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    What are some themes in your OA collection?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    On 8/20/2019 at 5:33 PM, Mike R V said:

    Curious to see what drives some of your OA collection decisions. Maybe this can spark some ideas for new collections. 

    I've done the research and posted it on the internet!

    Check it out here: Themed Art Galleries on Comic Art Community.

     

    I need to update it. If you'd like me to add you and your themes, PM me here.

    As for me, my themes are:

    Houston Comic Art Collectors Gathering for 2019

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    On 7/29/2019 at 2:03 PM, MrBedrock said:

    Alrighty...here we go...

    Bedrock City Comic Co. will be hosting an original comic art gathering, meet and greet, show and tell, fun-fest (or whatever else you want to call it) on Saturday, September 7th starting around 7:00pm and ending whenever. This is the evening of the Son of HoustonCon show (an old-style vintage comic and collectibles convention), which closes at 5:00pm Saturday afternoon, so folks should have some time to freshen up, get some art together and make the trip to the store. Our address is 6516-D Westheimer Rd. Houston TX 77057. We are about twenty minutes from the Wyndham at the corner of Westheimer and Voss. This will not necessarily be open to the public, but anyone who posts regularly here, anyone who travels into town for the show, and most of the regular locals are certainly invited. I will be providing drinks and pizza - woohoo! So mark your calendars! If you have any questions at all please pm me here, email me at richard@bedrockcity.com or call my cell at 713-412-7259.

    Thanks!

    Richard

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    The OFFICIAL "This week in your ORIGINAL ART collection?"

    in Original Comic Art

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    On 8/19/2019 at 10:33 AM, Canadiancomics said:

    I guess you could say I had some luck this weekend, newest additions to my Amazing Spider-Man 100 jam piece include Todd McFarlane (Scorpion) Art Adams (Hobgoblin) and Frank Cho (Mj).

     

    J Scott Campbell - Lizard

    Todd McFarlane - Scorpion

    Adam Hughes - Gwen Stacy

    Frank Cho - Mary Jane

    Arthur Adams - Hobgoblin

    Adam Kubert - Kingpin

    Ron Frenz - Spider-Man

    Humberto Ramos - Green Goblin

    Mike Zeck - Punisher

    Mark Bagley - Sandman

    Tyler Kirkham - Rhino

    Joe Sinnott - Dr. Doom

    Erik Larsen - Doc Ock

    Clayton Crain - Carnage

    Adi Granov - Venom

    Bob McLeod - Kraven

    Ed McGuinness - Mysterio

    Keith Pollard - Black Cat

    Joe Jusko - Electro

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    Are you going to have it inked? If so, blue line or pencils?

    Me? I might have it blue lined inked only though I'd be tempted to have different inkers try their hands on it to see what differences show up.

     

    Show off your favorite Prelims

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    Here are two that I really like and the final piece for each. The preliminaries were bought from Anthony Snyder after the artist had passed away. It never occurred to me to ask for them when I did the commission.

    Nick Cardy - Bat Lash (click to embiggen)

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    Giordano - JLA (click to embiggen)

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    The MVP of your collection (with respect to objective value)

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    As a rule, I don't want a lot of examples by the same artist though I will buy multiples for various reason, e.g., different characters.

     

    (1) On which artist have you spent the most money to date?

    Yale Stewart - That's driven by a single commission that is the most expensive piece in my collection.

    H.G. Peter - if you are looking for published pieces

     

    (2) In your collection, which artist's works have the most combined value (when assessed objectively)?

    So many of mine are commissions (sell at 50 cents on the dollar), it's really hard to say, but if I had to guess, I'd saw the Curt Swan pieces are the most valuable as a group (2 commissions - Superman & LSH - and 2 published pages (LSH). Again, this is biased because I have so few per artist - an average of just under 1.5 per artist.

     

    (3) In your collection, which artist's works are the most common?

    As mentioned, I average just under 1.5 pieces per artist.

    Yale Stewart - 9 pieces followed by Joe Eisma and Thom Zahler with 5 each, Curt Swan, Nick Pitarra, and Terry Moore with 4 each.

    This is just my collection, if I were to throw in my wife's and my daughters', Katie Cook with have the most pieces of art (27). Those mini-paintings are addictive!

    TwoMorrows, Jack Kirby, and you

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    TwoMorrows is looking for a little help. 

    They wrote: 

    “TwoMorrows Publishing URGENTLY needs your help finding a few images for our upcoming hardcover book JACK KIRBY's DINGBAT LOVE!

