Cerebus_Tv
11-22-2010, 09:56 PM
For the FIRST TIME ever Dave Sim is selling some of his much sought-after original artwork from Glamourpuss to the general public!
There are SIX, that's right SIX original pieces of art on offer for a limited period only!
Here is Dave Sim on each of these six and a picture of each; you can catch more details about these and where to bid on Cerebus TV
http://www.cerebustv.com/
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Issue 7 INSIDE BACK COVER
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_1_160.jpg
Sim: "The Olsen Twins (large image is Mary-Kate, small image is Ashley) would have made great Al Williamson or Stan Drake subjects with their (even in their twenties!) baby-fine blonde hair, huge saucer-like eyes and tiny proportions. A lot of the challenge was trying to capture the hypnotic quality in the eyes -- figuring out what makes it 'tick'. I'd say I got about 75% of it. No idea how it works but it's almost impossible to tear your eyes away, so I'm calling that a partial win."
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Issue 4 page 7
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_2_160.jpg
Sim: "This is the earliest piece being offered, from the first Swimsuit issue. Although I'm primarily interested in working in single brush and single pen strokes, I do make exceptions on occasion in 'maximum cross-hatching' to imitate photographic tone -- in this case the model's tanned flesh contrasting with her blonde hair and white swimsuit photographed at sunset. I particularly liked the way the lengthening shadows from the rhinestones (on the right bikini triangle) and the shadow meridian (on the left bikini triangle) worked."
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Issue 13 page 8
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_5_160.jpg
Sim: "This one was a learning -- or, rather, RE-learning -- process. Trying to achieve Stan Drake's inimitable Gillott 290 pen strokes in the hair, I had filled most of a scrap piece of illustration board. Just couldn't get the lines thin enough or the curves smooth enough or consistent enough. Finally, after about a half an hour, I realized the ink was too thick. I poured in a mixture of half-ink, half distilled water. Quite a bit actually. And finally the ink was thin enough to do fine curled hair. Which made all the finicky little details easier to do, as well. It's a poor workman who blames his tools, but SOMETIMES the tools ARE at fault!"
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Issue 14 page 22
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_3_160.jpg
"This is about the closest I've come to actually getting one of the Al Williamson-looking models to look as if she was inked by Al Williamson. *He didn't use a lot of lines to achieve his effects. *Adhering strictly to Alex Raymond's tropes on RIP KIRBY (which Williamson learned working as an assistant to John Prentice, Raymond's successor on RIP KIRBY). *The cross-hatching on the jeans is very UN-Williamson but everything else is pretty austere. *The Cerebus expression is more about the pen lines that the model. *Although she is a VERY pretty model."
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Issue 16 front cover
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_6_160.jpg
"I'm actually developing my own style as I go along -- not quite Al Williamson or Stan Drake or Neal Adams or Alex Raymond but -- sometimes -- a synthesis of all four. *Those bidders who got the limited edition 'glamourpuss art auction print' in the mail are looking at Dave Sim's ideal ink density. *Not too thick. *Not too thin, so it gives a nice solid black but is also capable of fine-line rendering and cross-hatching."
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Issue 16 page 22
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_4_160.jpg
"Russ heath, who did the covers for glamourpuss 11, 12 and 13, sent me four more pieces 'on spec' -- on glamourpuss with eyes crossed and tongue sticking out and three just from fashion photos. *Which made me decide to incorporate a new feature into the book -- 'THAT RUSS HEATH GIRL' -- of which this is number one. *Bidders who got the limited edition 'glamourpuss art auction print' in the mail will notice that it was misspelled as 'THAT RUSS HEAT GIRL' which I suspect was a Freudian slip on the part of Sherwood Copy who did the prints. *SSSS! YOW!"
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DON'T FORGET - you can catch more details about these and where to bid on Cerebus TV
http://www.cerebustv.com/
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You can follow what we're up to at CerebusTV on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/CerebusTV
There are SIX, that's right SIX original pieces of art on offer for a limited period only!
Here is Dave Sim on each of these six and a picture of each; you can catch more details about these and where to bid on Cerebus TV
http://www.cerebustv.com/
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Issue 7 INSIDE BACK COVER
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_1_160.jpg
Sim: "The Olsen Twins (large image is Mary-Kate, small image is Ashley) would have made great Al Williamson or Stan Drake subjects with their (even in their twenties!) baby-fine blonde hair, huge saucer-like eyes and tiny proportions. A lot of the challenge was trying to capture the hypnotic quality in the eyes -- figuring out what makes it 'tick'. I'd say I got about 75% of it. No idea how it works but it's almost impossible to tear your eyes away, so I'm calling that a partial win."
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Issue 4 page 7
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_2_160.jpg
Sim: "This is the earliest piece being offered, from the first Swimsuit issue. Although I'm primarily interested in working in single brush and single pen strokes, I do make exceptions on occasion in 'maximum cross-hatching' to imitate photographic tone -- in this case the model's tanned flesh contrasting with her blonde hair and white swimsuit photographed at sunset. I particularly liked the way the lengthening shadows from the rhinestones (on the right bikini triangle) and the shadow meridian (on the left bikini triangle) worked."
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Issue 13 page 8
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_5_160.jpg
Sim: "This one was a learning -- or, rather, RE-learning -- process. Trying to achieve Stan Drake's inimitable Gillott 290 pen strokes in the hair, I had filled most of a scrap piece of illustration board. Just couldn't get the lines thin enough or the curves smooth enough or consistent enough. Finally, after about a half an hour, I realized the ink was too thick. I poured in a mixture of half-ink, half distilled water. Quite a bit actually. And finally the ink was thin enough to do fine curled hair. Which made all the finicky little details easier to do, as well. It's a poor workman who blames his tools, but SOMETIMES the tools ARE at fault!"
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Issue 14 page 22
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_3_160.jpg
"This is about the closest I've come to actually getting one of the Al Williamson-looking models to look as if she was inked by Al Williamson. *He didn't use a lot of lines to achieve his effects. *Adhering strictly to Alex Raymond's tropes on RIP KIRBY (which Williamson learned working as an assistant to John Prentice, Raymond's successor on RIP KIRBY). *The cross-hatching on the jeans is very UN-Williamson but everything else is pretty austere. *The Cerebus expression is more about the pen lines that the model. *Although she is a VERY pretty model."
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Issue 16 front cover
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_6_160.jpg
"I'm actually developing my own style as I go along -- not quite Al Williamson or Stan Drake or Neal Adams or Alex Raymond but -- sometimes -- a synthesis of all four. *Those bidders who got the limited edition 'glamourpuss art auction print' in the mail are looking at Dave Sim's ideal ink density. *Not too thick. *Not too thin, so it gives a nice solid black but is also capable of fine-line rendering and cross-hatching."
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Issue 16 page 22
http://cerebustv.com/auctionpictures/Glamourpuss_4_160.jpg
"Russ heath, who did the covers for glamourpuss 11, 12 and 13, sent me four more pieces 'on spec' -- on glamourpuss with eyes crossed and tongue sticking out and three just from fashion photos. *Which made me decide to incorporate a new feature into the book -- 'THAT RUSS HEATH GIRL' -- of which this is number one. *Bidders who got the limited edition 'glamourpuss art auction print' in the mail will notice that it was misspelled as 'THAT RUSS HEAT GIRL' which I suspect was a Freudian slip on the part of Sherwood Copy who did the prints. *SSSS! YOW!"
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DON'T FORGET - you can catch more details about these and where to bid on Cerebus TV
http://www.cerebustv.com/
-------------------------------------------------
You can follow what we're up to at CerebusTV on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/CerebusTV