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October 18 · Issue #107 · View online |
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Welcome to #107 of original Comic Art Tips!! Another very long issue, mostly due to AuctionResults:
eBay: a few years ago high end pages were put for sale on ebay to gauge interest and sell for a lower price privately… Look at the Daredevil #4 page by Joe Orlando, instead, sold for $7,700 (a good price) and the Avengers page by John Byrne sold for $8k.
Heritage Sunday: the great Conan page by Buscema went for more than $4k, MOKF pages by Gene Day doubled prices in just a couple months. I think John Byrne is not accepting commissions anymore, but still the Cap/Witch piece went for $700, the exact “2 characters with no backgrounds” price JB asked a few years ago. This Lady Death DPS by Steven Hughes went for $400, I thought it would sell for two times that price. Any DPS inked by George Perez for $300 is good.
Heritage Charity Auction: the Batman portrait by Jim Lee went for $2,700, the Superman by Chris Samnee looked like his regular $500 commissions, happy this one went for $1,300. The Rom prelim by Bill Sienkiewicz went for $800, while the Superman one for only $230. The wraparound sketch cover by Adam Hughes went for only $660, a Superman DPS by Howard Porter for only $150. I really don’t know why a John Cassaday cover went for only $900.
Gaines/MAD auction: Original art from MAD artists is not often for sale, I’m not really aware of prices. Let’s say that almost all pieces ended over the $1k mark, the top seller was a CGC 9.8 copy of MAD #1 sold for $96k, then a Kelly Freas cover sold for $45k, a Will Elder illustration for $22k. A big drop to the $10k of this Don Martin page and all the rest.
Daniel Maghen: the auction went well and they even made an overview of the results, less work for me. This is a Google translation from french that I edited a bit adding links. “Success for this 1st auction comic book and illustration by Daniel Maghen Auctions with 94% of the lots sold. TOTAL RESULT: 2.406,079 € All tax included BEST SALE
HERGÉ - The Black Island - The Little Twentieth - 1938 ( cover of Petit Vingtième n ° 6). Realized price: 264 000 € All tax included. All the original Hergé (6 lots) were sold for 517 200 € TTC.
ANDRE JUILLARD - In the opening of this sale, a first part was dedicated to André Juillard; 29 works out of 31 were sold and reached 350 000 € TTC (estimate: 230 000 €). The best selling of this section is an original color page of Blue Book (pl.6, 1993), estimated at € 10,000 and acquired at € 37,000 including tax. NEW RECORDS BESTSELLERS Among the best sales, we find André Franquin (the five lots were sold for € 279,120 including tax, including a cover of Spirou and Fantasio € 191,000 TTC and a half-board of Gaston € 47,400 including tax), Jean Giraud (The five lots sold for 85 100 € TTC, including a board of Blueberry 35 500 € TTC, Hugo Pratt ( half-board of Corto Maltese to 52 640 € TTC), Enki Bilal (original plate of Hunting Party to 29 000 € TTC), Jean-Pierre Gibrat (the two lots to 43 430 € TTC including a board of the Flight of the Raven to 27 640 € TTC), Ana Mirallès (the two lots sold to 31 300 € TTC whose coverage of the integral from Djinn to € 19,140 including taxes), Joann Sfar ( Rabbi Cat cover volume 8 to € 24,250), Benjamin Lacombe (Curiosities luxury cover to € 20,400) and Sylvain Vallée (Katanga board to € 14,000) TTC). Some works have produced very good prices: Cosey (cover of Jonathan to 17 870 € TTC), Vance ( cover of Bruno Brazil to 16 590 € TTC), Gotlib (board Superdupont to 14 480 € TTC), Roger (board of Jazz Maynard at 5 740 € TTC) and Sempé ( illustration at 10 270 € TTC).” What I noticed is that most of the pieces sold remained near the low estimate, the Blacksad page went for a high but regular price, two pages of original art by Enrico Marini went unsold, the Blueberry page (with a €13/15k estimate) was sold for more than €35K. A half page of Corto Maltese went for $52k, while a watercolour sketch page stayed inside the regular evaluation.
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Jason Fabok - Wonder Woman Original Commission
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I think the price for this Batman illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz is not so bad, and offers accepted.
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Jose Luis Garcia Lopez - Batman Style Guide Original Art
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Boucq - Original Illustration
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A nice auction with a few great pieces and many affordable others.
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Vittorio Giardino - Unpublished Original Cover Art
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In a couple of weeks the Lucca Comics Convention will start, and the now traditional Urania Auction will take place in Lucca on the first Con day. The auction will start with 62 lots of original art drawn by Bonvi, a favorite of all the Italian kids from the 60’s to the 90’s. Original pages drawn by Bonvi, especially for his comic strip “ Sturmtruppen” have been extremely rare on the market until this auction. See You Next Week!!
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