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Brian Rhodes
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| Posted: 21 October 2017 at 10:13am | IP Logged | 1
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Speaking to JB's professionalism, a customer ordered a Hulk/Thing commission thru Jim Warden. Apparently, they had requested a portrait configuration, JB accidentally did a landscape layout, but did another piece portrait style at no extra charge to fix it.
I visited Jim and he still had the landscape version, so I bought it. Everybody won.
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David Miller
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"Patience is a Virue"
The misspelling really twisted the knife.
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Bill Collins
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I think it made Golden look an even bigger prat.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 21 October 2017 at 10:59am | IP Logged | 4
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Speaking of twisting knives, no need to rehash the Golden fiasco at this late date!
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Wilson Mui
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| Posted: 21 October 2017 at 11:32am | IP Logged | 5
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JB, when do you plan on opening your commission list again?
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John Byrne
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When I finish all the requests on the current list.
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Brian Floyd
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| Posted: 21 October 2017 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | 7
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I specifically avoided Golden at a con I went to a few months after that incident with him happened.
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Shane Matlock
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| Posted: 21 October 2017 at 2:53pm | IP Logged | 8
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The misspelling really twisted the knife.
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That was actually a typo on my part (though I typed "vitue" rather than "virue." I'd never even noticed that Golden did that in the commission as well until you said this! I doubt his was any more intentional either as I just made the same mistake. I have some friends who are tattoo artists and just about all of them have at one time or another, misspelled a word or left out a letter. You'd think when you are putting words on human skin permanently you'd be a lot more careful, especially considering mistakes like that can negatively impact your business.
Edited by Shane Matlock on 21 October 2017 at 4:03pm
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Joe Zhang
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I remember Larry Stroman drawing some interesting looking comics in the early 90's. Then his work disappeared from the comic book shelves. I hope he didn't leave to pursue a career in commissions.
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Shane Matlock
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I didn't care much for Stroman on the Marvel superhero titles (although I enjoyed X-Factor despite not being a huge fan of his art), but I loved his art on Alien Legion which I thought better suited his style.
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Bob Harvey
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X-Factor was okay. Agree that Alien Legion was his crowning achievement.
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Brian Floyd
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Stroman's art isn't my cup of tea. But if he really did this to a customer, I hope it costs him a lot of potential work (meaning commissions) down the road.
Not quite the worst story I've heard. Wasn't there an incident years ago involving a former DC artist who took a customer's money for a commission, and more or less vanished? May have been before or sometime soon after, the Michael Golden incident.
Edited by Brian Floyd on 23 October 2017 at 12:04pm
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