Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

No, in fact, being in France, I mostly read French or European comics. These two drawings were directly ordered from the artist himself, and he made them especially for me. I have other original plates of other authors I liked to read when I was a teenager, I found them in bookshops or even a garage sale!!! My Holy Grail would be an original ink drawing or watercolour by Hugo Pratt or Jean Giraud (AKA Moebius). But I know it must be beyond what I can afford...

 

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Photography at old trains. These are pictures i took of the North Shore Line between Chicago and Milwaukee in 1962, the last full year of operation.

 

That's pretty neat. Do you recall when exactly the Rock Island line had the robin's egg blue locomotives? Those were always my favorite train sets.

 

Where can I few more of your work?

 

I'm not a pro or anything, but I have posted some of my photos to 500px. Thanks for liking that Fuji pic. I made almost no enhancements to it. Fuji just looked that gorgeous on that particular day.

 

@GinoLR did you know that one of our member, @Jochen1 is also a great collector of comics ? (Maybe you’ll have to log in to forvm to see the post)

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=125163.msg647767#msg647767

 

!!! with Tardi, one of the greatest! and with an original plate by him that remained unpublished !!! it's insane.
I cannot even dream of a drawing by Tardi (or Moebius, Pratt or Bilal). The only original plates I have are 2 plates of the series Caroline Cholera by Pichard, which are published (and also original plates by my miserable self when I was 16, but that's another story). And a nice ink drawing of Valerian and Laureline by Mezieres he made for me in the early 1980s...

 

Here are 3 scetches (French: dedicaces) from Tardi, Moebius and Bilal.




Altogether I have about 12000 of them. Some years before there was a nice site in France where I have posted most of my important scetches. Unfortunately the site is no longer maintained. But you can still look at them under http://bededicaces.free.fr/
Go to "Dedicaces", then to "Contributeurs" and click on "Hans-Joachim und Irmtraud"

Enjoy!
Jochen

 

Just wonderful, insanely wonderful... The Bilal is outstanding. And you have 12 000 of them ! ?! That's a library. Do you have also Mouminoux AKA Dimitri?

 

Incredible @Jochen1 ! Thanks for sharing !

 

@GinoLR
Sadly Mouminoux AKA Dimitri is not in my collection. I wasn't lucky enough to meet him at any comic salons.

But I also have a lot of American comic artists. Among them is a drawing by Will Eisner that I'm very proud of. Here's another nice drawing by Jim Lee, Batman as young boy!

Jochen

 

Awesome...

 

I would be quite happy if I was able to have an Uderzo sketch of Dogmatix.

 

My father was in the Navy then Army from 1942 to 1972. I was lucky enough to have lived in Germany from 1054 to 1957. My age was 7 -10. Then we returned to Europe - France in 1964 - 1965. On the year of my graduation from high school on June 5, 1965, we moved to Mannheim, Germany. I was 17 and I worked in a Stars and Stripes Bookstore for a little over a year. I was a comic book collector and had a copy of every Marvel comic book that was issued during my tenure. At night, my friends and I would galivant all over Germany, collecting the coasters from each one of the restaurant we visited. During that time, every restaurant would serve beer and wine to their customers, even children from 5-6 up. I also collected hundreds of coasters. I stored all of my comics and coasters in my closet.
My father received orders to return to the States to Fort Gordon, Georgia. I was at work the day the movers came and my mother decided that I could collect other coasters and comics when we got to the states, so she gave them to the movers.
I don't know what the value of my two collections were in 1966, but neither I nor my parents could afford to replace those items.
I never forgave my parents for tossing my collections. I hoped that I could keep my vinyl records of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and many other recording artists.
In 1967, I went to Uruguay to serve as a missionary for our church for two years. I carefully packed all of my clothes, records, and other collections, so they would be there when I returned to the States. When I left home, I left all of my clothes also packed in a box. I took 2 suites, 5 white shirts, 2 pair of shoes, and about 5 sets of underwear. The reason I mentioned what I left at Fort Gordon (Augusta), Georgia, I prepared 2 lists. One for me and another for my parents so they would know what I needed to keep. During my absents, my father had been transferred to Fort Bragg (Fayetteville), North Carolina. When I returned, my vinyl records had been sold in a yard sale, my clothes were given to the Salvation Army, and my books had been sold as well. When I came home, all I had was the remnants of my clothes. One suit had been worn out, as well as a pair of shoes, and two white shirts, socks with holes, and underwear was almost all worn out as well.
I was lucky though about my clothes. I got home in January 1968 and received my draft notice to report at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, so I got all new clothes thanks to the United States Army.
Sorry for my litany. I love my parents, but, evidently, they didn't have respect for my personal belongings. If I had the comic books, they were all first editions and kept in immaculate condition, stored in bags meant for storing them. My folks are long ago dead, my two sisters are also. I started my coin collection after my parents died because my brother and I "shared" my father's "coin collection." Or, at least, I got what my brother let me have. My parents died in California and my brother lives there two, so, I never saw the full collection.
Am I bitter, yes and no. You figure it out and make your judgement. I'm now 74 and my brother is 72. (I wonder if I will be able to hold a grudge in our afterlife. If so, I am going to beat the "H" out of my brother [and have a strong talk with my parents.]
So, you see, I've had an extravagant comic collection, a large coaster collection, and now a "nice" coin collection that is in lock and key in a place my wife doesn't even notice where it is. (The location is in a sealed envelope that will be given to here when I croak. )
For those the read the rambling thoughts of a 74 year old man, I hope you will forgive me.

