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@delekkerste you would enjoy the book. That first piece along with a couple other key pieces were found relatively recently. IIRC the story is something along the lines of... the art was found in a warehouse when ownership of the company changed

I know S.F.A about D&D and I don't have my copy of the Arcana book handy but I remembering noting this existed so I grabbed it from google, and I think this. This lower one might be the one you mean? Not sure.

Lol

And it doesn’t strike you as unusual that everyone is completely shirtless yet in had to hand combat with bladed weapons? Call me crazy but somebody get some armor or a leather brigandine or something I love the painting but they do look to be down with something other than fighting

You never noticed the huge buttquack before?

Charity is great and I support it wholeheartedly. But giving shouldn't be legislated.

Again, its in the details no? Comic art is a miniscule part of the overall art market that such a policy would apply to.

And as was pointed out, you can't legislate fairness. You can't even get two people to agree on what fairness is. You sell something, its not yours anymore. Period. If an artist wants to participate in his market, all he has to do is keep some of what he produces. Adams could have done that if he had wanted to, and he's not on food stamps. Remind me why he needs to be paid twice? Because I'd like to be paid twice too. Clearly, its intended to help the artist who is poor but whose work is valuable. Like other socialist ideas, the devil is in the details. Say I collect Warhol or Damien Hirst (I don't and couldn't afford it). I'm supposed to send Andy's heirs a check? Damien a check? He doesn't need any help. The legislation is rooted in the idea of the poor struggling artist needing help from the state. I'm not sure that's the reality very often. I'm no expert but my perception is that many fine artists who achieve success (and high prices) these days (fine artists or otherwise) achieve that success and get those high prices while they are relatively young while those that don't experience success and high prices while young, for the most part never do. A resale right/royalty is poor policy for many different reasons.

Obviously I don't know Neal to be able to say, but from 1000 miles away that would be my guess as well with the exception that any art returned to him he would have sold for a three figure amount in the 1970s through Mitch or whomever. There'd be no goldmine.

2.5k I believe yes

For my money it’s Alan Moore in a landslide Then Miller, Crumb or N. Adams

that's odd alright. Somewhere out there is an LCS with a Thai restaurant ad in their crapper.

agree 100% .

precisely

That's germaine to the price of the final more than the price of the prelim. I know you know that... so I'm not sure where this is going. Here we have extremely large absolute values at play with extremely low supply of art from this extremely famous and high profile artist. Is it any wonder that the results may be wonky? We have several extremes at play.

again there are so many variables. I think its more like 1-25 % tbh but as was said usually 5-10%. In this case I'd guess there are so few items on the market by Raphael's hand that any percentage is pretty well out the window. At the end of the day, just like finals, you judge each prelim piece on its merits.

I love when you go off on a tangent... its like a fun ride with an unknown destination

Honestly that makes me sick.

Let's say I work at the mint. Do I deserve 10% of the coins and currency that I create? You need to separate the work from what it sells for as a collectible. As Vodou pointed out, without having worked at DC and specifically on batman none of his art would have much value. It sucks for artists that didn't keep their art, I get it. But its also a massive windfall for those that did. At the end of the day, whether you create something or not, once you sell it, you've sold it. If that's not how it works then property rights are a sham and we're all communists. How about your house? Are you going to pay your contractor 10% when you resell it?

Its a lot more than just alright! That said, I 100% agree that you have to dismiss the price entirely if discussing the image quality and also dismiss the image quality entirely if discussing the price. Your Hogarth pieces are nice as well.

Wow. Now that’s a prelim! price aside it’s a beautiful drawing .

Neal's human, and we can all be a little greedy at times. When a lot of money is involved many of us will perform some fancy mental gymnastics to convince ourselves we have a right to a cut of it. I'd like to think that if I were Neal I'd realize that my windfall isn't big prices on covers I sold long ago, its selling commissions all day long for prices other artists would be overjoyed to get, but maybe it would all get clouded in my head. A lot of artists don't really understand their market.

thx.

do you guys think this is legit https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/charles-schulz-snoopy-from-peanuts-specialty-illustration-original-art-1974-/p/7212-59001.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515

Yeah watching that was pretty cringey. You can see his wheels turning as he's speaking.