Hello there. I go by the name Big Comic in the metaverse.
I’m currently working on a project to sell a painting for a million dollars.
I originally began posting about web3 “cryptoart” on the decentralized network cent almost 5 years ago, before that steemit a now defunct platform. As an original creator in this space, it’s amazing to see how things have blossomed, and it’s also incredible to see native on-chain writing appear. I understand as the space grows, there are many different groups and collectives appearing, and there is so much information that one can get lost in web3 and not know where to begin. There is also a lot of information and history that would be lost, if one such as myself wouldn’t write about and record what I have observed in my time spent here, creating artworks everyday in the meta. Although there are many “nft historians,” these seem to be nothing but simple marketing and manipulation techniques.
As a dedicated painter, artist and animator for over 25 years I naturally fit into the role of a original digitally web3 native artist, (one of the first handful of 10 on SuperRare, I also created one of the very first Opensea storefronts for my work within the first week of the platform’s existence. I first experimented with researching about recording my physical paintings providence record on-chain, and that lead me to first work with Codex Protocol:
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x8853b05833029e3cf8d3cbb592f9784fa43d2a79/2354
This is one of the very first physical artworks to ever be recorded on-chain providence. Earlier attempts were made with other marketplaces to entice and work-with traditional art houses, but it seems none of those projects completely gathered steam, as they were created before their time. However now we do see Sotherby’s and Christies and other auction houses venturing into the metaverse, most famously with the Beeple every-day’s.
An exhibition of the piece in the Art District of Miami, Wynwood:
Batman is a special piece to me, as I studied painting religiously in art school both in the Midwest and later in Europe, I ended up writing my(MFA) Master’s Thesis in Painting about this work. I spent a summer developing the work, laboring and layering oil paint. The work was inspired by my painting professor, whom in his youth had studied at the Slade school of art in London. As his student, he put us to work in rigorously studying the old master’s techniques in painting, something that he felt had been lost in our modern times. In our painting studio, where we spent many nights painting to the still life in observation in an attempt to salvage and save this history of glorious painting, there was a postcard always pinned to the board of the famous work by Diego Velazquez:
The postcard lay forgotten, and one day I thought, well couldn’t that be Batman? And indeed, it started off as a joke, and took me deep into a labor of love that included studying old X-rays of the painting, to understand the exact materials used to create the work. I mixed my own paints by hand, I imagined living in this time, and always asked myself “What would Velazquez do?” I wanted to recreate the masterpiece in this manner, to bring the painting, a labor of love, to life.
It was the summer of 2011, and everyday I would wake up, eat breakfast and ride my bike to the art studio. Painting until midnight every night, I brought this reality into creation. Of course, it was laughed out of the room by the professors, they even threatened to not give me my degree. “A painting of Batman? On this level? How absurd!” Well, it turns out it was even recognized by the President of DC comics at the time, Diane Nelson:
Now, this work has been shared far and wide, and I’m arguing that quite deservingly, this work is worth a million dollars as a physical work of art, if not much more than that if some dude named beeper can get 69 million for something that doesn’t even exist (and he wasn’t an original block-chain creator)! So I’m waiting patiently for the right collector, if it takes another 10 years, so be it.
Find a video of the work published 7 years ago:
Play Video
Not only that, but the NFT may be worth even more than the physical work, yet I am offering them both currently at 610 ETH, which of this writing is equal to the sum of one million USD. The work has been part of the Firestarter of a catalyst of activity to the blockchain, and has helped to create a creator economy in a vast scale in a small amount of time. It was the early blockchain artist pioneers that spread the concept, ideas and knowledge of artwork on the blockchain, which has taken the world by storm in the past two years, catapulting many into stardom.
It was this work that would inform my on-chain work, more than 10 years later.
You can also see an early collaboration in the blockchain and art space by Jose Delbo and Trevor Jones, whom have earned millions of dollars in their blockchain escapades in art on chain.
My work online has forged thousands of connections from across the world, creating culture with “jpegs” so to speak. Sharing art through social channels, and being able to somewhat survive as a starving artist. I started creating my sovereign artist website over 10 years ago, but have shaped it alongside web3 for the past 5 years.
You can find this work, a royalty intact and 0% fee collector’s marketplace of authentic art direct from the artist and more original stories, updated daily at
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The past 365 days of people checking out BigComic Artworks:
Follow me on twitter: @bigcomicart
https://twitter.com/bigcomicart
Or Instagram: @Bigcomicart
Hello there. I go by the name Big Comic in the metaverse.
