# Comic book artist selling prsonal commissions on eBAy - Who knew?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 6, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-artist-selling-prsonal-commissions-on-ebay-who-knew/248973 "2004-06-06T17:14:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-artist-selling-prsonal-commissions-on-ebay-who-knew/248973/1 "2004-06-06T17:14:55Z")

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I ddn’t even know these kinds of eBay art commission sales existed until I stumbled across this item while looking for Powergirl trivia.

[Roadkill original art: Trinity, Powergirl + Commission](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2248760939)

God Bless eBay, and God bless capitalism!

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-artist-selling-prsonal-commissions-on-ebay-who-knew/248973/2 "2004-06-06T19:58:34Z")

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I’ve never heard of this artist. I thought I was fairly knoledgeable about this stuff.

_Comic Book Artist_, a trade/fan magazine about comics art, has lots of examples of commissions that former comics greats sell. One of the sadder sights is Frank Brunner, maybe the greatest artist ever on _Dr. Strange_ and _Howard the Duck_, dashing off these embarrassing hard-nipple commissions of Clea and Black Widow–thirty years after he made a public scene about how he’s too cool to work for Marvel Comics. How the mighty have fallen. That’s why they call it “dope.”

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-artist-selling-prsonal-commissions-on-ebay-who-knew/248973/3 "2004-06-06T21:08:25Z")

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> [@Krokodil](#):
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> I’ve never heard of this artist. I thought I was fairly knoledgeable about this stuff.
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> _Comic Book Artist_, a trade/fan magazine about comics art, has lots of examples of commissions that former comics greats sell. One of the sadder sights is Frank Brunner, maybe the greatest artist ever on _Dr. Strange_ and _Howard the Duck_, dashing off these embarrassing hard-nipple commissions of Clea and Black Widow–thirty years after he made a public scene about how he’s too cool to work for Marvel Comics. How the mighty have fallen. That’s why they call it “dope.”

[He has a nice website](http://www.frankbrunner.net/) (other than the fact that’s it’s coded to go max full screen - I had to kill the page via alt-crl-del to leave). He gets approx $ 1000- $2000 each for inked drawings as commissions!