Excellente!
I bought a page from this eBay seller two months ago. A page from The Moth, this wild indie comic created by Steve Rude and Gary Martin, with Martin, Rude’s primary inker on Nexus, providing the dialogues as well on this series.
When I was about to pay the seller, I noticed the address he had added on his invoice, in case I wanted to send him a money order. As it turned out, it was Gary Martin himself, selling his page. Mailed him and talked about how cool his work was, and asked him if he had other pages for sale. Turns out he had, and agreed to sell them to me at cheap ( and I mean REALLY cheap prices). We agreed on a time-payment scheme and I ended up buying 5 pages off him. A month later, the payment was complete, and Gary sent the pages off, promising to inform me whenever he put up his Nexus pages for sale. The pages from the older series are all gone, but there is a new storyline coming out in Summer 2007, and I get first crack at them, yay!
And today I got the pages in the mail, and I found that Gary has also sent a volume of his book on comic book inking free with the package. Inside is inscribed “To my #1 fan in India, thanks for all the support”, followed by his signature. How cool is that? I just can’t stop grinning!!
I have uploaded all but one of pages to my comicartfans gallery, and you can check them out right here.
wow! congrats! :)
Thankew! :)
you da man, brah.
Heh.
Gary Martin and you are friends now!! WOW. O_O
Not really, but I *am* his #1 fan from India, you know! He said so himself. ;-)
Wow!
That rocks!
Re: Wow!
Yep, sure does. :)
Lucky Dog!
Bad Doggie go sizzle pop! :P
This is incredible, really.
Re: Lucky Dog!
Rowf, it sure is.
I don’t know jackshit about comics other than Amar Chithra Katha, but I am touched – touched sufficiently to save my faith in humanity. :)
Well deserved, bro. *pat, pat*
Thanks man.
/lol.
You shouldn’t yawn so often in public.
*Claps* YAY!!!!!
On other things, I’m willing to sell you my sketches, personally autographed. It’s going to be a good deal one day, trust me. :P Of course we’ll keep in mind a few certain things about the deal. I want a LOT of money. Yeah, I think that’s about it. :P
But seriously, this is really neat! :D
Sarika.
Well, I’ll get back to you on this once I’ve completed all my time payments. Should be done by sometime around December 2008.
Errr… You leave me no choice but the risky one. Where do you keep your collection? Will you be leaving town anytime soon? What kind of safekeeping devices do you use? Oooops…