original art

[the3rdman]

how do you go about getting original artwork from 2000ad? how much does it cost and where do i look?

I've had a look on the website and there are loads of people with their own collections. Are these collections that they want to sell or are they just showing stuff off?

Also looked on ebay, there seems to be loads of stuff by Anthony Williams for about ?30-?40. What about things like prog and meg covers? They available somewhere?

[Rosso]

they'll definitely be some on sale at the bristol conference. creators often sell their work which means you can meet them in person and get it signed!
Covers tend to much more expensive for obvious reasons than interior pages. personally i prefer the latter.

[Richmond Clements]

Conventions are great. You could also try on ebay, or failing that on the link below.

Link: http://www.2000ad.org/artwork/

[the3rdman]

and incidentally, how big is a page?

[+rufus+]

hi there 3rd Man,
I sell art on behalf of many of the artists, Carlos Ezquerra, Dave Gibbons, Cliff Robinson, Henry Flint, Trevor Hairsine, Arthur Ranson etc.
You can contact me directly, and/or check out some of the stuff I have for sale here...
Rufus

Link: http://comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=578

[Wake]

Most current artists seem to draw on A3 card or thereabouts. Early artwork is usually larger, sometimes nearly A2 for a single page.

The artwork shown on this site is not for sale, but anyone with a collection here can put prices on their pages, send me images, and have them show up on my Artwork Gallery site.

Here's a Simon Davis painted cover that I have for sale for ?125.

Cheers,

Wake

Link: The 2000AD Artwork Gallery

[opaque]

Are these collections that they want to sell or are they just showing stuff off?


I'm showing off ;)
I love my artwork and don't intend on ever selling it. But then I don't go to conventions or conferences so miss out on a lot of new stuff.
Buying older pages can be rather expensive though just to warn you.

[Rosso]

I like to think of my collection as 'research' for my own artistic endeavours.

As for price you can pick up a lot of 'unfashionable' but still very good artist's work very cheaply. sometimes about 20 squid for a page.

[Pete Wells]

I've got a nice collection of original art but I must admit I don't really know what to look for when buying.

Presently I buy stuff 'cos I like it and there's nowt wrong with that can somebody enlighten me as to the 'rules' of pricing artwork?

Pete.

[Devons Daddy]

pay what you think it worth to you. not a penny more,(or what you have a budget for.)

though certain peices have specail value,

Wake owns the piece of dredd requesting smaller sized boots from stores. really its the moment he has purchased,not the work or detail within the frames.
that to many of us here is worth far more then many other wonderful peices painted or drawn witch took far longer to create.

[Wake]

I tend to price artwork at ?40+ for Judge Dredd and ?30+ for other significant characters. If the page is one I particularly like then I price it as a little bit higher than I would pay for it myself. However, some of my pages are priced based on what the artist wants for the page, rather than what I would price it for left to my own devices. The original artist is at liberty to put whatever value he wants to on his work. Obviously artwork which is priced above the 'market value' doesn't sell so well.

Cheers,

Wake

[+rufus+]

      I don't know how you can really decide that Dredd equals 40, other characters 30 etc.
   Prices vary enormously between story, artist etc.
You're also paying for original art, not comics, and the artist can only sell it once, and should therefore achieve the best possible price for it.
    If an artist asked for a particular price for a piece of work I'd nevevr haggle, if I can't afford it, I put it back.
  I've bought thousands of pages over the years, and guess I probably have the largest collection of 2000ad art about.
       I started collecting because few others rated the work (enough to buy it), and it worried me noone seemed to want to  keep things together either,and it also made a great learning tool!
    I lend a lot of stuff to museums,galleries and exhibitions as I want people to realise wht beautiful art is being produced under their very noses, and to give other aspiring pros a chance to see how others work.
    So when you buy a pice of art, it's not just the paper you buy, bought the collected editted talent of that artist.
 Great stuff art...
Happy collecting!
:-) R

[Dog Deever]

You've also got to remember that an artist might be reluctant to sell some pieces- having too much shite lyin around or needing cash for more alcohol etc forcing him to!
Anyway, it will take more for them to part with these...
"I suppose i could always do another one if i really wanted...."

[mastertsan]

i like wake's idea of pricing stuff.  i've emailed bisley to get some money back for my abc page, i paid alot more than the ?30 (for other significant characters) suggested.  next on my email list is bolland, i think i can stretch to ?40 for a dredd page.  i might even try and knock the price down a little!!!
if only collecting good art was that easy.......

[Wake]

Here are a few  examples of pages which are priced like this:

Steve Roberts - Bec & Kawl/Gribligs ?30-?40 each
Richard Elson - Atavar/The Scrap ?30 each
David Millgate - Mean Machine ?40 each
David Roach - Synnamon ?35 each
Dom Reardon - Caballistics ?30-?60 each
John McCrea - Sinister Dexter ?30 each
Laurence Campbell - Bison/Synnamon/Breathing Space ?30-?40 each
Simon Fraser - Nikolai Dante ?40-?60 each

and ones where the artist has asked for a higher price

Boo Cook - Judge Dredd ?75 each
Charlie Adlard - Savage ?65 each
David Roach - Anderson ?40-?100 each
John Burns - Dredd/Dante ?200-?245 each
John McCrea - Judge Dredd ?85-?100 each

All of these prices are from pages which are currently still available to buy and have been for several months at least, which suggests to me that  the prices aren't too low.

Cheers,

Wake