Brian Peck

Of all the pieces offered on ComicArtLive 50% were $500 and under, while 80% were $2500 and under. Doesn't sound like people were priced out. Its a variety of things, people have specific tastes and didn't find something they really wanted. Some might have just used they wantlist to search, missing art they might want but didn't do a search for it. Auction have pieces starting at 0 and being bid up, some once people start bidding most art will sell with the exceptions of the ones that have reserve which is rare. There are also some people who will only buy thru auctions. As others have said, ComicArtLive only got a small part of the collectors on CAF. I think CAL is well worth it I sold some art and bought some and was fun to look thru all CAL art. Some art I didnt buy I have examples of, others price higher than I want or other art I am not interested in. I also came across some art I was not familar with, one pieces I purchased.

Heritage picks and chooses what art they think will sell. On CAL, people posted art they wanted to sell, that effects what sells. Besides on auctions people bid up to a price but CAL is a fixed price, another reason all pieces do not sell on CAL. HA and CAL are apple and oranges.

Saturday I sold two pieces, my cheapest and bought one piece of artwork, from a series never read and artist never heard of. It was the inking that really grabbed me. But nothing I on my wantlist the first day. Second day had one offer (considering it), bought three pieces. One I had been watching for years since it was posted in CAF and the other two are great by two artists I really like. Sunday had more pieces I selected "SAVED", not as much but more interesting art I considered buying.

I would love to own the original art for Wally Wood’s Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster. Paul Krassner commissioned it as a centerfold for a 1967 issue of his “The Realist" magazine

Cool, What year?

What got me thinking about this was the cover I recently acquired by Alan Davis. The cover gives you most of what is going on in the story, Its a Nightcrawler story, in a place where nature has taken over, two old teams-mates appear and you see some of the villains and its a bit of a mystery. Granted Alan drew the interiors so he has an advantage over over artist who just draw covers. No action but a great use of light and shade plus conveys the story.

These woman have really bad back issues.

I have been collecting comic art for almost 40 years, which included interior pages, pinups, splashes and cover. I prefer interior pages since it tells the story and they are what draws me to much of my collection, the stories I read as a kid. I own around 200 covers, most are pre-2000. Like the interior pages I prefer the cover that relate to the story inside and have background. Not all covers have background but many are still great images. I have found more and more in the last 15-20 years that a good number of covers for comic books are just of the characters posing. Not fighting, saving someone or doing some other action or task. Just standing there like they are a runway model. While I do own a few cover that are just the characters standing or posing, most are related to the interior story and show characters in action or convey where is the story inside. The "Poser" cover to me are just pinups used for the cover, I have nothing against pinups but not on covers. Covers used to be used to sell the story inside, now many are just the hot artist and their poser/pinup artwork. Many of the "Poser" covers could be used for many issues so long as those characters appear in the comic. What has happened to the classic covers that told a story? Anyone else sick of "Poser" covers over running the industry? I used to own this cover, bought it when the original X_men were brought back, first I thought Stuart Immonen art was a wraparound, then found out it was a wraparound and another single cover. I went on a big Immonen buying spree, owned 5 covers by Stuart now down to just two. I sold this one off, since I got the cover from issue 5 which I love a great composition cover Still own this Pacheco House of X #1 cover. I love this art but it leaves me wanting. It could be a cover to many x-men issue featufing the X-Men.

Earlier this year I mailed the original artwork for Marvel Spotlight #10 page 17 by Tom Sutton and Jim Mooney to Heritage Auctions. I had won the page years earlier and someone had made a very good offer thru Heritage. I shipped via USPS their Dallas facility. Unfortunately, USPS lost it, the last tracking info was leaving their Dallas distribuion facility about 20 miles from its destination. I had reached out to USPS and they have looked extensively for the package but no luck. Please keep an eye out for the page. Message me if you see it. Thanks.

Alan Davis years ago stored alot of his art that way including most of his excalibur art. Then a collector came along and bought most of it.

Not sure if Gold Key returned any of his art.

A number of artist held onto their art, Frank Thorne was one of them. About 8 years ago he sold all of his artwork. He figured his family wouldn't know what to do with it when he died.

Andy and Adam held onto all of their artwork when they started in the industry. About 20 years ago Andy sold a little of his artwork and that was the point I bought all of Andy's and Matt Ryan's pages from X-Men #30. About 6 years later found out he discovered the 3 remaining pages. So now I have a complete book of X-Men #30.

This is the final commission spotlighting "The Invasion of Time", "Underworld" and "The Invisible Enemy" serials. Another great likeness of Tom and his famous scarf plus Leela looks ready to kill. The Sontorans and the background gears are fantastic, all that great detail. David ties them all together with the image in the circle. Plus the Invisible Enemy looks very menacing.

This is the first one David completed incorporating "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", "Image of the Fendahl" and "Sun Makers" serials. I love the composition with the brick tunnel that melts into Tom's coat. He also did a great job with Weng-Chiang characters and the Fendahl creature.

It's been a while since I posted on this commission thread. Here are three BLOODY AMAZING commission David Roach did for me recently, don't have them in hand yet but they will be on their way soon. David drew alot of the Doctor Who comics over the last 20 years and I loved alot of the work he has done. I started watching Doctor Who in the late 70’s and my first and favorite Doctor was Tom Baker. So I commissioned David to draw Tom Baker Who with the companion Leela (Louise Jameson) (another favorite along with Sarah Jane Smith). I decided to have three commissions referencing the 9 serial which featured 3 serial per commission. I picked which 3 to put together, plus Tom Baker Doctor and Leela and let him run with it. I got to see each one has he finished them and they all blew me away! I love them all each for different aspects, come end of 2023, it will be tough to pick one for the Best of event. David far exceeding my expectations for this, he is giving Dave Gibbons a run for his money. This one includes "Robots of Death", "Face of Evil" and "Horror of Fang Rock" serials. Robots of Death is a personal favorite of mine and David nailed the character plus the profile of Tom is amazing, love how he slipped in the Tardis. All the characters are spot-on.

I am on the list as well. I did get a commission from Butch as part of the Swords of the Swashbucklers kickstarter a nice single figure of Raader

They still list artist TBD, I would think two days before they would know who if any artist would be attending.

The changes emphasizes his lack of drawing skills. A thief that can not draw.

Lichtenstein copied artists work line for line, I never saw it being a parody.

He is a thief and a hack. He stole from artist and copied their work almost line for line. When it wasn't line for line his drawings were inferior to the original comic book artists. I have always considered him a con man and rip-off artist. With all the AI being "Trained" by using other artist work, I have coined the phrase being "Being Lichtensteined" !!!!!!!

I will be at the show

It would really be "Are you going to South San Francisco?"

But the pieces have no price so how does that relate to top sales which is value not number of pieces sold.

For Romitaman he posts what was sold on Dueling Dealers, which never made it to the site before they sold. It’s great to see what was sold on the show but the show is similar to cons where dealers can bring new art not on their that sells. I have not seen a dealer post art sold at cons which were not on their site before. Seems to clog the new art section of the dealer. More non sale art to scroll thru.