Aaaaand More Pictures For Sale
on October 1st, 2009As much as I have enjoyed this round of ebay sales, I am shutting ‘em down again. The last of them are up for sale at this link.
The economic slump made for some bargains, so congratulations to all the winners.
I not only enjoy selling things on ebay, but I enjoy buying, and I found a couple of very nice books. Alas, selling can be really time-consuming, and I am falling behind on shipping.
Last week, I found some bizarre stuff from long dead projects in my files. The one and only page from Fortune’s Friends that did not make it onto the funeral pyre is up for auction. With the money from this sale, I intend to do something in the party hearty department. I will not pay a bill with it. I will do nothing sensible with it. I will buy chocolate covered strawberries. Or a cookie.
Many of the best, early pages from A Distant Soil were in storage, as well as a load of Book of Lost Souls and Orbiter art, and a small stash of miscellaneous pages from a number of mainstream projects from which I was sure I had nothing left. Annoying, since a private buyer had come to me asking for some of those pages, and I went through everything in the house and told him I did not have them!
Anyway, here’s a really nice A Distant Soil page up for sale.
The cover to A Distant Soil Volume I graphic novel is still available, and yes, I can do layaway.
I will continue to do private sales, and I am scheduled for two comic conventions next year, but no more ebay for awhile. Thanks to all my noble patrons for your support!
XD Funeral pyre? Heck I bought like three of those FF pages!
Don’t have them anymore, had to resell them when the medical hammer hit me, but I did enjoy having them. After all if not for seeing Page and then finding Eroica, there’s a whole bunch of my own work that would look vastly different–including that WOTF winner
(checks bank account) Hmmmm… argh… dammit!
Placed bids on the ADS pieces and the Fortune’s Friends piece.
People who don’t read your blog will be curious about the line-
‘This is extremely rare as the artist destroyed almost every page of the work from volume I’
I notice that you say ‘Add $3 to purchase price and get an autographed copy of the comic in which this page appears.’
but since this was published only in a flier – do you have copies of the flier?
I think I sold about ten Fortune’s Friends pages before torching them. I might even have some of the character sketches around here. The first volume cover art was also not burned, since The Woman held on to it.
I know it seems kind of funny to burn your own art, but I am not the only artist out there who destroys their work.
I DO have a copy of the flier, but I don’t know how many. I will see what I can dig up. If I have more than one, and you are the winner, you can have it. If not, I will scan a copy and send to you.
BTW, I had not meant for that to read $3 for a copy of the comic. OOPS! Gues I will have to dig one up in the files! LOL!
‘If I have more than one, and you are the winner, you can have it’.
Great – I think I am gonna have to win that one or at least bid high enough to keep you supplied with chocolate strawberries with a while!
Not only the art is good but the background story is priceless!
I meant ‘ chocolate strawberries FOR a while’.
Wow, did some digging in my files. You may find this interesting.
Haven’t found the flier yet, but I did find two Donning catalogues in perfect condition.
Fortune’s Friends is NOWHERE in the catalogue, even on the backlist. It was completely abandoned. The publisher wasn’t even trying to sell inventory less than two years after release. That is unusual. Then again, it did sell VERY badly.
And a book called “The Animation Art of Ralph Bakshi” is listed. This is the fall 1989 catalogue. I’m sure it was never released. There is no cover art on the solicitation, even though it is the lead feature in the catalogue.
oh well, going to have to let that go. I’m not about to get drawn into a bidding war. Not over that book, anyway.
Ah, come on, the money is going towards a good cause
– chocolate.
My ebay guide to not losing my paycheck: set a maximum and if someone overbids it, let it go and move on.
Something else will come along; it always does. Ebay’s like the bus like that.
LOL! True. I was bidding on two books, but I waved them both goodbye.
thing is, most times I do that I find something comparable/same thing only better quality/cheaper/more bells and whistles shortly thereafter. Especially in books and games. Usually the rare used/abused games are high price and bad condition but there’s always some guy liquidating his personal collection who took care of it and sells it for a price below extortion because he wants a good home for it, not a speculator or reseller.
But with the current art auctions, if I’m bidding on your art it’s half because it’s yours and half the subject matter. Like that LM page I bought from you? My max bid would have been MUCH higher if it had gone to auction. But for a piece of FF? Not so much XD
I did make the mistake of declaring interest in something early though. That’s a surefire war magnet right there. Next time, no warning.
