timguerrero

thanks! I'll look into it

I speak for myself when I say that I appreciate comments on my art that have more than just 1 word on them but even those 1 word comments make it worth having published the art on CAF, even if I remove it a day later.

I use photoshop but when I stitch the images together the lines don't align properly if I zoom in on the image and I can just tell where I pasted the images together. It is really frustrating! Any help would be highly appreciated.

Don't have any covers. McNiven stuff is going to rise in prices seeing as he's taken his published art off the market.

I know I really appreciate other collectors leaving comments on my art but I rarely publish any art on CAF anymore. I also used to look at the featured Galleries in the CAF newsletter and leave comments on the pieces I liked. I really don't have time to do that anymore regrettably.

What are you looking for from McNiven?

The biggest collecting goal I have achieved is proving everybody wrong who told me I was foolish to spend my money on comics and comic book art. I decided recently I would sell some art and see how I did and it turned out really well. I was able to make all the money I had ever spent on art. Proving all those people wrong is the biggest incentive I can ever get out of my collecting habits. I must say it sometimes is tough deciding to sell but once a big wad of money is in your hands, man that feels good! Of course I just turned around and bought more art with the money earned, lol.

A friend of mine keeps all of my comics and art at his house until I can travel to get them myself to save on international shipping fees and import taxes. Last stack I retrieved had items purchased since November 2018 until December 2021 (over half of the comic book boxes is stuff I purchased directly from my friend). That period has been the period were I have purchased more art and more comics than I ever did before so I had to make 4 trips to the USA in order to bring everything back with me home. Fun days, now I just have to classify everything I brought back, lol. Waiting on a big lot of BCW boxes in order to get them ordered and see what else I am sending to get graded. Some of the art I brought back and I already sold 3 or 4 of those pieces too, so they went back to the US of A.

Apparently this is the case with Chrissie Zullo. A friend of mine was commenting how he wanted a commission from her at Heroes Con this year and she was not taking any. So when this week Amateur DD was on an a Chrissie Zullo commission came up for sale I jumped on it.

he's a great character. I think I might have a Wolverine page with him on it but it isn't by Andy Kubert. Last time I bought a Kubert piece it was over $2k more on the $3k side.

which show did they have it for sale? who was selling it? Anthony or Mike? weird that they'd do false advertisement.

Definitely hard no.

isn't his name David Ceci? I get his emails but don't remember were I signed up for them

I don't remove tape if a DPS comes with it. I store them in a proper sized Itoya that someone in Comic Art Live recommended and the DPS look wonderful fully displayed in them, I can't recall what size those are but I can look after work if you are looking to purchase them. I have to look into getting Mylars for that size art. I had a DPS that wasn't taped together so I kept it that way before sending it off to Heritage to be auctioned.

Were are you purchasing the archival backing boards that are those sizes? EGerber is not making them anymore. For DPS I use the 17x22 sized Itoya's What is the size of twice up art?

If you purchase the archives mylar from EGerber they are 4 mil mylar and have no flap which is great to store the art without having to tape it. I also find if you use the 2mil bags with flap and bend the flap it may inconvinience you when trying to take the art out as any bends in mylar are permanent and may damage the art.

I recently found out that Itoya is doing a new Itoya sized 12"x18" which is perfect to store art that has been placed inside an 1x17 Mylar 4mil mylar from EGerber. I like to have the best protection for my collection so I have purchased 300 mylars sized 11x17 and several of those new Itoya's. A friend of mine recenlty showed me a zippered Itoya that has clearer plastic sleeves which also makes the art pop better so now I am debating if I should also look for those type of Itoya Portfolios. Here's a link to those new 12x18 Itoya's in case you are interested in purchasing those. https://www.dickblick.com/items/itoya-original-art-profolio-18-x-12-black-portrait-24-pages/

I thought last round would be my worse one but no it had to be this last round. I got an awful 13 points on this one throwing me out with a total of 37 points. I really need to go to that grading seminar!

Grades in. I hope I fair better than last round.

my worst round. HtD cannot be a 9.6 with multiple color breaking creases, back was also dirty. this book killed me. I'm finding out that the worst part of my grading skills is determining 9.4 or above grades.

Done. I am trusting my instinct and only changed 1 grade after seeing the lower part of the image. Let's see it I can improve my score and hit some bullseye grades!

Did better overall this round with 6 points but after 8 last round overall have 14 points. No bullseye this round.

my grades are in

Got a score of 8, think I was to severe on the foreign and the Batman (to many pieces missing for me).

that 4th book was the hardest to pin my grade on. Good luck to all