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rgtichy Posts: 124
5/1/2020
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So, I saw this week on ha.com that a Kelley Jones' Batman cover is auctioning off, and was at ~$19,000 this morning. As chance would have it, I catalogued that comic book in the past two days, noting to myself that the Kelley Jones Batman issues really aren't worth "anything", which kind of surprised/disappointed me. With the ready availability of trade paperbacks, which really remove "Half" the reasons to be a collector of comic books, have the collectors just moved to the only exclusive content left: the original art?
Am I overstating that, or is that a generally accepted state of comic book collecting?
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GuardianIV Posts: 4
5/21/2020
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I am an artist and an art teacher, and frankly I do not believe you can compare fairly the collecting of comic books to the collecting of one of a kind artwork. They simply are two different animals. I enjoy the thought of collecting original comic art, but not the price tags. As an art teacher, the art I am drawn to is not normally the sequential variety with a bunch of people on it and square/rectangular panels. If I bought original art it would have to be splash pages and covers. Sequential art is great in the comic itself, but it was never meant to be in a frame on a wall. There are some obvious exceptions for this, some artist are so gifted in creating page layouts that their sequential work is as much if not more artistic than their splash pages. Neal Adams comes to mind. At either rate, I love art and I love comics. The two are heavily related, no doubt. However, they are not the same. I would never be able to afford the art I love the most even if it were available for sale. Which makes collecting the original comic were I get every wonderful page all that more attractive.
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