Scored this at the start of preview night at Comic-Con 05, where me and about seven other guys queued up to buy art from Mike Mignola, who hadn't sold anything but a few pinups at SD for three years. Love that lower left panel!

The Joker tries to evade police helicopters--this is the first of many pieces I've purchased from Dan Goudreau. Love those buildings.

This piece was half of my wife's birthday present to me in Dec. 2000. Purchased from Albert Moy.

Picked this piece up at Mike Mignola's booth the first day of Comic-con 2001, where I queued up an hour before the show for my chance to score a page. I'd gone to SD with the intention of buying a bunch of Mignola's but blew most of my cash on preview night. Being a convention virgin, I didn't know Mignola would only be taking cash or traveler's checks. So after all that waiting, I could only afford one page. D'oh! I love Mignola's medieval castles and was quite happy to get this piece, which Mike pointed out has the bonus of a misquote of Poe's poem on it.

Grabbed this at Albert Moy's booth at San Diego, 2001, preview night. When I brought it over to Mignola's booth Saturday to ask him to sign it, at first he seemed annoyed I was keeping him from taking a break. But when I pulled the piece from the portfolio his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "Wow. That's some page!" I dumbly agreed. He then told me this was the most difficult story he'd ever tried to illustrate as it tells the story of a city from the city's POV. Ray Bradbury wrote the story--he'd been at SD earlier, but I missed him. Rats.

Couldn't say no when my friend Bruce Haley offered me this page right before the holidays in 2007. I love the way Mignola does architecture, hence I love this page, the earliest Hellboy page in my collection.