• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

gumbydarnit

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    641

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by gumbydarnit

    Heritage Auctions June 20-23 Auction is unreal !

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted · Edited by gumbydarnit

    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=41935

    https://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!

    • Popular Post
    • Popular Post

    Dilemma - Another collector had prelim to my piece inked, latest owner says mine is a blueline with no pencils

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    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.

     

    Heritage Auctions Apr 4-7 2024

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    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."

     

    Best of 2023 results

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted · Edited by gumbydarnit

    Man what a showing of killer pieces! 

    The Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein illustrations were almost my favorites, but at the end of the day nostalgia wins, and FOR ME the best in show is:

    Steve Lawrence’s X-Men 102 slash by the great Dave Cockrum

    IMG_9806.jpeg.40af7f506e929fa3665e29abbb7cd695.jpeg

    CAF Link

    Who knows what my childhood would have been like without Dave’s creations, would I have maintained my interest in comics without the dominos Dave tipped over with his contributions to the New X-Men? It’s hard imagine the X-Men without Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler!!! 
     

    THANKS DAVE!

     

    Who is attending OA Expo?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted · Edited by gumbydarnit

    It’s nice to hear from a dealer and an artist in regards to OAX. I have a hard time thinking of a show for comic artists and comic art dealers that would be better for their bottom line than this one! Talk about a very focused group of convention attendees. They are all there for your inventory not comics, not movie stars, not Funko Pop toys… the whole crowd is there to buy your stuff.
     

    I would think it would be as easy as falling off a log backwards to have a successful show. Kudos to Bill Cox for OAX, glad it was a success!