For the last two months, a debate has sprung up around the "re-release" of the ultra-limited edition of "Vantage," by Kaycee, which was first posted on Flootie.com a little more than a year ago. That edition sold out in a mere four days and only featured 50 prints. Collectors are calling foul because they say it will drive down the collector price of the original prints.
Kaycee Graphics has been buzzing about the re-issue almost from the inception of the first release, but, they say that they are going forward with the plan, this month. This has a few collectors up at arms. A spokesman for KCGI, the parent company of Kaycee Graphics, said that it "...had always been the intention to release "Vantage" as part of a series of six Bald Eagle posters," and that "Those original 16" x 20" posters were only licensed for a limited run from the start." Placing the posters at a popular website for artists, known as Flootie.com, Kaycee Jay Kendall, the original artist said he was "blown away" at how fast those first 50 prints flew out the door.
https://www.flootie.com/art/819/vantage-by-kaycee-jay-kendall/#.U8MtSVWzKpi The original poster can be spotted on the Flootie.com page, even though it's been "SOLD" for over a year. Kendall denies the charge that the poster is being re-issued from sheer greed. "I didn't really see much of that money to begin with (from the original 50), since so much of it was tied up in production and shipping costs." And yet he firmly denies the fact that the reissue has anything to do with recouping those losses.
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