what I own here is a "copy" of Brashill's artwork hand coloured by Dondie Cox?

Yeah that's right. I've got a few pages from that stip both inks and coloured, I love Brashill's work. This 'un is my favourite:http://www.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_7767/subcat_26389/brashill%20mutant.jpg">

esoteric ed


That's incredible Pete, thanks for sharing that.

I'm curious about the other Hook Jaw page up for grabs right now (see link at the bottom), the description states:

"PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PAGE HAS BEEN AMENDED BY THE ARTIST AND 3 PANELS ARE MADE UP OF COPY."

This page appears to be one of the pages in the "Hook Jaw/Lost Stories" secion of the Moose's ACTION site (Page 2, November 6th 1976), so is this a censored version for offer, either way it looks like a nice steal.

http://www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/loststories/hookjaw/index.htm

Link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ACTION-COMIC-IPC-NOV-76-HOOK-JAW-ORIGINAL-COMIC-ART_W0QQitemZ140180069208QQihZ004QQcategoryZ972QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank">Hook Jaw Artwork


Peter Wolf

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 This is a page from Meltdown Man.I thought it would be of interest as it features a shark.Its incredibly well drawn and i think its a work of genius.

 This is one of the missing pages from the strip.

 There would be a bidding war if this came up on Ebay thats for sure.
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