AndyFish

Yeah I was thinking the same thing-- I couldn't figure out how this was a mono print from what I've known (and done) of mono prints. Digital is a thing now, and some art, like Nathan Fox's run on Captain Galaxy had some pages that I absolutely would love to have, but unfortunately the whole thing was digital. So if an artist was selling digital prints of their work I'd be a lot more inclined to pull the trigger for $50-$100 than I would any higher. If they promise that this is a 1/1 thing and the digital file will be destroyed you'd have to take them at their word (which I would have no problem doing with someone like Nathan) but then the digital file still exists with the publisher, so it's never actually destroyed. I agree that Giclee level prints in the fine art world sell for real money, and you could argue that if you paid a lot of dough for Andy Warhol's Campbells Soup can you bought a print, but right now I don't see this becoming a thing in comics. Two or three generations from now? Different story I bet.

One of the best art dealers there is. I love this guy!

Well I do know steaming it can help a lot-- I'd grab some similar bristol, bend it, and then try experimenting on that.

That is gorgeous-- it's a shame it was damaged, would framing it help?

I’m hearing the Mayor just said no large scale events until 2021– haven’t been able to confirm this, but it doesn’t look good.

I don't really get into most modern toys but I liked the design of McFarlane's Sean Murphy Batman figure-- But I wasn't crazy about the thigh high boots-- so doing a bit of kit-bashing I put it together with the other Batman figure they did and then I painted the trunks black because I'm an old school kind of fan. I think it turned out okay even if the regular legs are a little thin. I'm happier with the old school boots and the trunks. I also ended up with a second Murphy Batman head so I replaced the one on my Yamaguchi figure from Japan-- the Yama figures are insanely pose-able and make for great artists reference (which is what I use them for); I also ended up painting the eyes white in the japan figure to get rid of the pupils, but I did that after I took a photo. Very easy to kit-bash these figures.

Yup, my understanding has always been 13oz is the limit for First Class. If you take it to the post office you can go with Parcel Post but if I were the buyer I'd happily pay $8 and get it within 2-3 days rather than waiting a month. It amazes me that people whine about saving $3-$4 and then spend a month checking the tracking on an item-- isn't your time worth something (which I why I won't walk into a post office)? I was just talking to a fellow vintage comics collector about a well known dealer-- I was remarking how great his grading is. I'm an extremely strict grader and seldom do dealers line up with my opinion-- this one does. The other guy agreed but then said "but his shipping prices are high". And they aren't cheap-- I think it's a flat $14 or something like that but he packs and ships incredibly fast and I have my books within three days of making a purchase. This same guy will pay $6 for a coffee at Starbucks everyday.

Well I'm late to the party but I've seen a lot of Wrightson's pencils and this is nowhere near right-- there is a lack of confidence to both the lifework and the signature-- do YOU ever struggle to sign your own name? This looks completely off to me.

Went through and dropped prices on some of the art that’s left— we have a couple of commission spots left too including TEAM FISH— both of us working on the same piece like we do with our comic work. Come on by and say ‘Ello!

And he’s got some great stuff in his booth— I was close to pulling the trigger on the Don Newton pages you had up.

Veronica and I set up a booth — we sold some small pieces but took in so many commissions we had to close them for today. We’ll do a few for tomorrow. We have some low priced cover art up and I ended up buying two pieces of art and am seriously considering a couple more. The panels were great— really felt like being at a show again. Mega Kudos to Bill Cox for putting this together— it was really something.

I suspect Kwan had something to do with it, or maybe it was coincidence but I got the piece from Larry- so December to May which is not bad. I don't like the ghosting, and again, Veronica and I do a lot of commissions and we stay in contact with the buyer just like we do with publishers.

I'm with Number 6 on this one. Doesn't CGC have a "don't" clause-- i.e. don't slab if it falls below a certain grade-- do they have the same option for restoration? A few years ago I submitted a Batman #15 to CGC in person and about three hours later they texted me to come by the table and they pointed out some minor restoration on the book that I hadn't noticed. The seller, Metropolis, was set up nearby, so I walked the book over there they apologized and gave me a credit for the book. I'd bought the book from them online and brought it to Chicago to get graded. They were cool about the whole return and I think it was an honest mistake. I think it's on the buyer for the CGC fees since you didn't spot it either (which would lead me to think honest mistakes all around) and no one said you had to slab it. But it can't hurt to ask. I just wouldn't expect them to comply, nor would it make them a bad seller IMO if they don't.

I'm shocked how quickly people will give up their liberty. If we were fighting the revolution today, a good chunk of you would be under your beds. You can call me a cry baby if you want, but when we are looking back at this in ten years this will be the great overreaction. If you have an underlying health condition, or you're just plain old, stay sequestered. I'll bring your groceries and leave them thirty feet from your door so my toxic exhales won't infect you. Just because YOU give in to panic doesn't mean the rest of us who don't are wrong. No one knows what the truth is here.

