ebay: HB Ghost cover

[yukon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3985&item=6517343106&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

ouch!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3985&item=6517511620&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
and this too! :p

[hellboyone]

The seller obviously doesn't really wanna sell that Ghost/Hellboy cover with that starting bid. Why bother?

R.

[yukon]

yeah that seemed like a hefty starting price. hellboyone, I just was digging around on the boards and you've got tons of MM stuff, how many pieces do you own? I'm incredibly jealous :p

[hellboyone]

I have about 16 pieces, mostly Hellboy, a couple of Dracula pages, and a Fahfrd & Grey Mouser.

You can see most of them here:

http://www.rickcortes.com/hellboyart/mignola.htm

R.

[yukon]

gorgeous collection. how many years sis that take you to compile? (sorry i'm just made of questions tonight) did you get most at cons?

[Tad]

For many years Mike Mignola was tempted into the embrace of demon rum. Rick Cortes, knowing a likely mark when he saw one, was only too happy to provide repeated introductions in the cozy confines of his apartment. Discussions of artwork turned to drawn examples. His cup was never dry, the devil Cortes would see to that.

Days would pass in a haze for the young artist, lost in a blur of pen and ink and the echoing laugh of the Philipino pirate. Freedom was promised as soon as he finished that page. In the meantime, have another drink. The blindfold of his drunkeness hid the deception. Each night a new sheet of velum replaced the old. This continued for twelve nights.

What inner resolve Mignola found to break the fetters of his delirium is unknown. He would drink the fiery poison while Cortes watched, then vomited it out once his captor was out of sight. He built up his muscles by pitting them against each other in the style of Hindu yogis. On the sixteenth night, fashioning a rope from the strands of his hair, the artist escaped from the unbarred window.

They say Cortes screamed in rage that night but soon set his sights on a young apprentice named Sook.

[yukon]

hahahhahahahhahahha that explains all........

[gary bolt]

I have a new respect for Rick Cortes. A plan that is elegant in its simplicity. I too have an apartment, access to distilled alcoholic beverages and a need to discuss artwork. Does anyone know how I can contact MM?

[hellboyone]

Stones knows....too much. Too, too much.

R.

[Mikolaj]

Hellboyone: What are these 2 tomes, still in foil, on the right down corner of your hellboy stuff shelf?

[Tad]

Those look like the Hellboy Heroes and Villains lead figure sets. Now, where's Waldo?

[Petersen]

What Fafhrd & Grey Mouser page do you have Rick? I love that series!

[Pam Cakes]

I have about 16 pieces, mostly Hellboy, a couple of Dracula pages, and a Fahfrd & Grey Mouser.

You can see most of them here:

http://www.rickcortes.com/hellboyart/mignola.htm

R.
*ahem* ...and just what is your address, Rick?

;)

[yukon]

pam cakes are you planning and art heist? :p

[morna]

Guys... guys.. we've been all through this - he's got high tech laser guided security and fifteen locks and two trained German Shepards who can smell Mignola lust from 100 yards.

... and a dungeon full of lost souls who HAD to have that page from Conqueror Worm and failed

[yukon]

The dungeon full of lost souls, is obviously where he gets his powers from.
oh yeah that 5,000 dollar Ghost HB page is selling, although the buyer has no feed back which is always fishy...

[morna]

Actually it's just a storage locker but he has it done up real nice - with the chains and the dripping water... mood lighting. It's amazing how many lost souls you can get in an apartment storage locker.

[yukon]

lost souls are highly Compressible

[hellboyone]

What Fafhrd & Grey Mouser page do you have Rick? I love that series!

Um..I'll get a scan up soon.

R.

[Jan Bentzen]

If you guys don´t succeed at Rick´s place, I know P. Craig Russell have some originals from "The Corpse" in his own private gallery.
I think there´s an ogre loose at night though - so be carefull. :)

- Jan

[yukon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14010&item=6517949722&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
an addition to your collection perhaps?

[yukon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6518593176&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
Mignolas are comin outta the woodwork! ( all too much for me sadly)

[hellboyone]

Some fantastic drawings in that Batman/Hellboy/Starman page. I would have been bidding on this a couple of years ago. Sigh....

R.

[Tad]

Are people getting these prices? A thousand is steep for a small drawing isn't it?

[Maija]

Steve Kerrigan: Look 'ere, dad-- a Mike Mignola drawin'!

Darryl Kerrigan: A Mike Mignola drawin'?! What're you gonna do with a Mike Mignola drawin'? How much duz 'e want fer it?

Steve Kerrigan: Thousand dollars.

Darryl Kerrigan: A thousand dollars?! Aw, 'e's dreamin'!!

from The Castle (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/) a fine little heart-warming Australian film you should watch, because it's funny, and also, I want more people to get it when I quote from it. Maybe it's more funny if you've been to a backyard barbeque in Melbourne and driven to Bonny Doon, but if you haven't, I'm sure it's still worth a few chuckles.

Aaaah, the serenity.

