Robot 6
A Galactus-sized collection of art, comics and more
Hello and welcome once again to Shelf Porn, where fans share their shelves and we show them off. Today’s collection comes from Bill Roberge, who show sus his originla art, comics, statues and more. “My collection is mainly Galactus figures/Art, John Byrne art (with some Jack Kirby) oh, and lots of graphic novels!” he said.
Check out his collection below, and scroll to the end to see how you can submit your own collection.
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Thanks Bill! If you’d like to see your collection featured here on Robot 6, here’s what you need to do:
1. Take some photos and save them as jpgs.
2. Write a little something about your collection
3. Send them to me in an email.
Some additional tips:
1. Although we don’t have a minimum or maximum limit on photos, usually 10-15 should suffice. They also don’t need to be huge, so if you can shrink them down so they are less than 1000 x 1000, that would be great. You can help make your collection look nice by being sure to focus, use the right lighting, dust your shelves beforehand, etc.
2. You can either write something up that’ll appear at the beginning of the post, or you can describe each item. Be sure to indicate where each image should be placed within your write-up, but don’t embed the images into a Word doc. Just put the file name in brackets where you want the image to appear.
3. When sending images using something like YouSendIt or DropBox, please keep in mind that I may not get to your submission for a month or more, so make sure you don’t delete them or that they won’t expire.
4. Please include your name (just your first name is fine) and location with your write-up.
29 Comments
Lance
February 16, 2013 at 12:06 pm
nice collection. Love the artwork
josh
February 16, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Nice artwork.
Lazarus Pit Foreman
February 16, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Love the artwork on the wall! Also I like that shelf that holds the comic boxes – great for easy access I’m sure and makes it all look nicely organized.
LikeaPhoenix
February 16, 2013 at 1:23 pm
Wonderful collection, esp., the JB artwork.! Can you please explain what happened to JB’s style? It has steadily becoming less attractive and scratchy. Is this due to age, laziness or inker?
JohnByrneSaysOnTwitter
February 16, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Very nice. Bill is a great guy and has an incredible collection. I’m jealous of some of the Galactus art he has from John Byrne.
Karl
February 16, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Love the collection, the artwork is beautiful. I love that you’ve picked a different character to follow. Galactus is a great one. We’ve got to see a copy of FF #48 on your shelf next time!
As an aside I appreciate the new England Patriots hats.
IAM FeAR
February 16, 2013 at 2:16 pm
So do you like this Galactus fella or something? :p
Impressive collection.
What are those huge Essential John Byrne books?
spike
February 16, 2013 at 2:32 pm
I love the character heads from #118. What a great images with the “still” price and everything. I loved Comics in the 70s and 80s that had logos like that. I always liked when the heads changed to the current casts.
Meta4
February 16, 2013 at 2:34 pm
They look like custom bound hardcover collections, as there’s no publishers die stamp on the spine.
Really great collection, love the framed covers next to the original artwork. Thanks for sharing.
UnravThreads
February 16, 2013 at 2:52 pm
That’s an amazing collection!
Out of curiosity, what’s the thick DC book with the Darwyn Cooke Wonder Woman? Is it that Elseworlds?
demoncat4
February 16, 2013 at 3:20 pm
love the art work and also having every Galactus figure ever made all post on one shelf
Rich Hurley
February 16, 2013 at 3:22 pm
Great Collection. I love the comic book storage shelves. Did you build those or buy? What are the dimensions? Id love to build something like that for my Man cave.
Thanks
John Petty
February 16, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Very nice collection. The artwork is particularly impressive. Byrne is still one of the greats, and his original art is particularly attractive.
Mikey Wood
February 16, 2013 at 4:33 pm
WOW.
I was never a John Byrne guy but that’s a heck of a collection there.
Mikey Wood
February 16, 2013 at 4:35 pm
UnravThreads:
That’s the ABSOLUTE edition of DC: THE NEW FRONTIER.
Can’t possibly recommend that book enough. Wonderful stuff.
Madman Gore
February 16, 2013 at 5:56 pm
you have a really awesome room bro you rule……
Kenozoic
February 16, 2013 at 6:21 pm
John Byrne is one of my top 5 favorite artists of all time. His current IDW series “The High Ways” is pretty darned awesome.
Thanks for sharing this amazing collection!
asdfjkl
February 16, 2013 at 9:16 pm
OK. I already loved your collection. But then you sealed it with the Legos and long boxes – now that’s a true collector after my own heart
Jean-Michel
February 17, 2013 at 1:47 am
Woah ! An amazing collection ! Very nice art work ! And I agree : Galactus is a great great great character !
UnravThreads
February 17, 2013 at 6:34 am
Thanks for the information, Mike!
Bill
February 17, 2013 at 11:15 am
Thanks guys!
IAM FeAR::What are those huge Essential John Byrne books?
Those are ALL the John Byrne comics from his first published story to the end of his FF run.
UnravThreads:: what’s the thick DC book with the Darwyn Cooke Wonder Woman? Is it that Elseworlds?
Mikey called it…That’s the ABSOLUTE edition of DC: THE NEW FRONTIER.
Rich Hurley:: I love the comic book storage shelves. Did you build those or buy?
Yup, custom built! as to the mesurments….I kind of winged it.
Again, thanks for all the comments guys! This is a great site!
Mike K
February 18, 2013 at 4:26 pm
Guess the comics in the boxes are either Galactus or John Byrne books. It was nice to see some 70s trade paperbacks on the shelf. Growing up in this era, paperbacks, reprints or omnibuses were limited to not existing. Kudos to Marvel, DC and other companies for making key books available to all to enjoy.
MK
Al Cook
February 18, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Great shelf porn!! What a great set up!!
John Byrne’s old stuff was so much better -he really rushes his work these days to make a quick buck – a real shame. No wonder his commission sales dried up! How the might have fallen!!
Joe Zhang
February 18, 2013 at 8:01 pm
WOW..amazing collection. Galactus is a favorite of mine too.
In regards to John Byrne..he really has lost whatever talent he once had. Marvel and DC won’t give him any work so he is stuck doing 3rd tier licensed books that do not sell and posting cheap Star Trek fanfic on his web forum. Pretty sad.
Rick Dee
February 19, 2013 at 5:59 pm
Or maybe John Byrne refuses to work for both Marvel and DC and is doing what he wants to do, eh?
Al Cook
February 19, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Rick Dee – sure! Maybe Byrne wants to toil in obscurity, produce low selling books that no one cares and write bad Star Trel fanfic ! That makes sense.
Stop drinking the kook aid buddy! Byrne would crawl on his belly to get a fill in issue at DC or marvel – but they won’t return his calls so for now he stays home alone and sobs himself to sleep
Rick Dee
February 20, 2013 at 5:53 pm
Al Cook — Would you work for someone who has Dan DiDio’s erratic track record? How many times did DiDio say something and then come out with something else entirely? If Byrne did that, that would be crawling on his belly.
The Real Al Cook
February 20, 2013 at 6:45 pm
Just a quick note to say that Bill Roberge is a heck of a nice guy, and a heads up to anyone who might be thinking that the “Al Cook” who has posted here is the same one who used to post on the JBF: he isn’t. I am.
Have a nice evening, folks.
Paul
March 9, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Fantastic collection! You are rekindling the old love I had for John Byrne’s work.
I have to ask what that Last Galactus Story omnibus is in the 4th picture?