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New art on the wall! We picked this up at Heroescon 2018 and just got it back from the framer. Kathy put it in a place of honor - our den.

Thanks to the artist, David Petersen, who made it available to us.

I should mention that you can see a bigger image here: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1479894

Also, David's books are available wherever fine books are sold, e.g., your LCS and, of course, Amazon (search for Mouse Guard).

Interesting idea. 

If you are a premium CAF member, you can upload larger images. You can see the result on my Bastian work:

Cursed Pirate Girl herself

Pirate Ship

JB’s First CPG Commission

You should a black bar under the image saying to click on the image to enlarge it. 

Of course, you have to be a Premium member; I find that worthwhile. 

Two sites come to mind:

1. Comic Art Commissions and
2. Deviant Art

The former has listings for various kinds of artwork. 

PM sent with a contact who has pages for sale.

If you happen to see this, please let me know. Thanks.

3 hours ago, dirtymartini1 said:

I am not monkeying around. At least that is the word on the street.

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1485902

Indeed you are not. Those are apes. Apes do not have tails, monkeys do.

You might consider putting the image in a spoiler field. 

5 hours ago, Michael (OML)1 said:

That is a Finn original -- they are exceedingly rare.....yet, I'm sorry to say, of minimal value.  Like many artists, his market will likely skyrocket about his death and people will clamor for his Snoopy renditions....

 

I have no doubt this will fund the college educations of my great-grandchildren. After all, it’s by the greatest artist/lawyer of his generation. 

Re: a terrific piece which has appeared may happen to exceed my cash flow at a given moment

I know the feeling, but I decided long ago on my budget and I stick to it. There will be another or I can prepare by building my stas.

I think Erik did a nice job. 

A stat (photostat) is basically a photocopy laid over the OA to achieve a change to the art, e. g., cover elements or art corrections. 

I’ve never done a trade. All cash all the time. 

To be honest, I have very few pieces that I’d be willing to move. 

I blame Rob Stolzer for this purchase. He has a large selection of Drumm strips and I've enjoyed looking through them. I recently ended up with quite a few ebay bucks and decided a Tippie strip would be really nice. There was a terrific Sunday on ebay, but I got cheap and lost it. These two make a nice replacement. 

9 hours ago, malvin said:

That's a great line :P

Malvin

Thanks. I’ll be here all week.

7 hours ago, ExNihilo said:

Yes!  I "collect" air miles/credit card points as well.  It's the only thing I collect that's guaranteed to yield me a positive return.  

Right there with you. 

2M miles on United and quite a few on AA. 

Since Feb, over 85K on United. 

OTOH, my wife, daughter, and I had a great long weekend in Charlotte for Heroescon thanks to “free” flights and rooms. 

#firstworldproblems

I got the tracking number!

I’m here!

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You might want to explore the following resources

·        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.

·        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.

o   The price information moved to The OA Elite blog. Click on the categories on the top of the page to see the updated list.

o   The discussion moved to Biggest OA Prices: The Blog.

New buyers and sellers often find that OA is too hard to price. I agree. However, I think that there is a valid reason. Each piece is unique. Uniqueness make art sales generally and OA specifically non-linear.

For example,

·        Consecutive pages could and do sell for radically different amounts based on their content. 

·        Take page layout - In general, you might say:

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

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

·        Take pencilers- 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 ...

·        Take combinations of pencilers/inkers - Kirby/Sinnott FF pages rank above Kirby and anyone else on FF, but a Kirby/X 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

·        Comic Art Con

·        Heroes Comic Con

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.

Interesting! Thanks for the post.

Your questions on value retention in comic book are valid. I would not tie my IRA to OA with the possible exceptions of a very small group of artists. It should be considered an expense. Ditto for comics.

As for what I collect - air miles, comics, and comic art.

I just heard from Elaine. My Kaluta piece should arrive at my wife's office on Thursday or Friday!

Hmmm... I forgot Butch Guice. That's late and no word. I share your frustration.