Does your significant other approve/understand your passion for OA? 0

[glendgold]

2 hours ago, Jay Olie Espy said:

Don’t be modest share a link.

Not modest -- just behind a paywall for most people.  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/style/modern-love-staying-together-by-living-apart.html

[alxjhnsn]

22 hours ago, glendgold said:

Not modest -- just behind a paywall for most people.  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/style/modern-love-staying-together-by-living-apart.html

Enjoyed it. (I finally gave in and subscribed; I get a $1 a week worth of value, at least.)

[Unstoppablejayd]

My Girlfriend is amazingly supportive..before she met me she knew nothing about comics or the art of it. Two years later and she has her own comic collection and a few pieces of her own art. She goes to all the cons, even makes me go to the local ones when I am not into it "to see her friends there". She encourages my purchases, even pushing me to expand my budget if she sees me have "that look" she says I have when I look at something i love. She doesn't really care for me buying art just for an investment but realizes that aspect. She has bought me art.. and even asked me for a list of pages I was interested in this year to share with my family if they wanted to get me something for the holidays lol.

I think it helps that she is a writer by trade and understands the creative and story telling aspect of it. 

She is perfect.. 

[ESeffinga]

5 hours ago, Unstoppablejayd said:

She doesn't really care for me buying art just for an investment

Smart too!

[NoMan]

My wife is encouraging me to buy some. I tell her it’s wasaayyyy more expensive then she thinks but she’s hell bent on getting a certain artist’s OA.

i got lucky. She’s pretty hot, too

[NicoV]

My wife never bothered me with my collection, even if I spent A LOT of money on it. But as long as I can provide my share of the money for the family, I can do whatever I want with what's left.

She likes me to show her what I bought, out of curiosity. Most of the time she does not has any interest in it. Sometimes she dislikes and sometimes she likes. I remember when I came back from the first Christie's auction in Paris a few years ago. I had bought two lots: a Schuiten illustration and a Mignola / Hellboy cover. She loved the former, and found the later quite ugly. With time I guess she was right, as I still have the former and sold the later 

It's quite rare but sometimes she can also incite me to spend more  In April this year, Artcurial offered in auction some illustrations and covers from Martine, a famous series of books for children, and more specifically for girls (https://www.artcurial.com/fr/vente-3891-bandes-dessinees). As all girls from this age, my wife loved these books when she was a kid. It was the first time we went at an auction exhibition together. And she did not stop urging me to bid on a few of them. Prices went really high so I did not. The same with the Dune page that sold recently on Heritage. I suppose I told her a lot of times how much I would love to have it. So when price skyrocketed during live auction, she was the one to tell me that I would probably regret it if I did not bid higher. Even if, in the same time, she was shocked by this price.

I also spend A LOT of time on ComicArtTracker. I suppose it can be considered as part of my passion for OA. She's also ok with that as I mainly work on CAT during evenings when our daughter is in bed, nearly never during week-ends (only a few minutes from time to time to check that everything is OK).

 

Edited November 27, 2019 by NicoV

[Rick2you2]

56 minutes ago, NicoV said:

 

I also spend A LOT of time on ComicArtTracker. I suppose it can be considered as part of my passion for OA. She's also ok with that as I mainly work on CAT during evenings when our daughter is in bed, nearly never during week-ends (only a few minutes from time to time to check that everything is OK).

 

I mostly wanted to say thank you for all your hard work. From my perspective, it has really helped the hobby a lot.

Although, I still can’t get eBay to open anymore; I just get a message it will open in a new window, but then, no new window.