original art Archives

Yesterday, we told you about comics from the Billy Wright pedigree selling for $3,433,342 at Heritage Auctions, today they were onto auctioning original art, among other things, and there's plenty of interesting results to discuss  Headlining the original art portion of the auction was the Bill Waterson Calvin and Hobbes 1989-90 Calendar Cover Watercolor art[...]

Scott Dunbier, creator of the Absolute format at DC Comics, also pioneered the Artists Edition at IDW, printing the original lattered art of classic comic books with a paper tone and reproduction quality that's as good as holding the original art in your hands, with all the strange quirks, corrections and production aspects that go[...]

In two weeks, Kevin O'Neill will begin selling ninety pages from League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier and Century: 1910 and 1969. On

Original comic art from key 1980s-era comics has been hot for several years.  It's considered an important, peak era for comics (think Watchmen, Dark

That was the first comic that featured the "Simon and Kirby" byline on the cover. Jack and I had become a brand. This piece of original art comes from the collection of another comics legend — Jerry Robinson  We've discussed Robinson's incredible collection of original comics art here before, most recently with word of the upcoming auction of[...]

 Those covers didn't meet reserves, but Robinson is putting other covers on the block in November at Heritage Auctions. An icon of the formative days of the American comics business himself and one of the key contributors to the Batman mythos, Robinson's collection is a legend among original art collectors, and although he has lent parts[...]

 Marvel artist and Kirby inker Dick Ayers once noted that Stein was a key assistant to Joe Shuster during the formative Superboy era, and the clean, smooth style evident in that work would definitely fit with Stein's list of credits. While there has always been a focus on Kirby's 1960s Marvel work among original art collectors,[...]

 And I also think this is one of those times that a picture really is worth a thousand words, so check out the gallery below for several examples of Jack's original artwork  There's nothing quite like looking at a Kirby original, particularly since the comic printing capabilities in use during much of his career were[...]

The original art for the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #49 by John Romita Sr sold for $167,300 at Heritage Auctions this afternoon. The cover is from early in Romita's influential run on the title (he took over from Steve Ditko with #39 in 1966), written by Stan Lee. The piece is noteworthy both for its visual and for the particulars[...]

 Original art collectors prize all his work dearly, particularly his early work from Marvel's formative years   His Amazing Spider-Man artwork is the most coveted from that era, and his covers don't change hands very often — and when they do, it's often in private transactions   Heritage Auctions has just announced that Romita's cover[...]

But I bet the buyer has been feeling rather smug today. When Hong Kong Takes On Iron Man Sometimes at the Bleeding Cool Palatial Castle, we like to snuggle down of a Sunday morning and look at mash up full figure designs based on Iron Man from Hong Kongers photographed by Ray and go… blimey. DC Are[...]

The iconic splash page of Batman and Robin from  The Dark Knight Returns #3 , penciled by Frank Miller and inked by Klaus Janson, sold at Heritage Auctions just moments ago for a record $448,125. That's the largest amount ever paid at public auction for any piece of original artwork from an American comic book  The[...]

If you are a collector of original artwork from comic books then please, look away now Because this is going to hurt. "My good friend Derek Hunter and I had a burning party (two dudes is a party right?!) where we basically burned old art of ours that we hated I posted the pics on Twitter[...]

Exhibit A for that rule today is the Heritage Auctions announcement that 4 pages of 1939 production proofs from Detective Comics #27 just surfaced, having been in the possession of a man living in an apartment building where Bob Kane once lived, who rescued it from the curbside trash some 45 years ago. Silver Age production[...]

It is considered one of the defining moments of the Marvel Universe: a dejected Peter Parker throwing his costume in the trash, attempting to leave his

From an anonymous internet bidder, the first page of Watchmen has sold for $33,640. 21 bidders and no reserve. This is the highest a Watchmen page has

This was probably as good a time to sell as any. The original art for the cover to Daredevil #188 by Frank Miller, featuring Daredevil caught in a web from the Black Widow (as seen in the recent Iron Man 2 movie) has just sold at auction for $101,575, a truly staggering sum for a relatively[...]