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Made my first purchase, a Stray Bullets page from David Lapham's holiday sale:

I agree, and my guess is that prices just aren't high enough for the real big-money speculators to consider it worth their time.

That's the kind of money I was referring to, people who throw away 150k on a banana or buy a Picasso for fun. There's also a lot of money laundering in high-end art, which can really drive the prices up. I was thinking it doesn't seem like all of that money's interested in comics art.

Thank you! I've started going through the new collector thread too, it's really helpful.

I wasn't asking because I'm interested in approval, I was asking because I'm just starting out and I don't want big-money art collectors to start coming in and making things more expensive than they already are...personally, I'm very glad to hear that the art world doesn't take comics art too seriously, I'm not sure that will always be the case so I'm all for preserving that state of affairs for as long as possible

Gotta unload 'em before they go bad...

I have nothing but respect for anyone who could sell that for $150,000

Lmao

Yeah that's sorta what I mean, I'm not trying to debate whether it is fine art, just wondering if anybody has a sense of the attitude in the larger art world.

Thank you! I really appreciate that. I'm excited to be here, right now it seems like there's a ton to learn.

Is OA generally considered fine art and taken seriously by the art world, or is it thought of as something lesser? My sense is that it's considered sort of provincial, but I don't know (just to be clear, I don't share this opinion).

You can also use the advanced search to search only for sold listings, it'll give you results from the last three months, and if the item didn't sell for the listed price then the price will be crossed out and it'll say "best offer accepted." Then you can use the tool O. posted about to find the actual price. It looks like this:

Fire? edit: nvm I saw in another post

Thanks, that's really helpful! I'm not asking because I want to speculate, I don't have money for that though I wish I did, I'm interested in more of a learning-about-collecting sense.

I'm very new to this hobby, haven't bought anything yet, so I apologize if this is a stupid question. One artist I really like is Erik Larsen and I've been browsing current and past sales of his work. It seems like Larsen is selling for less than I'd think, given his talent, not to mention status in the comics industry. Does anyone else feel the same way, and/or have an opinion about why it might be? Here are a couple of examples of what I mean - they're not cheap by any means, but I'm also surprised they aren't more: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Savage-Dragon-Issue-2-Page-3-Inked-Original-Art-By-Erik-Larsen-1993-1st-App-Dart/183986722954?hash=item2ad676988a:g:zaQAAOSwOXBdnARq https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Cover-Art-for-Atomic-Clones-1-Unreleased-by-Erik-Larsen-Al-Gordon/362784811338?hash=item5477a8e94a:g:9GkAAOSwh4tdqhAw Thanks in advance for any thoughts!