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At sdcc there were kubert 90s art at the essential sequential booth where andy was signing. In general a lot of dealer stock is online - but many dealers have new art at shows that didnt make it online yet anf if you get it at the show it saves them having to post it. Also seeing art in person helps a lot. Sometimes a jpeg online can look better/worse than the actual item due to the level of detail and scale that is lost in a thumbnail. Most artists dont have quality old stock with them at shows. You can great great new art - but classic stuff at artist tables is an anomoly. The kubert example is one of those anomalies.

Springing up from the Clink thread - where in a comment @AnkurJ said he only consigns to auctions with a reserve - it made me want to know the following. 1. If you were a seller who used reserves - What has been yoùr experience? Did it work? If it worked - did the item sell at reserve, but not much more? 2.What did you learn from using it? 3. What's the best way to use it? How high do you set the reserve? At an amount to cover what you paid? At what you think fmv is? At a percentage of fmv? Any other insights FROM A SELLERS point of view? Again - I know how I feel as a buyer when I come up to reserve auctions.. but zero when it comes to selling. So if you sold stuff using reserves, please share your experience.

At the begining I liked to thank fols for the comments - so they knew I appreciated the feedback . I stopped doing so on every one because the comment total doubling bothered me for some reason. Still happy to use the comments section to have a discussion though. Recently I left a comment on someones art and a few days later I got a pm back from them to say thanks. I thought that was a clever way to accomplish the same thing withought having the comments total rise for no reason. ***on a related note, if a person has a description on the art that includes a comment like ' this is a great/amazing/ best ever etc.. piece of art by this artist' or in Trump terms 'HUGE' ... I typically won't leave a comment even if I enjoy the art. I figure this person, compliments themselves - no point adding another compliment.

The artist alley was jam packed with fantastic artists and it wouldnt have been hard to find great stuff to showcase.

Ok. But the art goes to them and they become the defacto seller. If an item is fake- Hopefully they won't list it.

Wow! Just outstanding. Is the movie itself worth watching?

personally I love cover scenes - its a way to save funds if you can't afford the actual cover. the cover often took a key sequence from inside and blew it up/reworked it as a cover. anyway you look at it - collecting should be fun -as long as you are not mislead, descriptions are not too big a deal.

These examples all look great.. and as comic fans we dont need a fancy description to tell us that. I imagine none would sell too cheap. In the end what we keep and what we buy is determined as much by our budgets as what other choices we have. If other stuff that we covet more is available at the same time while funds are finite - decisions have to be made.

I am trying to recall. That is not the cover? Is it a polybag with the art/comic inside. Or was it left black due to 911? Either way there is text.on it - so not abstract enough. If the painting shown earlier were a secret door that you could open - now that would be more like a black polybagged comic in that it is just an obstacle to something inside.. hmm

So you have a problem with cover-ish too?

Perhaps the original definition needed updating. On CAF they have a category known as the TITLE PAGE. I use that for 1st page splash art. Not sure why you couldnt call any other full page interior art a splash too? If its not on the cover and is just one panel it could be a splash.

That is AWESOME! Thanks for showing it.

The closest thing i could think of in comic terms was this. But i know it still has too much in the visible spectrum. Would have been better with more white. It's clear from the over abundance of details that Byrne was no fine artist.

Can you give some visual example. Its hard to understand what you meant.

I almost left a comment on a batman piece today that said 'great piece of art - for a batman cover.' But decided against it. I knew the owner and was certain he would get my joke but was worried others might take offense. So i left a regular comment instead. On the other hand I got some funny comments left on art I posted. Something which I appreciate as collecting shouldnt be too serious a hobby.

Was thinking about this today as I left a bunch of comments on CAF. Sometimes I think people leave comments to those folks they know, as purely a gesture of friendship - but for me I try and only leave comments when I really like something. If there is something about a piece, I don't really like, even if I like the piece overall - I don't leave a comment. In thinking further about it, I thought to myself - is it safe to say that I only leave feedback for pieces that I would be proud to own?/possibly want to own if they came up and were in my budget? For me that answer is yes. so the question I am posing is - are the pieces you comment on - pieces you would want to own if given the chance? or are you just being friendly. Or in general what motivates you to leave feedback?

I saw this piece earlier in the week and was giving it serious thought. Only thing that held me back was too many purchases lately. Felix comic art Nick P art I see as I post this, that its sold. Will probably seek out the comic to see if its good. Congrats to the buyer.

Great pick up!

yeah - but if you put it on you can BE Starlord or possibly Chris Pratt. take your pick - either way, you will be sooo cool.

i think in one of the listings it does say double sided - which leads me to believe he is clipping an artist edition. why would you do double sided if you were scanning it yourself? the artist edition is printed on both sides - so makes a lot of sense. not excited by the idea, but there is nothing wrong if the seller would only word it better. there are tons of old magazine tear sheets online -for folks who don't want to track those magazines down. or who may not have heard about artist editions.

hi, first off want to say, this is a cool looking piece. I also collect illustration art and while this is not exactly what I collect (i am into 50s/60s magazine art) , I pay attention to auctions. my guess - if its not published as you say, is $700-1200 if it were up for auction today -including auction buyers premium. Somewhere on my bookshelf I have a Josh Kirby art book, and from what I know about him - he is most famous for sci fi works. this one is not in that realm and while it is very well done, isn't going to hit nostalgia buttons as its not published. hopefully you decide to hang on to it and continue to enjoy it. my

Interesting. I always thought the high BIN price followed by legit auction was a tactic to sell the item at a higher price than it might sell for just doing an auction.

Great start! Thanks Nico. Having fans use it - will help you find the bugs. Its still very cool in its current state. Just wondering - what isthe order of results? Are certain sights favored? Or is it by date added? Can we control that?

Wow! Cool stuff. Reserves on everything and not cheap - but so much cool stuff and its for sale if you can afford it.

The cover to #1 came but i didnt spend the 25k. Didnt have it. With older covers - they dont come up all the time. The lowest one i saw was around 950 at a heritage sunday. I missed it . Sometimes the price is not bad, but you got to wait for one to show up.