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On 5/30/2023 at 12:21 PM, Ryan. said:

Sakai would be thrilled to draw Groo since it's a property he enjoys and it's created by his good friend. Similarly, Kevin Eastman enjoys drawing Usagi or Daredevil or Batman or many other characters besides TMNT. Do artists not enjoy drawing new things, and apply their own creativity to requests other than the same character(s) again and again? In my experience they definitely do. If it's a character or concept they aren't comfortable drawing they can always decline and suggest something else.

I'm not asking this to @Bronty specifically; just using his message to discuss the point rhetorically.

Generally I think artists like doing new things. You do get the opposite occasionally. I got up with a veteran artist about 6 months ago about a commission and he entertained the convo, but when I requested characters he had done an issue of back in the day, he wasn’t interested. I thanked him and moved on, but he does the same 4 or 5 characters over and over (expertly, but still) so I thought he might enjoy the change. Nope. Not to be, and I’m ok with that. 

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. 

On 5/26/2023 at 12:31 PM, Messier3499 said:

They think we are stupid

 

Maybe he got it in a trade… 

On 5/21/2023 at 5:49 AM, Michael Browning said:

 

I also believe that too many sellers went for the big cash grabs, rather than selling off some of their cheaper art, and they put people off with prices that were multiples of what the art sold for at auction recently. Sellers want to sell one piece that gives them a profit large enough to buy a car, rather than selling off a bunch of $250-$500 pages. Many of those sellers didn't sell much at all.

 

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. 

On 5/12/2023 at 11:43 AM, Robot Man said:

Is it possible, if one wanted to wait in a long line, to just walk up to a creator like Jim Lee and get just one book autographed at no charge? Or is it all just big money for a witness, and a special label slab? 

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. 

On 5/10/2023 at 12:56 PM, JC25427N said:

  

 

 

I might be remembering wrong and apologies if I am, but my recollection was that many people defended that listing during the last CAF live stating that either A) it was clearly satire, or B) If it's not satire, then a person stating "This is how much it would take for me to let go of this piece of art" is perfectly legitimate.

 

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

On 5/9/2023 at 4:47 PM, Brian Peck said:

I would love to own the original art for Wally Wood’s Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster.

Paul Krassner commissioned it as a centerfold for a 1967 issue of his “The Realist" magazine

 

 

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…

On 4/22/2023 at 11:24 AM, Bill C said:

 

The HA a few days ago had some results that seem a bit low, maybe?

Cap 350 page 1 splash (featuring the Skull as Steve showing off his thighs) went for only $900- with Dwyer Cap panel page prices rocketing up, I'm surprised the splash to a key issue like this went lower than panel pages are going.

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

On 4/16/2023 at 8:57 PM, grapeape said:

Is that Demon Bear?? Reminds me of seventies begging our dad to take us to the drive in to see Grizzly. He did. We regretted it. 👍 

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

On 4/15/2023 at 6:32 AM, Michael Browning said:

It was a typical C-link auction.

Here are some pieces I thought went a bit higher than I expected.

 

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…

On 3/17/2023 at 10:38 AM, grapeape said:

There is merit to what you say. I think some folks put the work in to upload the image, then they completely fail to give any info on how they got it or what it means to them. I can be persuaded to get caught up by another collector's enthusiasm..... and more likely to comment seriously or at all.

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.