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The TLDR version of what is below is I got some cool art from Paul Pope today!
The past 10 months has been a bit of a Paul Pope 100% rollercoaster. I have had a brilliant 6 page sequence for many years that I love but I always wanted a page with Daisy dancing on it. I searched and they never came up. I knew a friend in the UK had one or two but didn't realize he had most if not all of them! Well, about a year ago he offered me two great pages. I immediately bought those and thought my Paul Pope journey and collection had reached its completion. A half year later he offered me 2 pages I liked a bit better than mine. They were not cheap but among the best Pope art and material I had seen so I bought those 2. Now I had 4 Daisy dancing pages plus the 6 page sequence which was an embarrassment of riches. A while after that he offered me 2 more pages and they were even better! There was even an amazing chapter title page! My mind and wallet said "NO!! YOU ARE DONE." My heart said something else and I got those 2 pages. I had too many pages so I recently sold the first 2 of the 6 dancing pages. Four is still too many but my love of Pope's work and in particular 100%, his best and most personal work, seems to know little bounds. As I am always trying to shrink and refine my collection, I was debating selling another page and even making the 6 page sequence available. Well, another email shows up and yep...another page! I picked it up today although I paid for back in early January I think. A little bit about that journey in a moment...but first the art!
The top large panel on this page is out of this world crazy good. The unbridled energy, passion, hunger, sweat and jizz (yes, I said jizz) that Pope puts into his early work is paralyzing. There is a brashness to his confident inks and the large size of his pages just pummels home the point, Pope is a rock star! He is Jimi Hendrix doing an solo with his brushes and inks. I could go on but I have gushed enough about his art in previous posts so will stop there.
Now a bit of a story. I am sure others have been through similar things too and some probably worse. Part of the reason I post this is so some of the newer people in the hobby might see how shipping, which should be the simplest of things can go off the rails.
My friend in the UK usually requires payment right away, the sooner the better and I have always gotten the wires out in 24 hours of the request (assuming banks open). The shipping has not always been as quick. As I mention, the pages are large and my friend wants to pack well. I suggested Masonite but he has gone out and bought 1/2 inch plywood making essentially a box to ship the pages in. With this being my 4th time doing it, I knew it would take a while. Well, it took even longer than usual as he got busy and whatever. It is part of the hobby and there is frustration in expecting others to act as you would in that situation. I don't sweat the small things.
The art was shipped on March 13, a bad omen Friday, from the UK through FedEx. To make up for the delay, my friend shipped international priority instead of economy. I got a notice from FedEx it would be delivered on Tuesday. Great! The fact that I am telling you about this should tell you this is not how it ends. I have included the FedEx tracking info in the additional images. The package made it from the UK to Memphis and on to my local hub by Tuesday. It looked like I might have the art Wednesday, a day later than promised. Instead of coming to me, it went back to Memphis. It stopped in for some Honky Tonk and BBQ and then was back on its way to Mississauga. It then got held at customs. I spoke with FedEx a few times on the phone and gave the clearance to act as my broker on this piece. They called and email after they failed to do this and yesterday (March 23rd) I was told I would need to go and do the customs clearance in person at the airport.
Today, I did that. Drove to the airport with my duplicate copies of the almost one dozen pages FedEx had emailed me to copy to give to them. I was worried this would turn into a full day ordeal but there was no line up and the agent was very helpful. He told me that it was actually an error on FedEx's part as they had 2 packages with the same number and that is why they needed more information. I gave him the information on the contents and they stamped the release. I now had to schlep my forms over to the FedEx hub at their hanger at the airport which was about 12 minutes away (Toronto Pearson Airport is huge). Only one person in line ahead of me so it was looking like a resolution was in my near future. Of the 12 counter they had, only one seemed to have a person working. It seems like once they start helping someone they stay with them until everything is done which is great but also means you are waiting for one of the other 3 or 4 people helping the people before to finish with however long that task takes. The person that took my stamped form told me to have a seat and they would call me up. About 15 minutes later I got called up to get my package. It was no what I was expecting. With this being the fourth package from Nick, I had an idea what to expect and this wasn't it. He told me tried to find a bit thinner wood this time. It had the right tracking number on it so I signed for it. It was about 40 x 25 x 25 inches and 44 lbs! I didn't leave, I took a picture of the package and sent it to my friend and called him to see if this was my package. It was not what he sent! I took it back and it took me several attempts explaining to the clerk that despite what their sticker said, this was not the package. Of course my FedEx person went home in the time period from when they took my papers until they brought out the box. What finally convinced them was that on the intake invoice the dimensions were listed 36 x 26 x 3 inches and 9 lbs. They took the package back. Sigh, at this point I thought, oh well, no labels on my package, I am screwed here. I texted my friend, asking if he had written my name and info on the package. He said he had taped a label on so there was some hope. It took about another 30 minutes of them looking in their system and seeing the number was showing up at 2 places in their cargo warehouse. Eventually a FedEx employee brought out an item on a cart that looked like it was the right size. The label was facing away from me so I had my hopes up with a bit of trepidation. When I asked if my name was on it, they turned it around and it was and they had found my package!! I was elated as was my friend in the UK who was more anxious about all of this than I was. It took about 2.5 hours round trip from my house to get this done. Other than a stop at a 7 Eleven for a well-deserved Slurpee, it was all business today.
