Graded books sell on the label
Bidders compare a certified grade on the familiar ten-point scale, the page quality from white to cream, and whether the label marks restoration. Two copies a tenth of a grade apart can carry very different estimates.
Markets · Comics, Comic Art & Illustration
Graded books and original art, catalogued the way collectors read them
A comic sale mixes slabbed books sold on a number with one-of-a-kind pages sold on the artist and the panel. Auctionomy gives you one catalogue that does justice to both, under your house's name.
How your bidders buy
What your bidders read for
Original art sells on what the page is
A cover, a splash page, a story page or a daily strip are different lots. Specialists want the artist, the publication and the page's place in the story, and only the dates the art itself supports.
Illustration has its own buyers
Children's-book art, editorial work and covers are catalogued apart from comic pages, with medium, sheet and image size, and any publication history the house can show.
Catalogued your way
Every line of the entry has its place
Description, estimate, condition and provenance are separate parts of every lot on Auctionomy, and each one shows on the lot page. The entry shown here is an illustration, written the way the trade writes it.
Illustrative lot · fictional
Lot 88. Original interior page art, pages 14 to 15 splash, from a 1970s horror anthology
Ink over graphite on Bristol board, double-page splash with title lettering and pasted-down caption boxes. Signed by the penciller lower right.
Estimate US$4,000–6,000
- Condition
- Image 13 by 20 inches. Minor toning to margins, small paste-up lifting at one caption, blue-pencil notes outside the image.
- Provenance
- Acquired from the inker's estate; published in the anthology's fourth issue.
Your sale on Auctionomy
Run the way your house runs it
The grade and the art in the lot itself
Record the certified grade and page quality in the condition note, and the art's publication and ownership history as provenance. Both appear on the lot page beside the photographs.
Categories for books, pages and illustration
Arrange the sale into covers, splash pages, story pages, strips and illustration, or by artist, with filtering and search so a bidder finds their page quickly.
Absentee bids for a long catalogue
Collectors leave absentee bids on the pages they want and let the engine bid for them to their limit, under the increment table your house sets.
Timed and live sales
Run your weekly graded books as a timed sale and your headline original art as a live sale. Timed lots extend the close when a late bid lands.
Your trade, your house
Fluent in the trade, and unmistakably yours
Northline Graphic Arts Auctions is a demonstration house: fictional, built on Auctionomy to show how a house specialising in comics, comic art & illustration looks on the platform. Its name, colours, typeface and page layout are its own, assembled from the same components every house uses. Yours would carry your name, your logo and your look, on your own domain.
No commission on the hammer price
A flat subscription, agreed with your house. Your bidders register with you, and the buyer's premium you set is yours.