It was an odd set of coincidences, to be sure: From Hell artist Eddie Campbell, whose blog I visit most days, happened to post last week that the original artwork for his Black Diamond Detective Agency one-shot from earlier this year - which I'd bought on the strength of his blog postings about it alone, and really enjoyed - was now available for purchase. Not only that, but despite the fact that Eddie lives in Australia, the pages were being sold through The Beguiling, a Toronto comic store. And, to cap it all off, Vicki and I just happened to be planning to be in Toronto this weekend, helping Tammy with some errands at her new apartment. Throw all of those facts into a blender, turn the switch to Puree, and it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that I'd come home with at least one new page of original artwork for the collection (shown here).
Since the dialogue was added by Mr Campbell on a computer (rather than pasted on to the page itself as used to happen), and on the off-chance someone viewing this would like to know what's being said on this particular page, here are the contents of the various word balloons:
Panel 1: "Frank Reno! Yup. That's him all right."
Panel 2: "I'll tidy it up for engraving and get it to the boss first thing tomorrow."
"He can decide just how he 'WANTS' Mr Reno."
Panel 3: "It's turned cold."
Panel 4: "I'd say the snow's coming."
Panel 7: "We can walk to my lodgings from here."
2 comments:
A very pretty page! Nice in real life, too!
And of course, I bought a page and have it tucked away for some future gift giving event....like Accountant's day perhaps!
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