Comic Art Fans is the world’s premier website serving comic book and narrative art collectors, auction houses, artists, art dealers, and artist representatives. Comic Art Fans (CAF) has announced a new version of their deCAF mobile app, and is introducing ART SCOUT, “the most powerful web crawler ever offered”.
Art Scout: The Global Web Crawler for Original Comic Art Sales
Each month, CAF has 15,000+ active users and 400,000+ visits from nearly 200,000 visitors that generate 3,000,000+ page views. Collectors can easily set up free or premium galleries through their website, and find over 1,000,000 pieces of art posted by collectors and artists in their galleries and personal classifieds. In addition to 100k+ of art pieces from art dealers and art representative websites with traffic from the United States, France, Canada, Italy, the UK, Spain, and more.
CAF is introducing ART SCOUT, the most powerful web crawler offered and designed to be a personal 24/7 global monitoring assistant that seeks and identifies newly posted art sales that match users’ CAF Want List Keywords. ART SCOUT’s launch has included 147 international websites and is expanding to nearly 200 sites in January 2026, set to cover almost 350,000 pieces of art up for sale.
Roadmap: Integrating the deCAF App with the CAF Marketplace and Events
“Our deCAF v2.1 update is just the beginning of us incorporating powerful tools and features that will be invaluable to collectors, artists, art reps, and dealers,” said Bill Cox, Chief Content Officer of CAF.
“Our developmental roadmap includes complete functionality with our soon to be launched marketplace, as well as our calendar of produced events, such as the Original Art Expo (OAX), Comic Art LIVE (CAL) virtual art conventions, and Indie Comics Creator Con (IC3). For now, especially for CAF Premium Members, make sure to download the deCAF app and get your want list keywords updated in time for our November 15-16 CAL event.”
Using ART SCOUT, there is no garbage or filler – only tailored results to search requests. It is a dynamic product that will be proactively expanded and maintained, which will greatly benefit from the active, international CAF community comprised of artists, art reps, art dealers, collectors and auction houses who will be invited to submit requests for new sites, and art sellers to be included.
The deCAF v2.1 Update: Powerful Tools for Collectors and Dealers
ART SCOUT is incorporated as a significant update in the new deCAF app v2.1 release and will provide critical features and improvements such as:
- CAF Keyword Limit Expanded – CAF Premium Subscribers (currently $75/year) will now have the advantage of their keyword limit expanding from 20 to 50, which will be further expanded in early 2026, while free CAF accounts will maintain a 10 keyword limit
- CAF Want List Keywords UI/UX – Now you may easily manage your want list keywords in the deCAF app, which will ensure you get notified when art for sale matches what you’re looking for
- ART SCOUT – The deCAF app displays ART SCOUT’s sellers categorized by two major categories, United States and International, which is then further broken down by Dealer, Artist, Art Gallery, Marketplace, and Auction House. Importantly, you may now easily decide whether to include or exclude any seller from your results.
- Want List Feed – All of your keyword hits for newly posted art for sale will now be listed chronologically in a Want List Feed, which will display the last 90 days of results, with Want List Feed entries being removed when art is sold/removed from their respective sites
- Real-Time Push Notifications – You will get push notifications for your want list hits with exclusive real-time alerts from the ~30 high-profile websites in our dealer network and our CAF classifieds, which together represents more than 130,000 pieces of art and growing
- Bug fixes – Fixes and speed updates have been made throughout, especially for Android users
Rest assured, Version 2.1 of the deCAF app retains all features of the prior version, including:
- New Account Set up – open a new, free CAF gallery account or simply log in to your existing account with link to CAF site for premium account features and set up
- Dashboard – control center for your CAF gallery providing your gallery’s overall statistics, a list of your Watched Galleries, and chronological art feeds based either on your curated Watched Galleries list or all new art posted to CAF under All Galleries
- Art Feeds – both a Watched Galleries and All Galleries art feed displayed chronologically
- Social – Like and/or comment on art, with Like function available in main art feeds, or open individual art pieces to like and comment with replies to existing comments displayed nested
- Expanded Search Capabilities – new multi-select search features allow you to discover exactly the artworks you’re most interested in
- Multi-image Viewing – view art pieces with multiple displayed images with ability to increase size and view up close
- Gallery Landing Page Management – edit your CAF gallery’s title, introduction, icon, avatar, header image, and Featured Gallery pieces
- Add Art + Gallery Rooms – add art to a newly created or existing gallery room and populate information such as title, description, artist name, for sale status, media/art type, and more
- Push Notifications – elect to receive real-time alerts on your mobile device when your gallery artworks receive comments; over time, your device will learn to prioritize these alerts and reliably provide them instantly so long as you’re set to receive notifications
- CAF email system – your hub for all CAF communications, with push notifications alerting you about new emails
- FAQ – left navigation bar includes a FAQ page, as well as a video guide on how to use the app
The updated “Comic Art Fans” mobile app is available globally for both iOS and Android devices through Apple’s App Store and Google Play. CAF encourages users to rate the app in their respective stores, and to note the Support option found within the deCAF app that allows users to send feedback and feature suggestions.
Note: The information above was sourced from a press release.
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