 

Take care of yourself so you don't become an old fossil!

Oops - didn't realize I was responding to a post that was so old - it came up as recent 'cause other responded recently to it. But I guess my response still applies .....

 

@Tall Paul
I met Uderzo several times in Angouleme/France, the centre of European comics. But he stopped doing drawings a long time ago, there were only autographs and dedications.

Jochen

 

Dear @Jim Dale

What a terrible loss! I think I can sympathise with you. I am very attached to my collections, which I have not only amassed, but with which I am also scientifically engaged. I am now 78 years old and my daughters have neither interest in nor understanding of my collections. I own about 8000 comic albums (not magazines!) and 32 original pages by Tardi, Bilal, Crepax, Ted Benoit and others and almost 12000 original drawings (scetches). What will become of them, I don't know. I once got an offer from the Comic Museum in Lausanne/Switzerland to take over my collection, but of course for free. It was supposed to be the nucleus for a German comic museum, but unfortunately nothing came of it.

Jochen

 

@Jim Dale My mother did the same. She throughout my comic book collection when I went to college.

When the military moved me they stole my marble collection and my ex-wife stole my coins, my baseball cards and all of my Baltimore Oriole items. The ex also stole all of my grandparents furniture and anything else she could.

Yes it is upsetting but when I die I can’t take it with me and I know God’s word to be true so he’ll punish them all. The coins are the only thing I have rebuilt and while my current coin collection is better than before, some coins are not as high a grade as before. But then I never had a $2.50 gold coin set before and I do today.

 

I'm nearly as old as you are brother, but I'm on the other end of your story. Being career military, as you pointed out, my family and I were constantly on the move. My eldest son has never forgiven his mother and I for disposing his Star Wars collection the last time we were transferred to Germany. I still hear about it now and again and that was 38 years ago.

 

Thoughts and prayers for your comics collection of the 1960s... The same thing happened to my mom, who when a child had the almost whole collection of the pre-war "le Journal de Mickey" (a French version of Mickey Mouse Magazine) until it ceased publication in 1940. But in the 1950s there was a charity who cleaned for free all old stuff from houses, and my grandfather told them they could take everything including the old Mickeys. When my mom came home from work later this day, she could only realize the disaster.

When I was a teen, I had already the beginning of my little collection of ancient coins. One day, before we had to leave for vacation, my mom decided all valuables had to be brought to the bank and kept in a safe in case of burglary. She packed all her own jewels and other such things, but when she opened my room to take my coins too, it was a total mess, I had prepared nothing. No time left to gather the coins, she was angry and told me that "messy people like me will be robbed". She did not carry my coins to the bank.

When we came back no burglar had dared to rob our home, I found my mess as I had left it (including my collection), but the bank had been robbed, people had dug a tunnel from the sewers, broken into the underground chamber and taken everything from the safes.