Pete Marino

Closed, met my sales goal

for someone that feels like they are not collecting much these days.  I feel like i've been adding a bunch to the collection of late.  But i couldn't pass up this Cammo page when it was offered to me.

https://cafurl.com?i=29737

I finally got the rest of the pages up that I was able to get from Sean Phillips.  There's a lot of them, so if you want to see them all follow the link.  Below are a couple of my favorites.

All from The Invisibles, Volume 3, by Sean Phillips and Jay Stephens.  15 pages in total!  It's not easy to find a group of pages like this anymore.

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerynew.asp?gcat=53881&pm=1&PI=18&days=30

Been trying to get in touch with Sean Philips for nearly a decade to ask about any Invisibles art he had left.  Finally was able to get him via instagram and was able to get a few pages from him.

Here's the 1st one.  An awesome page that i'm just smitten with the layout of, where Edith is dying and remembering her life with Barbelith in the background of the flashback.

https://cafurl.com?i=29611

this show felt like homework to watch, i dropped it after episode 2, no regrets.

On 3/17/2023 at 7:36 AM, gumbydarnit said:

This piece is my favorite Teen Titans Perez on CAF. It’s not under commented or under viewed, but it was posted on 07 so some may not be aware of it’s greatness. Sit down before viewing this one is awesome ( link )

 

From Charley Williamson’s collection.

This is a pretty <in>famous page that Liefeld traced, i think for XF1?

I'd be more concerned that it is going to end early because someone Vito Corleone's him.

I have never liked a show that makes me feel a bad as this one.

The rollercoaster of this show has been amazing.

I was thinking about why this show feels like Walking Dead, but I like it more.  the characters have a mission, a goal and agency, vs it felt like Walking Dead became "meandering around in the woods with Rick and Daryl"

Not many new art days for me these days.  But I saw this page and really thought it was great.

Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys the Marvel Universe 1 Pg 12

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1895015

had a bunch of amazon no-rush rewards after xmas, and got the "early access" on prime.

I have to say, i went in with low expectations, but i really liked it!  it's now one of my son's favorite movies, and even my wife gave it a thumbs up.

A good family night movie for sure!

On 1/10/2023 at 12:01 PM, Bosco685 said:

 

This show will be like pizza for me, no matter how bad it is, it'll still be DnD and i'll enjoy it.

On 12/2/2022 at 2:48 PM, Bronty said:

Ehh.   They only regret it because they wish they had it back to sell again at a higher price.

They sold it for a reason at the time.

I sold a caldwell 10 or 12 years ago but I'm glad I did... great money at the time.    Not a good deal now, but it let me buy other things at 2010 prices.

I think as a collector (of anything) this is really good perspective that I think everyone should have.  Regrets, we all have a few, but most of them let us get other things that we cherish today as well.

I think too many people forget they sold x that's worth 25 times more today, but it was to help them get that page in their collection that they love.

On 11/25/2022 at 12:48 PM, malvin said:

I assume it's because they don't want comicarttracker to crawl through their website and eat up bandwidth or get information.

Malvin

It's not easy to keep a site like that up and running on an AOL.com connection.

On 10/3/2022 at 7:51 PM, Bosco685 said:

 

It's easy to forget how old it is!  I took both my kids to see it (who are both younger than this movie) and they both were floating 6 inches off the ground they were so blown away by it (we saw it in imax 3d).  It may not have the best plot of all time, but it sure does look pretty.

On 11/3/2022 at 1:56 PM, Dr. Balls said:

I would imagine you could also press this out like a comic, as long as the press was large enough to accommodate an 11x17 sheet. Perhaps by steaming only the backside to loosen the fibers - maybe a presser could do it?

When i had a problem similar to this, i took it to my local framer's that i became friendly with.  They had a giant hot press and took care of it for me.

-Pete

On 10/31/2022 at 1:55 PM, comix4fun said:

Found where it was published. It was called "Lake of Mystery" and it was a game to find the *SPOILER* 17 differences between the top and bottom. 

I just want the skeletor riding a liger with a laser barge saddle toy.  That looks pretty sweet.

I watched it with my family last weekend.

6 year old loved it, 10 year old tapped out half way though (said it was boring), my wife and I both thought it was pretty below average.  There are some pretty good animated movies these days, this one was pretty uninspired.  But I agree with above, the fan-pandering jokes were the highlight.

On 9/24/2022 at 11:48 AM, Dr. Balls said:

D&D art from third edition must be a challenge to track down? That sounds like a really cool focus.

Yeah, it's mostly been a swing and a miss for me.  I got 2 nice things from Sam Wood a long time ago, but that's been pretty much it.  The other stuff I've seen offered have either been way too much or not been something memorable enough to take the plunge.

As the years have gone on, I've narrowed into a few specific sub-set of collecting:

1: The Invisibles by Grant Morrison

2: RPG Art from the games I played a lot (Rifts and D&D 3/3.5)

3: Singular examples of nostalgia from my youth (Jim Lee XM, Liefeld NM/FX, AA Fantastic Four among others)

4: Slott Era ASM/SSM

Once I kind of found my "lane" (and it took a while) I found collecting a lot more enjoyable.

Pages have become pretty hard to find these days.

Best of luck getting a good one!

My wife and I finally got to this series (we constantly have a backlog of shows to watch).  we're 6 episodes in, and so far it's been really good!

I hope they can find some place to make season 2.  I read that releasing it 2 weeks after Stranger Things plus a total lack of advertising killed the show, and that's a shame.

On 8/30/2022 at 12:11 PM, Kryptic1 said:

I see the “recent auction price + a large markup” pricing often and I’m amazed that the market is inefficient enough for that to work.  Is there a large pool of buyers who just don’t pay attention to auctions?  I don’t understand why someone who was unwilling to pay $30k a few months ago is willing to pay $50k today.

"back in the day", I'd chalk a lot of that up to trading.  Dealers buy, mark up, and then trade it for a ton of smaller pages for a "bigger fish" catch for the collector.  Then the dealer has a bunch of lower end art that's easier to move at a great mark-up.  But these days, who knows anymore.