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I hope Yoko makes great cakes.

Standing by... https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/story-page/paul-smith-and-bob-wiacek-x-men/p/122124-108005.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116 Not the consignor... won't be a bidder.

Normally the buyer is obligated to pay for the shipping. You would be obligated to make sure the art is packaged very well to ensure it's delivered in the same condition as when you sent it. For example, art is in some kind of plastic sleeve, reinforced with cardboard / foamboard / masonite / etc. Taped / sealed. Well labelled. Sent with tracking. Buyer may want insurance as well. Figure all that into calculating the shipping cost. There's a pinned topic on shipping: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/438856-shipping-oa/

More on topic (i.e. Skottie Young) ... Daily sketches go live tomorrow, Tue 5/25 at 10am CST! https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQ7daDBAQ3/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=1bf29fd1-1508-4d6a-820f-14fabbf65849

The whole ACEO concept started around affordable art. But as one would expect, the sketch card thing started generating attention due to the quality of the art and the dollars. But it may be the final frontier of getting affordable art from your favorite artists.

This has taken a bizarre turn.

Actually, I don't think flaming is really allowed. Buying / owning a one of a kind of almost anything is a luxury. In this case, it's comic book art. If you want something for the image itself, you can buy the comic. Or you can look for the image on-line and make copy, I have lots and lots of those. If you want a larger image for display, maybe you can find a print. The first rule of collecting is buy what you love. That doesn't have maximum or minimum price. Since @Nexus has been mentioned in this topic and he's chimed in... I'll say one of the great things that Felix's clients does is have a wide price range. You can find anything from random doodles to prelims to published pieces to commissions. They sell really well and I'm sure the artists and buyers are happy. But you can still find artists to create art from scratch at lower prices. There's still a lot of nice art that can be bought without breaking your budget. But I don't think anyone "deserves" to own art (i.e. owning art is not a human right). Also, anyone that wants to be able to buy art can also afford to create art. The art may not be up to professional standards but a lot of artists are self taught and there's a lot of satisfaction in being able to create something on your own. Pricing something lower to make it affordable to as many people as possible is honorable. The same for discounting for certain professionals, senior citizens or AAA members. But... just as civil servants don't work for free, I would not expect an artist to produce art for free. But sometimes you can ask your doctor friend about "this thing" that's been bothering you. Not withstanding the high valuations of the last 5 years or so, up until about 10-15 years ago, in-demand artists would have very affordable convention sketches. It's probably happened a lot of times but there's the famous occurrence where an Adam Hughes convention sketch appeared on ebay within hours of it being completed, resulting in Adam opting out of doing sketches for a period. Just to get on Adam's sketch list was a big deal since he still got choose which requests he would or would not draw. My recollection is Adam said that the commissioner / flipper made big deal about how much a sketch would mean to him, did the "aw shucks" thing, etc. And it just seemed to be a show to get Adam to choose to do take on that request. I don't know which artists might still do free sketches or doodles (maybe just Walt Simonson). And those artists probably don't want to be swamped with requests. Man, for those Simonson sketches, you really have to earn them/camp out. So many free sketches have ended up on ebay that a lot artists no longer do them. And the same goes for getting comics signed. I'm glad I got my fill of getting comics signed when signatures were free. A few years ago, I foolishly paid an artist to sign 4 comics for me. And I say foolishly because the artist had a sign with his signature fee. But he didn't really enforce it, he'd sign comics for people and not charge anything. "A fool and his money are soon parted." That has applied to me more times than I'd like to admit. I've always thought that if artists were going to do free sketches, it should be the same free sketch. So that there would be so many of those sketches that they don't necessarily have a strong secondary market. Except with the Internet, you can sell to almost anyone in the world. One of the few viable secondary markets for the dozens (100's?) of the same free sketch is the Rocketeer head sketches by Dave Stevens. There's a quite a few of them and they're very desirable. But you still don't see them come up for sale very often. Dave did one for me and it's definitely a keeper.

A while ago in another topic, a Stan Lee signature is an automatic turn-off for me.

