You have a really nice collection of comics. I am particularly impressed that you own all three volumes of Manuscript Press's Prince Valiant reprints, which are huge in size.

posted by DuckFOO at 10:45 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Seth Fisher was awesome. I wish he left more behind...

posted by nativio289 at 10:52 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2007

I have one of the limited edition hardcovers of Porter's The Book of Ellison that I'm interested in selling, if anyone's buying.

posted by smfoster at 10:19 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2007

Thank you, I see that you also have excellent taste in books!

posted by angelikat at 1:45 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2007

Yeah...it's nice to see good books on the concept guys.
Iain McCaig's got a book coming out in October....so, I've got mine pre-ordered at Amazon.

posted by dinoboy at 4:08 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007

Thanks for adding me too.
Here's a link to another on-line obsession of mine (original comic book art)

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=19908

And about Ron Cobb...years ago, a friend of mine was working with him at a now defunct video game company.
He was still doing great work.
It would be nice to see a new book on him covering his old stuff plus what he's been up to lately.

-Norm

posted by dinoboy at 2:43 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2007

Thank you for adding me to your "interesting libraries" list, Scott! :)

I think I'm still in LT-shock from just how eerily similar our libraries are... when I scrolled through the books we shared my jaw literally dropped open! wowza! Imagine someone who is as deeply an admirer of all things Neil Gaiman-related as I am! I admit I wasn't sure that was possible. *grin* Didn't you love his cameo in "Starchild" by James A. Owen? I am delighted to see that's one of the series we have in common. The illustrations and narrative in that graphic novel are outstanding! Glad to find a fellow fan.

Well, I can see I'm going to have to spend much more time prowling your library- pen in hand, jotting down wishlist titles with a gleeful smile. Perhaps then I could offer some more clear comments, since right now my mind's still abashedly reeling at the similarities we share. Cheers! (OH, and I'd welcome any comments/suggestions from you as well). :)

Much bliss & happy reading!
~PandorasRequiem

posted by PandorasRequiem at 5:28 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

Scott,

Yeah, I'm finally actually getting into the meat of my Ellison collection. Here's some back and forth between me and Keith Kramer about that - just FYI.

Barney,

When I met you for the second time in Cleveland, I had with me a copy of "The Book of Ellison" by Porter, et. al. Harlan signed it "Burn this bag o' crap. - Harlan Ellison." You have 365 (or a years-worth) of tags for Harlan, but no Book-of. Do you not have a copy out of respect for Harlan, or have you not been able to find one?

Serious question....not trying to pull your chain like last time. :)

-Keith

Keith,

I am only beginning now to catalog my Ellison books and materials. When I was the #2 guy on Library Thing it was from listing just "bank shot' materials that I would come across while cataloging other things. Someone else's book with an Ellison introduction for instance. The 365 tags I have up now represent perhaps 25% of my Ellison collection. Much less if you count some audio and video I'll be folding in with the books and magazines. Eventually I'll probably have a few thousand legitimate Ellison tags plus the ephemera where the connection won't be instantly obvious to the outsiders.

As for the Andrew Porter "Book of Ellison", I have a copy (or two) of the Trade Paperback edition, plus the early issue of ALGOL where about 75% of the materials originally appeared. My copy of that ALGOL is signed by Andrew Porter AND Harlan and may be unique in that regard. Certainly there would only be a handful in the world.

Harlan's animosity over that book was not an overnight thing. In the 1970's and 1980's he was reasonably happy to sign it. Problems arose over things Andrew Porter published in the late eighties and 1990's and "oughts" in Porter's magazine and because he may have been associated in some way with "Enemies of Ellison", although I have never seen a smoking gun in that particular regard.

And in terms of PURE SPECULATION - beyond all that - there is the issue of it NOT being a particularly attractive book - which has come to rankle more over the years. And finally there ***MAY*** have been a bootleg of the limited edition of the HC - although, again, that is a whisper of a rumor and I have never seen one of those mythical unauthorized HC's.

For the record, I don't own the authorized Algol Press signed/lmtd. HC but would buy one for say $50-60.00 if I saw one for sale. I've not seen one in a couple of years and when I do I'm never flush.

Now you know what I know. Cheers - Barney

posted by Dannelke at 4:35 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2007

Hello! thanks for the comment, and likewise. See a lot of must-read-books in your collection . My most recently purchase is Modern Masters Volume 11: Charles Vess, witch you share too.

posted by spacewang at 7:40 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2007

Received the God Machine the mail yesterday and read it. Pretty Good. Hellboy novel series seems to be going along pretty nicely.

posted by bluetyson at 1:16 am (EST) on Nov 9, 2006

I have read all the Hellboy novels now, except God Machine, which I have on order, and Odd Jobs, which I hope to get sometime in the near(ish) future.

bt

posted by bluetyson at 10:14 am (EST) on Nov 1, 2006

Hey, congratulations on finding the Cobb book, and for an unbeatable price too!

And yes, we are both on the Kaluta list. You'll find more than a few Kaluta related art books in my library.

posted by redcrowstudio at 5:45 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2006

That Hellboy book is on my wants list, I haven't read any of them yet, but it will be sometime later this year. I don't have one of the early 'Odd' ones, either, so there are two I don't have, as far as I know.

posted by bluetyson at 3:28 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2006

Hi Powerslave,

The Ron Cobb book is great. I was very pleased to find it at a convention years ago, as Cobb's film work was an early inspiration for me, especially his Conan art. There's a lot of his earlier work here as well, cartoons and illustrations for magazine and advertising. If you can find it, its worth picking up.

posted by redcrowstudio at 10:52 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2006

thank you for the additional information on the ERB Library of Illustration. I found out they existed about 5 years ago, and I guess I will have to find a copy somehow, somewhere.

PS: Isn't this place (LibraryThing) great! I only stumbled across it a couple weeks ago.

posted by Vagabondbookman at 9:41 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2006

The Pogany work is spectacular! The third volume of the trilogy (Lohengrin) is very pretty too - and I love his line work for the Children's Homer and some of the other Colum books - but beg, borrow or steal a copy of his Ancient Mariner; it's my favorite! Great design work start to finish. If it's not the perfect book, it hasn't been made. I like your collection - nicely put together. best, scott

posted by bookstopshere at 12:43 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2006

Powerslave: Thanks for your question. The conceptual material I have can range from Duchamp publications (I always have a good selection of these) to books by Ed Ruscha (none now unfortunately-they are too easy to sell to keep for long) or Gordon Matta Clark. I have some interesting Seth Siegelaub publications, and individual issues of the periodicals Aspen and SMS. I also usually have secondary material about any of the figures in the field, from Larry Wiener to the Vienna Actionists. You should look at my website (www.conceptbooks.com), and in particular, the 20th Century, Part II document on the catalogue page. There is a good representative sample there. New things get put on the 'new arrivals' page as I have a chance to catalogue them, although I have lots of stuff to catalogue right now. If you're looking for something particular, let me know. If ia don't have it, I may know where to point you.

Nice collection by the way.

posted by conceptbooks at 8:58 am (EST) on Jul 19, 2006

There was a throwaway line in Team Knight Rider about 'David Bowman, Frank Poole'. Pretty minor, but I thought that was a fun one when I heard about it.

posted by bluetyson at 10:33 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2006