I was showing some friends my art collection today and figured I’d post it here for all of you to see as well.
So each week, I’m going to post a new piece. Until I run out that is. And that won’t be too long.
This piece is pretty special to me. I mean, how often do you get a chance to own an original Adam Kubert X-Men page? Not very often, hardly ever as he doesn’t usually sell his stuff, if you ever find one, it more than likely a page that the inker got to keep, and then sold. Such is the case with this piece.
I found this piece by chance on ebay. I was a bit hesitant at first to bid, because I knew that Adam rarely sold his originals. So after discussing it with him and finding out for sure that it was a piece that the inker got back, and not a gift given to a friend, stolen, etc. I bid on it. I ended up winning the bid, obviously. The price was too good to pass up. Adam looked up the auction and when I brought in the page to show him, he was like, you got a steal on that man. I did.
We both weren’t sure of who the inker was. Adam said it was probably either Batt or Tim Townsend. I wasn’t sure, it didn’t really look like either of them. I finally found a copy of the actual comic, and there were four different inkers, maybe more, on that issue. It was probably inked by John Livesay. But I still don’t know for sure, because the book doesn’t list which pages which person inked. However; John Livesay is credited on the cover, so I figure he inked most of it, therefore there being a highly likely chance he inked it.
Adam and Andy are probably the two biggest reasons I got into comics as a kid. So having this page in my collection means a lot.
-Z