[Maija]

BTW, the original dialogue was about joustin' sticks, not a Mike Mignola drawin'. ;)

[yukon]

The interesting thing is that a few pieces end up selling for high prices ( 800 range like that almost colossus page) , and people get greedy and the prices skyrocket. Also interestingly more and more people see the high prices and start selling their mignolas, making his work seem less rare, and giving people choices between items, probably resulting in driving the prices back down. Big auction houses play the angles to make artists works seem rareer then they are, for example by refusing to host several different items by the same artist in an auction, an spacing the auctions with the same artist far apart. they kinda starve their buyers, and make them compete. if they didn't do this the market would go so radically up and down that it would be virtually impossible to estimate values with any accuracy . question; Is it a general rule that published works fetch higher prices?
Honestly, both of these seem pretty crazy high to me. Theyre beautiful don't get me wrong, but ouch!!

[Tad]

Did the Almost Colossus page go for 800 something? These days, that's got to be considered a great deal. I guess anything with Hellboy on it commands a bigger price. If anyone's been keeping track, I'd love to see an overview of what the various pieces of art have been selling for.

[morna]

Damn I just nuked a bunch of them from my e-bay thing. Really good idea though, I'll see what I can compile from "memory"... flawed tool that it is these days!

[Mikolaj]

I once saw a mignola Vampirella sketch... I don't remmember where i saw it but i remember it went for somethin like 20$... And I still bang my head for not buy'n it. What a fool i was... WHAT A FOOL....

[hellboyone]

Are people getting these prices? A thousand is steep for a small drawing isn't it?

Definitely overpriced.

R.

[yukon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6158660581&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6510331946&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=972&item=6514775419&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
here is a few of them.

[Mikolaj]

Ehhh...
Look at this amazing coster-art sombody allready managed to get his/her hands on...
http://www.tri-stateoriginalart.com/pages/gallery3.html
AWSOME!

[darkmonkeygod]

Mike sold the pieces from the second Odd Jobs book featuring HB (11 x 8, I think) last summer in San Diego for $1000 each. Quickly, I might add. That's unframed, direct from the artist @ a show. Is that, in your opinion, overpriced? I deeply regret not spending the $800 on the Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead cover way back when, not to mention the $3000 for the Lost Army cover. Do you fine folks buy much original art? I ask because I've bought, sold and traded for years, and from personal experience, once a certain piece goes into a collection, if you want it, it often takes substantial money to pry it out again (o' how I have paid...). Just curious. BTW, the smaller framed piece is mine, and it's one of four Mignola drawings I've parted with over the past year. The others were all in the $800 to $2500 range. I'll see if I can figure out how to post the images if any are interested (or if some kind soul has the server space...)

s.

[Tad]

Those of us with original art bought years ago have trouble keeping up with the changes. My impression was that sketchbook pages were going for less than a thousand. Didn't know about the Odd Jobs stuff. So your small drawing might be overpriced a bit but because it's a Hellboy piece, you'll probably get it.

But if you get it... then it's not overpriced, it's the going price. :)

[yukon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14010&item=6519073167&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=972&item=6519057133&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
these are up too no hb. Did MM ink the 2nd?
I just looked over your listing again darkmonkeygod, and the framing you had done I imagine boosts the value of the piece as archival framing is super pricey.I've had a couple lithographs archivally framed and while its very improtant to preserve the piece, it is amazingly expensive. I had a piece done ( probably about 18x 24 ) that cost with no mat and in a simple frame, about 200 USD.

[hellboyone]

darkmonkeygod: Like Tad said...none of my Mignolas cost me more than maybe $600 (that includes full comic pages), all obtained at least 3 years ago all the way up to 8 or 9 years ago. I have a set of 3 framed that includes 2 pieces from the first lunch box and a convention pin-up that cost me $600 total! Imagine...3 different Mignola pieces for that price? When I bought it from a guy on eBay, the guy had posted it at least twice. He couldn't give 'em away at the time. But I was happy to relieve him of his burden. :)

So you can imagine why we think this is overpriced. Good luck on the sale, though. More power...

R.

[morna]

...none of my Mignolas cost me more than maybe $600 (that includes full comic pages) ...
I have a set of 3 framed that includes 2 pieces from the first lunch box and a convention pin-up that cost me $600 total! Imagine...
When I bought it from a guy on eBay, the guy had posted it at least twice. He couldn't give 'em away at the time.

R.
Stop it Rick - you're making me cry!

[fitzroy]

It's ok Morna, we'll share them out once we get to Rick's and Gary distracts him with an erotic glass dance.

[gary bolt]

Fitz, I think your plan would work better if Morna did the erotic glass dance. This kind of thing is supposed to be sexy, not scary. :)

Gary

[Tad]

Yeah, but that wouldn't send me into a wheezy, laughing/coughing fit like Fitz just did!

[hellboyone]

I don't know whether to hide my artwork or have some dollar bills ready...

R.

[gary bolt]

If I really have to do this thing I want tens and twenties...


:p

[petriacce]

If I really have to do this thing I want tens and twenties...


