NicoV

14 hours ago, DeadpoolJr. said:

The most expensive piece I've seen sold was a simple 'Draongball' head sketch that sold for the equivalent of over $50k I believe. 

A lot of pieces sold for far more than $50k. A Miyazaki shikishi sold for $31M (roughly $300k) in 2018 (see here). An Astro Boy page by Osamu Tezuka sold for 269k€ (roughly $328k), also in 2018 (see here).

@Varanis You sometimes find high-end pieces on Heritage and Artcurial, but as others said, your best chance to find manga-related stuff (such as shikishis) is with Mandarake auctions. They have what they call "Everyday auctions" (similar to eBay auctions but with a 5mn time extension system and no buyer's premium) and "Big Web auctions" (every two months, similar to Heritage auctions - live auctions with a prebid period, you need to pay a $5 participation fee to be allowed to bid and buyer's premium is 10%). You can follow both of them on ComicArtTracker 

Edit: there's a few Tezuka lots on the next Artcurial auction (lots 223-226) - https://www.artcurial.com/en/sale-4027-comic-strips

On 12/15/2020 at 7:30 PM, Rick2you2 said:

Same site, usually, but not always, eBay.

@Rick2you2 Please PM me if you ever get it again (with a screenshot if you can).

On 12/16/2020 at 9:33 PM, RBerman said:

When I type a partial name in the search bar, I get options pop up below. But selecting one of those options doesn't cause that text to auto-complete in the search bar.

@RBerman I just pushed a fix (hopefully). Please tell me if it's ok now!

On 12/19/2020 at 4:25 PM, vodou said:

Don't have yesterday's info today, and no new Catawiki items in today's daily. But I can tell you what I observed. Click into picture brings up larger view and a link that takes you to that Catawiki sale (not sure how what is/is not included is parsed, but it was 151 items).

@vodou Same as Rick2You2: please PM me when you get it again, with a screenshot if you can and the URL of the page.

2 hours ago, vodou said:

I try not to be That Complainer (especially for "free" products, and thank you @NicoV for that!) but...two issues.

It's not about complaining, it's about helping me to improve ComicArtTracker! If nobody tells me about bugs, they may stay here for a long time. So please send me a message when you find something that looks like a bug. Maybe I won't be able to do anything, but I won't take it personally and at least I'll be aware of it.

Regarding your different points:

• eBay images: Twanj is right about Chrome not accepting anymore to display images that are not served securely on secured websites. That's why you won't see images from some websites on CAT (websites hosted by CAF were also in this case a few weeks ago, so you could see the images on these websites, but not on CAF or CAT). But that's not the case with eBay - they do serve secured images. For eBay the issue is different. I have it from time to time, and when I google about it it seems like it's a known bug on eBay side for at least a few years... can't do anything about it unfortunately!
• Catawiki items with no text: I don't have this one when I open the Catawiki page (https://comicarttracker.com/catawiki/available-art, text search on "diabolik"), your screenshot was from which page? the page with your daily matching new items? the one about Catawiki auctions? a search results page? (if you can still reproduce it). And what happens if you click on the image to see it fullscreen? Do you have the title at the bottom of the page?

11 hours ago, RBerman said:

OK, double-clicking on the search option does take me to the queried page. Single clicking does not.

It's Windows 10 Pro running Google Chrome. Any other data that would help?

Never easy to fix something when I cannot reproduce it. Do you see any suggestion from Chrome on top of the ones from CAT? I mean, do you have something displayed that should not be here and could "catch" the simple click? I ask that because I just saw that, with Safari, I have the default drop-down menu with suggestions from Safari on top of mines (see below). So do you have something similar?

1 hour ago, ShallowDan said:

Nico, thanks for your continued work with this invaluable tool.  It's something I make use at least once every week.

I'd never noticed the treading search summary until you mentioned it in the Richard Corben thread.  It's a neat feature that was fun to check out.  

After seeing the results for top searches, I was very curious to know if you track traffic for users.  I'm guessing you have more European users that I might've thought.

Thanks for your kind words! The "Trends" page is a new feature from November.

I don't track traffic but Google does it for me. It's roughly 40% US, 20% France, 5% UK, 5% Belgium, 5% Canada, 5% Italy (then Spain, Germany, Netherlands...)

