Just a quick heads up that the Schoonover’s are heading out tomorrow morning for a little work and a little vacation. We are going to the Philadelphia area for the Comic Geek Speak Super Show this weekend. I’m really excited to meet up with some rarely seen friends and creators. This is the first year for the event but with any indication of the commission requests I’ve gotten, it certainly won’t be the last.
After the two day show me and Nicole are staying for a few extra days to explore Philly, neither of us have ever been to the area but it seems like a nice place to hike around for a few days. Going to try and make a baseball game for sure.
I won’t be back here till late Wednesday night of the following week. I’ll try and post some pics of the show and our trip after I get back.
Newsarama has a great article this morning about the house were Jerry Siegel came up with Superman. Along with co-creator Joe Shuster, this little house in the middle of a neighborhood in Cleveland Ohio was were the two teenagers created the first superhero, and inspired an industry that still makes hundreds upon hundreds of million of dollars thanks to these guys.
Seeing as how the City of Cleveland, Warner Brothers, DC Comics, and our own government has decided that this house is not worth saving, author and comic writer Brad Meltzer has created an organization that is raising funds to help get the house restored. Currently the house is in such an extreme state of despair, their is an extreme amount of water damage, exposed baseboards, and large holes in the walls.
To quote Meltzer “The house where Google was created is preserved for its historical importance, The idea that the house where Superman was created is falling apart? That’s just horrible.”
Never try explaining the differences between grey Hulk and green Hulk to the wife ever again.
Also, never ever bring up that there is now a red Hulk.
You can own this two card set that is now on Ebay by clicking here. Also, these are the last of my Marvel Masterpieces Artist Proof Cards. No more ever, or at least till they change the name of the series.
Recently I was sent the link to this clip of the Minnesota State Fair. Not sure why Minnesotans really dig on their State Fair the way they do, but damn if it isn’t a good time. For those that can’t go here’s a six minute recap, for those who love the Benny Hill theme song, and who doesn’t… this ones for you.
Quickly I wanted to let you know you can hear me on not one, but two podcasts this week. First off, Comic Geek Speak hit their 500th episode. I call in briefly to say congrats and chat a little. Second, I am on the Radio Wayne podcast, talking up the upcoming show in Philadelphia.
Wrapped up the last remaining Marvel Masterpiece cards for series three tonight. Quite a relief to have that checked off the list of things to do. I also got the remaining requested Artist Proof cards done as well. I only have two of those left along with the horror set I posted about earlier.
Here’s the batch of cards. I’m a little underwhelmed with them. I didn’t ink them this time and just went with colored pencil. I can see I was getting burned out. Thankfully I was able to come up with a few gems like “Doc Croc”, the old Excalibur villain to keep things fun. I stuck with characters from the 80’s and 90’s. Much like the first two sets were characters from the 60′ and 70’s respectively. I hope whomever gets them in their random packs dig them. Overall I’m glad to be a part of all three card series.
Getting to the last few commissions for my trip to Philly in a few weeks. Going to the State Fair this weekend, it’s nice living within walking distance. The fair means that summer is wrapping up, feels like it just started but Fall is going to be a great time. Really liked how these “Brown Bag” commissions have progressed. I am going to try and get some done in advance for the Fallcon in October.
I’m on the home stretch of Marvel Masterpiece Series Three. I have to admit that I’m a little happy to see things wrapped up on this series. I’ve really enjoyed doing a hundred cards for each set. I even did a bonus hundred for series two, but those were really rushed and I wasn’t very happy with them. The cards have been great for spreading my artwork, I’ve sent cards all over world and gotten a lot of commission work from them as well. Sadly burn out on doing them has really kicked in. This year alone I’ve done two series for Marvel, also an Iron-Man stand alone set, and two sets for Indiana Jones. I think I’ll be scaling back and only taking on sets that seem to pique an interest (Universal Monsters?).
Since this was my last series I wanted to take three of the Artist Proof Cards and do a Marvel 70’s horror tripdic. You can currently bid on these fine cards on ebay.
Anyway, I only have four of my Artist Proof Cards left out of series three. They sent them to us early this time and I’ve been selling them as fast as I can. Here are some of the recent ones I’ve done. For some reason I’m noticing the my markers are not laying down on the card stock as well as they did before. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe they sent me some of the rejects. Not quite sure.
Haven’t posted much in the last week or so as the Schoonover house has been over run with dogs. We have Matilda and Daisy but this last week saw us watching our friends dog Boomer. Then a great opportunity came for my parents as a really sweet young bulldog named Penny needed a new home. My parents had been thinking about getting a younger bulldog to match their older bulldog Cylde, who is 9 years old. My parents could not get up to Minnesota right away to get the dog so we are a go between for Penny and my parents.
So we went and picked up Penny and she’s been a lot of fun but it is time get ride of all of the visitors this morning. So it will just be me, Nicole, Matilda, Daisy, Ozzy, and Topanga. Which is still a lot.
So last night I was putting some Marvel Masterpiece Series Three Artist Proof Cards up on Ebay (Gotta get that plug in there) and as I went to get in my Ebay account I notice that some son of a bitch has logged into my account and is using it to sell a God damn ping pong table. Or to be more specific, a Professional Ping Pong table with Killerspin Revolution, whatever hell that means. Here’s picture of said thee Killerspin Revolution….
So I go to get this thing off my account but you can’t kill an item than somone has already put a bid on. I had nine bids on this thing and 23 people were watching it. I go to the Ebay help center only to find very little help besides the obvious changing of your password. I did get to write an email that may take up to 72 hours for them to get to read and another 72 to get feedback. I can’t believe Ebay doesn’t have a caller hot line for shit like this!
So today I get an email that the bidding has ended and that somebody won the bid for a whopping $785.00. No sooner and I get a paypal notice that the winner has sent an instant payment and they are so excited for the new pong table that is never going to come. I sent them an email that I can only imagine broke their ping pong hearts. Finally I log into my Paypal account where I am able to find a phone number to contact someone who may help me out. Something I’ve learned a long time ago is that if you ever have to call a 1-800 number is just start punching buttons and never do what the automated message tells you to do. You will get someone on the phone ten times quicker that way. They usually are a little pissed off but tough shit really. Anyway this guy was actually pretty nice on the phone and was able to cancel the whole thing for me. Now if I could just find out who got into my account and put a little Killerspin Revolution on them.
UPDATE: I’ve already gotten three emails from people wanting to know if I have anymore Killerspins for this price. I think I’ve found a new occupation, ping pong salesman!
