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    The Canon

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    I'll play....

     

     

    1. Winsor McCay

    2. George Herriman

    3. Frank King 

    4. Carl Barks

    5. Alex Raymond

    6. Noel Sickles

    7. Milt Caniff

    8. Charles Schulz

    9. Will Eisner

    10. Jack Kirby

    11. Steve Ditko

    12. Alex Toth

    13. Joe Kubert

    14. R. Crumb

    15. Art Spiegelman

    Original Art Aficionado [New Article - 1/12/17]

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    What I'd wish you'd do is pinpoint some key pieces prior to the auction commencing and post your thoughts prior, and then see how close your estimates are afterwards. I'm sure your blog is not influential enough to move the needle in any great way and it would be an education for newer collectors to actually see how difficult it is to nail down hammer prices. I'm afraid I'm slightly skeptical of all your pre-auction estimates.

    Miller/Janson DD?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    Nothing at all "stinks" about this.

     

    Janson has absolutely no dog in this fight. He's long divested himself of this art. How about we stick to finding the truth regardless of how many of us own full Miller/half Miller/Miller-touched-it-with-his-butt-cheek pages.

     

    I, for one, am curious to get as close to the bottom of it as we can get. Better to attempt to correct the record than stick our heads in the sand.

    Killing Joke spin-off thread: Your Top Ten

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    1 (Awesome moody page, not a lot to see, but I bet it gets a price bump just for being page 1, so maybe shouldn't even be on this list)

    One of the nicest pages in the book to me. I'm not a buyer for any of these - I'm in the minority as someone who didn't spark to the story (either back then or now) - but this is a beautiful set up page

    Ive lost ALL confidence in CGC - UPDATE on page 221

    in Comics General

    Posted

     

    All in all, it's not exactly a model for consistency and in truth, you're likely to get more consistency (please note I didn't say 'more accuracy', as that's a whole other debate) buying raw books from the same dealer over and over again.

     

    From someone who should know better, I found this to be one of the more ridiculous things I've seen in this thread.

    Surely not more ridiculous than the asinine "the book should be destroyed" comment

    Ive lost ALL confidence in CGC - UPDATE on page 221

    in Comics General

    Posted

    While I appreciate CGC taking responsibility for this mistake, I'm saddened to hear that the book itself will be "taken off the market".

     

    Frankly, I've found this suggestion along with some of the other "remedies" suggested for this situation very disturbing.

     

    While I do crack out any CGC comics I purchase for my collection, I'm by no means anti-CGC. I understand that 3rd party grading serves a purpose - to facilitate an equitable transaction between buyers and dealers.

     

    However, I've always believed that the comic itself took primacy over the case, the label, the grade, the resto-check, all of the accoutrements associated with CGC's service. The grading service is simply a means to an end.

     

    To have a Silver Age key "retired" simply to preserve the reputation of the grading service (who, at the end of the day, are only providing their opinion) or to have some kind of chemical marker added to the book (invisible or otherwise) in the hopes it will help prevent this grading service from making another mistake....

     

    I'm sorry, to me it seems the service, the case and the label, instead of being a means to an end, have become the end in itself. The comic is just a superfluous appendage that has to be accommodated.

     

    Very well said

    Giant-Size X-Men #1 Original Art burned?

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    It would be a cross-over piece big-time in terms of attracting deep-pocket investors from in and out of the hobby.

     

    I'd be shocked if this didn't end up with one of the usual suspects. Even if there are outsiders with bigger bankrolls, only the diehards of the hobby have the capacity for rationalization and self-delusion required to bid this material deep into record territory. :insane:

     

    Yup.

    The Official "Does Anybody Know Where This Art Is?" Thread

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    Re: The Joe Q/McFarlane 9/11 firefighter illustration

     

    I'm pretty sure it's on Joe Quesada's wall. If I remember correctly he or his wife bought it off at the benefit art auction that followed the tribute book.

     

    I know... disappointing ( wish it was on my wall too ).

     

    Oh man. I think that's bad form for an artist to buy his own piece at a benefit auction... I remember it selling for under 5k but I couldn't get set up in time. It's one of my favorite pieces by either artist. One of the best ink jobs Todd ever did, IMO.

     

    Really? He bid the highest. If he didn't bid the beneficiary's of the auction would have received less money. I have zero problem with what he did.