SILLYSHIP--pirate eye--
12-16-2006, 08:01 AM
I didn't want to start a new thread in the general, because I've been taking up too much space lately. I just found this site when I was looking at the history of Ewert over on the STL site.
http://highgradecomics.com/
I really think I am becoming disgusted with the whole high grade thing lately. What's y'all's opinion? I am fine with a 6.0 book if I can hold it, but I do like some 9.8's if they are modern. But that's almost a gimee, moderns should be in high grade, they were made to stay in high grade or as is the nature of cromium etc. to degrade super fast and thus createa demand for high grade. Which brings us to the question, are we still reeling in the Marvel 90's crash? I don't know why, maybe it's my naturally rebellious/doomed to fail nature that makes me hate the elitestst who only want the best grade books. The people who create and then control with there $ a market that the rest of us inherit as if we are just cows led to the watering hole? As a matter of fact, since I look at it that way, if my books are just based on content, just important for the stories, then I already own more books than I can ever read. And if I am collecting them strictly for art then it seems as pointless as holding on to cassettes or VHS tapes or CD's or even test books on page, because the art is out there, the art as a visual is online now, and the written word is now available to me as books on CD. The cover art is on the GCD site and I can look at it and reference it any time I want. I am really considering my interst in collectin commics based on the cover art as ridicuoous. So.... One step further, as far as my art is concerned I can tell you, I live in Santa Fe, the second largest art market, according to sales, although I think Chicago probably has a better modern scene and LA, San Francisco and many other cities, are more tuned in, but, point is, I get to see and have seen a tiny bit of the esperience with viewing originals and know that some art tranfers through the internet better than others. A painting is not the same, but a cover of a comic is very similiar. Maybe, just maybe, the fact that we can sell comics based on our ability to know that we will get exactly what we see is detrimental to the collector's market and why CGC is booming right now. Personally, I'm wondering if I should sell my comics and invest in original art that does not transfer well to the internet like scupture.
http://highgradecomics.com/
I really think I am becoming disgusted with the whole high grade thing lately. What's y'all's opinion? I am fine with a 6.0 book if I can hold it, but I do like some 9.8's if they are modern. But that's almost a gimee, moderns should be in high grade, they were made to stay in high grade or as is the nature of cromium etc. to degrade super fast and thus createa demand for high grade. Which brings us to the question, are we still reeling in the Marvel 90's crash? I don't know why, maybe it's my naturally rebellious/doomed to fail nature that makes me hate the elitestst who only want the best grade books. The people who create and then control with there $ a market that the rest of us inherit as if we are just cows led to the watering hole? As a matter of fact, since I look at it that way, if my books are just based on content, just important for the stories, then I already own more books than I can ever read. And if I am collecting them strictly for art then it seems as pointless as holding on to cassettes or VHS tapes or CD's or even test books on page, because the art is out there, the art as a visual is online now, and the written word is now available to me as books on CD. The cover art is on the GCD site and I can look at it and reference it any time I want. I am really considering my interst in collectin commics based on the cover art as ridicuoous. So.... One step further, as far as my art is concerned I can tell you, I live in Santa Fe, the second largest art market, according to sales, although I think Chicago probably has a better modern scene and LA, San Francisco and many other cities, are more tuned in, but, point is, I get to see and have seen a tiny bit of the esperience with viewing originals and know that some art tranfers through the internet better than others. A painting is not the same, but a cover of a comic is very similiar. Maybe, just maybe, the fact that we can sell comics based on our ability to know that we will get exactly what we see is detrimental to the collector's market and why CGC is booming right now. Personally, I'm wondering if I should sell my comics and invest in original art that does not transfer well to the internet like scupture.