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Some very nice pieces left for tomorrow. If you’re selling best of luck. If you’re buying, better luck yet!

Absolute steal $21,000 all in for the Sienk 8 Elektra page. Congrats to whoever got that one.

If she kills ya quick the estate can save shipping and handling by keeping your auction won art on site until the December Signature. Rest in Peanutz ⚰️

Good try man

Which dealer do you think bought the two Marie Severin TTA pages today that were pulled just before auction? I figured a dealer would buy them and keep the best page and relist the other. When originally posted HA showed the least attractive of the two for some time before getting with it and switching the order.

When I started collecting artwork I made it my mission to see as many pieces of original art in person as I possibly could. To study them. To learn the different combinations of artists. Credits be damned. Credits aren’t always accurate. When I look at a page I want to know who created it just by studying it. So I had to deconstruct any laziness of accepting a listed credit for pencil or inked work and do more homework. Talk to artists, inkers, writers, long time collectors. Who actually did what in the pages. How much? If you are buying a five figure + page today you should be able to visually inspect the art without credits and be able to tell with a great deal of certainty who the working artists were. That’s not a snob thing that’s a best practice. Now as to who is great and who is a hack we’ll always agree to disagree. I can tell you time has a way of changing perceptions in all fields of art. Is there anyone else out there that remembers for example, Frank Giacoia being seen as “meh” because everything was compared to Sinnott over Kirby. Today collectors know and appreciate that Frank did dynamic work on quite a bit of quality covers and pages. I think where a problem could come is if those wading in with large stacks of cash and buying based on a famous penciler’s name only, find out down the road that in a reset/recalibrated market the cream usually rises to the top. That Kirby Sinnott, Ditko-Ditko, Romita-Mooney or Romita-Romita are the gold standard and other combinations may not measure up in a beauty pageant or as a rising investment. The good news is original art is fraught with irrationality. For everything we think we know there’s some outlier to make us clutch our pearls. Some of the most beautiful art sells for far less than the pedestrian labored creations that hit the sweet tooth. I think it’s important to be educated about comic art. So if you buy Ditko-Bell you are aware that there exists an established opinion that Ditko-Ditko is superior but you happily bought opposite that opinion. The hobby is better if people are informed while spending their money.

It’s 10% or so of DKR 1 cover. Probably as simple as that. “Make it make sense” rarely computes in our racket anymore.

Nah..... it just means I gotta work on my meme game. I thought projecting “optimism” of lower prices visible “through the trees” while posting a picture of the Predator using his invisibility shield while up “in the trees” would suggest death from above for those who really believe prices are coming down. cue the hilarity me thinks. responses on the way me thinks. Back to the drawing board me thinks

It's too quiet. Bids at a standstill now some are getting dust on them. Usually I just keep my head down on auction week but maybe reasonable prices are visible through the trees?

Yes I read this article also. I found myself unable to take sides. The snob artists who feel like they got gamed. The goof ball who "created' the masterpiece by putting an inordinate amount of intensive labor into the project. However, in its wake the AI painting judged by simple, intuitively measured standards, comes off spectacularly. They will correct this "injustice" by creating separate categories for AI art in the future. Where AI could really shine would be MTG and Fantasy art card work. Ultimately, I'm going to treasure what a human being of flesh and blood is able to conjure up with heart and soul and execute on canvas, more than what AI will create. But I've got a feeling if these two fellas were around they'd give the AI art....

SOLD. https://www.ha.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=7289&collection=58&type=friend-consignorlive-notice&FC=0

In the sixties a fifth Beatle. Today a third Donnelly? Good grief!!!

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https://www.ha.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=7289&collection=58&type=friend-consignorlive-notice&FC=0 How rare a find is this? 1993 MTG Original Art Suicide Staff by renowned artist Phil Foglio. Click the link above (see larger photo)and follow HA Signature Auction 7289 to win a piece of MTG History. The art comes with a companion letter signed by Phil Foglio detailing the card powers and his personal thoughts on this dark and coveted MTG treasure. This is the card they did not want players to have. You have a rare chance to score prime 1993 MTG original art Suicide Staff.

I love the fact that Matches gave you an 👍 to saying his story is a lie. That’s a guy that’s not backing down. You have me twisted homie. You got to put your own work in around here. You see I don’t ask for much from a post but if one member contradicts another board member with “lie” he or she needs to show receipts. underw0rld you are from Arizona? What more would you like us to know? Would you like to retract your statement or explain it? Or do you want it to float here like a “Baby Ruth” in the punch bowl of joy that is the OA threads?

He’d be getting a bargain at $1m a page.Sal way undervalued. (😎 looks over shoulder for black coat INGSOC badges.) Heads up make sure you have the ability to take credit cards. As you’ve heard the guys got it bad for frequent flyer mileage points. Hey some people just want a bath towel and the miniature soaps from the hotel they stay at. Who am I to judge?

Yiqian Liu just dropped $170,000,000 on a reclining nude. He paid with his American Express Card and will get “free flights” for him and his family for life via frequent flyer points. I figure I can prove you wrong by using my IKEA Platinum Card to bid and win the Fantagor cover while receiving a lifetime supply of free Swedish Meatballs.

Jeff and Trudy I think it’s great that you are integrating your passions on a focused website. I hope you have fun and success. Original art and collectibles can be hard to find. But when you find that rare jewel it’s like turning dreams into reality.

I get it. The damsel in distress doesn’t exactly fit within the Peanuts Gang social circle. She’s old enough to be their teacher. You know, the one the kids can’t understand. Honestly if the woman on the cover talked to old grape ape, all he’d hear is “wah wah woh wah wah”

Respectfully, with all this back and forth about Byrne or Bolland I want to point out that Corben was no slouch drawing gorgeous ladies. I always thought these Fantagor covers were wild. Is it possible this independent comic cover outsells the WW cover?

A w e s o m e

I’ve always admired the Savage Sword of Conan covers by Earl Norem. I would love to get this one as it’s a favorite from my childhood. I’d hang it in the dining room behind my chair at the head of the table. 🗣 “Like 🔥 you will” I hear Mrs.grape protest. 🍇 🦍 “But Darling think of the dinner conversations we’ll have with family and friends.Especially that queasy, delicate cousin Benji of yours who passed out giving blood at the Red Cross.” 🗣 “I am thinking about it a** hat.

Point taken. It’s hard to confess. But if I could come clean and speak freely there’s a little bit of flipper in all of us.

Me too 🧟‍♀️