Panelfan1

Started a thread on this back in July. Several comments were made in this.

Can someone explain #comicsgate? Who are the players and what is the issue that could turn off a collector from enjoying the art they already own?

Thanks. Corrected the link. Here it is AGAIN

Easy reader approved comic art by Sal B and Mike E. Yup - its juvenile, and the clown here is not Pennywise. But a long time bucket list item. See CAF LINK HERE.

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I believe you when you say a long time ago. He ever draws pupils anymore - so this must be early.

Happy to have found at least one example by many of my bucket list artists, but there are a few gaps (items I have zero examples from and would love at least one) Frank Miller Daredevil page Early Cerebus page Rick Leonardi Spiderman 2099 page or Cover Jim Lee Wildcats splash of Cover Ben Edlund The Tick page or cover. There is always more stuff that is of interest, but the above would be awesome to have at one point.

Hi I already checked CAT for all available online art - but if you got a piece of art by Mark B that is not posted for sale already (any character) or a Travis Charest Voodoo page or sketch - would love to hear from you. With respect to Beachum art - looking for non hard core stuff. Sexy is fine, just nothing hard core.

Just added a new Batman and Poison Ivy painting by Mark Texeira to my collection. It's the first unpublished piece I got in quite some time. The funny thing is that unlike many others(art collectors) - Batman (himself) is one of my least favorite characters in the bat universe. I am a much bigger fan of other gotham characters and will put up having batman appear on a piece of art as long as one of the other characters is there. I would be happy to have a drawing of just Spider-Man or just Superman, Deadman, Blue Beetle, Hulk, Thor and many others - but for some reason I only love Batman when paired up with some other characters. For me Batman is the straight man in a buddy story. Serious, Tough, competant - but not especially fun. I bring this all up because I recently had a discussion with a huge Batman fan who couldn't believe I got a Finch piece of Batman with Solomon Grundy - because of Grundy. Or a Fabok piece with Bats and Batgirl - primarily for Batgirl. In the end it doesn't matter that much that I got this piece of art for Ivy. As my first piece of Tex art, I am super happy to share it withall of you. Any how - here is the link to the art. Art on CAF.

That is a truly outstanding piece of art. Thanks for posting.

so I could be wrong, but I thought it was $30k

Wholesome fun for the whole family?

The Mcfarlane Hulk that has been on ebay for many years appears to be in the auction. We will finally see if it was overpriced or not. McHulk link

Never noticed that. What I liked about it is the scale. Huge galactus, small surfer.

So can anyone suggest some facebook links for comic art? Possible groups?

That SS #1 was on ebay unsold a couple years back at 15k. Loved it then - but not so much the price.

Fresh to market for me . Means coming up for sale. An NFS item on CAF is not on the market. It's on display .. but is not for sale, so not on the market in my eyes.

Just added 2 new Sergio Aragones Groo the Wanderer double spread covers. One Features Chakal and the other almost the entire Groo Cast. See them here.

Another more fundamental question to ask is 'how does Stan define PRIMO?' Is prime simply A list artist, Title and content - or is it also a Key Issue(first appearance, famous story etc..)? And how does that compare to the pieces being given up? I started a thread a while back on 'would you trade most or all your collection for one expensive piece if art. At the time, most responses said no because their collections were meaningful and pairing it down to 1 was too restrictive. The fact is - no one can predict the future. Better to invest in other stuff than art - but if the one piece happens to provide the collector with more joy than all the pieces he's giving up put together - than regardless of the market - their is a gain to be had.

Thanks for sharing. Nice to see comic art history un-pealed.

It will hold a candle as you say- when distinguishing among comic art.

Perhaps you need to read the whole thread again. Craft is a factor - and while nostalgia is a bigger factor - sometimes the reason we have nostalgia in the first place is the craft was so good! Btw- I would agree with you Kaluta is good at his craft.

Respectfully - can you say - has bidding high early ever worked for you? You mentioned going back and forth. Which means at one point you were on top and then he was on top. If you had put the big # in at the end as clink doesn't have back and forth at the end - would that not have worked better ?

It's the artist He doesn't do a lot and has a bit of a cult following.