Al Feldstein’s Exclusive Deal with Heritage
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Magazine artist/writer/editor, is to stop accepting commissions for his
extremely popular and coveted comics-related paintings – including both cover
re-creations and original comic and science fiction art pieces. “I’m getting
more and more requests, but can only produce a handful of these paintings a
year,” said Feldstein. “Comic book cover re-creations and science fiction
paintings require a lot of time-consuming brushwork and attention to detail. So
rather than trying to decide which commissions to accept and which to turn down,
I will now be offering everything through Heritage Comics Auctions. That way,
anyone who’s interested can have a fair chance to own one.”
John Petty,
Heritage’s Director, negotiated the exclusive arrangement. “We are just
delighted,” said Petty, “to be working with such a talent. Al is a living
legend. What an honor to be chosen as his exclusive auctioneer!”
Born in
New York City, Al Feldstein studied painting at the High School of Music and
Art, and the Art Students League under a scholarship. After school and during
the summers, he worked in a studio servicing the comic book industry. During
World War II, he was a Special Services artist. Upon his discharge, he returned
to the comic book industry, packaging magazines for publishers.
At EC
Comics, he created, wrote, illustrated and edited a popular line of titles –
titles which are now collector’s items. They included horror (such as Tales
from the Crypt), science-fiction, suspense, and many others. In 1955, he
became editor of MAD Magazine, one of EC’s titles, where he took the magazine’s
circulation from 375,000 to a high of almost 3 million. He did this by gathering
a staff of talented artists and writers, supervising every phase of the
magazine’s operation, editing and re-writing virtually every word, designing
layouts and creating a new format – including the adopting and christening of
MAD’s trademark, the freckle-faced, grinning Alfred E. Neuman.
In 1984,
Al retired from MAD and returned to his first love, painting. He later moved to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and spent three years painting the Tetons and their
wildlife, placing two paintings in the Top 100 Arts for the Parks.
In
1992, he moved to Paradise Valley near Livingston, and now enjoys painting
Montana’s ranch life, its wildlife and its spectacular scenery.
In 1999,
Al was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree by Rocky Mountain College in
Billings, Montana, and again won a place in the Top 100 Arts for the Parks
competition.
In 2000, he was invited to give the Commencement Address to
the first graduation class of the new century at Rocky Mountain
College.
Al has been represented by several galleries in the Northwest
and he has participated in juried shows where his work has received a number of
awards.
He says he is already “working like a demon” on his first
Heritage consignment, a re-creation of his famous cover to Weird Fantasy
#15, slated for Heritage’s December 6-8 Signature Auction in
Dallas.
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