How do I know what my artwork is worth?

For any product that is unique and where each page is as rare as the Mona Lisa, this is a very difficult question.  There are many factors that determine the value of a page: the artist, time period, characters on the page, historical significance of the page, layout of the page (splash versus panels), amount of other pages available from the artist, and the condition of the page.  But there is always that “X-Factor” too.  For example, maybe something on page 3 of a book resonated with a collector much more than what’s on page 4; that greatly increases the potential value.

• All that said, we recommend that you do searches to see what other pages from that artist/character sell for and use that as a guide.
  
• Or if you’re really not sure, you can list your item as a “Make Me an Offer” page within Sketch Maven.
  

• A good reference is the Comic Art Price Guide.  It is now out of print, but you can find cheap, used copies on Amazon.com.  Jerry Weist made a very ambitious effort to build a comic art price guide; this is the second version from 2000.  Needless to say, it is dated as a lot has changed in the industry in the past nine years.  Nonetheless, it’s a good reference tool to flip through and have on your bookshelf.
  

• As we get more sales data from Sketch Maven as it grows, we will create tools that will help with the pricing process.