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NicoV

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    ComicArtTracker.com

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    Hello everyone!

    I just updated ComicArtTracker. This update is mainly a technical update, so not a lot of new features for you:

    • some new sources (artists and auction houses)
    • GDPR stuff (better late than never), mainly for European citizens - better information and control about data privacy and cookies
    • a better management of "weird" characters (typically for north european countries but not only)

    However, I rewrote 90% of my whole backend to improve sources management and indexation, and more globally I worked a lot on CAT infrastructure. CAT started small two years ago, but with now more than 280 websites to index and 1.2M of original artworks, it was time to work on a new sustainable architecture. So don't panic if you see a lot of "new artworks" listed today, some of them are not really new!

    It seems like I lost my SSL certificate during this update (the small padlock displayed with the website address) but I'm working on it. If you see any problem on this new version, feel free to contact me (even if not sure about it to be an issue or not).

    Hope you enjoy ComicArtTracker and will appreciate this new version! :)
    Don't forget to join on Facebook: https://fb.me/ComicArtTracker

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    Does your significant other approve/understand your passion for OA?

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    My wife never bothered me with my collection, even if I spent A LOT of money on it. But as long as I can provide my share of the money for the family, I can do whatever I want with what's left.

    She likes me to show her what I bought, out of curiosity. Most of the time she does not has any interest in it. Sometimes she dislikes and sometimes she likes. I remember when I came back from the first Christie's auction in Paris a few years ago. I had bought two lots: a Schuiten illustration and a Mignola / Hellboy cover. She loved the former, and found the later quite ugly. With time I guess she was right, as I still have the former and sold the later :)

    It's quite rare but sometimes she can also incite me to spend more :bigsmile: In April this year, Artcurial offered in auction some illustrations and covers from Martine, a famous series of books for children, and more specifically for girls (https://www.artcurial.com/fr/vente-3891-bandes-dessinees). As all girls from this age, my wife loved these books when she was a kid. It was the first time we went at an auction exhibition together. And she did not stop urging me to bid on a few of them. Prices went really high so I did not. The same with the Dune page that sold recently on Heritage. I suppose I told her a lot of times how much I would love to have it. So when price skyrocketed during live auction, she was the one to tell me that I would probably regret it if I did not bid higher. Even if, in the same time, she was shocked by this price.

    I also spend A LOT of time on ComicArtTracker. I suppose it can be considered as part of my passion for OA. She's also ok with that as I mainly work on CAT during evenings when our daughter is in bed, nearly never during week-ends (only a few minutes from time to time to check that everything is OK).

     

    Fantasy Art Collecting

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    Posted · Edited by NicoV

    Yep I did one in CAT... wow it was already two years ago, times flies by so fast!  But with so few participants, I removed the feature when the website evolved (no time to spend on useless features). That's why you won't see anything special by following links.

     

    Regarding prizes, I already pay enough every month to have ComicArtTracker work :bigsmile: 

    Anyway, I'm also curious to see how it works. Unfortunately they don't tell or show a lot. Created an account, don't know when the next game comes. :)

     

    Asterix page by Uderzo up at Christies on November 20.

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    1 hour ago, wurstisart said:

    Do I have to understand this comment that there were pages stolen ?

    Uderzo told in several interviews that all non signed pages were stolen pages. But who knows? They have never been officially declared to the police as stolen, and Uderzo is known for having been very generous with his friends and family in the past. It is said that Asterix the Legionary pages had been given in full. Never easy to determine the truth in these cases. 

    In the same category, a few days ago Hermann posted on his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/HermannBD/) that a page in the upcoming Artcurial auction was stolen. A few years ago (don't know if it's still true) the widow of Jean Giraud / Moebius also tried to take possession of any art of his husband that was for sale in an auction, saying that this art was stolen if there was no invoice. 

    Asterix page by Uderzo up at Christies on November 20.

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    Honestly it's FAR from a hefty price for an Asterix page (https://comicarttracker.com/albert-uderzo-original-art-for-sale). A lot of estimates in this catalog are in no way related to the FMV of the lots. But it seems like the new experts (Huberty & Breyne) to work with Christie's decided to show low estimates to attract customers. And European auction houses like to compare results with fees to estimations, to claim that their auction was a big success, so the lower the estimates the better! Unfortunately the buyer will also have to pay the 30% buyer fees and the resale right (4% up to 50k€ then 3% => roughly 5000€).