Silhouette... or only using 1 of Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work!! Brave & Bold 95 (w / Plastic Man) p 15 by Nick Cardy

Does that mean the owner also has time ?? Does the owner have time to solicit other offers ? If I were the owner and after all the back and forth that's been described with Justin Case... if a week has gone by without an offer... this deal will die on the vine.

Can’t say The first rule of Subby Club is...

I wouldn't say Timm is easy to forge. But it was (is ?) common to see drawings (e.g. on ebay) that were copies of Timm originals. They'll look close to Timm but still be a little off. And the "Timm animated style" is also a standard for comics aimed at kids, coloring books, etc. So there are pros that have to follow the model created by Timm. They may not look exactly like Timm but they're close enough (and good enough) for publication. And Timm's style has evolved over the decades. You see it mainly in women's faces. So even Timm can draw something that doesn't look exactly like the Timm you've grown to love. However Timm's looser drawings and color work ?? I don't think those have been successfully imitated. They really deserve a premium.

Is it a proof because no physical art exists ? Is it being marketed as a 1 of 1 proof ? For the double-sided proof... is it the same image on both sides ?? Or is it one image on one side and the opposing view on the other side ?? Kind of like putting your palms together and one side looks like the other in reverse? To me, anything (print, proof, physical art) is fair game as long as you're told and understand what you're getting. Then it's a matter of you deciding if the price is worth it to you.

Thanks. That is something I did not take into account. For comic art, at least, most reps don't seem like ambassadors that are trying to build relationships. Also, given today's technology, it's easier for the artists to build those relationships on their own.

All artist reps work for their respective artists. Their job is to make as much $$$ as possible for their clients. That's just the biz. And given the current trend of higher prices, there's no reason to expect reps to leave any $$$ on the table. Even convention sketches/commissions are becoming luxury goods.

I don't know that issue. But isn't it a John Buscema trope to show figures from behind ? Boom !! There's an explosion. You see the figure from behind.

It's a great commission. I think Nick called me more than I called him. For some reason, he'd ask me questions about his art.

Re: Honeymoon Artistry/technique aside, does the painting's title along the divorce rate and/or slowing marriage rate influence a future sale/auction ? Just as a football theme might influence the $4M hammer price ? If the winning bidder of the $4M painting emerges, we'll come up with more justifications for the price/demand. It would also be nice to know the underbidder.

I recall Mary Wilshire being a pretty good artist. When you ask Sienkiewicz to ink anyone (ANYONE), you kind of expect him to treat pencils as layouts and he'll do his thing. I imagine he'll follow what's there and not actually redraw panels. BUT Sienkiewicz does the blacks and adds so many flourishes that it's hard to imagine the pencils. I saw Joe Staton at a show where he had a page inked by Sienkiewicz and happened to have a copy of his original pencils, forgot which series/issue. It was just unreal what Sienkiewicz did.

Breaking up the logjam with... 3 Hail Marys !! Mary Marvel turnarounds by Ryan Sook. I've seen the finished version on CAF.

Sold for $530.00

No idea. I think it's some kind of 3D digital model based on the McFarlane drawing. The ebay listing shows 2 views. For posterity here are the images from the ebay listing: VEVE ECOMI Todd McFarlane Batman Black & White FIRST APPEARANCE #1251 NFT VEVE Digital Collectible. VERY LOW minted number #1251 / 7500. Buyer must have an active VEVE app account and provide user information (Screenshot of username and QR code ideally) exactly as is displayed on the VEVE app to receive the digital collectible. Transfer will take place after payment has been cleared.

VEVE Todd McFarlane Batman FIRST APPEARANCE #1251 NFT Digital Collectible Low Serial Number #1251 / 7500 Currently $425 with 47 bids and 9 hours remaining https://www.ebay.com/itm/265141222142?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5336399660&toolid=10001&customid=CAFHotHeader

... rhymes with Simonson Green Arrow

Same. Who ever said "sex sells" was right. Even so, I got what I consider to be a "bargain".