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    To all the folks complaining about the increase in OA prices this past year...

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    8 hours ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

    be thankful you aren't collecting comic books. 

    The recent CLINK auction has proven to be an exercise of swimming in shark-infested waters, with price multiples far exceeding OA increases, especially on Bronze and Copper Age books.

    As Jordy said to me, we need someone to develop a 'fainting emojie' in response to these crazy record prices!  :tonofbricks:

    Anyone have any concrete examples? Just curious, from someone who's not aware.

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    Comic Link Spring feature auction looking interesting

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    4 hours ago, Michael Browning said:

    Seeing so many pieces marred by Stan Lee's signature hurts my soul. All that great J. Scott Campbell artwork ruined by Stan's signature in places where it should not have been. Honestly, I wouldn't want any of the pieces with Stan's signature on them. Whoever had him sign those pieces - and there are many - looks like they were treating these like photographs when they got them signed. They must have had plenty of cash to throw away and just didn't care where he signed as long as he signed them. And why have Stan's signature on these pieces? Again, that shows me that whoever was collecting this art didn't care that Stan didn't have a thing to do with these pieces or the books they came from, they just wanted Stan to sign EVERYthing. Ugh.

    Signing inside the art area?

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    experiences with Essential Sequential?

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    2 hours ago, John E. said:

    Dude for reals. I mean if these were covers in the 4-figures (and I know you have some nice ones), then I guess you could justify the 3-figure shipping to make sure they get there safe. Just glad to hear they only charge that much for high end items!

    Yes, they were what I consider expensive and the shipping was kinda a shock!

    Hulk JRjr/Janson https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1727633

    Wolverine Kubert https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1684449

    This was the cheaper shipping one, a Civil War prelim:

    https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1634130

    2 hours ago, gumbydarnit said:

    My two transactions with ES have both been extremely positive good customer service and shipping charges were in line with everyone else (3 or so years ago).

    The expensive FedEx shipping? Glad it wasn't just me.

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    14 minutes ago, John E. said:

    Is this a typo? It has to be a typo, right?

    I wish!

    He pushed it each of the two times I bought from him. It was 2 day shipping tho.

    They were both covers, and he said USPS wasn't dependable lately. I know it was spotty last year.

    Looking over my records, I forgot about another cheaper page he did ship for $17 via USPS.

    Like I said, I've had much more expensive pages shipped from the other vendors mentioned for $30-36.

    Personally, I'm a cheap . I don't mind spending $ on the art but can wait an extra few days to save $70 on shipping.

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    47 minutes ago, diva_tsarina said:

    What are peoples online and in-person experiences with comic art dealer/rep Essential Sequential?

    Jason is a rep and he's been very helpful to me.

    His site and scans are improving.

    My credit card always declines the first attempt of a purchase with him as fraud for some reason too. I have to go in and approve it and do it again.

    Shipping is more expensive, at least for higher end (for me) items ($110 for FedEx) than everywhere else I've bought from (HA, CL, CC, RomitaMan, Spencer, Simon, individual artists, other board members). Maybe because they have insurance and he doesn't?

    I know people have had issues with new art drops (new items not showing up under new items but on an artists last page I believe).

    The OFFICIAL "This week in your ILLUSTRATION collection?"

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    3 hours ago, Andahaion said:

    Picked up a neat piece by Donato Giancola titled, "Rangers of Arnor".  This was published in his Middle Earth illustration book.  If you are a fan, highly recommend picking up that book of 200 pages of wonderful illustrations by a master craftsman.  The drawing is watercolor pencil and chalk on paper.  Paper is 11" x 14" framed and matted to 16" x 20".  His framing, and I think he really chose well.  

    Rangers of Arnor - Donato.jpg

    Rangers of Arnor Framed - Donato.jpg

    Very pleasing to the eye :)

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    ComicLink original art descriptions

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    There have been semi-high profile issues in the past.

    I remember BWS Conan that caused a stink, altho the condition didn't seem that horrible to me - it just could have been avoided if it had been described in the listing.

    Heritage has much better descriptions ("Created in ink over graphite on Bristol board with an image area of 10" x 15". ") altho I'm not sure they're always correct. But that's the most important part to me. And anything way out of the ordinary condition wise. Type of paper? Maybe if it's vellum or something besides bristol board.

    I get it with some of the garbage they sell, but anything over a certain threshold $500-1000+(?) should have them spend a few seconds on boilerplate description, especially the higher end stuff. Luckily everything I've gotten from them I've been happy with.

    The OFFICIAL "This week in your ORIGINAL ART collection?"

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    52 minutes ago, zhamlau said:

    Posted this in the NJ art con thread but i guess it more belongs here. Got this page from Thor 426 over the weekend at the big art con. It was sold on HA 6 years ago so ill just use their pic cause mine sucks lol. Frenz and Sinnott doing their best Kirby impression...and killing it in the process. I love the blob-y Kirby shadows all over it like on the floor, Thor's Helmet, and behind his cape. That late 80s period was just such a magical good time for Marvel and to be a fan IMO. 

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    Very Kirby-ish! Frenz/Sinnott was a great pairing.

    Repped Artist Websites (best / worst)

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    4 hours ago, DeadpoolJr. said:

    He's getting the emails for sure but might just be on vacation. I sent an email asking about a piece a few weeks back and when I didn't hear back tried again but no luck. I was able to reach out to the artist directly who asked me if I was the same person who they heard from Kwan was emailing about the same piece which I was. So we can at least assume from that that, Kwan while not responding is still reading the emails and communicating with his repped artists about their contents.

    Whew! Glad it's not just me.

    I sent another message which he read, but no reply. Just a lot going on now I guess!

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    32 minutes ago, RBerman said:

    Has anyone had any success reaching Kwan recently? I asked about a piece last week and again this week, but so far no reply. Maybe on vacation, hopefully not ill?

    Me too. I've seen him posting on IG stories tho so he's alive :)

    Kwan is awesome, I'm sure he's just busy. I'll prolly check back in soon.

    New to OA Collecting, Advice, tips?

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    1 hour ago, BuraddoRun said:

    I occasionally see a listing or post where someone describes something as "twice-up." What does that mean?

    Larger than modern size art (11"x17"), I think twiceup was twice the size of the printed page and switched over to modern size in the mid 1960s?

    Actual page sizes seem to vary from what I've seen listed, but the image size seems to be around 12"x18" with different size margins.