I LOVE ebay. The bargains are awesome.
It’s quite nice to sell art on ebay, though chances are the art will go for below retail. It’s not so bad considering the overhead costs of a convention aren’t factored in there.
However, selling books, collectibles, etc: HOLY COW! I have SO many things I would love to get rid of. The art customers on ebay are SO much more well behaved than other buyers! I had constant problems with collecting payment from collectible buyers. I am not kidding, I put some Sandman comics on ebay three times, and each time the buyer failed to pay!
Book collectors are notoriously picky. I’m not a professional book dealer, and it doesn’t matter how carefully you describe the book, someone is going to make an issue of condition.
Seriously, I got so annoyed with it all the collectibles I would love to sell are sitting in the attic. Maybe I will just get a booth at a show and have done with it all. But I would spend more time trying to deal with a $20 collectible than it was worth. Just the WORST. I was talking to another pro friend who had the same experience. He’ll sell his art, but he will no longer sell collectibles. Too many buyers trying to scam the sellers.
And I had almost decided to stop selling on ebay when they made all bidders anonymous. That is not fair to buyers. They can’t spot potential shill bidders.
I found a painting of mine on ebay about a year ago going for a really low price, so I decided to buy it back. I got outbid, and forgot about it.
A month later, I was at a show and the seller asked me if I wanted to buy it for more than TWICE my bid. I asked him if the buyer had not paid. No, he admitted, he, the seller, had put a “safety bid” on the piece to keep it from going for a low price. But he would be happy to sell it to me ($800, I think.)
I said “Safety bid?” You mean a “shill bid?”
And he’s like – NO! A SAFETY BID!
I couldn’t believe that I had just been shilled on one of my own pieces, only to have the guy turn around and try to sell it back to me. For a, you know SAFETY BID.
If you don’t want a piece going for a low price, it’s no big thing to put a reserve on it. What, it costs about 50 cents or something.
Sheesh.
I wonder how many “safety bids” this guy had placed on his own auctions before! Holy cow!
I also hated when ebay went to anonymous bidders too.
It caused me to bid a lot lower than I normally would because it made shill bidding too easy.
And you are right – with books etc. if you miss out on one auction, then then another one will turn up sooner or later. With original art. it is a little more difficult as they are ‘one of a kind’, but as a certain art dealer always says ‘something else will come along.. it always does’.
And Arlnee, sorry about showing interest on that piece but as a fan of Colleen’s art, Colleen’s blog and Colleen in general, I just thought that piece would fit in with my collection of Colleen’s art.
I’m thinking of quitting ebay and instead just putting a page up for sale every week or so right here on the blog. Might wait to do that next year, though.
I did not realize how much stuff I had going on (my powers of concentration can be hampered by concentrating on the wrong things), so I just took a few pieces off the market. Too much to do. And I’m almost out of packaging.
I pretty much don’t do anything on Ebay that doesn’t have a “buy it now” on it. Been doing a lot of that over the summer filling in my game collection. And I have to put some collectibles up sometime soon to fuel my Christmas budget.
When I sell I just refuse to grade stuff; I just describe it as I see it and say point blank they haven’t been sealed in plastic in a climate controlled room, they’ve been displayed, played with, moved around, and otherwise USED and I’d rather sell it to someone who wants the same out of it than someone who is going to seal it in plastic and call it an investment.
Miki, no prob on the FF pic. If I wanted it more I would have bid higher initially. I’m just kicking myself. Every time I say I’m interested in something it invariably invites other people to look for themselves.
Colleen: SAFETY bid? what a moron. Hope you reported him. Shilling is still against the rulez. Not to mention offering offsite and/or jacking the prices.
I hadn’t used eBay in a long time, but recently got back to it (hunting down some Vision cookware).
Lately I’ve been thinking about certain arts/crafty things I want to do, and I’ve been considering using eBay as a sales platform. Of course, I have to actually MAKE the objects first.
So I’ve been following Colleen’s adventures in this with interest.
And wishing I had more money (and more wall space) to buy some of her pieces.
You know, that’s a good idea Arlnee. Maybe I will just start putting stuff up as Buy It Now.
Colleen: never underestimate the power of the impulse buyer XD