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Mike R V

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  1. A lot of the modern artists I enjoy seem to work primarily digitally, but most of the later Hickman Era X-Men stuff (Swords of X, onward) from Asrar seemed to have sold out relatively quickly after they were released. Leinil I think is mostly digital but was traditionally inked by Alanguilin before he passed. I think after that he announced he was done doing interiors and only wanted to work on covers. Some of his Hickmen X-Men are being sold off. I got a page early on but now the prices on them are about 2-4X what I got it for, which I think sounds more appropriate.
  2. If I see multiple 'owners' of a page (if I'm looking for a particular page), I usually just assume the latest entry is the most recent known owner. Seeing it show up multiple times can kind of be a testament to how 'popular' it is, despite it being let go of multiple times. When I have a page where old owners haven't removed the page from their galleries, I just think of it as showing a page's history of ownership. Maybe there is a better way to track this, but it's kind of interesting to see where the pieces change hands and the types of pieces previous collectors have, either to validate your collecting tastes or to get some inspiration from other collections, if you are new and looking to flesh out a theme. If it's a 'for sale' entry that is not updated, I would just comment "Thanks for the sale, piece came in great shape" or something similar to denote it has been sold without sounding rude, if that is a concern. If it's from a sale previous to yours, commenting from where and when it was sold again to you would seem fine and for someone observing, might actually be useful info.
  3. Besides comiclink and HA, are there any other places/listings you check for OA that might be re-entering the market after being sold directly by artists or art reps? (I.e. specific Ebay sellers or other sites or off-website dealers) I thought it would be good to start a thread of dealers/shops or just networking to get a hold of pieces that might otherwise be difficult to find. Unfortunately not all the artwork gets listed on CAF, so it's hard to tell where certain pieces end up. For example, I collect primarily mainstream LGBT OA which is a very narrow market and has a very limited number of available pieces, both because of the limited timespan it's been published, and because most are from recent artists who primarily work digitally. I'm nearing the end of what's available directly through artists and their reps and looking for secondary markets.
  4. Nothing before the 2000's in my collection. Partly because I didn't start reading comics till after the 2000's anyways..but also because it didn't become more mainstream until late. It is difficult to collect though, since most of the artists working on them now are newer or have transitioned into digital for most of the process.
  5. I think the story behind why it was cut could make a page more interesting and valuable than a published page. For example, I collect comic art featuring LGBT characters and stories, so unpublished pages of LGBT storylines cut due to censorship is appealing to me, as it also gives some important historical perspectives into the cultural attitudes of the times. I have a sequence of pages from the New Mutants run that would have featured Anole's 'coming out' experience and suicide. His coming out ended up not happening until much later. The art and story were already fleshed out and created for several issues out and the pages were just about to hit the press, when overseers decided last second to pull it and ordered a rewrite because of how controversial it was. Some of the pages were reused but the original story I think carries a pretty heavy tone and deeper message worth preserving. Also having articles and forums dedicated to the unpublished story also make it appealing.