RBerman

I was a big X-reader in the early 80s and am glad to have a few pages from those Claremont days. Here are some of them. First, the return of the White Queen, previously assumed dead at at the hand of Phoenix: She switches minds with Ororo as part of a trap involving Kitty coming to Emma's school. Jim Sherman and Joe Rubinstein art: The next year (publishing time), Kitty did not take her parents' divorce well. Bill Sienkiewicz (still in his Neal Adams mode) and Bob Wiacek art: Meanwhile, the New Mutants were lost on a Roman adventure in the Brazilian jungle. I need to take a clearer image of this page by Sal Buscema and Tom Mandrake. After getting home from that caper, the girls threw a slumber party for their neighborhood. Bill Sienkiewicz had adopted his new, edgier art style by then: It wasn't long before they were kidnapped to Asgard by the Enchantress. This beach scene is right after an impromptu training exercise, and right before they get attacked. Art Adams and Terry Austin:

Here are some in my collection, some of which I've posted elsewhere here. A mix of tight pencils, inks (from blueline and pencil), and ink wash..

I was pondering getting him to ink it since all the other pieces are inked.

Bob Wiacek

The whole idea of "new listings" is tricky for art that's already on CAF but is changing status. If toggling "For Sale" off and then on would push your art to the top of the list every time, then everyone would do it constantly. So it's good that it takes the extra step of creating a whole new listing in order to have your art listed as new art for sale. There are all sorts of opportunities to improve the "for sale" aspect of CAF, like an overall text-only list of artist names that you could browse and then select a name to see the thumbnails. Or the ability to list certain items in a folder for sale without all of them being for sale. It just takes time (=work, money) to make these incremental improvements. I agree with EXPhysiker. Deactivate the current (non-for sale) item, then upload a new one just "for sale." If it doesn't sell, delete the "for sale" version and reactivate the old version.

Heroes Con was a great opportunity to finish out (or nearly so) some jam pieces I got secondhand but forgot to bring to previous commissioning opportunities.

I picked up a few things at Heroes Con 2022. One was this DPS from 2015. Dexter Vines inked Miguel Mendonça's blue line print out.

FWIW, Tonight at the charity auction at Heroes Con, the top item (tied for top actually) I saw was a Monica Rambeau painting which Brian Stelfreze has painted earlier in the day. A young black man bought it.

I bought one piece from Anthony and one from Mike on DD, at prices I was happy with. I have spent my limit for the time being and thus have not been watching so I am not tempted. I appreciate their attempts to build community and make silly videos to liven it up.

Speaking of fun, here's Kamala Khan and friends vs a giant tank, from the second volume of Ms. Marvel. Despite the detail of the background, the page is substantially smaller than 11x17, and on thinner, smoother paper than most original art.

It's a great page, but also hilarious to think of a crowd of 1980s men carrying literal flaming torches instead of flashlights when looking for someone in the dark. Nightcrawler got the same treatment just a few years earlier. Someone apparently needs to introduce these Europeans to something called "electricity." lso

Shhh... I'm trying to corner that market.

It's too early to tell. My guess is that the artist's editions are too minor a matter to impact the market. If anything they might instill a hunger in some to own the physical art therein depicted. But then there may be others who, as you say, just want to see the original art, and the Artist Edition scratches that itch. For that matter, what about CAF? It's an "artist edition" of every page on the site, available to the whole world at any time. Yet many people here and elsewhere (myself included) do not think it devalues the art they post there. Half the joy of being a hobbyist is to share the pleasure with like-minded folk. The model train enthusiasts of my small town actually rent space at a local mall and have their trains set up there for the public to enjoy, and as a meeting hall for their club.

The thing is, those artist edition books were scanned with permission of those who owned those original art pages. There seems to be consensus that this does not devalue the original page; perhaps the opposite. Does the same hold true with monoprints, which are not the "original art" in that same sense in the first place? I guess we'll see where the market is in ten years.;

Booth and Rapmund give us the Titans mugging for the camera during the Rebirth era. The top panel was the same as the bottom except Wally wasn't in it.

I leave them as they come to me. This usually means taped, so I put them in an 18x24 Itoya, on the right hand side of the page, so that it's easy to rotate the portfolio 90 degrees clockwise and see the whole image. Then I put a single larger page on the left hand side of the page. I do have a few DPS that came untaped, and I left them that way on adjacent pages in a smaller portfolio. I also have one DPS by Richard Case that, when unfolded, was wider than 24 inches, so I had to leave that one folded.

I also didn't expect to be able to snag a great page from Cursed Pirate Girl at CAF live recently. Yay! I was shocked to find out that Jeremy Bastian gives this level of detail on original art pages the size of the actual published comic.

I have been looking for an example of Brent Anderson from Strikeforce: Morituri but did not expect to get the example. The pencils for the cover of issue #20 feature all fifteen team members introduced over the previous two years, many of whom died during the course of this military sci-fi series by Peter B Gillis. The inks existed (and hopefully still exist, somewhere) as a separate vellum overlay.

I only read Ex Machina recently and was impressed by the sophisticated, thoughtful storytelling. So I'm glad to get a splash showing the lead character well.

Got some more Nicola Scott pencils! The first set comes from the Convergence event, a sort of Secret Wars pitting the New Teen Titans against an alternate-world Doom Patrol. Then one more consecutive page from Superman to go with two I already had:

I got a few, including three which fit categories I have been trying to fill for a while but didn't expect to get such good examples of.

My sister tried this once when buying a car. It turned out to be a scam. Beware people who want to bypass the auction house payment method and its safeguards.

Is it a simple image? Yes. Does its value largely derive from the significance of the story to which it is attached? Yes. But it's also an iconic cover that spawns new homages every year, perhaps every month, in published books.

Reportedly, this commission was stolen right off the artist's table. Watch out for it.