Joao Antunes

Here is the commission that started all for me

I just like to take the opportunity to say Thanks! to Felix and all the (previous and to be) participants of his podcast for the generosity and spared time to do it and share their stories and/or views on this hobby (past, present and future) we love and are addicted (for most of us I believe for the rest of our lives). They've been tremendously informative and entertainment for me, they even allowed me to know there was a TCJ, a CGC forum (that I just sign up), a Herb and Dorothy documentary and so on. So, a big THANK YOU TO ALL!!! PS: ...and I even didn't read DKR to know why is all the fuzz about it

I found this topic very interesting, I could relate with lots of suggestions that were given, I'm new to the forum of CGC but I collect original comic art for almost 14 years now, so being this topic opened since 2011 I hope that in the 6 years that passed it helped a lot of new collectors, because informations is really a key factor to enjoy the opportunity to own something you love and can have the pleasure of looking at it (and learning from it) whenever you want. I would like to take the opportunity to make an analogy with another thing I love (fortunately much less expensive), music! There are people that only listen to classical music, indie music, jazz, comercial music, folk music, electronic music (with lots of variations), rock music, death metal music, world music, and so on, and will only listen to one kind of music all their lives, but there's always great (and even fantastic) musics and musicians despite the genre, and we have the chance to get to know them if we are just curious and willing to go after it and not judging instead just because it's not the thing we like to hear the most, who knows, as several people already said, it's very likely your taste will change after a period, and what we consider in a given time that was fantastic, even a grail, a few years after is something we can still have the same feeling (and that's wonderful) or it's something we just like and we love a wider range. Personally, I live in Portugal and until a couple of years ago I didn't even knew anyone else that collected original comic art in my country, so my knowledge of original comic art collecting was very limited (self maid) and with very little information, almost 14 years later I'm still learning, and that is crucial in this hobby. I LOVE my collection but I'm sure I had pulled the trigger in a lot of art that I had the opportunity of buying and let them go away (almost no regrets even so ), but going back to music I have my preferences but I'm always open to new sounds/bands (just starting or even if they are much older than me), and regarding original comic art some of the most enjoyable pieces I was able to get in the last years came from that curiosity (and some didn't even are from the USA or from Europe), so my advice is to search for what you love, use CAF (look for what collectors that have something you like also collect, you might have some great surprises of art and artists you never heard about before), 2D, this forum, podcasts like Felix, comic art shops (not only from the States but also form Europe), and try to be open to new things, hopefully you'll know when it's time to buy and what to buy (if you can afford it of course) that will bring you much happiness, and if you can't afford a particular piece you wanted I'll say what my wife always says to me: you can't have everything and there is always new and wonderful pieces and artists appearing (with the difference that she refers to 'fine art' and not 'comic art', but she and our daughters might love our collection some day as I do, who knows ).

This is my first post in the forum, just joined the forum and was drawn to this topic right away, I started my collection of original comic art almost 14 years ago and started my collection with a commission of Jim Woodring that is framed on the wall since then