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[Peter L]

Did anyone go to the SDCC original art collecting panel on Saturday?  I found out about it too late to go, but it sounded good.  Bill Cox, Joseph Melchoir, and Aaron White from Heritage were some of the people on the panel.

[Brian Peck]

I attended it. Was a bit disappointed in it. The moderator seemed a bit out of his depth. Had a slide show covering a lot in the hobby but the panel just glossed over those subjects shown. Comicartfans was mentioned but the resource was never really covered. Surprised Bill Cox didn’t promote more of the features from its links to all the dealers to its market research. No one really mention of art restoration, insurance or issues with comic art and digital pencils, inks, pencils and inks or just inks. I had to bring up that to the panel..

I don’t think the panelists were given a preview of the topics on the panel. Listed too many topics which they didn’t get to. I think they had the wrong mix of panelists. Last year there was a comic art panel of all auction houses which I thought was weak. This years panel was also a poor mi . If they do another panel next year,I think they should only have one auction house rep which should be heritage since their site gives collectors history of previous auctions which  others do not easily. Bill Cox was a good choice but didn’t promote CAF enough. Joseph Melchior was good but do not bring back the golden age comic book retailer. Should have another collect or two maybe one silver/bronze collector and one modern. And a new moderator.

Edited July 30 by Brian Peck

[Kevn]

I haven't attended SDCC in a while and back in the day I would have loved to have seen some OA panels. I think having auction house reps, comic shop owners, and people who are also artist reps or dealers is not so useful for potential new collectors. It would be kind of like having a couple of auto manufacturer's reps and a couple of used car salesman talk to people wondering if buy their first car is a good idea or if they should replace their old car. Why not do a panel where Bill Cox is the moderator, and there are 4-5 collectors with, as Brian says, each with a different general focus. It's fine of some of those collectors do a lot of buying and selling as they manage their collection, but people with a vested interest in profiting from the hobby are going to have fundamentally different messages than what budding collectors need. And I'm a huge believer in the free market, and love that there are so many OA dealers, and auction houses, and artists' reps. Hell, let them have their own panel where they can tell funny stories about all the wacky collectors they've had to deal with!

I remember the questions I had as I dipped my toes into this world back in 1980. Then the stakes were lower - no one had much to gain by ripping me off or dramatically misleading me when I was buying pages for $20-50 each. But still, I had so many questions, and people running auction sites wouldn't have been the ones to answer them.

I think the ideal for a panel like that would be for someone to give a well rehearsed 5-8 minutes summary description of the art and the hobby, then each panelist gets 5 minutes to clarify or add to that summary, and then open the floor to questions that would be answered by collectors on the panel. As I think about it, Bill would be especially great as a moderator because he's interviewed a ton of collectors and could pull together a great, balanced panel of collectors who are also thoughtful about the hobby. Hey, maybe that's a good project for Comic Art Live. Solicit a list of newbie collector questions and do a 2.5 hour show with Bill and 4-5 collectors who have all seen the list of questions and are prepared to make thoughtful, concise responses. Then the show would be available to the entire world for years to come. (Someone is probably going to tell me that Bill has done this, and if he has, I'd love to get the link.)

[Brian Peck]

On 7/30/2024 at 1:00 AM, Kevn said:

I haven't attended SDCC in a while and back in the day I would have loved to have seen some OA panels. I think having auction house reps, comic shop owners, and people who are also artist reps or dealers is not so useful for potential new collectors. It would be kind of like having a couple of auto manufacturer's reps and a couple of used car salesman talk to people wondering if buy their first car is a good idea or if they should replace their old car. Why not do a panel where Bill Cox is the moderator, and there are 4-5 collectors with, as Brian says, each with a different general focus. It's fine of some of those collectors do a lot of buying and selling as they manage their collection, but people with a vested interest in profiting from the hobby are going to have fundamentally different messages than what budding collectors need. And I'm a huge believer in the free market, and love that there are so many OA dealers, and auction houses, and artists' reps. Hell, let them have their own panel where they can tell funny stories about all the wacky collectors they've had to deal with!

I remember the questions I had as I dipped my toes into this world back in 1980. Then the stakes were lower - no one had much to gain by ripping me off or dramatically misleading me when I was buying pages for $20-50 each. But still, I had so many questions, and people running auction sites wouldn't have been the ones to answer them.

I think the ideal for a panel like that would be for someone to give a well rehearsed 5-8 minutes summary description of the art and the hobby, then each panelist gets 5 minutes to clarify or add to that summary, and then open the floor to questions that would be answered by collectors on the panel. As I think about it, Bill would be especially great as a moderator because he's interviewed a ton of collectors and could pull together a great, balanced panel of collectors who are also thoughtful about the hobby. Hey, maybe that's a good project for Comic Art Live. Solicit a list of newbie collector questions and do a 2.5 hour show with Bill and 4-5 collectors who have all seen the list of questions and are prepared to make thoughtful, concise responses. Then the show would be available to the entire world for years to come. (Someone is probably going to tell me that Bill has done this, and if he has, I'd love to get the link.)

I did my Collecting Comic Art panel at SDCC 20 years ago from 2003 to 2005.

[Peter L]

On 7/30/2024 at 1:00 AM, Kevn said:

I haven't attended SDCC in a while and back in the day I would have loved to have seen some OA panels. I think having auction house reps, comic shop owners, and people who are also artist reps or dealers is not so useful for potential new collectors. It would be kind of like having a couple of auto manufacturer's reps and a couple of used car salesman talk to people wondering if buy their first car is a good idea or if they should replace their old car. Why not do a panel where Bill Cox is the moderator, and there are 4-5 collectors with, as Brian says, each with a different general focus. It's fine of some of those collectors do a lot of buying and selling as they manage their collection, but people with a vested interest in profiting from the hobby are going to have fundamentally different messages than what budding collectors need. And I'm a huge believer in the free market, and love that there are so many OA dealers, and auction houses, and artists' reps. Hell, let them have their own panel where they can tell funny stories about all the wacky collectors they've had to deal with!

I remember the questions I had as I dipped my toes into this world back in 1980. Then the stakes were lower - no one had much to gain by ripping me off or dramatically misleading me when I was buying pages for $20-50 each. But still, I had so many questions, and people running auction sites wouldn't have been the ones to answer them.

I think the ideal for a panel like that would be for someone to give a well rehearsed 5-8 minutes summary description of the art and the hobby, then each panelist gets 5 minutes to clarify or add to that summary, and then open the floor to questions that would be answered by collectors on the panel. As I think about it, Bill would be especially great as a moderator because he's interviewed a ton of collectors and could pull together a great, balanced panel of collectors who are also thoughtful about the hobby. Hey, maybe that's a good project for Comic Art Live. Solicit a list of newbie collector questions and do a 2.5 hour show with Bill and 4-5 collectors who have all seen the list of questions and are prepared to make thoughtful, concise responses. Then the show would be available to the entire world for years to come. (Someone is probably going to tell me that Bill has done this, and if he has, I'd love to get the link.)

I think this is a great idea.  I would love to see a SDCC livestream panel on Comic Art Live with a few experienced collectors on the panel just talking about what got them into the hobby and some of their collection.