KirbyCollector

Doug told me point blank nope, they like it the way it is. My sense is they have no long-term plan for the business, other than continuing to maintain status quo.

I will happily report back on every one I visit... hopefully I will have some art to share as well! Merci à tous

I wonder sometimes if there isn't a real split in the hobby when it comes to taste, i.e. "I love giant Powergirl boobs all the time" side vs the "It's real art and should be considered as such" side. I tend to be the latter, so the tendency of the show to drift toward the "entertainment" (juvenile humor) side of the aisle can be off-putting at times... Does that make me a snob or prude? I don't know, just how I feel. I do notice neither Mike or Anthony are like this IRL... perhaps being on camera leads to this.

Galerie Martel is going on the list... Brecht Evens art looks amazing

Marge on Line 1... time to sell the black hole art

Don't get me wrong I liked it and thought it was cool... for non-comic OA in what is ostensibly an OA show which is increasingly featuring more and more unpublished and niche art...Barbi Twins, anyone? How about some fresh to the market Malibu pages? If that doesn't wet your whistle, how a Mignola Hellboy piece? Wait, what do you mean you've seen a 1,000 of these... you've never seen THIS one!

You know when you are posting about a Boris Karloff drawing the rest of the art on offer was

What is odd to me is auction data is monetizable, yet HA gives it away for free and Doug will not sell his (for reasons not completely clear to me). I struggle to understand Clink's philosophy... it is rather incoherent from a business perspective.

Doug put it this way to me, if you buy something on HA and try to sell it later you are always competing against the historical price, whereas CLink is always a clean slate for bidders and sellers. Not defending or siding here, just relaying how he thinks.

So many forums... so little time LOL

Wow, great, merci mille fois! Editions Deesse is just around the corner from my hotel, Barbier is a short walk from du 9eme, and Maghen will be a nice stop after visiting Centre Pompidou... hoping to bring home something nice!

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They discount better offline... just one example, but a piece was offered for 2000... recap price was 1600 but no takers... listed on site at 2000, contacted the dealer a few days later and bought it for 1500... good for me but also good for dealer b/c it appears publicly as though the sale was at 2000

Going to Paris soon, looking for OA gallery recommendations... already have Galerie du 9eme on the list

It was in OA because I found my love for the character in Joe Kubert's OA... which I mentioned in my original post

What is interesting is when they lower a price during the recap, and the piece does not sell, it goes up (on both sites) for the original ask. If you see a page posted recently that you like, it pays to review the show, see if it was offered, and then make an offer based on the recap price.

It seems as if the show has more unpublished pieces/prelims/recreations than it did in the past

I'm not sure if the worse thing is treating the comic universe like an old car you can just repaint when you feel like (Intergang is in the movie with no mention of Darkseid) or rehashing the old trope of the "imperialist West" being the source of all evil. I guess the latter sells tickets in China, but I've had enough of it...

I have waited all my life to see Hawkman portrayed in the movies... loved loved loved the origin story, Kubert's early work, the idea of a husband and wife, equally powered hero team... and Black Adam takes all of this and throws it all in the trash to give us winged Iron Man-lite. Worse, they take an incredible entity like the JSA and reduce it to a bench team who comes when no one else (Suicide Squad?) is available... and hey, they removed the "America" from the name, to boot (probably so they wouldn't offend the international audience). This is the last DC film I am seeing... have had enough of them ruining my good comics memories.

I know many collectors do not mind owning a copy... but if I was the one who bought I thought was a one of a kind original, and then found out the artist gladly copied it for someone else... I would think twice about commissioning that artist ever again

A published page is the only guarantee of uniqueness... it is all unfortunately all too common for artists to endlessly generate the same pose or expression if it makes $$$... perhaps if our artists were paid more, or were viewed in a more serious light (e.g., the way they are almost everywhere outside the US), they would be less tempted to do this

I expected it to end over 6k... early Byrne, recognizable, drawn at the end of 1978 just as he was coming into his full power as an artist. Yes, Mooney employed a heavier line than Austin and it is not as beautiful as another Byrne character page done almost at exactly the same time (MTU 79, below, credit to Lee Benaka), but the execution (IMHO) is there nonetheless. Btw interesting to note Byrne's use of white space/lack of backgrounds on several panels on both pages...

I had bookmarked this Byrne page in last Wednesday's Heritage auction but then ignored it, thinking it would be out of reach... was very surprised to see it end under 6K, considering that great middle panel and Spidey in full costume in the expanded lower panel. To me, small cracks like this in pricing are worth noting. Along those lines, I also find it interesting that Glen has been unable to move those three ASM 63 Romita Sr pages, despite what I consider to be reasonable pricing. Buyer fatigue from too much buying earlier this year? Or something else? 🤔

CAF asks how much you paid on every upload page

So... we are supposed to accept the integrity of a Chinese wall he put up with the guy who saved him from bankruptcy. Well, that's fine -- just don't expect me to participate in CAF's pricing data collection, ever.