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Honestly, regardless of how much time has passed, if you can at least recoup cost for ANY piece, that's a win in my book. You owned it, held it, enjoyed it, and at the end of the day it ended up costing you nothing if you got your cost back? I see nothing wrong with that.

Well, to be fair the bashing wasn't necessarily on you or the art, nor did any one equate it to being garbage. You had no idea and came asking for advice. The bashing is more on Kevin76's astronomical evaluation, and unfortunately you were too quick to agree it was valid. Any of us would always gravitate towards the higher evaluation. DeadpoolJr basically shut this topic down with the knowledge bomb that he dropped.

True, insignificant is largely subjective on my part. But even with the price of comic art on the rise, this piece is rather boring and like you said, would sit unsold on eBay with a BIN of $250.

A GRAND?? Gus Vasquez... a rather insignificant fill-in artist that I had to Google. An insignificant page from an insignificant book by an insignificant artist. I'd say you're lucky to get $200 for that. A GRAND. Lol.

People have already chimmed in regarding JSC. Jay Anacleto is handled by Kirk Dilbeck - https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=14545 Regarding Ben Oliver, as someone who owns two of his best covers (clearly biased here) - GOOD LUCK getting a hold of him. He is not repped by anyone.

I bet we can see some Portacio XMEN pages sudden pop up on the market asking for comparable prices.

Ok, but I was simply responding to a comment regarding how the show was painful to watch. Am I not allowed to do that?

I really love what Bill and cast do with those auctions, as CRINGEworthy as they get. But man, scanning through the one Glen put on was even worse. As least Bill and cast have some character.

Me, after last night.

He did some work with KCA, but he was never represented by KCA. I actually don't think he's ever had full representation under any group, including Comic Art House.

Well, I wasn't trying to simply paint him as a hype man with no substance. He has curated a list of incredible artists who are deserving of praise. Oh, hi. Don't get me wrong Felix, I'm not trying to throw any shade your way. I do think you're the best rep in the business, and you do a really great job at promoting the artists. Perhaps i'm just a bit jaded by the increasing rise in prices, and the sudden influx of new collector whales into the hobby who seem to have endless budgets.

Not just Albert. Felix is kind of the current master at pushing the market prices higher and higher, and it's really a testament to how good of a sales guy he is. He's the ultimate hype man, and unfortunately for those of us with smaller pockets, he's extremely good at it. Great for him and great for his artists. Detrimental for the hobby, imo.

This. Exactly this. You own the art. It's just like listing our stuff on CAF. People can still download the image and make copies, etc. But they'll never actually own the original. Well, technically you can't actually pair an NFT with something physical. There has to be some digital manifestation of the physical art, and thats what gets tied to the block-chain. So yes, you can technically sell off the OA and keep the NFT that is tied to the digital.

Or in this case, 52 different NFT tokens for this digital image by Jock: https://makersplace.com/jock/drops/reflections-570/?fbclid=IwAR1USfMWCApQKSS2a7AfiXnEq2bQGK6HGGuXCi5J3FdAnjJsvow_s9PCbpI Each edition (essentially each NFT) was sold for $499. And then you have: a red variants of that same image: https://makersplace.com/jock/reflections-code-red-10-of-10-47272/# Edition of 10, and originally sold for what looks like $758.99 each. Looks like someone is offering about $2500 for one of these NFTs. And finally: the elusive BLACK variant. 1 of 1. https://makersplace.com/jock/reflection-1-of-1-47262/ Jock has not let this go yet, but he current has an offer on the table for about $5900.

I've only been collecting since 2017 myself, and yes, prices have continued to rise. Keep an eye out on the secondary market, that's where you'll find amazing deals. Well, if I have been able to resist this long, that tells me that I just don't want it enough to even consider making an offer. I was just more curious about the logic behind the price increase, but @Bronty had a pretty great explanation.

Great perspective! Definitely made me rethink the logic primary sellers use, assuming they follow your business thinking. Thanks for your insight. Also, hell of a profit on that 30 piece. Mind sharing what it was that you sold?

What you're saying does make sense albeit it defying what I find logical. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ time to move on I suppose.

It always seemed strange to me that he had so many covers available, and no one seemed to really want them at those prices. Myself included. And now that they have been raised even higher, I won't even consider them anymore since he was never a must have for my collection.

I like Rafael Albuquerque's work, and once in a while i'll pop onto Cadence to see if they lowered his prices on the DOZENS of covers he did for Batman related books. A lot of these covers have been on his site for 2-3 years, unsold. They recently updated these covers and RAISED the prices. What's the logic behind this?

This is largely what keeps me in check with my collecting. Are these pieces display worthy? If not, i'll just move on. But secondly, do I even have room to display it if it's display worthy? I've seen a few collectors who litter their walls with nicely framed comic art, but it just looks like a mess and gives me anxiety because there is no order and everything is poorly aligned and crooked. I like to have my art spread out throughout the house, here and there as opposed to having a small room where all my stuff is displayed.

This would def work, but the original poster specifically said Bristol, unless he is just mistaken.

There are a number of people I talk to regularly who are also currently experiencing issues and radio silence from Cadence, including cover purchases going missing and not sent, to receiving odd and completely random packages from them. Wholly unprofessional to ghost people that have sent you thousands of dollars, even if delay issues are out of their hands.

PUBLISHED. Pin-up featured inside Catwoman 80th Anniversary Book by Tula Lotay (https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1651162)

No goals for this year. I picked up some great pieces in 2020, but in hindsight, nothing that I couldn't live without. I'll be building up my war chest and just sitting and waiting for the right irresistible piece to appear.

Solid work on this, and you citing a ton of things I was going to. Firstly, Dave, congrats on the up and coming house! We moved into our new home a little over a month ago, and sadly all of my framed art is still unhung. I'm still trying to suss out where i want things, as I generally don't have a dedicated space for my art. It's all just sprinkled through-out the house. One of the best things you can do is to use LEDs for EVERYTHING. They'll save you money in the long run, and if you have valuables of all sorts to protect against UV, then this should def. be your first step. Unlike ESeffinga, I bought into a whole entire Phillips Hue eco-system and i've got most of my lights running on set schedules, including rooms that aren't occupied, I kind of like having a little light on in those rooms. Personally, i think it makes the house feel warming. But, we're going off course. I was going to add some stuff, but I went through what ESeffinga wrote, and they pretty much checked off everything I was going to mention. Again, congrats!