16 minutes ago, RBerman said:

Yes, selecting with the arrow keys work, but the mouse does not.

When I click on a suggestion, it directly opens the search page with the related query (for instance kirby -rip for Jack Kirby), and it's the same if I select it with arrows + enter. I'm on a Mac with Chrome. What is your config?

On 12/11/2020 at 1:07 AM, Rick2you2 said:

Could you take a look at the slider again? I find that it doesn’t proportionately show how far down I have gone out of, say, 100 items. 

Should be fixed.

8 hours ago, ZimmermanTelegram said:

Has anyone else run into issues with adding favorite searches since the new version has gone live? I can get to the Favorite Searches screen just fine and type an artist in, when I click the blue plus button to add it nothing happens. The new artist does not appear on the full list below it. Anyone else experiencing this? Could be user error, but it seems pretty straight forward.

Should be fixed.

On 12/11/2020 at 10:10 AM, Rick2you2 said:

Since we are on the subject, I am also finding a lot more repeat entries than I used to. For example, something will show up on eBay, but then get listed on CAT 2-3 times in the same search. It used to happen occasionally, but a lot more often now.  

Can you detail? Is it the exact same entry (on a same source), or is it someone who posted the same art on different eBay websites (eg different countries)?

Richard Corben is one of the most searched artists on ComicArtTracker this month (7th) and one of the best progressions (2nd) - unfortunately for a really sad reason 

https://comicarttracker.com/trends?progression

In fact that's not the same thing: yes I fixed a bug this week-end on searches not working anymore (my bad, it was a stupid mistake) but ZimmermanTelegram is right, I just checked and it's not possible to add a new fav through the Favorite Searches page. New major versions always get their share of regressions, sorry for that, I will hopefully fix it in a couple of hours max.

8 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:

Could you take a look at the slider again? I find that it doesn’t proportionately show how far down I have gone out of, say, 100 items. 

You're right, it seems like it's increasing too quickly. I'll check that, thanks for having spotted this!

Sold for $240k two years ago on Heritage... https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/gene-colan-and-bill-everett-iron-man-and-sub-mariner-1-cover-original-art-marvel-1968-/a/7189-92042.s

1 hour ago, RBerman said:

Thanks. I got to wondering because there's a Lone Wolf and Cub piece in ComicLink. Probably fake then.

It's a commission on a shikishi board, so it can be a real one. A similar (but nicer) one sold in 2017 on Heritage for $2270 - https://comicarttracker.com/goseki-kojima-original-art-for-sale

2 hours ago, RBerman said:

Where is all the manga art? Is it segregated into its own auctions away from Heritage and ComicLink and the like, or just never sold?

Basically, it's nearly impossible to get a published page. You can still find nice artworks from time to time, mainly on Mandarake Auctions (they have several "Big Web" auctions a year where all the nice art is), and from time to time on Heritage or Artcurial. But prices are really high.

You can have more details about manga art here: https://comicarttracker.com/faq-en/collecting-original-comic-art/where-can-i-buy-manga-original-artwork ... and see some results for Mandarake Big Web auctions here: https://comicarttracker.com/mandarake-big-web-auctions

On 11/13/2020 at 4:24 PM, Kohei said:

Yup, that's it. It was the row that showed updates on the latest dealer/CAF/artist/auction (minus Ebay)  links.

That was a great place to start

Unfortunately this block had several internal issues with the thumbnails. But if it's the kind of information you want to start with, why don't you bookmark the "new art by source" page? https://comicarttracker.com/new-art-by-source   Ok you don't have a thumbnail to illustrate each source, but you have the sources sorted by last update descending + the number of items. Or you could start on the My Notifications page https://comicarttracker.com/my-notifications ?

3 hours ago, ZimmermanTelegram said:

Nico - First, let me say kudos on such an excellent product. The newest tweaks are a definite improvement to the overall performance. 

I have to admit, I’m addicted. I’m on it daily and love getting the email summaries of what’s new to market of my favorites artists every day. I do have a question in regards to that. Every once in awhile in the past i’d find I wouldn’t get an email, I usually chalked it up to a glitch (I have so many favorites saved I find it almost impossible that SOMETHING didn’t show up that day, but you never know) and without question the next time day the emails would return. I’ve noticed over the last 3 or so days that I haven’t been receiving the daily emails at all. Could this possibly be a setting I turned off or is this part of the new deployment?

