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On 1/12/2024 at 12:18 PM, jjonahjameson11 said:

$66K 

I knew it was going big.
I did not realize it was going BIG.

On 12/28/2023 at 9:54 PM, tth2 said:

That one was a much better image, to boot!  I'd love to see that one come back to the market.

The one currently up is one of THE Death images for me. 

On 12/21/2023 at 11:21 AM, DougC said:

I am not the typical OA buyer as I rarely buy anything and what I do buy is usually in the $500 range. I knew the Death: the Time of Your Life post card art was coming to auction and it is my favorite piece as I used that post card as a book mark for over a decade. So I decided I would save up a bit and take a stab at it; I very foolishly thought 5K would have given me a decent shot since it was a smaller piece and only used in promotional advertisements.

I am at least glad I found out early that I was being naive... lol.

 

 

I was guessing 10-12 and thought I might be a player.

NOPE.

Chris Bachalo Shade the Changing Man.
Nothing says Halloween like hanging some witches.

Mike Mignola Dracula is perfect for the spooky season

On 2/9/2023 at 6:09 PM, The Voord said:

Didn't do too badly, considering the level of competition . . . all genuine votes . . . and none of that voting for yourself hogwash.  My two best entries:

BANK HOLIDAY (1938) Movie Poster painting, artist unknown - 17 votes

 

HEFF HAWKE 'Survival' (1960) title strip by Sydney Jordan and Colin Andrew - 12 votes

 

 

I voted for that strip. Those are some great inks. 

Surprised to see one of my entries cracked the top five in it's category.

On 11/26/2022 at 7:30 PM, Monkeyman said:

These are outstanding 

I don’t have much illustration art, but when I saw this at auction I had to have it. It’s a Sunday Minneapolis Tribune cover from 1946 by Oz Black.

I’m always on the hunt for newspaper-related pieces, and not only does this fit the bill but it’s from the paper I currently work for. 
 

Scans of the color guide and printed product are on my CAF. 
 

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1892275

On 5/20/2022 at 6:26 PM, igotnogame said:

I have most of my Sandman OA signed by Neil as well as the artists who did the work.

Why?  Well, to me, Neil's words are just as important as the art, IMHO.  Honestly, if I had anything that Alan Moore wrote, I'd feel the same way.

Does it add anything to the value?  Probably not, but I'd argue getting Neil to sign something is about the same degree of difficulty to get most of the other artists signatures these days.

And, Neil signed my pages in the margins with a ballpoint pen.  I'd suggest the same for anyone signing OA.

Gaiman was the first writer who came to mind. I think I have seen more pages with his signature than without. ;)

On 6/2/2022 at 9:38 AM, kbmcvay said:

 

Elementary school kids in 1983 would be chomping at the bit with their lunch money to get in on this Garfield action.

At eighty cents a day - that's a LOT of lunch. Maybe I can talk Mom into sending me with fifteen cents for an extra milk.

On 5/31/2022 at 11:23 AM, comix4fun said:

Check Rice off the list!!!



Who's next to get their Garfield?! Move the line along, we've got A LOT more to get through!!

One and done.

On 5/26/2022 at 6:56 PM, szav said:

Did someone, I mean no one ask for the official Garfield update??  Ok which one of you did this?.....................to be fair the rest went dirt cheap.

 

That's the one I wanted. Early art. Garfield and Odie. Newspaper gag. But it went way higher than I was willing to go.
I ended up with a nice Sunday (that is likely by a studio artist rather than Davis), but now I have my one Garfield example and am content.

Content? Yes.

Done? No way.

There's ALWAYS something out there I want. But prices have pushed much of it beyond my reach. So I decided to trim the fat and have had several pieces up at Heritage for the last few weeks. I've had some gains, and some losses, but it's been good overall and is going to allow me to focus on a couple of larger buys and go for quality over quantity.

On 4/12/2022 at 11:11 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

 But which piece did you want more?  The one on clink or HA?

Oh, the one I missed on HA for sure. But Clink was a nice consolation prize.

Out of all of those lots (and I was watching quite a few) there was only one "must-have" for me. But someone else wanted it more.

So I spent 1/10th of the hammer on a Clink win instead. :)

On 2/28/2022 at 4:13 PM, Rick2you2 said:

When I last saw her at a show, she seemed to have a manager there.

 

She was set up with Essential Sequential at the last NYCC I worked. 

Dealer or no, anyone can haggle down prices.

I just don’t like the race to buy mentality of these shoes, so I rarely watch. I’d much rather take my time to make a purchase – which means I don’t get to buy much these days. 

Thumbs up from another Twin Cities collector!

As the owner of one of those Kieth splashes, I wish this had prices. Crazy to think all of those pages (and more) were available at once ...

On 8/15/2021 at 7:46 PM, boomtown said:

I apologize in advance for being a Nakatomi shill, but they recently did a kickstarter for a jigsaw puzzle (20x30) featuring the art to the "i'll be with you on your wedding night" print by Wrightson. They have a limited supply left on there website if any of you are jigsaw puzzle and Wrightson Collectors it's pretty sharp looking. Considering all the line work going on, I bet it's a person_without_enough_empathy to put together.

Can confirm. I got in on the Kickstarter, received the puzzle, opened the box, said "eff that" and haven't attempted it yet.

Every piece looks the same. I'll wait for winter when I can' leave the house to try it.

On 6/23/2021 at 10:54 AM, comix4fun said:

The worst? Well, that was a guy who kept posting WTB's for various artists and titles, saying he would pay blue chip prices and over market. Came to me with a power-point like presentation about all the ways my piece was substandard, and really quite bad, but that he would still be willing to buy it....for about 80% below true market. 

Fine. $50. Final offer.