Added 1 new A* page:Starting with today's page, I'm selling the original watercolor artwork behind each new A* page as "Buy It Now" items on eBay (today's is here, for instance—you can always jump to their eBay page using the blue and gold "original on eBay" link at the lower left corner of their comic page image), for $20. Like the auctions for previous pages, which have been starting at a bid price of $9.99, these new "Buy It Now" A* art listings will stay up for a week, and if they don't sell, they'll be available directly through this site for $50. So if you like them, that unusual price structure encourages you to purchase them sooner rather than later. : )
And since they are now "Buy It Now," that means you can't be sure the item will still be available on eBay in two or four or six days—somebody could buy it right away! : o On the other hand, now you don't have to wait around for a week to buy an A* page you like, and you don't have to worry that someone may outbid you—there's no bidding, you just straight up buy the art immediately and it's yours.
Thanks to everyone who has been buying the new original pages as I put them up for auction each day! They've been selling very regularly lately in the auction format, which has been really encouraging, and I guess that's encouraged me to try the "Buy It Now" method, uh, now. I hope this format will work for everyone at least as well as the auction format did, and please let me know if you have any concerns or questions about it!
I suppose the trigger-happy nature of "Buy It Now" slightly favors those collectors who share my very odd schedule—by which I mean that new pages often don't go up until very late at night, or even in the wee hours of the next morning (Fridays are particularly bad in that way...really they almost always end up as Saturdays!). A* page artwork appears on eBay sometimes hours before it appears as an actual comic on this site, though, and as soon as I've got a new page up on eBay, I post the link to it on Twitter, on Facebook, and on Google+, so if you want to get the very first word of new A* artwork as it becomes available for sale, just follow A* on one of those social networks and you'll be in the loop.
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