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Chuck runs a lot of 50% off sales for his mailing list and to my knowledge doesn't restore comics without disclosure.

It’s a great thread!

Posted mine in my Lowry on the CAF. Thought I'd add them here with a little commentary. Published Covers (Unpublished covers as well) Published Splashes, Pin-Ups Another note about this page, Peter adds the letters as a paste-up after they are done for publication because he feels they provided needed context. I really like that! Published Interior Panel pages Published Strip Art Published/Unpublished Commissions (work artist drawn outside of conventions) Unpublished Convention Sketches Published/Unpublished Other (all Published/Unpublished material which doesn’t fall into the other 6 categories (drawings, prelims, Style Guides, Rock Poster art, illustrations. etc.)) Honorable Mentions Here’s my entire 2017 list. It includes pieces that belong to my daughters and my wife, but which I put in my CAF because they never would.

I use the HP Officejet 7612 on my iMac. Usually scan with Preview.

This was $250 from Thom Zahler. It's my daughter and her husband and the date is the date of their wedding. Click the image to learn more about it including seeing the cover by Thom that it was based on.

You can ask. He's easy to find on FB, but he doesn't do commissions except for charity auctions and this dinner. For the dinner, it was limited to head shots though he'd do more as you can see in my wife's Maleficent (she got the dragon, too). He even did one that was just Mjolner and it was way cool. Who knew.

I certainly like my HP Officejet 7612. I really appreciate getting full 11x17 scans.

I think they are collectors in dealer's clothing.

I wasn't trying to dump on them. I simply provided an example of what they do with (I hope) minimal editorial commentary and direct quotes.

I need to put together a DB Q&A. I started one once, but ... I believe that they are really collectors in disguise. They do enough business to keep the IRS happy and buy comic art for themselves. Just my opinion. They do special things to make a cover. No doubt. Here's my favorite I'd like to preface this with that my relationship with Coollines Art has been only through e-mail and while we've never struck a deal they have always been prompt and polite. That said, they do things differently than I would and one of those is "restoration" of their art. One example is Curt Swan's cover for Superman Annual #7. This Curt Swan piece was sold on Heritage in 2007 - As I understand it, the Heritage buyer sold/traded it to the Donneleys. They now show it on their site as: A conversation on the Curt Swan FB fan page led to an e-mail conversation with Steve. Steve told me in that note that: They "restored" the cover to its original state by re-creating stats. An interesting point was made on the Swan FB page by Ray Cuthbert about Steve's assumption: While I would not have mounted "replacement stats" on the original Swan piece, I might have done it on an overlay. There are several takeaways here: People do try to "restore" art and Coollines is one place that does. Proper restoration is hard. Be an informed buyer One man's restoration is another man's fake. By the way, this piece was not originally designed for the cover of Superman Annual #7. Ray Cuthbert says: The statuette image was originally used prior to SUPERMAN ANNUAL #7 - as the Independent News Initiative Award. This is why the actual original art has a different inscription than on the ANNUAL cover. Here’s that original image:

It's the pedantic guy again. Mike's painting infringes on DC's trademark - not copyright. Unless Mike sold the copyright to the image to the commissioner (unlikely), Mike holds the copyright to the image - not DC or the commissioner. As to the legality of it all, it's not at all obvious that a statue based on a painting infringes on the painting copyright. It is obvious that the painting infringed on the trademark of Batman held by DC. It is rude though to make the statue from painting without letting Mike know. It's unlikely that DC couldn't contact him or didn't know it was his work. That's just common courtesy - which isn't all that common, I guess. Later.

Add one more to the "no ethical issue that I can see" column.

#truth

When you start talking parody and "fair use," things really get complicated. I'm an Electrical Engineer and Software Developer by training, but the proper use of words has always been an interest. If you really want to stir me up, just say "That's just semantics." Given that semantics is what gives words meaning, saying some statement is "just semantics" is the same as saying "I don't care what words mean and "I don't want to clarify the statement because I don't really want you to understand." That way lies anarchy!

So, I had my 5 figured out before Christmas and then Kathy messed it up with a great Christmas gift. Sigh... #firstworldproblems

Thanks. I am pretty proud of 15 year old me. It's the only piece of art that I've created, I think, other than a class assignment.

Re: Trademark vs. Copyright If the image is a copy of a published scene, that's a copyright violation. If the image uses a trademarked character or item, e.g., Superman or the S-Shield, that's a trademark violation. If the image uses Superman in a new scene, that's a trademark violation, but not a copyright one. If the image uses your character in a scene that is identical to a published one with your character replacing the original, there may or may not be a copyright issue depending on how much of the image is retained from the original. Yes, I'm pedantic.

Yeah, Romita's art isn't getting cheaper and your page is an excellent example.

Nice pickups! I've often thought about looking for a Spider-man strip by Romita and your's is pretty much perfect. Congratulations. I will just have to make do with MJ.

Regarding commissions retaining value or going up, I'll say what I always say, "If you want to make a small fortune, start with a large one and buy commissions." That said, the CAF reports that only 16% of my pieces are published (covers, splashes, or interior pages). I've told my family that they can hope for 40% of what I paid at most on them.

Nice work! I made a map once. I wanted a large map of Middle Earth to frame and hang. I was 15 or so. I made a copy of a map from a hard cover LotR volume and used a scaling technique from my drafting class to enlarge it to poster board size. I then colored it with colored pencils. I never had it framed; it was too expensive. Somewhere along the line, I lost it. I had no clue where it was and didn't ask anyone until about 35 years later. My brother matter-of-factly said that it was in a portfolio of my mom's behind the couch in her living room. I found it right where he said it was and it had aged/browned which actually made it look better. It's framed now. I wasn't clever enough to scan or photograph it before framing, but you can see it by clicking the image below.

You might also consider the escrow service offered by Not So Nice Art.

I am enjoying this. Thanks for starting the thread.

Three pieces of art appeared under our tree this year. Click the image to learn more. My wife got a recreation of her favorite Peanuts trip by Bruce McCorkindale My Secret Santa got me a wonderful addition to my "Supergirl vs." theme. This time she's taking on her jerk ex-boyfriend Powerboy. An the capper to my Christmas, Jeremy Bastian's very first Cursed Pirate Girl commission

Ditto - I'd treat the 6 pages as one item IF the total is less than $300.