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| The Comic Book / Pop Art room at the Hyatt-Regency had lots of dealers selling art. On one day only a group of Silver and Golden Age comic book Atlanta area art collectors had a display there of some of their personal original art, none of it for sale. This is Benno Rothschild with his original art of a Tarzan newspaper strip page with art by Burne Hogarth. Behind his head is a newspaper page of Prince Valiant by Hal Foster. The Leader supposes having a name like "Rothschild" helps in being able to afford this stuff. |
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| Atlanta original art collectors |
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| Dave Newton, Alan Dion, Benno Rothschild, Jeff Singh, Richard Garrison |
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| 1960s and 1970s DC comic book artist Neal Adams had a large display in the vendors' room at the nearby America's Mart convention center. |
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| Neal Adams prints for sale. |
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| Doug Sneyd was a 1960s and 1970s Playboy magazine cartoonist. I collect Playboy cartoon albums and I asked him about some of the other cartoonists. Everybody we could think of, except Gahan Wilson and Mr. Sneyd, are dead, including John Dempsey, Phil Interlandi, Buck Brown, Rowland B. Wilson. I came back the next day after taking this picture and tried to buy Mr. Sneyd's hardcover book but they were all sold out. |
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| I once contacted by email the famous dinosaur and fantasy artist William Stout to get a price quote on a painting commission for the Ray Bradbury story "A Sound of Thunder" which features a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Mr. Stout answered he had done that story before and his price was $10,000. That way was out of my price range so I found another professional dinosaur artist who worked on the movie Jurassic Park and he did the job for $2,700. |
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| After Carl Barks, Don Rosa is the most famous Walt Disney comic book artist. I told Mr. Rosa I remembered him as one of the columnist for the fanzine Rocket's Blast & ComicCollector column "The RB&CC Information Center" which appeared in 1960s issues of that fanzine. I told him that in the 1960s I had received a letter from another columnist, Raymond Miller, answering my question about why the EC comic book Weird Science #12 and a few subsequent issues had duplicate numbers. That is, there are two different issues of #12, 13, 14 and 15. Weird Fantasy also had some duplicate numbers. Mr. Rosa said there were no duplicate numbers in those two titles and was quite sure about it. Of course they do have duplicate numbers as explained in the Overstreet Price Guide. Strange that an old time comic book fan like Mr. Rosa has a blind spot on the numbering history of Weird Science and Weird Fantasy. |
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| Golden Age Timely artist Allen Bellman with a photo of him posing with Stan Lee. I'm not much of a Golden Age fan and am not familiar with Mr. Bellman's work but the Leader makes it his business to photograph old time comic book artists, so here is Mr. Bellman. |
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| Sarah Hunt a.k.a. Lady Clankington of Brute Force Studios wearing Steampunk clothes which includes a corset. The Leader was told by this young lady that Steampunk is a clothing style based on the Victorian Era in England. The Leader was intrigued by the costume she is posing with: a female style British army uniform with a colonial pith helmet. Long live the British Empire! |
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| Here's a sultry babe modeling contact lenses from Exoticlenses.com. |
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| Two sexy models portraying Velma Dinkley and Daphne Blake from the TV cartoon series Scooby-Doo. |
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| Two sexy models representing characters from Aspen Comics. Darned if the Leader knows who the heck they are. |
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