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    What are some themes in your OA collection?

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    3 hours ago, alxjhnsn said:

    I was wondering if anyone checked out my post and had any thoughts.

    I did not know about this page, and I did not see it the first time you posted about it, so thanks for curating all these galleries!!  Some of these themes are really fun to look at, and their owners definitely had great ideas! I particularly like when a cover is reinterpreted multiple times (Uncanny X-Men #141 cover, Covers Reanimated, One Minute Later, ...)

    John Romita sr sketch, original or a fake?

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    1 hour ago, jaybuck43 said:

    Apparently there's more than one...

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    They do claim provenance details are available.  I don't recall John doing much work with watercolors though.

    https://www.syndicart.co.uk/index.php/all-artists/john-romita-sr/spiderman-john-romita-sr-detail

    This one looks better! I guess it comes from this auction: https://bid.woodshedartauctions.com/lots/view/1-R76XS/john-romita-sr-spiderman
    Origin would be "Private collection, Hungary".

    But on the same auction they also had a "great" Calvin&Hobbes watercolor that did not sell :bigsmile:
    https://bid.woodshedartauctions.com/lots/view/1-R76UI/bill-watterson-calvin-and-hobbes

     

    Glynn Crain Illustration SF art Collection to be sold by HA.COM

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    On 6/15/2019 at 11:32 PM, glendgold said:

    I love the catalogue. So many great and strange images. I hadn't realized that in the pulps, if there's a woman in distress, 95% of the time she's on the left hand side of the cover. Wonder why. 

    Maybe because we read from left to right. The artist want your eye / brain to see the woman in distress first, then the context (threat, guy who's rescuing her, etc)

    Heritage European Comic Art Auction - 2019 June 8 & 9

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    31 minutes ago, tth2 said:

    But you only need to work 35 hours/wk, get (at least) 8 weeks of vacation a year, university tuition is nothing, you can retire at 50 and all healthcare is free!

    xD ... and yet "yellow jackets" protest every week for months! They want their share of everything without doing anything...

    I would love these 8 weeks of vacation and retiring at 50, but unfortunately it's "only" 5 weeks and legal retirement age is 62 (and probably 65 before I get this age)

    Heritage European Comic Art Auction - 2019 June 8 & 9

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    2 hours ago, chromium said:

    Absurdly, for me in Europe it makes more sense to buy from the US heritage auctions.

    The Heritage European auction really know how to squeeze the lemon :  25% commission + 21% tax means that a 10K piece would end up costing you close to 15K.

    What are these 21% tax? Custom fees? That's huge. In France it's 5.5% and it already hurts :makepoint:

    But regarding Heritage European auction, if you live in Europe, you don't have to pay custom fees as lots are in Europe (France first, then Netherlands).

    Comic connect auction tonight

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    28 minutes ago, glendgold said:

    Cool -- I look forward to the data when it shows up there (currently there are just a couple Johnny Comets up). 

    My apologies, these two upcoming strips did not have a correct date, and because of that the closed auction did not display. It's fixed now, you can check https://comicarttracker.com/comicconnect-auctions/2019-06-10 ! And thanks for pointing out this problem.

     

    28 minutes ago, glendgold said:

    In the meantime, given the anemic responses to this thread so far, I guess people are happy to let c-connect go with that whole "shhh - our auctions are secret" strategy. :devil:

    That's probably true! For the very same reason a lot of people don't talk about ComicArtTracker to their friends or on social networks because they don't want to share... xD

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    Heritage European Comic Art Auction - 2019 June 8 & 9

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    Posted · Edited by NicoV

    I'm no expert but I would definitely not define this catalog as a strong collection. No A level piece on the European side, and (as usual for European auctions) reserves were high: people don't play the game and want the benefits of auctions without the disadvantages. Usually Heritage auctions have 98%-100% sold art, here we are under 90% on the first session (the one with higher end lots) - which is still quite good for European auctions (Artcurial or Christie's are usually around 70%). 14 out of the 61 lots above 5k€ did not sell because of (too) high reserve prices. Results available for this session here on ComicArtTracker.

    My opinion on a few pages:

    • the Tintin cover sold for a decent price, not a strong one, for such a piece of european comics history - hope it will end in Philippe Boon's Museum next to the Master Race original pages!
    • the Garage Hermetique page by Moebius went for what I consider a strong price ($87k with BP). I'm really happy for the consignor, he's a friend of mine, but even if aesthetically it's a nice page, it's also a small format and I thought it would sell at 40-50k before BP, not 70k. The two Incal pages also did really well (around $50k) and one of the Blueberry page (also by Gir / Moebius) went for a crazy price ($40k) for a minor page - compare with this page sold two months ago or this one last year, both from the best Blueberry story arc. Sounds like Heritage is a good place to consign Moebius / Giraud art!
    • the Loisel illustration also sold really well, considering that it's "just" a large size commission. Sure it's decorative, but $18k?!
    • Marini's art for Batman still sold well - to be honest a lot of European collectors don't really see why, but hey it seems like some people are ready to pay big money for his pages
    • results for Druillet and Tardi are quite good (for the later we're far from his two most famous series), as well as the David B page (there's not a lot of pages on the market)

    Nearly all other lots that sold in the higher prices were US art, you probably know better about them than I do! Really liked the Burns pages, his inking is impressive.

    I'll just add that the Dune page by Sienkiewicz made two happy collectors out of three: the winner and the consignor. I'm the third one. As for the reason, I think there's only one possible reason for such prices on this kind of page: strong nostalgia. Ok there's also a movie coming soon, but I can't imagine the winner to speculate at this price. Anyway, my brain tells me that I was right to stop bidding at $14k, but my heart... 

     

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    ComicArtTracker.com

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    Hello everyone!

    I just pushed a new feature on ComicArtTracker (I posted a video on ComicArtTracker's Facebook page last week so maybe it's not a surprise for some of you). Notifications allow you to get a detailed view of what has happened on ComicArtTracker since your last visit. Any source adding new art, any auction starting / ending soon, any new art matching one of your favorite keywords, artworks suggested by a friend, news from CAT and more... are all detailed in this Notifications page.

    Hope you enjoy ComicArtTracker and will appreciate this new feature! :)
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