eBay item number: 130001752866
Seller: cerebusart
Buyer: jctundis
Price: $380
When Dave and Ger started "cerebusart.com," one of the ideas was to make different formats of their art available so as to broaden the accessibility (tracing papers for those who could not afford the original pages, for instance). I often wonder if Dave understands that there is going to be a broad bandwidth for all of the formats?
In the last 6 months, original pages have run from $350-$2100...
In the last 6 months, an original cover sold for $1800...
In the last 6 months, cover recreations have run from $380-$1800...
OK, so the tracing paper idea works...
My real question: Does $380 for this cover recreation disappoint the artist... or is an auction an auction?
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I would say an auction while being an auction, still has to go with the market. The market for cover reproductions isn't saturated I think, it is just that the covers being reproduced are not what the market demands. I would love to buy a repro of the cover to issue 114, or even a high quality full sized (11" X 17") print of it. But the recent repros have not been ones I would bid on (unless I suddenly hit the lotto and had some spare change lying around). Perhaps if Dave & Ger auctioned off cover repros wherein the winner could ask for a particular cover, the prices would be quite a bit higher.
I totally agree, M.
At the risk of broken-record syndrome, I’m not digging the re-covers at all. That said, as Margaret points out, and as Brian and I have exchanged on, if a certain issue (or image) is special to the buyer, then I understand it. But if I were to pay a third or half of what I could _possibly_ get the *original* cover for –granted it may be very (very, very) hard to find- I’d pass on the re-cover.
Nice idea about the ‘choose the cover you want’ idea.
I’d rather see Dave (and Ger) investing his (their) time and ink into new ideas. Or at the very least the fun-ness of (for the early covers) ‘what if Gerhard were around for these issues’ orrrrrrr a re-take, *not* reproduction (i.e. a whole new cover image that would still pertain to that issue).
Another thing about auctions is the time/placement; if I have a busy week I may not even do a search on some of my ‘favourite searches’ and/or a gorgeous page could go up but if one or a few of the main buyers/bidders are on holiday (vacation) this could severely affect the price.
(granted in this ‘age of information’, and as we’ve seen with Brian’s updates, even while on holiday he’s ‘netted up’, this may become rarer, but I for one don’t even want to see a computer while I’m on holiday...)
Early bonus for those who reader comments (all 2 of you): Darren (el darro) was intrigued by the idea of comissioning a re-creation of Issue #1 for the 2007 30th Anniversary of Cerebus, as was Ger.
My suggestion was a commemorative re-do, in the color-style of the two pages that I have commissioned, published by A-V (Darren gets the art), and (finally) in a slightly larger quality format on the kind of paper it deserves.
What sorts of commemorative goodies would one want to see in such an issue to flesh it out. Inclusion of some color art, done quality style, that is already out there? Interviews? Or, and this kind of appeals to me, just the issue as a re-do, the end. Available in the regular version and, of course, the collector's version.
Or, and this kind of appeals to me, just the issue as a re-do, the end. Available in the regular version and, of course, the collector's version.
Full issue. *With* Gerhard.
Colour (by Ger) would be a major, major bonus and a helpful seller as it’s could be plugged as the ‘first colour issue’, etc.
The Epic stories could be included, but if the ‘miscellaneous Cerebus’ project ever does take off, those will be obligated to that, probably.
30 years...jezuz...
Worse than that: I read the series starting nearly 30 years ago. I got in during my first year of grad school, Fall 1978, when the much-younger but still cool Bruce Ayres (Capital City Comics, Madison, WI) got me to pick up the early issues that.were.still available from the stands.
As for the issue #1 re-creation: I agree with "unaccountable" - Full issue with Gerhard. I would definately would like to see it "colourized" so to speak, on glossy paper (at least the current paper being used, not the newsprint stuff). As for extras. . .umm, all I can think of right now is adding the story "The Challenge" in finished form (only in roughts / scripts right now) with backgrounds by Gerhard.
Nice idea to do "The Challenge." If Ger misses it in these comments, I'll pass that on for sure!
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