RBerman

Yes, I can understand that point of view.

If nothing else, this all teaches me to buy the prelims whenever I get a commission. I have a Bob Wiacek X-Men ink portrait which was copied off a Paul Smith pencil original from 20 years prior. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1678284 I have a little heartburn listing it on CAF as “Paul Smith, penciler”, though in modern times it has become standard for pencils and inks to live separate collecting lives. It would be good for CAF to add a creator category to differentiate “pencils underneath the inks” vs “penciled on a separate page,” but I do not know how to succinctly state the difference for such a purpose. My solution is just to explain all this more verbosely in the item description. Here is another example for which the published comic credits George Perez with breakdowns but Nicola Scott with the pencils which I own. https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1820328 I likewise have some recreations of work by Frazetta and Perez, whom I credited with “layouts” on CAF but then explained that they never actually touched these pages. This seemed the best way to be transparent. I recently visited the Rodin museum in Paris, and the audio guide would say things like “This statue of a wounded soldier was based on the figure of Christ in a Pieta by Michaelangelo,” so the complexity of attribution we face today does have precedent throughout art history. if I had a prelim of someone else’s finished piece, I would link to its CAF page on mine.

That is the third time Jordi Bernet has come up for me in 24 hours! I will have to check him out.

It murdered its own potential by allowing fakery to thrive and failing adequately to segregate published published comic art from either prints or the ocean of cheesecake cartoons.

That is a good price. Epson expects to make its money on expensive ink refills, but if you use the device mainly for scanning, that doesn't cost a dime extra. It says the printer goes up to 13x19. Is the scanner that large as well?

I don't live there but will be visiting family for a few days around Christmas. If you're around then, talk with Alex and maybe we can meet up.

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I generally detest the term "underrated," but I really do think that Geof Isherwood does not get enough attention considering both how good and how affordable his work is. He's also a super nice guy, and professionally prompt as well. He turned around a killer Arcturus Rann commission for me overnight last year. I have a bunch of his pages from the Epic Comics series Swords of the Swashbucklers and am gradually posting them here: https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=238408

The market has simply increased in value in recent years, so sticker shock is understandable for those who remember cheaper days. And yes, some of it is the add-on costs of the online auction process. But another thing that keeps bids high is anonymous bidding. Collectors like to be on good terms with their peers so they can enjoy each other's collections. If we were all in a room together (as indeed happens at places like the OAX auction and the Heroes Con auction), there's at least some incentive to compete less fiercely against each other and just congratulate the other guy on his new art. Not that Heritage is immune to collusive "gentlemen's agreements" among high-end buyers who like the same pieces. But it takes more work.

Ah, I must have clicked on a link that selected only the Gaiman- related items.

A Heritage Auction with nine items in it? Unusual.

He looks better in yellow than one might have expected.

Exactly. Why do I care whether you acquired the piece yesterday or ten years ago? The point is that you posted it on CAF last year for others to enjoy, and the awards are an opportunity to celebrate (and incentivize) that behavior.

It doesn't matter when you acquired the piece, only when you posted it on CAF. The process of submitting your pieces for consideration automatically locks out pieces submitted in other years. Lots of people have probably had art for a while before uploading it to CAF.

The Artgerm piece is not faded; he just favors pastel covers. He does spec pieces on blank covers and sells them at conventions. I picked this one up from him at Lake Como last year, for instance.