Squeezy McSphincter

You should be keeping them anyway for tax reasons.  I'm assuming everyone here is reporting their losses.

Until I saw Malvin's hint I thought Frank was1) harvesting poppies, 2) cooking heroin, 3) dozing, 4) going out for more poppies.

1 hour ago, Will_K said:

And this is after the 2019-2020 NBA season was truncated and the 2020-2021 season looks iffy. 

Would it be worth it to get (win) one of the those game-worn Babe Ruth (for example) jerseys on HA.com and then cut it up to make cards ?

Or has that been the practice already ?

That's already happening, and it's happening with more than just jerseys.  I saw a cheque or a contract signed by (I think) Ty Cobb/Cy Young/etc.  Anything related to a big name that can be cut up is being put on cards.

2 hours ago, ShallowDan said:

Wow at the bolded.  I knew the non-sports card arena had been leaning heavily into chase/gimmick territory for years, but had no idea sports cards were doing the same thing.

Now I'm just waiting for Blockchain Beanie Babies, so the whole thing comes full circle....

There's already been blockchain Beanie Babies.  They're called CrytoKitties and their price peaked in the low six figures from what I remember.

I don't buy sports cards, but I did fall into that rabbit hole on YouTube a few months ago.  Some of the highest end (as far as I know) new boxes are retailing for $25k.  Some of it can be pretty cool, but if you pick a bad box you can be out a lot of cash in the 5 minutes it takes to open everything.

On 7/22/2020 at 2:20 PM, Bronty said:

2/10 WNB. 

On 6/27/2020 at 12:04 AM, lanzajr26 said:

Looking for info on the whereabouts of this Lady Death: The Odyssey #3 cover art. PM me if you have information, finder's fee paid if I can be put in touch with the current owner.

Lady Death went heavy on this Bumpits that issue.

On 6/23/2020 at 5:54 PM, Buzzetta said:

I heart my Bob Ross Funko Pop 

This is the one that I have.  Gift from the kids.  Just another thing no one needs.  Imagine dying and leaving nothing behind but Funko Pops. The idea should fill anyone with dread.

22 hours ago, romitaman said:

We should have you as a guest on our "COMIC ART LIVE" video cast. (but then you would have to share your REAL name in public..... God forbid.... so I guess it's probably not going to happen.)

 

I haven't watched any of the casts yet, but I would definitely check that one out.

It's also a cover on in the listing title on ebay while a splash on CL.

I toss Tom Taggart a few dollars a month.

Big Yubiwaza fan here.  I love the pretty Japanese wife on the right and the 7 second self-defense scenario on the left that reminds me of something Dwight Shrute might say.

On 11/10/2019 at 4:50 PM, grapeape said:

The leading indicator that I'm keeping an eye on to chart the health of the comic and comic art market is Pink Floyd The Wall t-shirt sales. When that drops off, the end is nigh.

Thanks, I'm another that hadn't heard of this.  Hopefully I can give it a look this weekend.

I spent way more time with comics, but D&D art was much more impactful for me.

I'm not going to lie, batman_fan, this was some top shelf work.

1 hour ago, batman_fan said:

She also still to this day, 30+ years after graduating from college, thinks I like turkey pastrami on onion rolls.  Every time I came home from college she would buy turkey pastrami and onion rolls and have them waiting for me.  I always ate them but never cared for it.  I still have no idea how she thought I liked it but it always made her happy to think she was doing something special for me and it wasn't that big of a deal to accommodate her. 

One day she'll move that fern and find 30+ years of Garfield strips and turkey pastrami onion rolls.  "G-Nutz, dear, I reverse mortgaged the house and bought you 10,000 Garfield strips since you're such a fan!"

13 hours ago, stinkininkin said:

Different strokes I guess.  I've had numerous occasions when my art rep Albert Moy has told me that he can't sell the original until it's signed.  He's had customers where a condition of sale is a separate signature.  This includes COVERS which are ALREADY SIGNED in the field of art and published with said signature showing!  Essentially, the cover art now has TWO signatures.  I know.  I just scratch my head and sign the art.

Some people only want you to sign it two times?  Some of us want a show of total dominance if an artist is going to sign a piece. Five times!

David Hasselhoff

I'd go with Tijuana Donkey Shows & Muy Bueno Comix

That offer isn't available in Canada, but it did turn up a nice hair drying bonnet.

I haven't read the article that headlined this discussion, but I'll throw a couple of points out there.

I bought Super Hero Squad cardboard books for my kids, and they could name them all before they were two.  They don't care about superheroes now (6 and 8), and it doesn't seem like their friends do either.  They'd watch the movies, but they don't care and don't ask for them.  They don't care about Star Wars.  Maybe they'll change--who knows.

They never cared about Mickey Mouse, but we didn't have the Disney channel so that may be the difference.  They want to go to Disney World, but not for the characters.  They prefer to watch people playing kids video games on YouTube and forgettable shows on Netflix.  We went cable free a few years ago.  The first time they saw commercials at a friend's house, they cried because they couldn't understand why their show was interrupted.

I tried introducing them to the Charlie Brown specials we grew up with.  They didn't sit long for those.  I don't know who is going to be buying Peanuts strips in 20 years at these price levels.

I'm friends with a couple:  the woman is about age 33, the guy about 28.  A year ago they said they'd never own a house because they wanted experiences.  The woman is pregnant now.  They're planning on moving away from Vancouver and buying a house somewhere cheaper.  It's easy to not worry about financial security when you don't have responsibility, but having a kid changes things.

On 6/23/2019 at 3:21 PM, telerites said:

I like to rag on the alien company but this has got be a mistake. 

I agree.  How did they miss authenticating those signatures?

5 hours ago, delekkerste said:

I kind of feel like this is happening on a smaller scale in our hobby. At this point in my collecting career, I feel like I've been priced out of most of my all-time favorite pieces if they were to ever become available, while the prices on the material that is still potentially within reach are now so high that I have to keep my powder dry for these and not blow cash on anything that isn't truly in the top 1 or 2 % of my want list. 

As such, my true "must-have" want list, of things that are both likely to be attainable and available at some point, is down to probably less than 5 medium-to-high end items, plus a few low-to-medium end items.  I'm just glad I acquired what I did when I did, because if I was starting out from scratch today, I'd probably just be looking to build a collection of maybe 10-20 great pieces; there's no way I could build out anywhere near the collection I have starting from 2019 prices. Would wager that almost no one collecting for more than 15 years would be able to at this point.  

I am essentially starting from scratch, though I have been watching the market since a little before 2016 (and occasionally participating on a low level). 

I saved up enough cash to have a crack of some of the nicer stuff that I might want, but instead just plunked it down on a house on a mountain with ocean views.  The housing market has already sagged in the area, so I couldn't turn it down.  The same can't be said for art yet, even though my tastes aren't exactly mainstream (I'd go for GA before most anything else).

The only down side is now I have three times more wall space and nothing to hang!

#1 EQ

#2 Silver Warrior

#3 - I put Sea Witch but barely.

Even my wife likes EQ! but not for $5M.

The DDs never meant much to me.

On 5/9/2019 at 5:19 PM, NewWorldOrder said:

 most of the talent doing the comic books are loser soy boys who are beta male cucks. 

This would make a great board title.