JS

That's not how it works... $12,100 - "fair value" = amount you can claim as a charitable donation. We discussed this a few pages ago. What determines FMV? Here is the defenition from IRS Publication 561: You would have to argue that the FMV of the Adlard cover was less then what it sold for. That seems tough to me. That's why I say you would need to prove that it's FMV is more than what it ended for. $$ - $12,100 = deduction. Either way you want to look at it, consult a competent tax preparer. I don't think the recipient of the artwork can claim ANY write-off because they are receiving the artwork that was sold on the open market. Regardless that the money is going toward charity - the fact is, it sold on the open market and the fact that it sold with the proceeds going to charity does not change the value of the item received. The person getting the write-off here would be the artist IF the artist donated the piece and did not get anything in return. Oh, and never to post here and not take a shot on WD prices. No offense, but 12 grand on that WD cover :insane: :insane: :insane:

What going on.....care to share? kinda looks like Mark from Splashpage hope everyones 4th was safe...do brits do something for the 4th?

Just added a lovely Bernie Wrightson Frankenstein to my collection:

Tim - if you are going to have CPW do additional work why have CGC grade it at all - get it direct -- OR BETTER YET - ask CPW to take the book back do the additional direct from HI?? Then submit to CGC?

wow Valentino's went for over 1000

for the winners -- are you guys going the cgc grading route?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190851416196?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 15 min left on a tony moore wd page on ebay -- not a nice page but its tm and its wd .... sold for 2150~~~ not too shabby for a page

rick and co arriving on a tropical island after months at sea - just stepping out into the forest /// unknown -- WD THE NEXT CHAPTER: REBUILDING SOCIETY or i guess if you wanna get sadistic - how about carl operating a hand crank elevator and splitting a zombie in two? i picture one of those old metal gate type ones --

hey retro that 110 page 1 is actually really nice and for 300 bucks its a great price. plus it has chickens. any walking dead page with chickens is cool. and its a page 1.. so um...i guess what im saying is...tell mark to ship it to me instead

that cover is great

i actually think its one of TM's worse pages -- there is very little detail and its just sort of ho-hum - still its TM and its WD so

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190851416196 Tony Moore WD page on Ebay.

I like Jeff Lemire, Tony Parker, Shawn McManus, Leonard Kirk, and I love Christopher Herndons. The rest are . Here's a link to them in case anyone wanted to see them -- they will all start popping up on June 4 on Ebay: http://www.heroinitiative.org/spage.asp?p=107&ti=The+Walking+Dead+100+Project

thats a great convention sket....oh. nevermind.

i love the wheres waldo chick in the top left ;x

hey for everyone who wants a very cheap option for framing check out these guys which are local to me and i get all my stuff done there: www.arttoframes.com if you measure your stuff yourself, you can get acid free backing, uv plexiglass and ppretty much any color/size you want for well under 100 bucks for a very large size and well under 50 bucks for a 11x17!

ever since his eBay auctions, the cheapest as of the end of 2012 was around $600. This year, they've averaged $950. i remember seeing on end on ebay around 350 for cinn-con? maybe it was 2 years ago already..sheesh im getting old

different claudio - not inferior -- in fact - i think adlard is better at drawing emotion than moore - moore is very cartoony - very teenage style - adlard has got a lot of maturity to his work - unfortunately hes also got a schedule which means the last 15 issues have been terrible and the last 30 were worse and worse progressively. what passes for a cover now is pathetic and the prices paid for them are even worse. that said, i wouldnt pay 1000 for a TM commission either - he doesnt seem to spend too much time on them - the time he spends is probably worth a couple of hundred bucks if that - the problem is - too many people would want them at that point - so i really think he has to keep the artwork prices artificially high - remember kiddos, his commissions as close as LAST YEAR were going for 3-500.

picked up one of my favorite pieces of MtG artwork:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WALKING-DEAD-29-PG-4-MICHONNE-AND-THE-GOVERNOR-ORGINAL-ART-SIGNED-/300897976811?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item460eeac1eb nice page up on ebay

TY

anyone else having trouble with CAF? wanted to post a new pick up:

the box looks legit!! maybe they have a fancy bootlegging operation there in anguilla where the seller is located

just watched the finale. boo. super boo. so many reasons to boo, too lazy to type - but seriously, the entire season was pretty lame. also about syndication - its tough for a show like TWD to syndicate well - each episode is a progression and doesnt really work well on its own - take any really successfully syndicated show: seinfeld, mash, law and order, star trek, simpsons -- they all worked well as individual episodes, and because of that, they worked well in syndication... you cant really watch TWD out of order...can you? oh, and finally, boo season 3, boo.

woah, gone for a week or so and i miss a lot! congrats james on the massive purchase