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I think there's a counter argument, in that if it's a piece of art that deserves to be printed a thousand times, then that should make the monoprint more desirable by reinforcing the importance of the piece? I mean, if the cover of DKR #1 was digital, and you owned the monoprint, you'd presumably be quite happy for there to be posters of it sold at SDCC as that solidifies its position?

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I think it's inevitable that the comic art market will start to resemble the broader contemporary art market - original work as the most desirable, commanding the highest prices, then the monoprint, then the first broad print run (with printer or artist proofs attracting a premium), then the second run, etc. Actual original artwork will always be the pinnacle, and there will always be people for whom that's the only thing worth collecting, but for people coming into the hobby now, some highly desirable pieces are only available are prints because they were fully digital - and given that we see nostalgia as a significant driver for values in original art, it would be reasonable to assume that the same will happen for well-known pieces that are fully digital. I've bought a few digital pieces that I'm very happy with, at good prices (although I'm still annoyed with myself that I didn't pick up the Thor 705 cover that Dauterman was selling when it was available) but I looked at the Jimenez Punchline cover and balked at the price tag - but I do think it's entirely possible that I could be regretting that decision in a few decades. It feels like it's a market in its infancy, and there's still a lot of price discovery going on, so I guess we'll see if it continues to evolve, or if it hits a plateau. But given the broad trend for artists to work digitally - which does look like it's slowing down - I find that hard to imagine.

I don't really do commissions, I focus on published work - but I'd make an exception for one of those Tradd Moore Wall Power pieces, they are really stunning.

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I'm looking to add a solid Song of the Surfer page / cover to my collection, but would also look at nice Midnight Surfer, Oz or Soul on Fire pages. Thanks - Chopper for Oz!

Really fix your maximum. Don't get carried away in the moment, as there's often somebody with much deeper pockets who will keep you pushing the price up - you need to know where the line is. I often fix my maximum, and then ask myself if I'd be happy to pay another 25%. And then refix my maximum accordingly. (And then go ahead and ignore my own advice, but that's my problem!)

Thanks for posting - wasn't aware of that show, interesting stuff, now watching all the previous episodes...

That is a truly SICK Invisibles page Luca, kudos!

They put "1 ITEM - ORIGINAL ART" Heritage have been doing this for a while, so I imagine have got the process down to as smooth as it's going to be. It's not like when buying comic books from a US store, and they write the name of the books on the shipping form, so the customs people charge you full whack as they don't know what "Fantastic Four #48" means... (Although you can claim it back if that does happen, just takes a bit of time). But I would agree with Vodou - getting a US friend would probably work out cheaper - I'm just impatient to get my hands on my purchases!

True, I used to do that, but all my domestic friends are in California, and now the auction houses seem to follow the same approach at Ebay and add state sales tax, so there's not much in it.

What will usually happen is that once the package has been received at UK customs, FedEx will send you an invoice for the expected charges - which should be zero import duty, but 5% VAT on original art, so 5% in total. And they add a handling charge of something like £8. Once that's paid, they deliver pretty quickly. My last shipping / insurance charge from Heritage to the UK was $124.92, and it took something in the region of 6 working days from dispatch to arrive, pretty quick. For some reason the tracking stops working once it leaves the US (or at least does for me) so it will still be saying that it's in the US when it's at UK customs. I've only had Heritage ship to the UK - packaging is really very robust.

I can think of a couple of covers that were originally done digitally, but the artist does also work in physical media, where I'd be interested in having them recreate the cover for me. Would need to be pretty iconic or personally important to be worth the effort though!

Unpublished House of X #1 prelim - Pepe Larraz

Thanks, I was very happy to get this! (Posted it earlier in this thread, but it took a while for the post to get approved.)

Probably my favourite of the Sandman pages that I've got...