Let's start with the surprise. Well, it is two (two!), two surprises in one! The original art from a full early issue - #6! I, at least, was always under the assumption that, except for issue #4, which was sold out from the Kramer Estate to The Rich Fiction Author in the UK (for about $12K, as I recall), all of these early issues were scattered to the winds during the early sale of pages from the back of the book.
The starting bid ($1900) is not as much a surprise as the estimated value of the "lot" of 22 pages of around $3500 ($160 each...).
The rest we have seen before - 3 nice cover re-creations and a couple of newer color pieces - the estimates on these seem reasonable. Of course, with a 22% tax on each purchase (the "Buyer's Fee"), none of these pieces is terribly attractive when paying tax is sooooo irksome. I just might sit all of these out on this basis alone... well, maybe just one bid on that complete issue (after all, at $400 a page, even a 22% tax would be a market-level deal...).
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I avoid all these auctions that are held with vast fees (I’ve drooled over some Sienkiewicz pieces on Heritage but they generally go out of my league even without the fees), I understand it’s easier for the seller but it reduces the participants.
I’d take a guess these are things that _would_ have gone the normal auction route, meaning Jeff Tundis auctioning them for Dave, but after the Sign My Ridiculous Form nonsense, them days are over…
Yeah .. surely a whole issue would have a very very happy home with you??
Like j_ay says it's a pity that the auctions aren't on ebay.
I wonder if there are later whole issues in Dave's archive that aren't being sold because he would need to split them with Ger?
Well, hi there, you two.
Maybe about 4-5 months ago, the art from an early issue would have definitely caught my competitive urge (although the contents of issue #4 were extra special because I own the cover).
In fact, things are different, now.
Say what?
As j_ay, who was inspired out of retirement by it says: "them days are over" since the "Sign My Ridiculous Form nonsense."
The snake in the mail-box.
The frozen donkey wheel.
(sorry... TV pop cultural references)
My own interest in prioritizing a really-large expenditure for Dave Sim's art is probably somewhere between tepid and cool, particularly for something that is not in the secondary market.
Saaaaaay what?
One might have noticed my editorial silence (until whaddyacall now, that is) on "The Petition That Walks Like A Rational Idea" and all of the dripping and oozing pestilence that has accompanied it.
(Any questions about my take on this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller...?)
When I saw the announcement of the petition itself, I giggled and did not give it much of a second thought.
"Oh, there he goes again."
Then I read the text that set out the conditions...
A game-changer.
In one swell foop, was just about //thisclose\\ to shutting off the Aartvark blog, removing the "Yahoo" bookmark from my browser, and killing the links to the Cerebus Art at my art site...
and instead I advanced the clock of Aartvarkian Armageddon to 11:59:59 and then backed it off to about, say... 11:59:30
...
In fact (cuz I know you'll want to know), the only thing that kept it from staying at 11:59:59 was wanting to keep alive and fresh the context for the "World Without Cerebus" series!
It’s really nice to get your thoughts on this; I’ve often wondered what you thought of such things but also can understand if you’d rather just keep mum on most of these soap opera situations.
Aside from the petition, which is a sad thing as it is, but as you say, hearing the back-story (I didn’t get all of it, not asking Jeff T for the stuff he didn’t feel benefited Dave in public) but I sure got the gist (what the hell *is* a gist??) of it.
Lunacy.
The whole phototracing thing really has me turned off too. The endless ‘whoa is me I’m a pariah’ shit…etc.
But I’ll sign any damn form Gerhard offers up…keep World Without Cerebus going!
One of you two should email me and fill me in .. cos .. y'know .. I can see the grapevine .. but I don't particularly want to touch it.
Long story short:
-Dave always thinks he’s, across the board, maligned in the comic book field.
-Dave thinks there is such a thing as “Marxist-feminists”.
-Due to this “thinking” he therefore claims he is constantly called a “misogynist”.
-By a long shot, the person(s) most often calling Dave a “misogynist” is Dave himself.
-Dave came up with an online petition (he sent out faxes also)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stanleylieber/2460581228/
that one needs to sign if Dave is to “associate” with them.
Dave has refused to attend a convention as a guest judge based on the reasoning that not “everyone attending” would be able to sign.
Everyone attending. Even if you don’t know who the hell Dave Sim is.
He now only goes in 1 specific comic book store because “everyone” signed.
There is no word yet where he buys his toilet paper. (this whole situation actually had me sketch a few comic book panels (which I’ve never actually done before) of that kind of story…so even in Dave’s madness he inspires!).
Anyway, the statement is (something like) “I do not believe Dave Sim is a misogynist”.
Simple as that. But Jeff Tundis, who does a *shitload* of (unpaid) work for Dave (all the sites, etc), let it be know that working out the (simple) wording for that was a soap opera in itself. JT kind of pointed out, ‘ok, what about sexist?’ and Dave said they are the same thing. Etc etc. So Jeff said then he can’t sign the form while not believing Dave is a hater of women, he does believe Dave is a sexist. Dave, I think it was, said, “we’re done”.
He (DVS) also shut off his best friend (although Dave would never call him that) Chet for pretty much the same reason.
So even the 100 or so signatures that are on the form more than likely half of them (i.e. anyone that doesn’t flip through the nauseating yahoo group) don’t know they are, in Dave’s wording on his “team”.
Several others signed because, seemingly, their entire lives would be hollow without being able to talk about and maybe occasionally to Dave Sim.
And there are 2 or 3 people that worship Dave and believe anything even vaguely not-nice (like this post) about Dave are “bashing” him and creating “Dave hate”.etc
And are now reporting things written on the list about Dave TO Dave. (even though Dave says he doesn’t care what non-signers do/say/think/etc)
Fuckin’ scary, no?
Study up, there’s a test tomorrow.
Tim... really, don't try to make sense of it.
It's a pile of loose threads desperately pretending to be a flying carpet.
The shame of it is that it clings to and tarnishes the legacy of an amazing accomplishment.
Wow.
Really.
Wow.
It makes me sad. It really does.
I hope it does not violate his confidence to say that this is precisely the sentiment that Ger expresses most often when the topic of the last couple of years comes up.
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