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“The problem with selling in a private sale is that you're limited by your own imagination, even where you're selling at what you think is a very aggressive price that you're happy with. Which means that you're missing the possibility that someone out there is willing to pay a whole lot more” true, but it could also be a lot less

Horrible story! Sorry to hear that. I’ve sold on eBay, OA in the thousands, and never had a problem.....but I do sweat it out until the buyer receives the item and leaves positive feedback.

I’ve lost every time I’ve sold with heritage.....maybe average 20-25%.....I’ve done much better selling on my own. That said I have a few friends that have done very well.

It’s a decent documentary, but as usual, confuses the art market with the art word (I hate that term). It also continues to hammer home that the price is reflective of its excellence.....which is just not always the case.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-risks-auction-prices-artworks-fair-market-value

https://news.artnet.com/opinion/kenny-schacter-on-the-new-york-fall-auctions-1400074

Yeah, when I saw Schulz’s Linework in person at the Masters of American comics show, I was sold! Flawless and graceful! Congratulations on your successful day!

i think what happens on ebay (apart from the buyer pool) is that when something is offered as a BIN you don't feel the desperation that this might be your only chance. It appears that you can always come back and get it.....good price or not

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stan-lee-legacy_us_5bea5ccae4b0caeec2bcd326

Not to get too of topic, but a good friend of mine wrote this book on the Beatles which places them as the starting point of art rock....I highly recommend it Beatles fan or not. https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Circle-Beatles-Art-Rock-Records/dp/9491677438/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541994210&sr=8-1&keywords=Jan+Tumlir

“But, I think comic art is tricky - a lot of it is nostalgia and sentimentality, and I'm skeptical that just keeping the stories alive in cinema and TV creates the kind of maddening passion and obsession that buying and reading stories one issue, one month at a time when we were all younger and our attentions weren't splintered in an infinite number of directions that they are nowadays, did for us. I think fine art is different - it's less about nostalgia and sentimentality and more about education, curation and the marketing machine, so, it's not really dependent on people being exposed to it at a certain time of their lives. As long as there are rich people, they will be drawn to fine art or fine art will be drawn to them; that isn't the case with comic or illustration art at the present time. But, we shall see what the future holds.“ one thing that art art has that’s is really only starting in comics is scholarship; True critical writing that places comics and comic art in a historical niche that’s not (at least attempts not to be) bias. Art has had this for centuries, comics Only decades, and not many at that.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/oliveria39/m.html?item=153102040816&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 just a few things I’m selling to make way for some other things, open to trades as well.....most interested in underground type stuff.

http://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/listing.php?event_id=1297430 if there’s seats left, it’s free.

Great Glen, I’ll pick up a copy of Zyzzyva when your article is out......sounds like an interesting read

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/style/edward-gorey.html?action=click&module=Editors Picks&pgtype=Homepage

If im not mistaken, I read somewhere that it will be on HBO mid November

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/127525_paintings-modern-art-drawings/ really curious how they get away with it

this post above made me think of another observation, Well rendered does not always equate to well crafted, Herriman was an amazing craftsman even though he doesn't have the rendering ability of someone like someone like Wrightson

I think part of the question is HISTORY, and how one sees it in relation the the art form. I personally look at it starting from the turn of the century newspaper comics and the evolution from there to comic books, and the evolution within that chronologically heroes (golden age), to EC, to underground, to alternative etc.; it's really hard to define craft of any art form without knowledge of it's history......maybe part of what is going on is collectors have different ideas of history, say, starting from when they began reading comics to now and don't really care about the rest.....I really don't know.

I have these same questions myself....it actually makes me bang my head on the wall!

Can anyone tell me why Tracy strips have skyrocketed this year?

Tin tin

i was going to say something similar......$

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/how-to-get-scotch-tape-off-of-a-work-of-art/560738/

Always great to learn something new! I’ve never heard of this strip, thanks for posting.