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Feel like I’m on Reddit. I’m gonna say ESH. I can see how your phrasing in the highlighted below could be construed as him being a consolation prize… but his reaction seems a bit extreme. A lot of artists are delicate creatures. Doesn’t seem like you’d get what you wanted from the artist at this point, so I’d just move on from that one.

Maybe he got it in a trade…

Deathmate DPS “sold” in January from Nostalgic Investments. Think the price was 2Kish? https://www.nostalgicinvestments.com/comic-art/deathmate-red-p1314-double-page-spread Now available for 3500 through Panel Page Art. https://panelpageart.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=3339

And Will, Panel page, And Nostalgic investments… nothing sold from what I see. Pretty telling that 6 dealers have 1 piece sold between the lot of them. Seems like buyers are pretty tired of their s***.

Yeah, Nick and Los bros had sold 1 piece between the 3 of them when I looked this morning.

My thoughts are the same as most CAFlive events… lots of deja vu, aspirational pricing, lots of recent recycling. Bought two pages first thing that I hadn’t seen up before. Was happy to get them because it seemed like the server was overloaded at open and wasn’t sure my requests would go through. Just like at normal cons, I avoid the dealers / flippers.

I got in fine from Cali. I should’ve logged in earlier to get some more deals.

I’ve only sold one piece to someone who gave me a story about how much it meant to them. It was a random, inexpensive piece that I would’ve been surprised for someone to lie about. Made me a good offer, and have never seen it again. So I’m just assuming he’s enjoying looking at it on his wall now. Every other time I’ve gotten lowball offers, so it’s been easy to crush dreams.

Is he even going to be at a table? He’s just there Saturday, and I’m pretty sure it’s just for his panel and anybody who buys one of the ‘experience’ packages. Don’t think he’ll be on the floor. https://www.phoenixfanfusion.com/comicbook/jim-lee And I heard the packages at Baltimore last year were messy, so even that’s not a guarantee.

Not sure what listing you’re referring to, since he had A LOT of marked up listings in the last CAFlive.

My personal experience is the same. Watched a show a few months back for a piece that showed up at the end with an aspirational price. Didn’t sell, and days later it’s in his CAF gallery with a glowing ‘so happy I get to keep it’. 😒 Couple that with previous CAF posts about ‘grails’ that ended up on the last CAFlive at crazy prices, I don’t think it’s out of the realm of reason to imply what Xatari did, intentionally or not. He’s welcome to do whatever he wants with art he owns. As we’re welcome to call out practices we’re clearly observing.

Quite a talent to draw something that filthy without being explicit. 😮

Sold on 4.2.23 for 13,200. Now available for significantly more I’m sure through coollines. Not sure who’s doing more color tweaking on the scans. New overlay, hopefully not directly on the art…

Not being overly concerned with getting a huge (or any) ROI is a far cry from throwing money away, especially if you’ll have no NEED to sell. It’s whatever. I just don’t agree with the idea that everyone is going into every purchase looking at investment.

1000 to you may not be 1000 to someone else. I’d imagine the numbers are looked at differently when it’s 50% of your discretionary budget vs .1%. Yup. I’m for sure at least mindful of ROI when buying published art. But not on commissions. I’m positive I’d lose money on 99% of the commissions I have, and I’m okay with that.

I bid on this one, but not very hard. Would’ve bid more if it was an actual red skull.

Yeah, it’s a recreation of his first NM page. It hangs over my bed like an evil dream catcher. Lol

Never posted this, partly because I still haven’t done a good scan of it. Oversized recreation from 2017 Bill did.

I thought this one still had some room. First NM issue Magik appears in.

I can’t help but think the anonymous member watching this thread is a dealer…

I’m liking more stuff in the weeklies lately.

Just remembered this was up not long ago. Hope they at least enjoyed it the last year.

Hope the seller of the Sienkiewicz NM cover got a HA BP discount… not much more than the eBay sale from a few months back…

Yup. I don’t need as much on a published piece - often they can speak for themselves. But I’m always surprised when nothing is written about a commission. There had to be a reason to get it done, and I’d be curious of it. And yeah, there’s been many a wordy description that gave me insight into either the piece or the collectors attachment to it that prompted me to comment.

Here’s the thing… a lot of these links you’re posting have zero descriptions. My personal rule of thumb on CAF… if the owner can’t be bothered to write anything about the piece, neither can I. They get a like.