    It collects Kirby's final unpublished stories from his DC Comics projects Dingbats of Danger Street #2 and #3, True Divorce Cases, and Soul Love.

    Here's a link to download a small PDF file showing what we need, and please help spread the word!

    www.twomorrows.com/media/DingbatLoveArtNeeded.pdf

    Houston Comic Art Collectors Gathering for 2019

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    @MrBedrock, Richard Evans, wants us to know that he'll be hosting a gathering later this year for comic art collectors. So, your planning!

    We anticipate it occurring late summer/early fall comic art gathering at the Bedrock location at 6516 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77057. 

    I hope our members in Texas cities like Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, Waco, the Metroplex, Beaumont will all attend.

    More information as it becomes available. Feel free to post questions here and I'll get answers.

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    Ron Lim - SIlver Surfer Pages

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    One standard art pricing answer coming up. Hope it helps.

    Spoiler

    You might want to explore the following resources

    • The website Comic Art Tracker can help you find art and look at current asking prices for similar pieces.
    • The OA auction archive at Heritage Auctions – This archive presents the results from all of their OA auctions.. Once you sign-up and get an id, you can search for pieces by your artist and see what they have sold for.
    • The CAF Market Data - More auction results (more than 1,000,000) are available if you join the Comic Art Fans site, pay for Market Data access, and access eBay and other auction sites as well as Heritage.
    • The Comic Art Database. It contains transaction records entered by the owners of Comic OA.
    • Dealer sites. Dealers, generally, post their art with fixed prices though there are exceptions. There is a list of dealers on CGC OA board and the Dragonberry site has a list as well. The CAF site will search the inventories of several dealers for you. [Of course, Comic Art Tracker is better.]
    • Blouin Art Info which tracks sales at major art auctions. It can turn up some Comic OA as well. Look for the “Art Prices” item on the top right of the screen
    • Jerry Weist's Comic Art Price Guide - Heritage published a third edition of it. In my opinion, it's a good history book and might be useful for comparison work, but it was out of date a year before it was printed.
    • A topic  on the CGC OA boards, A-level panel page valuations by artist/run - thoughts/additions/changes?, holds a discussion that relates to your question. It provides some "generally agreed upon" ranges for popular runs by popular artists on popular characters.
    • The Biggest OA Prices thread tracked some of the largest sales in the OA space. While that particular thread has stopped; it's probably worth reading for the discussions. Meanwhile , the information is still being updated - just with a different mechanism.
    New buyers and sellers often find that OA is too hard to price. I agree that it is difficult. However, I think that there is a valid reason. Each piece is unique. Uniqueness make art sales generally and OA specifically non-linear.

     Examples of how piece can differ in ways that impact pricing include:

     
    • Content: Consecutive pages could and do sell for radically different amounts based on their content. 
    • Page Layout: In general, you might say:
     

     

     Covers > 1st Page Splash > Other Splash > 1/2 splash > panel page

    However, that's not always true either. The right panel page can be much more compelling than a bland splash.

     
    • Penciler vs. character: There are "A-list" artists, but not all of their books/characters have the same value. Kirby FF pages generally go for more than JIM/Thor pages which go for more than Cap pages (2nd run) which go for more than ...
    • Pencilers/inkers combinations - Kirby/Sinnott FF pages rank above Kirby and anyone else on FF, but a Kirby/InkerX FF page might be more or less than a Kirby/Stone Thor page. Hard to tell.
     

    Finally, you should join the comic book OA community. The three main points of Internet contact are:

    The main points of physical contact are probably:

     
    • Dedicated Comic Art Shows
      • Comic Art Con (Spring/Fall) - A twice yearly show originally in northern NJ, but moving to NYC. The domain seems to have lapsed, but the show owner has a page for it here.
      • NYC Comic Art Expo - Annual spring show, nothing but art people (dealers, individual sellers, and buyers) and a few local artists. Held at the Penn Hotel opposite Penn Station
      • Torpedo Comics Collectors Convention (née LA Comic Art Show) - Annual art show one week before SDCC to leverage the dealer’s visit to the west coast
    • Conventions with High Dealer Attendance
    • Shows with a comic artist focus
      • Heroes Comic Con - Not a lot of comic art dealers, but a huge number of artists who generally will draw and have portfolios to sell
      • Baltimore Comic Con - Similar to HeroesCon.

    One last comment, if you are looking to buy or sell, spend the time to learn the market. That might take 6 months, but it's worth the time.