Mayor of Boston just banned large events until Labor Day (Sept 7). Doesn’t bode well. I know a lot of you think adamantly that this is “the right thing to do” I maintain the experts have been wrong all the way through, especially now that NYC is finding 60% of cases now coming in being people who don’t leave the house. This is a very bad flu. But hygiene keeps me from getting the flu every year. I have zero underlying health conditions and I wash my hands like an insane germophobe. If you have a compromised immune system stay home and hope it doesn’t creep in through the window cracks, let the rest of us get back to work. It’s a shame that here in Boston, the birthplace of American democracy, that we would cower before this. Ben Franklin once said; “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety.”

Larry is a major talent and I'm a big fan of his work. A few years ago I bought two pieces of art from him that he had at a show we were doing together. Last December he posted that he was in the hospital but able to do work-- he would post a sketch with a price and was doing this about everyday. He posted a killer Tomb of Dracula which lead me to commission him to do a Werewolf by Night 11x17-- he asked for $150 I paid him $175 friends and family to cover shipping. That was December. Emails were answered quickly within hours until I paid, then ghost city. It's a shame. I'm a fan, I like his work very much, and I completely understand the trouble with doing commissions. Veronica and I only do commissions at show season and if it's a mail order we do our damndest to get it to you within a month at the longest, but stuff comes up. We treat commissions like paid work, no different than if we were working with a publisher. I think too many guys think they can bang out a lot of sketches quickly, then become overwhelmed, then feel like what they have to send has to be killer so that makes it even more of a struggle. I have six pieces I have to do this weekend so I feel his pain, but I have NEVER ever ghosted anyone, I treat commissioners like actual clients. It's a shame because it hurts all of us when someone doesn't act professionally. A simple email reply is enough. I have a 'friend' who is a big name comic artist that owed me a favor and I said just whip me up a sketch as a thank you, he said it would be in the mail that weekend, that was five years ago. I've long since given up on it showing up, but the guy never ghosted me.

I don't think there are going to be a lot of shows running this year. I do think this starts to settle down soon, but many states are going to put the kibosh on large gatherings for a while.

Not a fan of superheroes but from the few issues of IMMORTAL HULK that I read I really liked it.

Wrong board to be saying it but I think it would be an absolute crime to slab that book-- that's a book that was read to near death but still has nice pages. That's the kind of book that should be taken out of it's bag and read every now and again. My

Ended up getting my second package 10 days after the guaranteed delivery date. eBay refunded me the shipping without me asking because it went past the guarantee-- I keep things in perspective and it ain't the end of the world if I have to wait longer than usual-- but apparently they contacted the seller and he flipped out on me for "opening a case" when I could have just emailed him. When I told him to calm down, and that I didn't do anything other than click OK when eBay asked if I wanted a credit for shipping he went radio silent. Keep it in perspective, everything is upended and people who are still working are doing their best.

A lot of newbies make the mistake of thinking a 9.8 is a perfect book, a 9.8 is a 10.0 with flaws.

Great book that was loved. .5

I'm totally with you-- I've got a pretty large collection of originals-- and all of them are sequential pages, good sequential art is a beauty to behold and I'd take it any day over a big over rendered splash page--but from the other side of it the time I save working digitally is about four hours off an eight hour page, meanwhile the vast majority of collectors who reach out to ask for a certain page of a book almost always want the same page-- big action reveal or something else relevant to the story. It just isn't cost effective to do all the pages traditionally.

I can't add much more than what these two have already offered, and they are spot on. In the olden days we used to FedEx our pencilled pages to inkers who would then FedEx the final page to the publisher who would scan it and send it to the printer, and then return the art split usually ⅔ and ⅓ to the penciler and inker. Nowadays, the art never leaves the artist's studio-- but what you have here is still rare in that it's hand done. Most comic art today is all digital, in this case it was penciled on a sheet of Bristol, scanned, then emailed to the inker who printed it out in blue onto another piece of Bristol and then scanned in again and the file sent to the publisher's FTP. Does it create two pieces of art? Yes. But I give the edge to the inked page since that is what you see printed in the book. But you are buying a piece of art handled by only one of the members of the creative team. My wife Veronica and I currently work together for Dark Horse and Archie Comics, our process is a little different because while we each have our own studio spaces they are in the same house-- but we send pages back and forth during the process. We still do splash pages and covers by hand 90% of the time because those are the pages that tend to have value, while "ordinary" pages are done digitally.

Got one of the packages two days late, the other was guaranteed for Apr 13th and now I get a daily update saying in transit to next facility but it looks like it’s never left New Jersey.