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Original Artwork Pickup - Shon Howell
by NEXTEL
Dog (Funny)
a month ago
This isn't my own art, obviously, but I've been getting into buying old, original furry art off people and digitizing it!
I started collecting old comics and folios recently, which led directly to listings for original artwork. I was immediately interested but figured I'd wait a bit to make that jump. However, it was instantly apparent in a few cases that these drawings had been and/or were being subjected to pretty dire conditions. Outside art, I've been working in art and photo preservation for a decade as of this year and have pieced together a pretty proficient home setup for keeping stuff like this safe (I have lots of 1800s/early 1900s family photos, etc.), so I figured I better start making some pickups. This was my very first one.
Art by the late, great Shon Howell, aka
king-cheetah , with some minor digital cleanup by me.
Just as a fun aside, here's a cute reply I got on bsky from Elin Winkler, Owner of Radio Comix (Genus, Furrlough, etc.):
"The story behind Shon Howell's *extremely rare* male art is that coyotedancing.bsky.social (Mel. White) challenged him at a con in the mid/late 80's to draw some, since he was already known for only drawing busty babes, I believe it was presented as "give us ladies some eye candy too!" 😆...
...Mama Mel. (she is Everyone's Con Mom!) never stopped giving Shon playful crap about him not drawing more guys, I was at a con w/them both once & he (also playfully) blew up at her that "THE GUYS DON'T SELL, MEL.! THEY JUST DON'T!!!" XD At the time (early 90's) THEY DID NOT!"
I have a MUCH larger scan of it here (You have to download it to see the full res for some reason lmfao)
I started collecting old comics and folios recently, which led directly to listings for original artwork. I was immediately interested but figured I'd wait a bit to make that jump. However, it was instantly apparent in a few cases that these drawings had been and/or were being subjected to pretty dire conditions. Outside art, I've been working in art and photo preservation for a decade as of this year and have pieced together a pretty proficient home setup for keeping stuff like this safe (I have lots of 1800s/early 1900s family photos, etc.), so I figured I better start making some pickups. This was my very first one.
Art by the late, great Shon Howell, aka
king-cheetah , with some minor digital cleanup by me.Just as a fun aside, here's a cute reply I got on bsky from Elin Winkler, Owner of Radio Comix (Genus, Furrlough, etc.):
"The story behind Shon Howell's *extremely rare* male art is that coyotedancing.bsky.social (Mel. White) challenged him at a con in the mid/late 80's to draw some, since he was already known for only drawing busty babes, I believe it was presented as "give us ladies some eye candy too!" 😆...
...Mama Mel. (she is Everyone's Con Mom!) never stopped giving Shon playful crap about him not drawing more guys, I was at a con w/them both once & he (also playfully) blew up at her that "THE GUYS DON'T SELL, MEL.! THEY JUST DON'T!!!" XD At the time (early 90's) THEY DID NOT!"
I have a MUCH larger scan of it here (You have to download it to see the full res for some reason lmfao)
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With the current trend devaluing human art, and by extension our expression and individuality, its easy to lose sight of what's important, why we as artists create to begin with. I think switching focus to celebrating these older artworks (especially furry artworks that may not seem valuable to the common public) is something we as artists need at this time.
and i applaud your archival of honest-to-dog historical artifacts