The Bullpen

[Wood]

Lots of original art chatter going on lately  which makes me all sorts of giddy.

That had me thinking it might be helpful to start a thread where we can share sites to buy said original art. This is a very disparate industry where even the primary dealers usually only handle a handful of artists. I know I'm ALWAYS looking for new places to check out, and there are probably a ton more I haven't yet discovered. Between us, we can probably get together a nice collection that I can maintain on the first post in a list form.  

• Albert Moy -- One of the longest running OA vendors, he's got a collection that ranges into the very high end stuff
• Anthony's Collectibles -- Another one of the legends, Anthony Snyder, who sells boatloads of OA ranging in price from cheap to uber expensive
• Art & Comics Original -- Pretty sure he's mainly a re-seller, but some interesting pages including a lot of European and Latin American artists
• The Art of Comics -- Another primary rep for show faves the likes of Mahmud Asrar, Bryan Hitch, Khoi Pham and Yildiray Cinar
• The Beguiling -- Amazing rep specializing in indie and small press creators. Includes Ba/Moon, Becky Cloonan, Paul Pope, Jason, Jeff Lemire and many more!
• The Artists Choice -- Spencer Beck's site featuring a massive collection of repped artists including Coipel, McNiven, Romita Jr, Epting, Cheung
• Big Wow Art -- Another great selection of pages. It appears he's a rep for a few artists exclusively but most of his stock is secondary.
• Black Line Fever -- An admittedly annoying old school HTML website design, but if you can get past that he has some amazing pieces for sale/trade including some legendary indie/underground stuff
• Cadence Comic Art -- A personal show fave that reps the likes of Mike Norton, Skottie Young, Gabriel Hardman, Ryan Stegman and Sean Murphy
• Comic Art Collective -- A hub for finding original art from many alternative comic creators, takes you directly to their creator sites
• Comic Art House -- Site with collection of artists including some (like Andy Tong and Chris Moreno) that I haven't seen featured at other spots
• Comic Art Ink -- Barrows, Benjamin, Boschi, Tocchini, Guara
• ComicArtShop -- A hub that does a nice job of highlighting OA art available for sale at places like eBay and Heritage and via classifieds
• Comic Book Pros (Alex Ross Art) -- Uncle Sal's site where he sells Alex Ross' art exclusively as well as reps Bill Sienkiewicz, Angel Medina, Texeira and Ernie Chan
• Comic Con Art -- Exclusive rep for Ed Benes and a host of other artists including Andre Pepoy and Tony Akins
• Distinctive Original Art -- Another old school website that could use some updating, but he has great pages for sale from the likes of Byrne, Alan Davis, Pacheco, Ploog, Rude, Grell and others
• Essential Sequential -- Home of Eric Canete, Mark Chiarello, Matteo Scelera, Dave Johnson, Stephane Roux and others
• Fanfare Sports & Entertainment -- Michigan based store that sells all kinds of merchandise, but has a HUGE collection of secondary original art for sale too, including Stuart Immonen
• Fog City Art Exchange -- Very small site but noteworthy in that it appears to be the rep for Art Adams
• Got Super Powers? -- Mike Allred and other goodness
• Graphic Collectibles -- I've never used this site but they have a ton of different pages from lots of artists and the prices vary from very affordable to super high end
• KwanChang.com -- Another site I just recently discovered. He is the exclusive rep for Clayton Henry and Leinil Yu, but has lots of secondary pages for sale on top of that
• LA Gallery Montreal -- Original art dealer for many of Canada's leading comic book artists, including Tom Fowler and Yanick Paquette
• The Mighty Nib -- Not as active in their promotion and harder to find, but I came across them when Paul Pelletier told me he was repped by them. Also reps Stelfreeze, Jeanty, Hamner and others
• Red Sector Art -- Just discovered this site when looking for Eduardo Risso art. He reps Risso and a handful of other European artists
• Romitaman Original Art -- Claims to be the largest original art dealer in the world, and certainly it's hard to argue against it. Has a MASSIVE collection of secondary art from some of the very best to ever work in the business. Deals in pricier stuff so few "bargains" here
• Serendipity Art Sales -- Broad collection of art including some artist alley faves
• SplashPageArt -- Reps a boatload of artists including Adlard, Ottley, Cliff Chiang and Jock

[Jay Tomio]

That's really crappy that they'd do that.  Folks who have been collecting OA for awhile are probably going to figure it out, but the folks who are going to get screwed are new collectors who are buying because it seems like a cheap page to get started in the hobby: "Hey, look at this.  A page by noted artist _______ for only $50.  That's great!"

The market is small enough as it is, but this type of thing is what comic book dealers (relative to that end of the market) have been doing for years and what happens when either a new person or a person coming back to comics makes a first purchase and finds out he or she got ripped off?

Those people don't come back.

And sure, people can say that there needs to be more consumer research, and I agree on some level,  but that's really not addressing the issue itself which is people in the industry intentionally trying to rip people off, or at LEAST opening up the possibility of it. If you're an artist I don't see how you let your dealer do such listings unless you're a slimeball too.

[bean6344]

As promised.



Bean

[Andrew Tom]

Gary Martin on inks for that page?

[Night (Travis) Nurse]

I contacted Mike Deodato about buying a page from the latest New Avengers and disappointingly hes moved to completely digital so there are no hard copies of his work for the last two years or so. 

Travis

[JoeyN]

I contacted Mike Deodato about buying a page from the latest New Avengers and disappointingly hes moved to completely digital so there are no hard copies of his work for the last two years or so. 

Travis

yeah there are many like that now, which I would like to own a page from.

[legion of daves]

just filled out a request for a piece today... hopefully it'll go through.   

[Ryan 'gobo' C.]

yeah there are many like that now, which I would like to own a page from.

Very glad I got pages from McKelvie and Stewart before they went full digital

[legion of daves]

done and done (obviously shrunk down considerably):

[john_k]

score one for the legion!!

[Chris Campbell]

done and done (obviously shrunk down considerably):

Wonderful.  I, too, hate Washington DC at times.   

[Jay Tomio]

Gots me a whack cover coming

[Dean S.]

done and done (obviously shrunk down considerably):

That's really nice.  Congrats!

[legion of daves]

i've been wanting some immonen art for a long time now, and i just never pulled the trigger on time and i missed out on a bunch of pages that i wanted.  when i saw that spread in fear itself #2 i decided that if the page(s) was reasonably priced, that's the one i would end up jumping on.  it posted yesterday and was a steal (immonen prices his art ridiculously low), so i kind of had to.