wow. people have stupid money…
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Dont get me started. There was an exhibition of manga art, cels and posters here in Singapore this past week or so and there were some $9x,xxx sales of cels, some from Studio Ghibli that were attributed to Hayao Miyazaki who is the director. Good luck proving that those were done by Miyazaki san.
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Struggling to ponder what would cause the Stegman to go for that much. I wonder what the original price was. I’m sure his rep will be touting this sale hard when Stegman’s next batch of art comes up for sale.
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When it was first up for sale, it sold for $15k
Yes, that screen capture was from his rep’s twitter.
There’s 5 typical answers for why would anyone be so dumb and spend stupid money on anything
- They’re dumb
- They’re stupid
- They’re dumb,stupid and have stupid money
- FOMO (which is also part dumb and mostly stupid)
- They’re still out in left field from the 1899 Cleveland Spiders
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Oh fun fact: Heritage Auctions charges the seller about 10% and the buyer about 20% (Final price of $28k was what was paid by buyer). So the seller of that Carnage cover received $19-20k. Still a good return on the $15k fella bought it at.
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Makes for good returns on original art investments!
@myrontay and others…
I know this question really “depends” but I happened to see a local listing for a page of original comic art. It is a page from the Wolverine run/page done by Silvestri. Haven’t gotten a response back yet but is listed at $250.
If wolverine is on the page and it is in fact legit. Jump on it? or just a typical price/not anything to get excited about for just a regular/non key comic page.
Thanks for any input. I’ll try to give an update/picture if I can get one.
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If it’s a legit Silvestri page, regardless of whether Wolverine is on it or not, at $250 you should jump on it all day. Even a blah, “nothing” page that is a legit Silvestri Marvel page is worth more than that due to age and pedigree. This seller may not know what they have, if it’s authentic and undamaged.
Silvestri still sketches at shows and for CGC, but not a ton. And to compare, $250 from him today would get you a small 2" to 3" head sketch at best.
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FWIW I’ve been investing in some art too. Investing may actually be too harsh of a word as I buy it for the love of the medium, characters, and artists work. It just so happens that it may also be a good investment.
I tend to purchase as directly from the artist as I can. This minimizes risk for me, as I know it is real. There a lot of really good artists out there that do recreation art of classic covers, panels, etc. It would be fairly easy for a less than honest person to market the work as authentic when it is not.
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I try to do the same. And for one other big reason - art is typically cheaper directly from an artist than it is going through their art representative who, of course, needs their cut. And also is reluctant to negotiate.
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I have a Silvestri story about a sketch.
Oh man years ago I was in the top cow line at Wizard world Philly. Back when you could get sketches done for free. Guy behind me kept complaining about people getting sketches. We were about 20 people back and every person that got a sketch he complained. The line at this point had been capped. I turned around and asked him nicely to just shut up. He was a Jersey guy and didn’t like that I asked him to just stop complaining. Hated it even more when I told him that o was getting a sketch and was going to take my time. He kept going and going and finally it almost broke out into a fist fight. Mark came over and saw what had been going on. He pulled me out of the line and behind the table. He told me that if I let the guy go through he would do a special sketch for me afterwards. I said sure. I got to hang around with the top cow crew. When the guy got to the front of the line he pulled out a completely full short box of comics for Silvestri to sign. Silvestri calmly told him to pick 10 and he would sign them but wasn’t going to make people wait while he sign a full short box of comics. They guy tried to pull the “no one said anything about a limit” and “I waited all this time in line”. Ten comics is all he for. Mark then just kind of shook his head at me and said he understands my frustration. He went on to do a full figure Darkness sketch for me. Was a wonderful experience in the end. Ran tight on money a bunch of years ago and sold it however.
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These are part of the reasons why artists no longer sign for free; do free sketches, etc…
Get a boatload of people together anywhere and you’ll always find a bunch of assholes to ruin it for everyone else.
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Yup.
Just saw this. Agree it is a non-brainer, just to get some OA from the master if nothing else.
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