vance hu's cel network

it's been 15 years since i last heard from vance hu, the maker of my large sized fancels, in fact it was 1992 or 93 when i bought my last fancel from him, the beautiful (huge) deedlit to be exact. life sort of got in the way for both of us so i was content to let it go at that.

i've been collecting long enough to know that certain things come in spurts before it disappears so i was just glad to be able to buy from and get commissions done by him in that short period of time. his works still hang on my wall as the had these last 15 years and in fact i made this gallery 2 years ago hoping to find other collectors of his work to no avail.

made an anime room section in the gallery to show off his works and others and they became the most hit item in the gallery but still no leads on other collectors or vance hu himself. then around june of this year i got an e-mail from vance hu.

it seems a customer of his bar suggusted he look up his name on ask.com and sure enough he did that night. at the #2 result of the search list was my gallery's vance hu sections. he looked at his work from 15 years ago in the gallery and used the feedback of the gallery to contact me.

the next day i went through my e-mails and was surprised to see his name and thought, "no way". read thru the e-mail and replied normally but ask at the end whether he would do commissions again. in turn he said yes and i began the whole commission process from 15 years ago. it felt so nostalgic.

spent a couple of days looking for an image and settle for an ah! my goddess mini poster image of skuld, belldandy, and urd in wedding dresses sitting on a red bench. i scanned and jpeged the image and settle the important details like size, price and matt and framing colors in e-mails. paid half now, other half upon completion thru paypal which came to 425 for a (big) cel with matt, framing and shipping. not bad when the other (big) cels in the collection cost about 345 to 400 dollars 15 years ago.

waited about 3 weeks and saw a preview picture of the completed cel and was happy. ax came around that time so i had to go knowing it would arrive when i got back. came back 6 days later and sure enough it was there waiting for me. another beautiful cel for the collection but i came to a realization," where am i going to hang it?". maybe if i adjust this picture there and move this one here. lol.

right now i need to get the 35mm camera and take a picture for the gallery so people can see it. it's a 11x16 cel sitting in a 18x24 white frame. in fact it's similiar in size to the okama print i just bought at ax from GOFA which of course i will also take a picture of plus all the goodies i won off yj this past months.

so if by chance there is any collector of vance hu cel network cels out there reading this, you can contact him at vancehu@aol.com