:p

It's even virtual (sorry geek banker at work):

http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/flash/interactivebill/20.cfm

[fitzroy]

You should do it for me and Morna to cover the heist. And to excite Tad and Rick. And just because you want to.

[gary bolt]

You should do it for me and Morna to cover the heist. And to excite Tad and Rick. And just because you want to.

OK, I'm willing to do it for you and Morna. But you're both gonna owe me, big time! :evilsmile

[hellboyone]

Can we get back to the matter of robbing me blind? Because this is getting creepy.

R.

[yukon]

mwahhhh haaaaa haaa who is a cover for who? where is pam cakes any way? erotic glass dance ? that sounds distracting, and well, dangerous!

[gary bolt]

Can we get back to the matter of robbing me blind? Because this is getting creepy.

R.

That's more like it.

[fitzroy]

erotic glass dance ? that sounds distracting, and well, dangerous!

Only dangerous when not performed by a professional, luckily, Sir Ed is a master of the erotic glass arts. I myself am looking forward to seeing the performance, although I will have to be careful not to get distracted along with Rick, in case I forget about the heist.

[Maija]

I can't decide if the prospect of Gary shaking his bare glass is a really good reason FOR visiting Rick's place in July or AGAINST it.

[hellboyone]

I can't decide if the prospect of Gary shaking his bare glass is a really good reason FOR visiting Rick's place in July or AGAINST it.

Ask your therapist. :)

R.

[yukon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=972&item=6519503030&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
wake the devil page.

[hellboyone]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=972&item=6519503030&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
wake the devil page.

A beauty. Four grand buy-it-now! :eek:

R.

[fitzroy]

Very yummy.

[yukon]

threads come full circle http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3985&item=6520675648&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3985&item=6520675648&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
second is from batman starman HB cross reasonable starting price.

[Maija]

Hmmm, it will be interesting to see if it goes at this price since the lone and winning bid on the last one was a non-payer.

'E's dreamin'.

[Timaximus]

the lone and winning bid on the last one was a non-payer.

My heart just skipped, since I thought you were talking about the Batman/Hellboy/Starman page I came in second for. (And it would be one thing if it went out of my range, but I was putting in a higher bid when the auction ended. Ah well :( )

[morna]

aww... too bad Timaximus. I bid on that one too but crapped out around the middle -

must. save. for. SDCC.

[morna]

Check THIS one out. I may have to REALLY try for this one

aaaarrrrgh!

I'll probably be out bid by the time I get this posted.
Oh yeaaahh I'm supposed to be saving sigh :rolleyes:


PS there's a Fafhrd page up too!

[yukon]

If you win this I'm coming to visit! Oh gunga Din! How great is MM for Referencing Kipling! I REALLY want to bid on this but I'm completly streched thin due to Italy.... GOOD LUCK MORNA! WIN THAT BABY!

[morna]

Ya my mom used to say that all the time... but attached to all kinds of things like bedtime Gunga Din and you're a good man Gunda Din - as well as the more familiar one referenced on the AWESOME page! If I win I hope you Do visit!

[E. Spears]

...who's gunga din?

[yukon]

http://www.bartleby.com/103/48.html
a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling is most remembered for "the Jungle book" and "Rikki-Tikki- Tavi". Oh and Kim, Gate of the hundred sorrows, and The maltese cat are also great. Check out his short stories, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141186755/qid%3D1111982711/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-6074660-7087201

[yukon]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=972&item=6525817541&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
just so you all know. Nice drawing
maybe i should have named this thread ebay items by Mignola.hmmmm
Morna, Did you get the gunga din page?

[Xequals10]

I have about 16 pieces, mostly Hellboy, a couple of Dracula pages, and a Fahfrd & Grey Mouser.

You can see most of them here:

http://www.rickcortes.com/hellboyart/mignola.htm

R.

Wow! I have to compliment you on your collection. I have an original Mignola piece of Wolverine and Batman together. I have to admit one thing though. I am INCREDIBLY jealous of people that have multiple Mignola pieces. I wish I had just one Mignola Hellboy piece. How did you get the ones you have? I really want to get a Hellboy sketch from Mike, is the best place to get one at a convention?

[Tad]

He usually has some art for sale at San Diego Comicon. No original pages have been sold since Conqueror Worm. Last year he sold his beautiful sketchbook and had some of the pages from it for sale.

Check in at Preview Night or the art will be gone. Prices have gone way up with the demand increasing. The movie brought lots of people to the comics and a bunch of them would like original art.

And watch eBay, of course.

[Xequals10]

He usually has some art for sale at San Diego Comicon. No original pages have been sold since Conqueror Worm. Last year he sold his beautiful sketchbook and had some of the pages from it for sale.

Check in at Preview Night or the art will be gone. Prices have gone way up with the demand increasing. The movie brought lots of people to the comics and a bunch of them would like original art.

And watch eBay, of course.

Thanks Tad.

[morna]

Morna, Did you get the gunga din page?

no :(


sigh I am a little careful cause of sdcc - would've been nice though

[yukon]

oh sad...........:(