Lobster Janson

It is not a badge of honor, it's just different people doing different things. You like to do a major culling, I don't. That's both ok.

Nearly 20 years of collecting and sold 8 pages and traded 3 out of over 400 pages in the collection. And wish I never sold the 8 pages. The money received does not replace the pleasure of being able to look at the art. If at the end of my life the art has zero value, I'm fine with that as I bought if for myself and to enjoy now and every day. Not one piece was ever bought with investing in the back of my mind. For me it's a hobby and not a business/investment.

I deleted a post about Mignola/Tim Sale art. I just see the news of Tim's passing away. Damn, such a nice person.

I came to the boards hoping someone started a thread about exactly this. It was my first thought when I saw the news of the crypto implosion yesterday: "oh, now prices for original art will become normal again". But as the Heritage signature auction is loaded with excellent art, I think the best one of recent years (or at least for art I like), I'm not holding my breath. And people that have been able to sell on a high in the last few auctions now have money to spend on some great art.

I'm actively looking for Mignolaverse (Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Witchfinder, BPRD,...) OA from the following artists: Alise Gluskova; Ba/Moon brothers, Brian Churilla, Cameron Stewart, D'Israeli, Gary Gianni, Jason Latour, John Severin, Julian Totino Tedesco, Karl Moline, Matt Smith, Michael Avon Oeming, Mike Norton, Mindy Lee, ryan Sook, Scott Hampton, Shawn Martinborough, Wilfredo Torres and Yishan Li. I know some of them work digitally so monoprints/artist proofs are fine as well. All replies will be answered and if people are looking for a Mignolaverse trade there are Guy Davis, Tim Sale, Troy Nixey, Leila Del Duca, Bridgit Connell, John Cassaday, Ben Stenbeck, Andrea Mutti, Andi Watson and even Adam Hughes Mignolaverse pages that I can trade with.

It started as 2 and then 3 got in the mix. 3 as in: building a themed collection. 1 has never been a style for me. And will never be. If any art I picked up will sell for a profit later that's fine, but if it doesn't that's fine as well as I have enjoyed looking at it or enjoyed spending lots of time trying to complete my main 'theme' collection (contacting artists, talking with other collectors, reading and rereading books,...). The money I spend is money I can afford to lose. I just can't approach this as a stock market and don't want to rely on future sales. I for one will probably be happy if the OA market cools and some pages will become affordable again even if this means some of my art will have become less worth.