Any help would greatly be appreciated!

Thanks for your support! Regarding your emails not showing up anymore, the most probable reason would be that you clicked on the "spam" once (by mistake ^^) and now the third party service I use to send emails do not send yours anymore. https://comicarttracker.com/faq-en/comicarttracker/i-dont-receive-my-daily-alerts-by-email-anymore   Send me a PM with the email address you use on CAT and I'll check.

They messed up with my database but CAT should be back and running!

Crossing my fingers.

17 minutes ago, williamhlawson said:

Just went to use a tool I often due to keep up on new pieces for sale, Comic Art Tracker and it's 'not found' etc.  Just wanted to see if anyone knew anything about a relaunch or reboot or reimagining of just a straight 'poof'...

ComicArtTracker is down but it's not related to the new version: ComicArtTracker's hosting provider has some issues right now, they are working on it, hope it won't take too long. 

11 hours ago, Kohei said:

I will say I prefered the 'old' banner that was at the top of the page.

There's a fair amount more clicking around now to get to see what I came to the site to see than there was before.

What is this 'old' banner? Are you talking about the first row of images on the home page? Where there used to be the last sources with new listed art.

8 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:

It would be nice to know how many postings I have skimmed through as I go along. When there were pages, it was easy: page 4 out of 8, half done.

When you scroll down you have a progress at the top of the page. I'm considering adding a counter as well.

2 hours ago, Twanj said:

Amazing as always!

My only suggestion is to make "Check all favorites now" stand out more (maybe as a button?) since that's what I do a lot.

Thanks! I see what you mean about this link to be more visible... I'll try a few things!

45 minutes ago, Rick2you2 said:

Some items are listed as “sold or removed”. Are they supposed to still show up?

Your diligence is impressive. 

It depends: sometimes dealers post new art with a "sold" status. In this case yes they are supposed to show up on CAT. But if it's an old page, sold a long time ago, no it should not reappear in new listings.

21 minutes ago, Rick2you2 said:

Any chance you could add Boolean search terms like: or, not or w/10 (etc.)

• or: you already have it... just create two keywords 
• not: you also have it, it's "-"  (as in  kirby -rip )
• w/10: what is it? 

1 hour ago, GotSuperPowers? said:

I'm curious how folks are using CAT.

To this point I simply have keyword alerts going off and have limited to dealers/sites I care to get updates from.  It sounds like people are going to the site daily and browsing the new listings like many of us do CAF but I could be wrong.

I don't really have stats about users' behaviour, but for sure a good part of CAT users go to the site several times a day.

Email alerts are great when you're busy and don't want to spend one hour a day to check all new listed art (far less if you don't look at eBay), and you know what you're looking for. It ensures that you won't miss something that you know you may like. There's clearly a traffic peak during the 30 minutes after the daily email is sent to all users, and it does not even take into account all users that read their daily email but do not click to go to the CAT website.

But for all of us with the FOMO addiction, or when you're open to any new art that may catch your eye even if you never heard about the artist, you cannot exclusively rely on a list of keywords *. I like this "discovery" phase. You discover an artwork you like, you add the artist to your keywords just to see what other art could appear later. And there's also the upcoming auctions to browse, as well as the results for the recently closed auctions (or your tracked art page) to check what was the final price for the artworks you followed... 

* 2 people on 5 have setup one or several keywords. For these users, the average number of keywords is 10, but ~ 100 users have more than 50 keywords and a few of them have more than 200 keywords !

By default, le system searches for any page with the two keywords... but it systematically removes words considered as meaningless (such as "the", "one", "what", etc.). Unfortunately it seems like the word "beyond" falls in this category, so searching for 'batman beyond' is like searching for 'batman' alone. When adding double quotes, you ensure that the search engine will look for this exact two words together.

To not be used for artists names, as you're never sure if the original website with display last name + first name, first name + last name, last name alone, etc. but definitely useful for series.

Why should it devalue the art? It's part of the creation process, Merwan is a complete artist, he probably created the dialogs himself and they have been (slightly) reviewed later, but there you get a part of this evolving process. The balloons are quite "equivalent" in terms of meaning, just some rewording and yes, maybe the published version is better... but you bought the original art (and a very nice one), not a published page