PhilipB2k17

I highly doubt it. If you have a higher end valuable piece where something like that would matter, then you sell it through a 3rd part auction house and the "slabbing" becomes irrelevant. (Unless you are a stickelr about production art not being subjected to cut outs, pasted on new materials, etc like one fellow who was on here recently complained about). For lower end stuff, that's not really worth the effort.

That's the new Gift of the Magi.

That's what I;m seeing. A couple of local dealers who used to only stock new books, and trades (and maybe about a year or two worth of back issues, based on unsold inventory) suddenly started selling older stuff. It was like back in the old days. I think people actually are starting to get interested in the original books. They may not pay what they once did, but they like owning them.

I'm getting close to liquidating my collection. I might keep a short box, and all the comics I have where my art is from. I do want to have a copy of the published book for my art that I've collected. But, my new little method is to bring a few books to sell at a con, so as to offset some of the costs of buying new art. I just do it piecemeal so far. I brought some graded books (I had duplicates of all of them) and it helped out. The problem with keeping all your keys, is that nobody will take your bulk collection without the keys mixed in. Or, you will not get much of a price for it.

There was another Mandel article on SyFy a month ago. http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/veep-showrunner-david-mandel-on-his-massive-comics-art-collection-and-trumps-impact-on

Just launched back in June. Anyone know anything about it? https://www.comicartmall.com/ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comic-art-mall-first-marketplace-tailored-for-original-comic-art-and-comic-book-collectors-300664228.html

In fairness, folks like yourself have set the market for modern Batman art. Someone bought that cover on spec alone. I guarantee you.

The Finch cover to Batman Rebirth 24 might have been worth it.

“The original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood by artist E.H. Shepard was bought for a record-breaking 430,000 pounds ($570,137) on Tuesday, auctioneers Sotheby’s said.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-pooh-map/poohs-original-hundred-acre-wood-map-sells-for-auction-record-idUSKBN1K020W?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5b44f67d04d301409481ebdb&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

That’s not an objectivist point of view. “Responsibility” is only to one’s self, not to others. An Objectivist would not have been upset that a criminal he failed to stop killed his uncle Ben. Or rather, he would be upset, but he would not blame himself for it. And while Ditko plotted the books for a good portion of his run, Stan wrote the dialogue.

Nope. That line was all Stan Lee. An Objectivist would never say that. (Not sure Ditko was one by that point, anyway).

We’ve lost one of Comicdom’s Mount Rushmore, IMHO.

Finally met Jeremy Bastian at the Motor City Con this year. Really cool guy, and phenomenally talented. I definitely want to own one of his pieces. He showed me something he was working on that was amazing. The other artists there I spoke to (some long time industry pros) were highly impressed by his work.

Yes. A Frank Miller Daredvil sketch is like being forced go spend the night with Ginger instead of Mary Ann.

It’s sometimes easy, sometimes not. One way O check is to look on the back of the art to see if there are pencil indentations. They aren’t always there, of course. But it can help. Also, I gave gotten mixed responses from oencillers on whether art was scanned and inked by the inker or not. I was on the verge of buying a nice inked page on eBay. But during my research into the piece, Issw that the artist had a scan of the pencils for that same page up on his old Deviant Art site. So I found his email and asked him if he recalled whether the page was inked directly or if he sent adigital copy to the inker. His answer bothered me. He said it’s been a while but he “thought” he sent the page directly to the inker and it’s inks on pencils. A penciller should know his process and how he sends stuff to inkers. I also asked him if he “sold” the pencilled Page, and he wouldn’t say. So, the moral of the story on modern art is: Do your homework as much as you can.

Wrath of Khan poster? $80K easy. This one? No. I’ll say $20K probably. At most.

There are commissioned art contract examples on the internets. One of the issues they bring up is who owns the copyright to the piece. Generally, the artist retains it.

Well that’s a different issue. I see plenty of complaints about artist commissions; enough to know that having a written contract might alleviate some of the problem.

White Knight was OK. I like the art. But they story wasn’t that great, IMHO. It was like a bad Christopher Nolan movie.

Most contract are boiler plate. An art commission one would have negotiated terms like every other contract. Not just price, but contebt, progress reports, time limit, etc.

Seems to me there’s room for an enterprising art rep to spend some money on an attorney to develop a standard commission art contract. Also, if you are repping an artist, you are legally on the hook if the artist doesn’t deliver. If you use PayPal, for example, you can use their refund/fraud procedure if you feel like things are not getting done. I would never pay an artist with a cash or check. Only PayPal or a credit card, where you have a third party intermediary that can step in if you have a dispute. But, as I said, I don’t do commissions.

One reason I don’t do commissions. I have seen some wonderful commissions. But I am unlikely to go down that road.

Chris C owns one of mine. Yowza!

I'm lucky in that I have a nationally recognized art gallery/dealer near where I live that also does custom, museum quality, framing. (They can even do professional art restoration, if I ever need it, and actually appreciate comic art, and are not snooty about it)). The only caveat I would add to the above excellent advice is that this kind of framing can get expensive. And, if you do not have high value art pieces, it may not be cost effective. Plus, museum glass is heavy and you want to make sure your wall mounts are sturdy.

Yep. They bribe the people with the bigger pieces and screw the medium to little guy.