Ari, if someone seeks me out and wants to buy a piece from me, I know there is now a market for my piece. It doesn't matter who the character. I now own something that is one of a kind that someone else wants. For me to give that up I feel I should be well compensated. I'll no longer own it and see the value of the piece increase with time. Never is a mighty long time Ari. One of a kind art will increase in value. Maybe not if you try to flip it a few months after buying it, but in time it will.

Gerry,

There are some artists who are an exception.  In Hughes case, that may have a lot to do with the fact that he no longer accepts commission requests.  If JB stopped doing these, all bets are off

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; that is never truer than with art. I have paid over the odds for something I could not do without but as a matter of routine I would not expect in the current climate to pay over the odds for any commission. It is all about supply and demand and while JB still does commissions there is ample opportunity for anyone to get their own piece of comic art gold. Everyone is different, and if like Ari they have to have a certain commission, all the better for the owner, but recent history shows this is not the norm.

Let the commissions long continue.

Ari wrote:
"If JB stopped doing these, all bets are off"

Now, Ari, repeat after me, "I will never EVER utter those words again."
I mean, I still have a dream to one day, when I've got more space and more money, actually play the comission game... so until then JB cannot stop. Or die. Those be the rules. ;)