GotSuperPowers?

This one is even more flippy (is that a thing?) I traded it during a CAF Live, and then the guy on the end of it worked his own deal with it, and then don't know, but it ended up in the first listing you shared. So it's got a sad moving story. Hopefully it finds it's forever home soon as it's a nice enough page!

That's a big loss given the fees on the eBay sale, never mind shipping and taxes on the original purchase.

Another pairing of page and prelim, but also getting the masterful Stelfreeze signature when getting it. LOVE the botton panel.

Prelims & finished pieces are meant to be together. Here are some Kevin Nowlan New Mutants pages that got reunited with their prelims a few years back.

If the artist is saying to work through Cadence that makes me think it's not been paid and it might be risky to wait. If your payment is under 3 months, you could indeed claim with PayPal and it's up to you if you think that's the best action. If it's outside of that window, I'm not sure what is best to do beyond cross your fingers and hope. Sorry.

Any site not hosted by CAF seems to have a regular job that pulls in new art at that time. So I think that's a CAF process, not Cadence keeping going like business as usual.

They didn't seem sparse to me - Almost 500 tickets sold so that's roughly your number. Not everyone attended both days and some folks juggled family and theme parks. Each table, from what I saw, had a good number of people each time I walked buy checking things out. Clearly it's not SDCC or NYC numbers, but that's the appeal. Pure art people mostly. There were some more local folks who were just there for signatures for people that wouldn't normally be accessible to them.

I'll be there with Mike & Laura Allred. I'll be bringing a couple of portfolios of their art, and then some pieces from my collection for sale that I haven't offered before. Or shown before. Come by and say hi...

If that prelim is 10k (or thereabouts) all-in, then the final art for the litho of the same/similar image looks well priced: https://www.britcomicsart.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=16906

I'm going to be there with Mike & Laura Allred and will have some pieces from my collection for sale, and a couple of select pieces specifically for trade. Like the one below, which is a must for Nightcrawler fans . If you have a Hughes panel page from the same story or any of the Gen 13 stories he did, I'd like to talk!

I’ll bring all of mine.

https://www.comicartfans.com/comicartlive.asp

There are charity pieces, and he opened up a commission list during COVD, but otherwise I think it's at-con doodle drawings.

@JadeGiant, I'm curious given what your main focus in and how you started, what was the first published page of art you picked up?