I’m currently working on a project to sell a painting for a million dollars.
I originally began posting about web3 “cryptoart” on the decentralized network cent almost 5 years ago, before that steemit a now defunct platform. As an original creator in this space, it’s amazing to see how things have blossomed, and it’s also incredible to see native on-chain writing appear. I understand as the space grows, there are many different groups and collectives appearing, and there is so much information that one can get lost in web3 and not know where to begin. There is also a lot of information and history that would be lost, if one such as myself wouldn’t write about and record what I have observed in my time spent here, creating artworks everyday in the meta. Although there are many “nft historians,” these seem to be nothing but simple marketing and manipulation techniques.
As a dedicated painter, artist and animator for over 25 years I naturally fit into the role of a original digitally web3 native artist, (one of the first handful of 10 on SuperRare, I also created one of the very first Opensea storefronts for my work within the first week of the platform’s existence. I first experimented with researching about recording my physical paintings providence record on-chain, and that lead me to first work with Codex Protocol:
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x8853b05833029e3cf8d3cbb592f9784fa43d2a79/2354
This is one of the very first physical artworks to ever be recorded on-chain providence. Earlier attempts were made with other marketplaces to entice and work-with traditional art houses, but it seems none of those projects completely gathered steam, as they were created before their time. However now we do see Sotherby’s and Christies and other auction houses venturing into the metaverse, most famously with the Beeple every-day’s.
An exhibition of the piece in the Art District of Miami, Wynwood:
Batman is a special piece to me, as I studied painting religiously in art school both in the Midwest and later in Europe, I ended up writing my(MFA) Master’s Thesis in Painting about this work. I spent a summer developing the work, laboring and layering oil paint. The work was inspired by my painting professor, whom in his youth had studied at the Slade school of art in London. As his student, he put us to work in rigorously studying the old master’s techniques in painting, something that he felt had been lost in our modern times. In our painting studio, where we spent many nights painting to the still life in observation in an attempt to salvage and save this history of glorious painting, there was a postcard always pinned to the board of the famous work by Diego Velazquez:
The postcard lay forgotten, and one day I thought, well couldn’t that be Batman? And indeed, it started off as a joke, and took me deep into a labor of love that included studying old X-rays of the painting, to understand the exact materials used to create the work. I mixed my own paints by hand, I imagined living in this time, and always asked myself “What would Velazquez do?” I wanted to recreate the masterpiece in this manner, to bring the painting, a labor of love, to life.
It was the summer of 2011, and everyday I would wake up, eat breakfast and ride my bike to the art studio. Painting until midnight every night, I brought this reality into creation. Of course, it was laughed out of the room by the professors, they even threatened to not give me my degree. “A painting of Batman? On this level? How absurd!” Well, it turns out it was even recognized by the President of DC comics at the time, Diane Nelson:
Now, this work has been shared far and wide, and I’m arguing that quite deservingly, this work is worth a million dollars as a physical work of art, if not much more than that if some dude named beeper can get 69 million for something that doesn’t even exist (and he wasn’t an original block-chain creator)! So I’m waiting patiently for the right collector, if it takes another 10 years, so be it.
Find a video of the work published 7 years ago:
Play Video
Not only that, but the NFT may be worth even more than the physical work, yet I am offering them both currently at 610 ETH, which of this writing is equal to the sum of one million USD. The work has been part of the Firestarter of a catalyst of activity to the blockchain, and has helped to create a creator economy in a vast scale in a small amount of time. It was the early blockchain artist pioneers that spread the concept, ideas and knowledge of artwork on the blockchain, which has taken the world by storm in the past two years, catapulting many into stardom.
It was this work that would inform my on-chain work, more than 10 years later.
You can also see an early collaboration in the blockchain and art space by Jose Delbo and Trevor Jones, whom have earned millions of dollars in their blockchain escapades in art on chain.
My work online has forged thousands of connections from across the world, creating culture with “jpegs” so to speak. Sharing art through social channels, and being able to somewhat survive as a starving artist. I started creating my sovereign artist website over 10 years ago, but have shaped it alongside web3 for the past 5 years.
You can find this work, a royalty intact and 0% fee collector’s marketplace of authentic art direct from the artist and more original stories, updated daily at
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
The past 365 days of people checking out BigComic Artworks:
Follow me on twitter: @bigcomicart
https://twitter.com/bigcomicart
Or Instagram: @Bigcomicart
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