commission Archives

He told me that he had three art commissions outstanding from comic book creator Tony Harris, of War Heroes, Ex Machina, Starman, Chin Music and Roundeye, totalling $1200 over seven years, as well as funding for Tony Harris' Roundeye on Kickstarter and had been trying to get a refund. Seth told me that Tony's agent had[...]

We recently looked at Eric Ladd's series of John Byrne commissions over the years, montages of Spider-Man villains But one prominent villain was missing… John Byrne wrote on The John Byrne Forum, You may have noticed a paucity of commission pieces being posted lately There's a reason I've been stuck on one piece, unable to get myself[...]

This is what you get when you commission Jason Pearson to draw the climatic scene from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns He writes, Here's a commission for a Dark Knight-Batman and Superman piece I really wanted to do Batman in his normal outfit but when he faces off with the Man of Steel in the finale,[...]

I commissioned a cover painting from Boris Vallejo and great illustrations from Frank Brunner, Curt Swan, Alex Toth, Paul Gulacy, Val Mayerik, Neal Adams (at a San Diego con) Several others said they'd do a drawing but never did (no money was paid, so no problem). But…there were two artists who took my money and ran[...]

There was quite a lot of feedback to Rich's piece recently on taking your chances when it comes to art commissions Anj, a blogger for Supergirl Comic Box Commentary, posted the following piece in response Bleeding Cool is reprinting Anj's blog with his permission…   I read with some empathy the Bleeding Cool post about artists completing commissions in[...]

Lots of comic book artists take private commissions for work, often using trademarked characters they've worked on, often charging hundreds, even thousands of dollars It can pay better than a publisher page rate, and the more successful you are as a comic artist, the more you can charge. But over the last few years, there seems to have[...]

Last year, Bleeding Cool ran a piece covering controversy over a certain commissioned sketch by Bill Sienkiewicz The piece was years late and the purchaser considered it below standard Even that it was mocking the purchaser by, well, calling him a dick. Well, it seemed to have had a positive effect. The original poster writes on the[...]