OrangeCrush
Freaked Out
Re: Sideshow Announcing new Premium Art Prints collection
Any artist that makes limited edition prints is making them to make money. Artists don't invest in expensive equipment and invest the amount of time required to make limited edition prints just for the fun of it. It has always been a mechanism for artists to make money on their artwork. I have been making my own limited edition prints for well over 15 years now. Its a great way to make additional money, but there are guidelines and even laws in place now when it comes to making limited edition prints. Most of the print laws in the US state that a limited edition can only include the stated number of prints and a "small" number of artist proofs. 50% of the edition size does NOT constitute a small number. I guarantee, 99.99999% of the artists that have made or are currently making limited edition prints, and not just in the comic market, do not have proofs that number anywhere even close to 50% of the edition size. You will be VERY hard pressed to find an artist that makes proofs that equal even half that number or just 25% of the ES. The standard for all of the limited edition print market's is basically 10-15% at most. 50%, it really is comical just how blatantly greedy that really is.
Actually, the more I stop and really think about it, the less it shocks me. We now live in an age where greed and corruption are common place. Again, Aspen comics and what they pulled is a perfect example. Its become so common that most people just shake thier head and dismiss it. If anything, given the way things have been going in regards to greed and corruption, I should actually expect to see more and more artists and companies like Ross and Aspen trying to rip people off. That's just the way of the world these days.
Thats exactly what I have been doing for well over 30 years now, but that doesn't mean I am not going to call out a company or artist when then pull a scummy, greedy or illegal move and making proofs that equal 50% of the stated edition size is so beyond greedy, that the word greedy really doesn't do it justice. And this has NOTHING to do with the overall edition size so I really don't understand why you would even mention edition size. This is about the number of proofs being made, nothing more and nothing less. I was one of the people LARGELY responsible for uncovering the illegal activities that Aspen comics had been engaging in the last 10 years. Had I just blown it off and said nothing, its very likely Aspen would still be engaging in those activities to this day. So again, I will continue to call out this kind of activity in the limited edition print market when I see it and I do so because I actually care about the market as a whole as I am both a collector and a seller and this kind of crap sets a terrible precedence for the limited edition print market.
Any artist that makes limited edition prints is making them to make money. Artists don't invest in expensive equipment and invest the amount of time required to make limited edition prints just for the fun of it. It has always been a mechanism for artists to make money on their artwork. I have been making my own limited edition prints for well over 15 years now. Its a great way to make additional money, but there are guidelines and even laws in place now when it comes to making limited edition prints. Most of the print laws in the US state that a limited edition can only include the stated number of prints and a "small" number of artist proofs. 50% of the edition size does NOT constitute a small number. I guarantee, 99.99999% of the artists that have made or are currently making limited edition prints, and not just in the comic market, do not have proofs that number anywhere even close to 50% of the edition size. You will be VERY hard pressed to find an artist that makes proofs that equal even half that number or just 25% of the ES. The standard for all of the limited edition print market's is basically 10-15% at most. 50%, it really is comical just how blatantly greedy that really is.
Actually, the more I stop and really think about it, the less it shocks me. We now live in an age where greed and corruption are common place. Again, Aspen comics and what they pulled is a perfect example. Its become so common that most people just shake thier head and dismiss it. If anything, given the way things have been going in regards to greed and corruption, I should actually expect to see more and more artists and companies like Ross and Aspen trying to rip people off. That's just the way of the world these days.
Thats exactly what I have been doing for well over 30 years now, but that doesn't mean I am not going to call out a company or artist when then pull a scummy, greedy or illegal move and making proofs that equal 50% of the stated edition size is so beyond greedy, that the word greedy really doesn't do it justice. And this has NOTHING to do with the overall edition size so I really don't understand why you would even mention edition size. This is about the number of proofs being made, nothing more and nothing less. I was one of the people LARGELY responsible for uncovering the illegal activities that Aspen comics had been engaging in the last 10 years. Had I just blown it off and said nothing, its very likely Aspen would still be engaging in those activities to this day. So again, I will continue to call out this kind of activity in the limited edition print market when I see it and I do so because I actually care about the market as a whole as I am both a collector and a seller and this kind of crap sets a terrible precedence for the limited edition print market.
