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https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2017/07/10/erwin-and-alfred-bergdoll-collection-of-underground-comics-and-original-art-donated-to-the-billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum/

“In a statement, eBay said it swiftly reviews and removes items it suspects may be fakes when it receives a complaint. “Counterfeits and unauthorized copies are illegal and not welcome on any of eBay’s sites,” it said.“..........yeah.......right. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/arts/design/fake-art-prints.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/arts/design/great-wealth-transfer-art.html

Now that’s an art history lesson

All this mention of 150k banana and not one mention of the duct tape

https://queensmuseum.org/2019/05/the-art-of-rube-goldberg

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/your-annual-report-from-the-art-filled-new-york-comic-con-1670785

Crossing my fingers they don’t f##k it up. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dbloom/2019/07/12/fabulous-furry-freak-brothers-to-fly-flag-in-animated-series/#1db3b92546a0

Probably everyone else thought that too! Ha!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opinion/mad-magazine-last-issue.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage ive read a few of these articles with no mention of Harvey Kurtzman, from what I’ve read in the past, Kurtz was very involved in the creation of Mad.....thoughts? Insights anyone.....

Great! I used to own one of those! I sold or traded all my Marvel twice ups, so I’ll have to live vicariously through the posters here.

Ha! I bought some of those for driving back in the 80s! I was maybe 19 or 20.......

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/arts/batman-comics.html

thanks for posting!

https://frieze.com/article/why-manga-shouldnt-pretend-be-high-art

I watched that, very uninspired bidding, I read somewhere the estimate was around 2 million +

Really great stuff in there

I have not heard the story, I personally think it’s more of a style thing than incompetence as a draftsman.....he isn’t the type of artist as the guys you mentioned, more of a stylist, and if someone is interested in getting close to “realism” Calkins isn’t for them....he’s quirky but his lines are confident enough that I trust what he does. He also creates some real weirdness that complements the strip in many cases. Ive seen quite a few out there over the years, but not a ton....so maybe he did destroy many of them....that would be too bad IMHO id also just throw out that Ditko could be quite odd at times, and that made for a heck of a lot of charm and humanity to his Spider-Man.

Wow, that’s a great early one! Too bad you didn’t land it. Prices on those have really been up and down over the years; I was happy to see the solid result at heritage.

I love those, Calkins has a great style, nice heavy lines......they’ll be others.

I hear you Gene!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/opinion/jeff-koons-rabbit.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Kirby prices seemed weird

“Robert E. Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for Mr. Koons’s 1986 “Rabbit”

I was a bit shocked by that one