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I think the whole "fresh" to market thing has a wee bit of merit, but is overrated. People want what they want, period. When a cover or page from a book people didn't think still existed or hasn't ever been seen in the market before turns up, it turns heads. I think the mindset is the potential buyers want to snatch it up for themselves, or risk it disappearing again. Possibly an irrational response, but I think it exists. And then there's that whole exclusivity thing too. Buying OA means you have the only one. Buying OA that just popped up, or you dug up makes it even more "exclusive" by turning heads. And by extension, the owner feels a bigger charge being the owner of it. That said, I DO think it hurts pieces when they are flogged over and over again. Some pieces seem to get in a cycle of being turned over repeatedly, from one collector to another. Time and time again. I think that can hurt resale, but it depends on what the piece is, and over the timespan that the turnarounds are happening. Every 5 or 10 years is a lot different than pieces that seem to move homes every 6 months or once a year. I think pieces that seem to constantly be up for sale, either through people buying and moving them regularly or because one person just constantly has the piece up for sale with too high a tag on it... those are not "fresh" clearly. Those are the pieces that gain a kind of stigma, and they seem to sit until a new collector who is unaware of them sitting around buys it up for whatever is being asked for it. And pieces not being on CAF often have zero to do with keeping a piece "fresh". I have several friends who don't have CAF galleries simply because the pieces are theirs and they feel and see no need to post them to a website so other people can look at them. That simple. I suspect that's the case with the vast majority of pieces that aren't on CAF. Simple as that. I had to be talked into starting a CAF gallery by a friend who had one. For 4 or 5 years I just wasn't interested at all in the whole sharing thing. It wasn't until I realized the knock on effect was increased ability to network and find likeminded folks who opened other doors for me, that it's true benefits (to me) really came clear. -e.

McGinnis article in Vanity Fair Not sequential art, per se, but I saw this posted over at Muddy Colors, and I know several folks here may be interested in the article. It's obviously aimed at a readership that know nothing of McGinnis himself. http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/04/robert-mcginnis-movie-posters-illustrations

That Jae Lee Batman & Catwoman is super cool...

Rom is fantastic in its own way. I was always big on it as a kid. This piece is a peach.

Love this thread...

Completely joking. You guys take the money stuff too too serious. ?

I thought the exact same thing. Heh.

Maybe I shouldn't have sold the old Deadman commission piece after all... hah!

Hahahahahahahaaaaa

Keen!

Actually it MUST be compressed.