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I think that, in part, you are confusing the art with the artist. I also think it is a common mistake. By way of your example, I am not a fan of Kirby. Where some people see kinetic energy on a piece, I often see disorganization and impossibly positioned people or actions. But, I have also seen pieces by Kirby that I like, although they are rare during the 1960’s which most people do like. Similarly, I have expressed disdain for Richard Dillion’s work, but then I saw a non-DC piece from years earlier, and it was great. Yes, there are bad pieces, and lesser artists, but in my view, most professional artists are good. It Is the individual pieces which are poor. As for scantily clad women, take a good look at the waist lines of some of Will Eisner’s women. They are invariably very, if not impossibly narrow. But for his style they worked. With that all said, what is an artist supposed to say about another artist’s work? Criticize the composition, which is substantially dictated by the writer? Dislike, say Bruce Timm’s work if the editor puts him on some horror title? The most I have heard an artist say is that he doesn’t understand why a particular artist’s work is so expensive. That makes a lot of sense. Can’t wait to hear that on a claim show.

Matter of fact, I do. Many years ago, in the early 1980's, I bought what I thought was a sketch by Jim Aparo. I was wrong. About 5 years ago, I discovered it was the published cover of a Fanzine called Fandom Feature, cover, No. 1, from 1980. And yes, I know it needs a cleaning.

Not a bad idea, but not as a claim show. (a) why would most artists bother to come unless they could hawk something of theirs? (b) that would take a lot of time and cut into the dealers' attempted sales of pieces; (c) assumes that the dealers have enough of Sal's pieces to sell; (e) not everyone likes Sal's work (calling Zhamlau...), thereby excluding a lot of potential buyers, and (f) could inferentially result in an attack on another artist, if honest, and that is even rarer than a dealer attacking a dealer. With their words being recorded, you are at, at best, likely to get something like: "Dale's art is very good." Or, as in a discussion I once had with Howard Chaykin a few years ago, he said he doesn't care what other artists' work looks like. I agree with Vodou. You need snark. Or, true bargains.

“visually suited for media”? 😂🤪

Why? What was good?

Somethings. Mediocre art, list pricing on those “undiscovered gems”, and all the charisma of a toothpaste tube—without the toothpaste. But again, rather than trash the trash, how to make it watchable?

Well, we know they can multiply when doing their mark-up.

As you pointed out, only 92 people tuned into the last show, and as someone else mentioned, only one piece was sold later. The novelty is already wearing thin.

How to make that show less boring? I was interested in provoking critiques by dealers of another dealer’s stock. Other ideas?

So, the question is, how could these be changed to make them more interesting--other than lower prices and better art, and are conceivably agreeable? Here's my thought. Have each dealer offer 3 pieces within the same price range to the other dealer at the same time, and the other dealer would have to pick which 1 he would buy, or none at all. He cannot pick all or 2. He would then be expected to explain why he picked what he picked,or none, and would also get first dibs on actually buying it. The moderator could also ask further questions. Then, the other dealer gets to do to him what he did to the first dealer. After each dealer goes, only then would the 3 pieces from each dealer be open for purchase. That's a duel.

Congratulations, but boy, has the mail service really gone down hill!

Nothing for me. Just a passing stranger there.

Lots of possibilities: offerings compared to interests of prospective buyers, summer time, end-of-Covid price drop, bad luck on the order of auction items offered, as well as changes in dates.

I thought he just wanted a Snickers bar.

Go to Comic Art Tracker and register.

A little too much facial hair and no pony tail, but yea... I don't think, however, his winter wardrobe is quite this bad:

I’m trying to visualize this one, with Donnelly in that a-bit too snug T shirt. Some things are best not left to the imagination.

That's okay. I'm just a bit tired of the same old, same old--including some of the same old stock.

I didn't mind that. But, if you meant my comment about "bathtub gin", they can appear any way they want. But, since they were trying to sell something, they might make a better impression if they tidied up a bit first. Steve's corpulence demands a bigger, better T shirt, or maybe even, a collared short sleeve shirt. Nonetheless, that's their business.

Giving them the benefit of what doubt? That they shouldn’t show better pieces that are more reasonably priced? Some of them did make the effort to add information besides, “this is a great piece” or “these are hard to get for the money”? I’ll give them that. But I too have things to do, and looking at mediocre stock at list pricing isn’t one of them. Plenty of other places to do that.

Honestly, I didn’t think they were that bad for the material. I also liked the way they had those flip over sheets for the covers.

Have no fear. I get the 2 Jersey shows, and anything which might show up in NYC. Next one up is a very good comic show in July there. I got the feeling they were trying to unload stuff they couldn’t sell elsewhere at the prices they wanted. And while I know they were busy, how hard would it have been to make a nicer, cleaner impression on TV? Not impressive to look like you been swilling bathtub gin.

Wow. I assume its about over. Not a single sale (although Donnelly's pieces I thought were pretty good). Any other thoughts?

Looking at the chat comments, nothing snarky I see, or haven't I gotten there yet?