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@Dr. Balls, I look forward to it primarily to meet new folks and renew acquaintances with others. Compared to Comic Art, airfare is cheap. Fly down.
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Added information about the CAF's Comic Art Estimator Tool.
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It's projected to be pretty much like an Artist Alley at most shows with a smaller crowd in front of the large number of artists.
There will be:- Dealers with their stock
- Artists doing sketches and pre-show commissions
- Collectors with tables showing and selling
The pre-con commission opportunities have been a real surprise to me. Lots of folks that don't normally do commissions are doing them for the show. Not all are affordable, but that's supply and demand for you.
I'm flying in on Friday and out on Sunday.
They have 49 artists posted with more to be announced (they've said the target is 60).
Dealers:
Publishers and Affiliates
Collectors:
And some gallery space.
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On 12/13/2023 at 9:43 AM, tth2 said:
I definitely wish Heritage wouldn't always list its lots in alphabetical order.
Just once I'd like for bidders to use up their funds on the S-Zs and leave some A-Cs to be snapped up at relatively reasonable prices.
Yeah, a randomized list would be good for the bidding order. The Viewing order could have a sort option to so that viewing wouldn't change.
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On 12/11/2023 at 4:22 PM, Silver Surfer said:
Any idea what it previously sold for?
This is the one referenced in the quote:
For what it's worth, a single panel page from this issue sold in Oct 2, 2021 for $35,000.00.
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On 12/7/2023 at 9:25 AM, KirbyCollector said:It's sad. He bought this page not so long ago (2021-01-15) for a pretty penny ($50K). I do hope he enjoyed it.
I exchanged some correspondence with Maggie Thompson. She is the one who sold it along with two other pages from the book. She told me that Julie Schwartz gave the three pages to Don and her when they visited DC once. She found them after Don passed in an envelop in a desk drawer. They'd forgotten about them for 60 years!
You might wonder why I paid so much attention to these pages, well, it's simple. This is the splash to the first comic that I ever read. Bought it from a vending machine in Brownsville, TX as my family was returning from a vacation trip to Mexico - 9 people aged from 3 to 60 something (my folks (2), me and my sibs (3), a maternal aunt, her daughters (2), and my maternal grandmother) riding in a six passenger Plymouth station wagon.
I had 15 cents and paid the machine. My brother and stared at that page trying to figure out who everyone was and how they related. A number of years ago, Kathy bought me a page from that book. The full story is on the CAF post. Just click the image of my page below.
That purchase led to 10s of thousands more and a lot of art as well.
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There are a lot of venues. You can find a list of some of them in the hidden text of the first post on this thread - Pricing Comic Art - 2023 Edition.
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5x what I normally spend for a piece isn't an issue assuming it's less than my annual spend.
I am willing to spend the annual all in one go if the timing is right, but if it isn't; I'll pass no matter what the piece.
5x what I spend in a year is not going to happen unless I've been planning to do it, e.g., selling comics to build a war chest for my wish list.
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Is it really unpublished? The finished image was published in advertising material, was it not?
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On 11/29/2023 at 8:05 PM, Ron C. said:
Super Friends #38 cover recreation by Ramona Fradon (pencils and inks). 11 1/2 by 17 on Bristol.
Hand lettering of all by Jack Morelli.
Ramona's work always makes me smile.
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Yeah, deciding to send the art is the biggest decision. Priority Registered from Houston to Orlando was $80. So, $160 was the minimum I would have spent.
As far as bleaching goes, I have a sunburned piece (why was it framed off center anyway?)
It's colored pencils. When I asked other restorers (not Alexandra), they said that there was nothing that they could do. Basically, I would need to block off the tanned area and let the lighter side age.
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On 11/23/2023 at 8:32 AM, Rick2you2 said:
I don’t take it personally; I do think that there is a difference which deserves to be observed.
Would Alex Johnson not be considered a smart guy because he likes fake Sugar and Spike recreations? What about people here who collect things like commissions, even though they have the least likelihood of appreciation?As I have said before, I spend the same pool of funds money that my friends prefer to spend on their golf games. I really don't care about resale value. I hang some and put the others in portfolios that display on custom book stand and flip through each day. It makes me smile.
