Category: Original Art

How the Grinch Stole Christmas Cels on Memory Lane

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me Three Grinch Cels Two Dogs in Love And a Sunday Comic Dick Tracy "You're a mean one, Mister Grinch", but in this...

The Price Is Right: Guess the Sale Price Order!

All of these mighty Marvel pieces of original cover art sold in the same auction.  The Heritage Auctions sale took place in mid-November of this year.  I've indicated the primary artist and the year published, can you put the cover sales in...

Classics Illustrated A Christmas Carol - Ancient Variant Comics

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”  Ebenezer Scrooge in...

Heritage Signature Auction Highlights: Sale Prices to Numb

I love Heritage Auctions. My books would be void of data without them. So, this is no indictment on Heritage Auctions or any other sales outlets for original comic...

Lady and the Tramp on Christmas Memory Lane

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me Two Dogs in Love And a Sunday Comic Dick Tracy The love story begins on Christmas morning when Jim...

Christmas Memory Lane - Sunday Comic Strip Classics

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me A Sunday Comic Dick Tracy. We'll take a stroll down Christmas Memory Lane in a series of...

Tracking Original Art Sales Trends: CAT Silver Age Index

If someone asked you how the market for original comic book art is, you would probably say it's great!  You may be right.  But, is it just anecdotal evidence based on a few highlight...

Bill Everett, Sub-Mariner, and the Golden Days of Youth

Recollecting the golden days of youth, I grow fonder of Bill Everett and Sub-Mariner. Everett guided Namor's emergence in Marvel Comics 1. I was never a huge fan of...

X-Men Artists That Rock: So Many Good Ones

I got excited when I saw that someone else was talking about "the definitive artist".  I can't take credit for that since my blog was written but not published when I...

War, What's It Good For: Artists Joe Kubert and Dick Ayers

Legendary War Artists Joe Kubert and Dick Ayers make you rethink the old song lyric, "War, What's It Good For?"  While no one should glamorize the horrors of war, Joe Kubert and Dick Ayers told hundreds of...