Author: ComicArtTrends
Patrick Bain is the author of the Comic Art Trends Price Guide 2019-2020. The Legends and Modern Masters editions of the CAT Price Guide feature a total of 70 artists. Original comic art from each of the seventy featured creators is documented with sales data, analysis, graphs of trends, and images of art. Patrick Bain is the founder of the Comic Reading Library. Search Comic Reading Library on Facebook.
It's an age old dilemma for collectors and investors, to keep sealed or to open. The extreme scenario exists with a CGC slabbed comic. Open your graded comics at your own peril and expense! But there are other times when collectible contents are sealed but maybe there...
In 2020, I wrote an article that it was time to consider buying video game box art. I thought about it again when I noticed a painting offered at HA with a vague resemblance...
If you've got the money, honey--Heritage Signature Auction 2023 for comics and comic art is the place to be. Let's preview the diverse original comic art offerings. Maybe there's something even for those with only 'money' singular. Heritage...
When cowboy actors are immortalized in comics, does the sun never set on their fame? After they pass, do the fictional heroes based on their likenesses continue to thrive like our imaginations of the Old West? Or, are those pardners...
A Real American Hero, and action figure, G.I. Joe is there! Many sons idolize their fathers. My dad is certainly a hero to me. So, while my eighty-three, nearly 84-year-old dad, struggles with some health issues right before Christmas,...
Spectacular 100th Issue! Long-awaited...mightiest...special 100th anniversary! I feel like the big announcer voice-guy proclaiming "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday"! And though technically anniversaries happen on a yearly basis, we all love milestone comics like 100, 500, or 1,000. So, on the occasion of my...
Artists whose skills surpass their contemporaries always stand out. Russ Heath, master of the DC Silver Age war genre, deserves that rank. Pull on your combat boots and strap your helmet tight. Today, we'll review...
If as a president, Ronald Reagan was known as the great communicator, then I claim the same could be said about George Pérez. Where Reagan communicated through encouraging speeches and anecdotes, Pérez spoke through the medium of comic art and interactions with fans. And his pictures, along...
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... Before you finish that phrase, check to see if the signature on that art says Carl Barks, the good duck artist. Let's preview Carl Barks works offered in
Are comic art prices climbing like most goods and services in the economy? Or has the weak economy finally caught up with even the high end of the comic art industry? Let's look at some samples of comic art prices: past, present,...
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