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On 11/23/2023 at 7:19 PM, JC25427N said:
I feel like there’s some context I’m missing here
One of the two most commonly mentioned comic art restorers is Robert Dennis. Robert attended the proceedings of January 6th, 2021 in Washington, D. C. and was convicted of attacking officers. He was later sentenced to 36 months in prison and fined.
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On 11/23/2023 at 9:23 PM, Will_K said:Can you describe the pricing / cost for the jobs ?? Hourly ? Based on the type of restoration / conservation ?
Here's how it went. I reached out and explained what I wanted done and asked if she was interested. She was.
I sent her pictures of the pieces and my areas of concern. She made some comments, but said that she couldn't quote unless she had the pages in hand to examine.
I made the decision to send them to her - USPS Priority Registered. USPS Priority Registered keeps the package under lock and key the entire way, but it is slow. I put an Apple AirTag in the box to track it. That was interesting to see.
She got the pages and told me what she thought she could do and what she would not be willing to do (bleach the pages due to the damage that causes). Eventually, she sent me a quote and asked for 1/2 up front with the balance due when she shipped the completed work back. The bid was Lump Sum Turnkey (LSTK). I could have declined. The cost in that case would be the shipping in each direction. There was no charge for the evaluation mentioned.
She sent a large number of pictures of the work as she did it.
The total less S/H was just a bit more than $1600 for the batch, but she didn't do a lot of work on some of the pages.
Turnaround from the time she received the material to the time she shipped it back was a couple of days over a month. Your mileage my vary depending on her workload.
On 11/24/2023 at 2:49 PM, timguerrero said:I would also appreciate this information Alex. Is she the same restorer that did some work for Bill Cox?
Yes, Bill Cox recommended her and used her services.
On 11/25/2023 at 11:02 AM, Xatari said:Same.
See above.
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I have a little more time so here's the next piece that I had restored. It's page 11 of S&S 93, a one page story entitled How to play Arrgh!.
Here are the before and after images:
The scans don't show much difference, but the patched area is much lighter now. She lifted it off, cleaned up the glue on both the board and the patch and used an archival hinge to allow me to see bot the original drawing and words and the printed panels.
Here's what was under the patch after it was cleaned:
Now here's the patch:
I think he definitely improved the story with his change. I'm grateful that she could clean and neutralize the glue and hinge the patch so I can view both.
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I recently hired Alexandra vonHawk of Von Hawk Labs Restoration (https://www.vonhawklabs.com) to restore four pieces of art from my collection.
I thought I'd show these two first. They are:- An unused cover proposed for Scribbly #13 based on the writing on the piece
- A recreation done by Sheldon Mayer in watercolor, pen, and ink.
Here we have the before (top row) and after (bottom row).
I now think the color piece was intended by Sheldon to be the cover to Buzzy, but DC used a different artist. This explains why Scribbly's hair is red vs. the normal black. Here's the published Buzzy cover for comparison.
The other images are progress shots from Ms. vonHawk as she worked on the pen and ink piece.
I'm very pleased with her work and communication.
Hope you enjoy it.
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I thought I'd share this $100 piece - the Red and Rover strip for 2023-06-04. Click the image to learn more!
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This belongs in the Original Comic Art Marketplace.
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I have my want list setup, it got one ping for a piece well above what I can/would pay. That's okay.
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I wouldn't ink the pencils, but I did have Joe Rubinstein ink a blue-line and had Laura Martin color that.
The pencils hang at my house. The colored piece at my eldest's house.
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On 11/7/2023 at 6:31 PM, Dr. Balls said:
Is that a custom-made bookstand? It's very cleanly designed, I really like the idea of taking a portfolio and creating a little area to flip through art - this will be an alternative if my wife decides to claim the guest room's walls that I've started hanging art on (we don't have many guests
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@Dr. Balls,Yes, it's custom. If you are interested, I can put you in touch with my cabinet maker. He's really good and affordable. Just PM me.
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Yeah, and at just the wrong time for me.