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1 hour ago, divad said:

I think it's the retiring early that kills a lot of people . . . . :bigsmile:

hardly. what's the difference between 57 and 62? 5 more years of job misery. For me it wouldn't be retirement anyway, I'd hang a shingle and do low stress stuff like trusts and estates and real estate closings, probably make a lot less, not work as many hours, and sell comics. and paint pictures of psychotic clowns.

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9 minutes ago, the blob said:

No need. I find it therapeutic

Always good to have a therapeutic hobby. 

My comment was actually referring to a story about Bob Kane from Arnold Drake..

 

The clown story comes from Arnold Drake:

“Bob had gotten to the point where he never drew anything. Never drew anything on the Batman comics, anyway. [Sheldon] Moldoff was ghosting them all and when he didn’t, someone else did. The only thing I think Bob ever drew was when we’d be out somewhere, in a restaurant or someplace, and a pretty girl would come over to him and say, ‘Are you really the man who draws Batman?’ Then he could whip out a little sketch for her, a big sketch if she was wearing something low-cut and would bend over to watch him draw.

One day I’m over at his house to discuss this newspaper strip idea we had and he’s talking about who we might get to draw it. I was going to write it and we were going to get someone else to draw it. I’m not sure what Bob was going to do on it except sign his name. I said to him, 'Bob, isn’t it disappointing to you that you don’t draw any more? You were once such a great artist.’ He wasn’t but you had to talk to Bob that way.

He said, 'Oh, no. Let me show you something.’ He took me into a little room in his house. It was his studio. I didn’t even know he still had a studio. It was all set up with easels and things and there were paintings, paintings of clowns. You know the kind. Like the ones Red Skelton used to do. Just these insipid portraits of clowns, all signed very large, 'Bob Kane.’ He was so proud of them. He said, 'These are the paintings that are going to make me in the world of art. Batman was a big deal in one world and these paintings will soon be in every gallery in the world.’ He thought the Louvre was going to take down the Mona Lisa to put up his clown paintings. I didn’t have the heart to tell him.

So a few months later, I’m up at DC and I ran into Eddie Herron. Eddie was another writer up there and we got to talking and Bob’s name came up. Eddie said, 'Did you hear? Bob’s getting sued by one of his ghost artists.’

I said, 'How is that possible? Shelly Moldoff’s suing Bob? But they had a clear deal. Shelly knew he wasn’t going to get credit or anything…’

Eddie said, 'No, not Shelly.’ Bob was being sued by the person who’d painted the clowns for him…”

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It's been over 3 months, since I've posted any sales, and we all know what the market has been doing in that period :insane:

In that context that I don't slab books, Here are some Copper highlights:
 
 
 
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7 hours ago, the blob said:
9 hours ago, divad said:

I think it's the retiring early that kills a lot of people . . . . :bigsmile:

hardly. what's the difference between 57 and 62? 5 more years of job misery. For me it wouldn't be retirement anyway, I'd hang a shingle and do low stress stuff like trusts and estates and real estate closings, probably make a lot less, not work as many hours, and sell comics. and paint pictures of psychotic clowns.

Agreed I have no desire for that either. Find a low stress job, pay the bills, sell some comics and cruise into retirement instead of crashing in
looking around and asking what do I do now?

 

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12 hours ago, the blob said:

hardly. what's the difference between 57 and 62? 5 more years of job misery. For me it wouldn't be retirement anyway, I'd hang a shingle and do low stress stuff like trusts and estates and real estate closings, probably make a lot less, not work as many hours, and sell comics. and paint pictures of psychotic clowns.

You sound burned out.   Definitely go part time or retire as long as you can figure out what to do with healthcare. 

 

 

 

 

Btw. Here's a recent FQ 1 sale.  Can't tell what the final price was though. 

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114713328792

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15 hours ago, divad said:

I think it's the retiring early that kills a lot of people . . . . :bigsmile:

This is true...my uncle only lasted a couple of years after retiring before dying.

His wife was going crazy having him around the house 24 hours a day that she bought a gun and shot him.

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15 hours ago, Dr. Dank said:

I work to live, I don't live to work 

Preach it brother!

I'm already formulating my plans for retirement. I think the reason why some struggle with retirement is because they don't have a plan. If you love to work then by all means continue to do so but I can't wait to retire. 

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