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Pretty funny, actually. Non-existent art bought with non-existent money should result in a non-existent tax.

Black holes? True story. On the final exam in property law class the prior year, the teacher, an activist Woman's Libber and a professor of the class, liked gender neutral words. So, for a question about easements and what are normally known as manholes, she wrote "personholes". That befuddled so many, that as a result, some half an hour into the exam, she had to come into the class and explain what the heck a personhole was. The loss of time was bemoaned by many and caused some really low raw scores for grades. Conclusion: Spit it out: an a*shole is what it is.

Nope, no change. I do, however, swing between original art and commissions if I can’t find a Phantom Stranger the artist did that was published, or there isn’t any. I bought my first Phantom Stranger artwork in 1980, although I did take a long breather after I was married and then divorced. How did that old song go? “First love, true love ...” (my current better-half tolerates this affair).

If Byrne wants to walk away from a project, well, that’s his business. Perhaps I misunderstood, but someone’s comment about Byrne not being willing to publish “these books” disturbed me. Is that a reference to something John did previously, or these new stories? If it is old stuff being repackaged, that does bother me.

He knows darn well that he is involved in a business, part of which includes long term plans and control of the characters he wants to write. What if he wants to take the characters where Marvel doesn’t want them to go? What if he decided to make, say, Cyclops, a crazy bigot? You don’t think Marvel should have the right to say no? Perhaps Marvel knows what he wants to do with the characters and doesn’t like it already? When Didio ran DC, he decided to have an origin for the Phantom Stranger making him Judas. The idea turned off a lot of readers, pissed off a lot of fans, and also damaged the air of mystique surrounding the character. Maybe Superman was Adolph Hitler in an earlier life, see what I mean? Some things are bad. So no, he should not have full creative control.

Really? No ego problem there, I see.

If the residuals were higher... just a guess.

I think one of the problems with the Pogo strips overall is they are too windy. Peanuts gets right to the guts of where it is going more quickly and with less verbiage. Pogo was a longer, slower read, not too well suited to more modern taste. But in terms of raw art, I still think Kelly was better, at least if you want to savor the work. If you want to get right to the emotional hit or funny bone, Schultz did a better strip. s

You mean the Nazi picture?

I want to see the movie poster on that one.

What is it?

That’s what happens when an artist leaves out the cleavage.

In terms of price and nostalgia, Pogo was big in its day. Now, the stuff is cheap—and the art is better than either Garfield or Peanuts (sorry, P’Nutz, that’s my opinion), its content is where it falls down.

Doesn’t say much for the workmanship if people can’t figure out who drew it.

Let me recommend the upper 1/2.

Maybe Bill would consider a session of dueling dealers using a Dutch auction, with price points being a hard floor where the piece is withdrawn from sale. That might reduce the dealer participation. Since dealers are looking to buy and sell, but collectors don’t need the “profit” to make a deal work, it might result in more sales to hobbyists.

Yup. Why the new location?

New money will be out getting vacations, dining, etc., too. Strangely, I saw an article about NFT art already dropping (strange since it didn’t even exist until recently, but not surprising). Pricing may stay up, because prices tend to be sticky downward even if sales volume drops (no one wants to give up phantom profits).

There is likely to be a significant one when enough people have gotten vaccinated that they feel they can divert their spare funds to vacations, going out to dinner, etc. Let’s see if prices are still flying by the end of summer.

I would take 2 steps backward, and first recognize that $15k is a healthy chunk of money. Then, I would ask myself whether there is something I want that would cost that much, or more, that may be for sale and I wouldn’t buy if I bought this? If the answer is no, buy it. To that second question, I usually answer yes (and sometimes ignore my own answer, buy it anyway, and get pissed off at myself later). Also, ask yourself if it is a forever purchase or to be used for trade/sale later. If the latter, I would be more cautious about buying it for the reason you mentioned.

I’ve made that blunder, and I really should know better.

Please don’t take the potshots on your spelling to heart. We should have all given you a warm welcome before the hazing.

And he got promptly sued for breach of contract, as well as copyright on the image and trademark infringement for $60 million in damages (plus costs). 🤪

Only fair to cut a newbie some slack on spelling. It’s all about taste, and collecting goals. Also, published or unpublished, when considering valuation. Almost always go with published over commission and usually over unpublished but drawn with the intent of publication.

Those posters were right. Once you draw it, it is copyrighted. Not registered, which effects a damages claim for infringement, but it is copyrighted by the artist. The artist can also transfer or sell all or part of that copyright. So, if he sells an NFT, he should transfer all copyright rights with it except his own personal right to duplicate ( if he wants to).