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gumbydarnit
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On 5/8/2024 at 1:08 AM, grapeape said:
Can you imagine. Moving. Suddenly, "Oh there it is! I wondered where this 42 year old classic crossover original art was hiding. I'll be darned."
That piece alone, would provide funds for a MEGA home upgrade!
I know I know Walter doesn't sell.
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On 4/20/2024 at 7:16 PM, Will_K said:
I got mine around the end of March. Have yet to post it on CAF.
WOW, too cool!!! Now that is a great bit of artistic wizardry! Commissions that successfully convey subtle gestures and emotion are more impressive than the ones with characters beating the out of each other.
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Unfortunately, I didn’t know about Roger Hill until seeing his amazing collection in this auction thread. I dug around and found a couple of nice articles about him and his collecting journey:
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1019?articleID=41935https://www.tcj.com/roger-hill-early-comics-fan-historian-and-scholar-dies-at-75/
there is also a nice thread about Roger Hill here on CGC:
Sounds like a he was true gem in our hobby!
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I like this thread for one primary reason- it just illustrates the problem with commissioning recreations that are not by the original artist, inking lightboxed printouts etc.. not many collectors insist on adding the descriptions to the actual artwork to help future buyers
Let’s say someone commissions a random inker to ink a printout of a Perez commission that they don’t own. I think when this happens, a description should be added “George Perez printout inked by Johnny Journeyman”. Written on around the bottom of the art and not in the boarder where it could be cut off. This would clarify George Perez did not touch this page at all.
In addition to adding the description, I think the original artist signature should NEVER be copied on a recreation, unless the original artist drew the recreation. By removing the Perez signature from the recreation it helps emphasize that Perez did not touch this page. As one looks for the artist signature they instead see the accurate description.Too often the commission has no description added. The piece is sold a couple of times and then the third or fourth owner throws it in an auction. Without any mention of it being in a printout inked by Johnny Journeyman, it instead is listed as a George Perez commission. There is plausible deniability that the owner had no idea it wasn’t Perez. “See it’s signed Perez right on the page.”
But if you remove the Perez signature and add the description …. Yay! you now have a win win. Potential buyers now know what is being sold to them and the seller can sleep easy knowing that he sold his art as a Johnny Journeyman inked George Perez printout and not as a George Perez commission, saving those poor future buyers lots of money because of the piece’s transparency. Who wouldn’t want that?!?
This is not happening, and everyday you see has more and more recreations and inked blue lines come to market without the needed info on the artwork, so it’s now very much a buyer beware situation.
I think transparency is a topic that deserves further discussion and constant monitoring in our hobby.Please read my opinion as a bit of a sidebar and not a post specifically targeted at the pieces discussed upthread.
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On 4/8/2024 at 12:14 PM, vodou said:
the often forgotten 6th stage some go through, is slapping trade dress on it and attempting to sell it as unused cover.
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WOW just checked y’all aren’t joking. That is a bit much, I guess if there’s a lot you want you’ll hang in there, but I think the window shoppers are long gone by now.
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It's time again...gentlemen start you engines, pedal to the metal time...GO CATS GO!!!
BID LIKE THERE IS NO TOWORROW!!!
JUST WIN BABY!!!
I hate to repeat myself, but I have to quote that great auctioneer -
"The more you bid the more it's worth."
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On 3/6/2024 at 8:26 PM, Lee B. said:
That's a beautiful spread and was well-bought by the winner! I wish I had been able to be a contender for this.
You and me both!
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Thinking about it, the Champions piece prob wouldn’t be considered a flip being that it was held for over a year.
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Jan 2022 on HA:
tonight on ComicLink
A surprising low result for one of the most memorable pieces from Byrne’s Champions run. Somehow it feels as if it flew under a lot of collectors’ radars!
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Lets take what people like and make it better just like what Coke did when they up the ante and changed their VERY successful original fomula to a new one.... NEW COKE (which tasted like Pespi).
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On 2/8/2024 at 12:54 PM, batman_fan said:
When I select the auction is get this
Click on the Original Art category on the left side menu, that takes you the the auction's OA.
I'm on a computer it may be a mobile issue.
Comic Art Live May 2024
in Original Comic Art
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I found 2 or 3 small pieces, I might pick up one. It’s fun flipping through page after page of listings, I got through 64 sets of listings before I finally gave out. That’s a lot of art, usually one or two on each set was interesting enough to enlarge.
Good show, thanks to all of you sellers for posting!