Posted on 11/24/2022

I sure miss those halcyon days pages, as you described.  $7-900 seemed like so much more money back then , and pages would slowly be bought off the site. Obviously, Richard's passing led to increased demand, but also dealers caught wind and realized how undervalued the pages were. Also I suspect Dona's social media presence helped drum up more interest. 
 

More to the point - CONGRATS on your wealth of Corben art ! That is indeed a memorable story, and to have any piece of it, is a treasure! 

1 - Posted on 12/6/2022

Thank you for your kind words. I am indeed lucky to have these two pages. You are right about $700-$900 being a lot of money back in 2016. But do you sometimes worry that your sense of the real value of money is being distorted by the value of comic art?  I do. $700-$900 is still a lot of money in the real world but try getting a vintage A-piece for that nowadays. People who know me will have heard this rant before but I promise this will be the last time I bring it up. A couple of summers ago Felix had that famous drop when an entire issue of Silver Surfer Black was sold back to him and he put it all up on his site to be sold page by page. I missed that drop because I was focused on a Richard Corben release that very same day and which may well have been that very same hour. It had some beautiful pages from Sullivan’s Reward, which is probably my second-favourite Hellboy story. The site locked up when the drop hit and I came away empty-handed. Anyway, the following day Felix ran one of those impromptu online chats to celebrate the success of the Silver Surfer Black sale. I joined that and asked everyone who was taking part if they had any explanation for the peculiar (i.e. cheap) pricing strategy the Corbens had for their work, which was obviously contributing to the increased traffic on their site when it dropped. No one came back with an answer, but it did prompt Paul Pope, who was a surprise guest from Felix’s roster of artists, to say that Richard Corben was a a comic god and deserves to be sitting at the top table of artists. This was an attibuted quote that I put in my email to the Corbens shortly after to give them my feedback about the way their drops were going. I said that RC’s work was held in high regard by some of the the current crop of comic greats and that it should be priced accordingly and any true fan would be only too willing pay a more accurate market price for the work. I also used this opportunity to voice my appreciation for the work he put into his pages of art. I did not receive a reply – RC was, although I did not know it then, having serious health problems and would pass a couple of months later – but I am glad to have conveyed my thanks in that way. Something good came out of the frustration I had in not being able to buy his work.

Posted on 11/24/2022

Very fitting as the Thanksgiving feast will render us in a food coma stupor!  The Corben story telling and overhead shot still brings a fresh vision to creating comic art.

1 - Posted on 12/6/2022

Thank you for your comment. The connection you make between the pages uploaded and Thanksgiving is a tenuous one, but I will take it!