Art For Art’s Sake #307: Kyle Baker’s Comic Book Investment Advice

More illustrative imaginings now from the finest comic artists around (or at least those I saw online when putting this together) – it’s Art For Art’s Sake:

This week, we’re even throwing in some investment advice courtesy of Kyle Baker and Al Space. Sure, it’s about comics in 1991, but it’s always relevant. Comics collecting is not, repeat not, going to make you a millionaire.

Here’s Kyle and Al to tease you what you’re about to learn…

Of course, it’s not just comic speculators getting a rough deal out of comics – ask the writers and artists. Here’s Marie Severin‘s take on it all in ‘How to become a comic artist’ published in Marvel’s Not Brand Echh #3 (1967)

Something great from 1988’s Oink! issue 49 – words by Lew Stringer, art by Dave Gibbons!

Garen Ewing‘s take on Blake and Mortimer doing a bit of Morecombe and Wise

Chris Weston commission – Nikolai Dante and friends

Matteo Scalera

Aaron Campbell – Hellblazer

Joelle Jones – Zatanna & John Constantine

Nicola Scott – Zatanna

Blacksad – Juanjo Guarnido

Dave Johnson – Pop Kill

Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez – Will Eisner’s Spirit

Elizabeth Torque – Jenny Sparks

Jonathan Edwards – Jacques Tati

Cathy Kwan – Green Lantern Dark

John McCrea

Daniel Warren Johnson – Absolute Batman

Catwoman and Batman by Jae Lee

Colin MacNeil

And we’ll end this week with some cautionary words from the legendary Kyle Baker from the pages of Epic Lite (1991). It was a collection of fine comic comic strips, with this from Baker as perhaps the funniest of the bunch.

Yes kids, comics maybe won’t make you a million any time soon. Here’s Al Space to tell you why…