Sam & Max Comico production art circa '89
Did anybody catch wind of these pieces that were on ebay recently?
It seems that somebody bought a giant storage locker worth of production artwork from the long gone Comico. Of course, Comico was responsible for the great Road Trip comic that led into Hit the Road.
http://www.comicoart.com/2011/03/comico-production-art-saved-from.html
There are still some pieces listed on ebay. These are coolest ones I saw but are now ended. Not original artwork, although how many of us would go into hock to hang this stuff on a wall?
It seems that somebody bought a giant storage locker worth of production artwork from the long gone Comico. Of course, Comico was responsible for the great Road Trip comic that led into Hit the Road.
http://www.comicoart.com/2011/03/comico-production-art-saved-from.html
There are still some pieces listed on ebay. These are coolest ones I saw but are now ended. Not original artwork, although how many of us would go into hock to hang this stuff on a wall?
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Road Trip sure looks cool in full color versus the black & white in the collected version. All 40 pages of the comic were up for grabs.
I think that would be the editorial page inside of the Comico Special #1. I don't have a copy of that one anymore to check. I wonder, was that comic printed in color like those color separations? I know that Surfin' the Highway and Collected Sam & Max were both black & white.
About the color thing: I've had to do some looking up and discard some assumptions, but your answer is yes. Most important reference: the old comicography.
(Bit sad that I couldn't find this detail in the wiki, but I've added a mention now.)
I think my research will involve getting some copies of the original comics again. I used to have 3 out of 4 of the old comics but gave them to my brother. Shouldn't be too hard too find a willing seller in this economy.
None of them had sold yet, so we haggled over price, I sold some of my children, and POOF! here's what arrived this week:
Inventory Sheet dates from DEC '88:
10 x Road Trip 4-color separation quad panels:
Comico Special cover separation, negatives, and editorial page layout:
I was surprised at how good the condition of everything is, no yellowing from age despite being +20 years old.
This cover page is what really got me interested in the end. But before I post my latest bank statement for what it cost, the question is how many bags of cats would you throw down for this piece?
(Current exchange rate: $1 = 1 bag of cats)
I need to get some.
What??? Kiss and tell without getting some?
I didn't pay nearly as much what they were originally asking on ebay, but I'm curious what anybody else thinks the lot is worth first...
Kudos.
I don't have a scanner near that big, and in a sense, everyone has seen these pieces before in the form of the original comics or in the collected version.
But someday down the road I will have to get some good images uploaded to the S & M wiki or some such place...
By the way, the original comic was in color, just like the pages above. Only the collected edition was in B&W.
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