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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 

58 minutes ago, Matches_Malone said:

Is there a way to see the auction results?

https://comicarttracker.com/comicconnect-auctions/2020-08-24 

11 hours ago, Carlo M said:

Hi,

is there a way to see final auction prices without having bid on one item?

https://comicarttracker.com/comicconnect-auctions/2020-08-24 

Lanfeust / Trolls de Troy are probably the series that sold best (with a few less interesting spin-offs). You can find original pages for €2k-4k:

https://comicarttracker.com/trolls-de-troy-original-art-for-sale

https://comicarttracker.com/lanfeust-de-troy-original-art-for-sale

Skydoll and Ekhö (Alessandro Barbucci) are also quite successful. Barbucci regularly sells sketches from Ekhö, Skydoll pages are not so easy to find (particularly if you want a page colored by Barbaba Canepa, as she only did it for the first issue and something like the 10-12 first pages of the second one. After that is was colored digitally). If you're interested I have a Skydoll page for sale.

https://comicarttracker.com/skydoll-original-art-for-sale

Universal War One is a great SF series, but Bajram did very few pages manually before working digitally so it's quite difficult to find any original art for this series.

https://comicarttracker.com/denis-bajram-original-art-for-sale

This guy has A LOT of pages from Soleil Prod (note that he collects mainly NSFW pages from adult comics), including many illustrations from "Les Filles de Soleil" (which are small illustration books published every year with sexy girls drawn by a lot of different artists, offered when you buy 3 comics). 

13 minutes ago, malvin said:

hmm.. I suspect your target are European comic readers, or maybe that was the intent.

I filled out the survey, except since I only read north american comics and all the images I saw where European comics whose artists I don't recognize, I filed in no interest and trigger no emotion on everything.  Tell your friend to remove that from the data set if that was not his intent so I don't ruin his research!

Malvin

I should have specified it, sorry (and I edited my initial message)!

He told me that anybody can answer the survey, even people with no interest in original comic art. The questions asked in the survey do not require any expertise in European artists, they just want to know if it brings any emotion and if you like the image you see, not if you would buy it (which would require at least a price ^^)

A friend of mine, who is also a comic art collector, is Professor of University in France ("Management and economics research center" - University of Strasbourg). For a few years now he works with some of his students on an academic research project about original comic art.

If you have a few minutes to spare, they created a small online survey to get your fillings on a set of original comic art sold these last years (mainly European comic art): https://sondagesv3.unistra.fr/index.php/395782 .

Anybody can answer the survey, even if you don't have any expertise or interest in European comic art, and even if you don't have any interest into original comic art at all! Just give your feelings about the images you see.

If you have any question, I'll try to help... or I'll transmit the question 

Thanks for your help.

3 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:

I can use all the guidance I can get on this one. Your guess was accurate. Why doesn’t Septimus have their rules in English when they have so many other languages? Particularly, where the word balloons in the piece are in English? 

So many other languages? What are you talking about? In their T&C they say that they have an English and a Dutch version, but I can't even find them on their website. Maybe you're talking about Invaluable T&C?  In all cases, I'm not surprised at all. As I told you they are a really small auction house, maybe you should contact them through their contact form: https://www.septimus.auction/contact/contact.html

11 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:

Invaluable. Live auction in Belgium.

Invaluable is just an online platform / third party, it is not an auction house by itself. But Belgium + right now on Invaluable, I would assume it is Septimus. It's a really small auction house created 2-3 years ago. Their t&c state:

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Les lots devront être enlevés, après le paiement complet, soit pendant la vente, soit au plus *spoon* dans les 5 jours ouvrables suivant l'adjudication et sur rendez-vous. A la demande expresse et écrite de l'acheteur, les lots achetés pourront faire l'objet d'un envoi par un transporteur agréé aux frais et risques exclusifs de l'acheteur.

Which means that you're supposed to take care by yourself about shipping if you cannot come and take the art in Belgium. If I were you, my preferred option if the art is not too expensive would be to find someone in Bruxelles to get the art, check the package (and reinforce it if need be) and ship it by classic ways (up to you to decide if you want to declare the value, don't know if you have custom fees in the US). My second option would be to use FedEx or equivalent.

2 hours ago, Blastaar said:

Having a hard time tracking OA down for  this publication. Any insight into tracking down some Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper? Also please share any 2000 AD art you may have! 

You can find some OA here: https://comicarttracker.com/2000-ad-original-art-for-sale 

5 hours ago, vodou said:

But is it "original"? I'm seeing several easily identifiable major pieces at sizes that may be "too large" or are "impossible" (like Kirby X-Men #1 cover!) Nice layout and collection, overall, but I think the focus is on the stuff because the "art" is either poster/printouts or contemporary recreations.

Yes, maybe! I did not think about that.

Unfortunately the guy does not focus on the original art we can see on the walls, but that's a quite impressive collection!

2 hours ago, kbmcvay said:

$11,000 is the answer so everyone doesn't have to look it up themselves.

You can give a person a fish...

Click on the "sold" filter: https://comicarttracker.com/romitaman/new-original-art

You can find an overview of the Prop Store auction results on ComicArtTracker : 

https://comicarttracker.com/prop-store-auctions/2020-03-04

16 hours ago, Rick2you2 said:

Could you give me a range about how optimistic his prices seem for the book, given what actually sells? 

What about work from different book series? As you must know, that can have a major impact on pricing.

Still and all, it's a fascinating look at the European market--very different than ours, I see.

I would compare Blain with Sean Murphy. Both are (from my point of view) great artists, with a unique and recognizable style. Both created really interesting "non mainstream" (sorry but I can't always put English words on what I would really mean) series, and both saw their prices increase at each new series.

The only difference is that Blain produces for a longer time and his rep (Jean-Baptiste Barbier) did a really great job by selling only a few pages of Blain series a year (and not every year), creating rarity and thus high prices. Isaac le pirate was a nice series, but the real game changer was Quai d'Orsay. Definitely one of the best European comics I read these last 10 years, if not THE best. When the first pages sold at gallery Barbier, they were priced 4k€ (except the ones with Darth Vader at 5k). A few years later I sold mine 16k€ to someone who really wanted it and asked me twice a year. I think a "standard" page from Quai d'Orsay would sell at least at 8-10k€ nowadays (see a few high prices here: https://comicarttracker.com/en/christophe-blain-original-art-for-sale).

Back to Blain / Sean Murphy: they now both work on a "mainstream" / well-known series, resp. Blueberry and Batman. Whatever the intrinsic quality of artworks (and I'm really not fond of both of these works), mechanically prices increase heavily. And demand is still strong: 80k and 30k Blueberry covers already sold, as well as 25 other pages - including a few 20-25k€ pages - for a total of nearly 500k€ ... I'm not saying that these prices are fair or not. With 80k€ you can have a strong piece of comic art History. But at these prices pages sell "quite easily". That's a fact.

I don't have any artwork from Blain anymore. And at these prices I probably will never have some again. But in my opinion he's definitely an artist worth following.

1 hour ago, Stefanomjr said:

Checked out the site, on my phone, a few nights ago...and again today on PC. Just an FYI  - cant sort or search by Artist. 

If you use the top-left search bar (the one saying "Search for art"), you can search by artist (I just tried with "brunner"). But if you use the one just above the thumbnails (the one saying "Search by title, artist or keyword"), it only searches in the artwork title despite what the text says.

Not really comics variant covers, but parts of this DPS were used for four of the nine Walking Dead Magazine #1 variant covers:

Only one purchase in 2019... seems like I'm slowing down lately!

Stupendous Man, my alter ego