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Man, I'm glad to see these commissions showing up again. I missed them.
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4 hours ago, Twanj said:
Thanks!
I'm a relatively new fan of Coipel, check out that Mighty Thor run & other Thor stuff...and anything else anyone has to recommend by him?
Yes, his work on the Legion of Super-Heroes with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning is exceptional.
There are a couple of collections that you could pickup though I suspect the back issues are pretty cheap, too.They are really great stories if disturbing.
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On 5/10/2019 at 7:35 PM, Nexus said:
(I rep a guy who actually just did a CAPTAIN CARROT cover.
I have a commissioned Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew cover. Click to embiggen.
On 5/10/2019 at 5:05 PM, Matches_Malone said:I never understood collecting unpublished or commission pieces
I commission for a few reasons:
- I have a specific idea that I really like and want to see it realized, e.g., my Yale Stewart L'il Legion and my Frank Brunner Howard the Duck vs. Donald Duck pieces.
- I want to reward the artists for all of the entertainment that they have given me over the years, e.g., my Cardy Bat Lash and Colan Daredevil.
- I like their style and really want a more striking image than most panel pages provide.
- Get to know the artists a bit.
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63 (covers, interiors, and comic strips) out of 321 posted pieces so 20% is published (4:1 ratio).
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Oh, I think most OA collectors are pretty cynical about the value of Certificates of Authenticity from anyone.
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I've been very lucky with my commission requests. I attribute it to my excellent art direction. Here are some examples:
- Jeremy Bastian - "I'd like a Cursed Pirate Girl piece."
- Gene Colan - "Daredevil and Black Widow swinging through town."
- Nice Cardy - "Bat Lash, a girl, and a train."
- Chris Giarrusso - "Sugar and Spike with G-Man and Company"
- Michael Kaluta - "Shadow and Margo with 'some background'"
- Nick Pitarra - "Supergirl and Nick arm wrestling"
Yep, it's the art direction (or maybe it's luck and choosing the right artists).
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If you want to learn about pricing comic book art, this might help. [Put in Spoiler tags because it's long and lots have folks have seen it before though I've updated it a bit.]
SpoilerYou 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.
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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.
- The price information moved to The OA Elite blog. Click on the categories on the top of the page to see the updated list.
- The discussion moved to Biggest OA Prices: The Blog.
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:
- Yahoo's comicart-l mailing list
- The Comic Art Fans website
- The CGC OA Board
The main points of physical contact are probably:
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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
- LA Comic Art Show - Annual art show one week before SDCC to leverage the dealer’s visit to the west coast
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Conventions with High Dealer Attendance
- San Diego Comic Con (July)
- New York City Comic Con (October)
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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.
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My taste is different so bear with me please.
This is the original promotional piece for The Autumnlands: Tooth and Nail by Kurt Busiek and Benjamin Dewey. It captures the essence of the story, I think. Since it's the image that launched the series, I think it's a key. I just wish it was still going.Plutona by Jeff Lemire and Emi Lenox tells the story of a group of kids who find the remains of their town's greatest superhero in the woods and how it affects them. Compelling read. This image was the very first Plutona image and it captures the core of the story in one image. It was used in ads and as the cover to the trade paperback.
Finally, I offer the climax of the graphic novel Mangaman by Barry Lyga and Colleen Doran. The story is a love story about a boy who falls to earth from a Mangaverse and how it impacts the girl he meets.
Click to embiggen.
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Comicpalooza held another surprise. Well, technically not a surprise since he was announced much earlier; it’s just that until the week before I’d not seen his work.
Isaac Goodhart is a young artist who recently illustrated the story of the young Selina Kyle. I picked the book up at my LCS, Bedrock City Comic Co., last week on the strength of the art not registering the artist’s name, just that I liked what I saw.
At CP on Friday, I stopped at his booth and finally made the connection. On Saturday, I brought my copy to be signed and commissioned a drawing of young Selina.
I think it’s terrific and look forward to seeing more work by Isaac.
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Enjoyed Comicpalooza. I still want more comic book guests, but they had a nice crew.
I hadn’t realized that Graham Nolan, co-creator, of Bane would be on hand. Because he was, I spent unexpectedly, but readily. 🙂
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Low priced comic book art from 10 years ago can carry significant value today. This write-up might help you get a feel for a fair price.
SpoilerYou 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.
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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.
- The price information moved to The OA Elite blog. Click on the categories on the top of the page to see the updated list.
- The discussion moved to Biggest OA Prices: The Blog.
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:
- Yahoo's comicart-l mailing list
- The Comic Art Fans website
- The CGC OA Board
The main points of physical contact are probably:
- San Diego Comic Con
- New York City Comic Con
- 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
- Comic Art Con - A twice yearly show in northern NJ within relatively easy reach of both NYC and Newark Airport
- NYC Comic Art Expo - only one so far, but more are promised; not thing but art people (dealers, individual sellers, and buyers) and a few local artists.
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.
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Not that I know of, I think most people just like the bigger image as opposed to fearing a printed forgery if that's what you are thinking.
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Office Depot has the HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 Wide Format All-in-One for $180. Not a bad price.
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You might also like Original Comic Art.
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23 hours ago, stinkininkin said:
I actually posted a Miller Daredevil page on one of the main Facebook group pages today for the first time and was surprised by comments from people there that didn't even know what CAF was. I made assumptions that anyone who would join an original art Facebook group would at least be familiar with CAF, even if wasn't their favorite platform. I never bothered looking at the Facebook group pages in the past because I thought it was redundant, but I have to rethink things.
And now you know how to search the groups. That's useful to see what people post.
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I'd change two things (or really create two new things):
- I want an App that's quick and easy to navigate
- I want a report that I can use to document my collection with an insurance company.
Those are my big two wants.
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I'm glad to see artists getting paid so boom on sketch cover market!
That said, I find them awkward. They don't go into an portfolio gracefully due to the weight and putting them in a box means you can't see it. They just doesn't work for me.
As a matter of full disclosure, I do have two: One was a purchase from The Hero Initiative and the other came in a VIP bag at Amazing Houston Comic Con.Amber Atoms by Kelley Yates from The Hero Initiative.
Commissioner Gordon by Ryan Kincaid as VIP swag
Neither is slabbed. I don't own a single slabbed comic and it will probably stay that way.
I also have an Ah, Yeah Comics blank that I might have Art Baltazar draw on one day, but I'm not convinced that I will. -
Yeah, that @stinkininkin is pretty much all right and that is a sweet cover. Congratulations.
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IIRC, Bill Cox said that that CAF has 40K accounts.
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I really enjoyed the show. I visited it along with the Tolkien Exhibit at the Morgan and Metropolis Comics a couple of months ago. The Tolkien Exhibit was fabulous, but no pictures were allowed.
You can read about the trip and see my pictures here. I photographed each one of Mike's that was on display.https://m.facebook.com/alxjhnsn/albums/10213543190438017/?ref=bookmarks
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For clarity, I was referring to the folks in the book which weighs them by impact on society not which comic creator has had the most impact. Though that's an interesting topic.
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There's a book that I like - The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History by Michael Hart.
It's an interesting ranking because it ranks people by their impact on society. Not on being the best or the worst or the best looking or the smartest, but on their impact.A list of comic book artists ranked by their impact on succeeding generations would be interesting. Anyone want to try to pick number one? Milt Caniff? Someone else?
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If I had to pick four that meant the most to me growing up, they would be Swan, Sprang, Kirby, and <two many others>.
WTB - Scribbly Panel Page by Sheldon Mayer
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I keep hoping!