Any Comic Book Collectors/Readers?

[BJK1995]

Just curious to hear if anyone else is into comics on this forum. I haven't done any real comic shopping as of late for financial reasons but look forward to when I have the spare cash lying around. I'm definitely a Marvel guy but IDW has grown on me these past couple years, I really love "30 Days of Night". Looking forward to hearing from others


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[Pythonfriend]

i dont spend that much time reading comics, but i do collect original drawings and sketches done by comic artists.

in my city there is a comic festival every two years, with artists from around the world, and that is where i get my drawings. the most recognizable pieces i have would be a darkwing duck from a walt disney comic artist, and a bart simpson from the guy in charge of simpsons comics.

im most proud of a drawing i got from David Lloyd, he is the illustrator of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta", and he did the original guy fawkes mask for me, into the front page of the english edition of the graphic novel.

i have quite a diverse collection, lots of european graphic novels, some US comics, some japanese manga, the only thing they have in common is that most of them are signed or contain original drawings.

[mechnut450]

not much any more . I did have almost the entire ghostrider series ( 90s one ) and all the related ones up until a few years ago. I gave them to my nephew. so I doubt they much good now. I did find a pdf cd of all the ghostrider on bay that I read once in a while. Comics were a great way for me to pass my time back then while I was stuck home with cast on both legs after a surgery as a kid.

[Wheatley]

I like to read some Star wars comic books.



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[Shadera]

I'm Deadpool's biggest fan.

[creamer90]

I started collecting X-Men comics, only have like 30ish right now. Also ran into the financial problem. I do have issue #17. That is the oldest i have. Not in the best condition though. Might get back into it after i get my taxes back.

[Pythonfriend]

yeah, well, the way i collect, its quite easy. every 2 years i get my 3-day ticket for 30 dollars or something, and then i use these days to either get sketches or signatures for free, or to buy comic books that get me a place in line to get drawings/sketches, or to buy expensive stuff. when i dont have money, i go there and its amazing what you can get for free. when i do have money, i buy stuff. its crazy what they have for sale, original pages of Lucky Luke or Tintin, even original vintage walt disney comic strips. with original i mean: 4 times larger than usual, uncolored, signed pages, done by the artist, delivered to the publisher who scanned and colored it and sold a gazillion copys of it. all of them are one-of-a-kind unique. but i dont have the money for that, these easily cost 4 to 5 digits a piece.

but even with my limited funds, i always go for stuff that is unique. if there is only one of it on the planet, then i want it. if its printed then i dont care for it, unless i want to read it. signed and numbered art prints are also interesting, if the price is reasonable and they are limited to less than 1000.

basically for me its like collecting art. it has to be unique, or at least signed, numbered, and limited. and i like watching the stars drawing something for me. its incredible how fast and accurate they are. like that guy working for disney, i showed him a cover image featuring darkwing duck on a mountaintop, leaning and looking into the distance. a cover he produced. he reproduced it for me in just a few minutes, using only a graphite pencil (walt disney employees are banned from using anything else when they draw outside the company, they get fired and fined when they draw with ink or a sharpie or any color outside of the company). but the result is astonishing and precise, he did it without any hesitation or corrections. of course he signed and dated it, also adding the name of the event and the location. i got it for free. at disneyland Anaheim, California, if they have an artist present, if i remember correctly, that would be somewhere around 200-500 dollars for a live drawing of a piece of this quality. also limited to pencil. but they dont have the artist who does the covers.

you get hooked easily. when you get something like, lets say, wolverine, done by the lead cover artist at MARVEL, it rapidly turns into an addiction.