2012 has been an odd one

So my collecting year hasn't passed as I intended in 2012. I have made a couple of good additions to the go-go check collection passing the 20% complete threshold, and I have continued to add and slab books in my Strange Adventures set - finally reaching 5th place on the registry, just ahead of the 420kid...but although 2nd through 4th are reasonably attainable, I doubt I will ever be 1st - at least not as I am going. Perhaps, some day.

Money has been the big bugaboo this year. I only sold two paintings this year, and more money had to go toward my MG than toward my comic addiction, and then I overextended myself this last spring to get myself gallery representation in New Orleans (which will pay for itself eventually - I know it will). I know it is better to overextend myself to promote myself, than to feed my comic addiction - but when I look back at my acquisitions for 2012, I can't help but wonder if there was something better I could have done with my extra cash.

With some luck, someone, somewhere, might just buy me a single book to add to my addiction for the holiday - but I find that unlikely. Not impossible - but unlikely. We'll see.

To each of you - I wish you the best in your collecting goals for 2013 and beyond, and I hope that 2012 was everything you expected it to be.

Happy Hunting!

Lee K

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