    But even if "Asterix and the Secret Weapon" is a late volume (Goscinny was long dead) and far from being a famous one, I do agree that it's a nice page, with all these gauls, the famous image of Asterix after he drunk his potion and Obelix sulking because he's not allowed to drink some, Panoramix/Getafix and his cauldron full of magic potion, Assurancetourix/Cacofonix tied up and gagged, etc. ! And as it's autographed, at least you're sure that this one was not stolen.

    HAaaaacked!!!!

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    Posted · Edited by NicoV

    3 hours ago, cstojano said:

    Seems lots from this Sunday are getting pulled now. They must have reached out to consignors to reschedule. 

    6 lots removed from the October 24 auction, and 104 lots removed from the October 27 auction so far.

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    Original Art DPS Thread

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    Promethea #20 - The Stars are But Thistles (JH Williams III / Alan Moore)
    Additional images on CAF: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1197682

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    The Walking Dead #14 : No Way Out (Charlie Adlard)
    Parts of this DPS have been used in 4 of the 9 covers of the first issue of "Walking Dead Magazine"
    Additional images on CAF: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1174423

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    OA Collecting Hobby Pet Peeves

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    Posted · Edited by NicoV

    Pet peeve? People who create a new topic in the "Original Comic Art Marketplace" section, called something like "art for sale" (ok so I have to open it if I want to have any idea of what you're selling?), with just a link to a CAF section (ok so I have to open TWO PAGES, probably to discover that you're selling commissions and pages I've no interest in? seriously?).

    If you're selling some stuff, it's not so long to add a few keywords / artists names in your topic title...

    Batman 251 Cover

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    42 minutes ago, Randall Dowling said:

    I think you guys are being pretty hard on the guy.  It’s not like he made a fortune drawing comics for Marvel and DC.  His work is broadly loved and now, almost 50 years later, he’s despised for wanting a small percentage of the hammer when his artwork sells for a thousand times what he was originally paid for it?  It’s not greed.  This isn’t even a new phenomenon.  This issue has come up in other art markets (although as yet, it’s still unresolved).

    In Europe (and in fact in many countries but not in the US) we have what is called "droit de suite" ("resale right" in English). Basically it means that when an artwork sells for any price higher than 750€ (with a few exceptions such as the seller bought the art directly to the artist less than 3 years before and for less than 10k€), the seller has to pay a 4%-fee to the artist or his legal heirs, up to 70 years after his death (this 4% fee is degressive for prices above 50k€ and the total fee can't exceed 12500€). This fee is usually collected by the auction house / dealer.

    More details here: https://www.adagp.fr/en/user/resale-right

    Share your Sandman Art!

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    2 hours ago, pestonaccio said:

    I agree with you, Eric, but what puzzles me is that even if the pages with Dream are scarce, they never show up. In the last year they auctioned a couple of pages without Endless and nothing else. Nothing.

    At least 3 pages with Dream sold this year, and a few more without Dream (the last one from Kelley Jones a few weeks ago on eBay). That's not a lot of pages, for sure ... and the best way to get a page is probably to offer far more than FMV to someone who does not sell, as I did a few years ago.

     

    ComicArtTracker.com

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    2 hours ago, wurstisart said:

    For some reason I thought you can track / view auction results from comic link as well.
    I can't seem to figure it out though. Any help ?

    When I launched CAT, you could track ComicLink auctions and view older auctions results. Unfortunately they blocked my server to prevent CAT from accessing their pages. To be honest I find it quite funny that the two websites who block CAT access are the two messy websites that incited me to create CAT initially. :nyah:

     

     

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    Share your Sandman Art!

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    Season of Mists is definitely (and by far) my favorite Sandman storyline. Art by Kelley Jones. That's THE Sandman page I wanted: Morpheus, Lucifer, white-on-black Morpheus texts vs "standard"-speech balloons from Lucifer, structure of the page, key-moment in the story, content and atmosphere... "It's over. I am leaving. And I have closed down Hell". 

     

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