“You Don’t Know Jack (inside front cover – center right)” (2020)

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Black and white comic-style drawing of a woman and a man. The woman says, Theyve gone...without a trace, Rip...we seem to be at a dead end! The man replies, Well have to try a stab in the dark...I have an idea! Come on, honey!.

“You Don’t Know Jack (inside front cover – center right)” (2020)
by Carson Grubaugh (1981- ) and Dave Sim (1956-)
8.5 x 11 in., ink on board
Coppola Collection

Rip Kirby panel (inside front cover – center right)

You Don’t Know Jack: Two-Fisted Comic-Store Manager is a 48-page comic-book collaboration between legendary Cerebus creator Dave Sim, real-life (now, former) comic-store manager Jack VanDyke, and artist Carson Grubaugh.

During the kickstarter for “You Don’t Know… Jack” (July-August, 2020), Carson included the option of creating your own package that combined the kickstarter rewards with some of the original art from the book. I like Carson’s work quite a bit (you can check out his stuff), and he has done as good a job as Dave does in understanding and capturing the methods that might have been used by these photorealist pioneers.