The past 10 months has been a bit of a Paul Pope 100% rollercoaster. I have had a brilliant 6 page sequence for many years that I love but I always wanted a page with Daisy dancing on it. I searched and they never came up. I knew a friend in the UK had one or two but didn't realize he had most if not all of them! Well, about a year ago he offered me two great pages. I immediately bought those and thought my Paul Pope journey and collection had reached its completion. A half year later he offered me 2 pages I liked a bit better than mine. They were not cheap but among the best Pope art and material I had seen so I bought those 2. Now I had 4 Daisy dancing pages plus the 6 page sequence which was an embarrassment of riches. A while after that he offered me 2 more pages and they were even better! There was even an amazing chapter title page! My mind and wallet said "NO!! YOU ARE DONE." My heart said something else and I got those 2 pages. I had too many pages so I recently sold the first 2 of the 6 dancing pages. Four is still too many but my love of Pope's work and in particular 100%, his best and most personal work, seems to know little bounds. As I am always trying to shrink and refine my collection, I was debating selling another page and even making the 6 page sequence available. Well, another email shows up and yep...another page! I picked it up today although I paid for back in early January I think. A little bit about that journey in a moment...but first the art!
The top large panel on this page is out of this world crazy good. The unbridled energy, passion, hunger, sweat and jizz (yes, I said jizz) that Pope puts into his early work is paralyzing. There is a brashness to his confident inks and the large size of his pages just pummels home the point, Pope is a rock star! He is Jimi Hendrix doing an solo with his brushes and inks. I could go on but I have gushed enough about his art in previous posts so will stop there.
Now a bit of a story. I am sure others have been through similar things too and some probably worse. Part of the reason I post this is so some of the newer people in the hobby might see how shipping, which should be the simplest of things can go off the rails.
My friend in the UK usually requires payment right away, the sooner the better and I have always gotten the wires out in 24 hours of the request (assuming banks open). The shipping has not always been as quick. As I mention, the pages are large and my friend wants to pack well. I suggested Masonite but he has gone out and bought 1/2 inch plywood making essentially a box to ship the pages in. With this being my 4th time doing it, I knew it would take a while. Well, it took even longer than usual as he got busy and whatever. It is part of the hobby and there is frustration in expecting others to act as you would in that situation. I don't sweat the small things.
The art was shipped on March 13, a bad omen Friday, from the UK through FedEx. To make up for the delay, my friend shipped international priority instead of economy. I got a notice from FedEx it would be delivered on Tuesday. Great! The fact that I am telling you about this should tell you this is not how it ends. I have included the FedEx tracking info in the additional images. The package made it from the UK to Memphis and on to my local hub by Tuesday. It looked like I might have the art Wednesday, a day later than promised. Instead of coming to me, it went back to Memphis. It stopped in for some Honky Tonk and BBQ and then was back on its way to Mississauga. It then got held at customs. I spoke with FedEx a few times on the phone and gave the clearance to act as my broker on this piece. They called and email after they failed to do this and yesterday (March 23rd) I was told I would need to go and do the customs clearance in person at the airport.
Today, I did that. Drove to the airport with my duplicate copies of the almost one dozen pages FedEx had emailed me to copy to give to them. I was worried this would turn into a full day ordeal but there was no line up and the agent was very helpful. He told me that it was actually an error on FedEx's part as they had 2 packages with the same number and that is why they needed more information. I gave him the information on the contents and they stamped the release. I now had to schlep my forms over to the FedEx hub at their hanger at the airport which was about 12 minutes away (Toronto Pearson Airport is huge). Only one person in line ahead of me so it was looking like a resolution was in my near future. Of the 12 counter they had, only one seemed to have a person working. It seems like once they start helping someone they stay with them until everything is done which is great but also means you are waiting for one of the other 3 or 4 people helping the people before to finish with however long that task takes. The person that took my stamped form told me to have a seat and they would call me up. About 15 minutes later I got called up to get my package. It was no what I was expecting. With this being the fourth package from Nick, I had an idea what to expect and this wasn't it. He told me tried to find a bit thinner wood this time. It had the right tracking number on it so I signed for it. It was about 40 x 25 x 25 inches and 44 lbs! I didn't leave, I took a picture of the package and sent it to my friend and called him to see if this was my package. It was not what he sent! I took it back and it took me several attempts explaining to the clerk that despite what their sticker said, this was not the package. Of course my FedEx person went home in the time period from when they took my papers until they brought out the box. What finally convinced them was that on the intake invoice the dimensions were listed 36 x 26 x 3 inches and 9 lbs. They took the package back. Sigh, at this point I thought, oh well, no labels on my package, I am screwed here. I texted my friend, asking if he had written my name and info on the package. He said he had taped a label on so there was some hope. It took about another 30 minutes of them looking in their system and seeing the number was showing up at 2 places in their cargo warehouse. Eventually a FedEx employee brought out an item on a cart that looked like it was the right size. The label was facing away from me so I had my hopes up with a bit of trepidation. When I asked if my name was on it, they turned it around and it was and they had found my package!! I was elated as was my friend in the UK who was more anxious about all of this than I was. It took about 2.5 hours round trip from my house to get this done. Other than a stop at a 7 Eleven for a well-deserved Slurpee, it was all business today.
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A propos de Paul Pope
Paul Pope à Philadelphie est un auteur de bande dessinée d'origine américaine. Ses influences assumées, dans son livre P-City Parade, sont Daniel Torres, Bruno Premiani, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Tony Salmons, Hugo Pratt, Silvio Cadelo, Vittorio Giardino et Hergé.
