bernoulli

If all pages were sold in less than 30 minutes, there is still some more money that can go to the artist. I will always support artists that maximize their earning potential. Felix, please continue to drive the market higher for the artists you rep.

And where did I write that it was anything but my opinion? I don't dislike Frazetta. I think he is overrated, though. IMHO, of course. I am not trying to convince anyone. I am sharing my view. And no, I am not equating quality with price. My point is that nostalgia is such a powerful drug that makes people pay millions for genre works that are not comparable to other stuff out there. I even pointed out some flaws in his "masterpiece" to support my OPINION that he is overrated.

Therein lies the paradox. He is a commercial genre artist whose works are being sold for more in relative terms than much better artists because of his focus on an (overwrought, as mentioned by something else, but appealing) theme. Sure, he is a great fantasy artist. But there are much better things out there for the prices he commands. IMHO, of course. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug....

It is not the leg muscles, IMHO. It is the knee, which is weirdly cut in two by a poor choice in the use of light. It also seems disproportionate to the figure. In any case, never got the appeal of Frazetta. He was a great illustrator, but his paintings pale compared to accomplished painters in the fine arts realm. We enjoy it because it tickles our fancy (and to be clear, I enjoy his pieces too), but I can't ever imagine paying that much for one of his paintings when much better things can be had at the same price in any Sotheby's or Christie's auctions.

On the original question: I rarely post, don't have a CAF and I am out of the hobby because I find the community toxic. See the thread on grown men complaining about "censorship of art" because a company decided to retire a card from a card game. There is valuable information in these threads and I respect a few posters, but not enough to make me want to be a part of the community. For whatever it is worth, I stopped collecting after taking a deep dive in these forums (and getting burned on a couple of deals with high-profile collectors, but more the former than the latter).

His art has already been promised to Ohio University, IIRC. Regardless, the market won't ever be flooded with his originals.

This hobby is sick. A dealer has the audacity of market his wares to a growing crowd and gets hammered by collectors who have no interest in the pieces? Glen, good luck with your business, in Ethereum, USD or whatever currency you want to market your stuff.

Richard Thaler, not Kahneman. His main article about the subject is entitled "Does the Stock Market Overreact?". Kahneman won because of Prospect Theory and his experiments that laid the foundations for Behavioral Economics and Finance, but the work on stock market was pioneered by Thaler.

It is interesting how comic book people are insecure enough that "comic book art is real art" is still a sore topic but are quick to s**t on fine art that they don't like or understand. Rothko is great. You don't like his work? Fine. But there is nothing strange about his art yielding U$88 million in action. At least it was not created for children.

I am a professor of economics and I will gladly answer your questions about the subject, as long as the moderators allow it. The Fed does not tax anybody. Before covid, the Fed was tapering, reducing its balance sheet, which is just another way to say it was lowering the amount of money in circulation (to keep things simple). The Fed can destroy money as easily as it creates through open market operations (buying and selling government bonds). One thing people should be careful: even though monetary policy has been extremely accommodative recently, it does not follow that the prices of every class of financial assets will increase. Yes, more money in circulation will tend to inflate asset prices, but specific asset classes have its own dynamics. For instance, say that the price of sports cards is determined by a combination of five main variables, with money easiness being one of them. The other unrelated variables may drive prices down (even permanently) even as the Fed's balance sheet continues to rise. In the figure you can see the Fed tapering, starting in late 2017. Covid changed all that.

A Brazilian columnist wrote a tribute to George Perez in the economics section (of all places) of the most important newspaper of the country. Google translate should work fine if you wish to read it: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/rodrigo-zeidan/2021/12/lideranca-aos-berros-e-coisa-do-passado-mas-so-cabe-a-nos-mudar.shtml

This thread is awesome. For validating my decision to stop spending money in OA. Yes, let's pile on somebody for making a mistake. Let's save for posterity a deleted post so people can make fun of the guy ad aeternum. Maybe we should make it mandatory that people who attend a comic con memorize all the most recent auction results on HA, CL, or god forbid, CC?

I am a black hole collector. I have shared a bit of the collection on FB and here, in the last instance to let a fellow collector know that one of the pieces he was going after is here being well taken care of. I have traded art with a dealer only once in my life and don't plan on doing that again (I was not burned or anything, I just have no interest in it). Luckily for everybody, my collection is not extensive, so I am not keeping thousands of pieces away from the market. I have explained in detail in an earlier post why I behave like this. I don't see myself ever changing.

Here you go. I don't have the throne with me. It was shipped to a friend in the US and I was supposed to collect it in 2020. We all know what happened last year.

I own the Aquaman and its respective throne. The Aquaman is displayed in my office, alongside some other art. I will take a pic tomorrow and share if you are interested in seeing it.