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| You could also email Topps for info. ____________________ Bernie... "nuff said"
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| Thank you, Jess, for posting this image for me. I spent a couple of hours searching for who the artist was but came up empty. I even asked ChatGPT but got the same result. Anyone? ____________________
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| I'm leaning toward one of the fantasy artists of the day. I don't know which though. ____________________
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| quote: Originally posted by promoking: I'm leaning toward one of the fantasy artists of the day. I don't know which though.
The art to me looks like it could be a RPG like Dungeons and Dragons, or a trading card game. Which obviously could have been done by a fantasy artist. Is there a signature visible in the art? It looks like there might be on the right side behind the small dragon. It is also possible it was a local artist trying to break into the business. I encountered a lot of them at shows at the time. |
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| Is there anything on the back of the card. Kinda has a Hildebrandt vibe to me. ____________________ Bernie... "nuff said"
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| these 2 signatures are on an uncut sheet and the back of each card says Starfest. ____________________
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| I looked around too, trying to find even some info about the show, and read one of those talking about Kate Mulgrew. I think he wanted to marry her. Yeah, back in the mid-late 90's, a comic book/collectible show could be maybe 10-15 dealers with some of them having comic shops outside the local area. I used to find oddball stuff in their bargain boxes. A couple of those shows still exist under different management and a new name and they are bigger with a higher admission price but they hardly ever have anything I want so I haven't been to one in years. One of them was "Super Con." quote: Originally posted by webjon: Wow. Thank you for that.
I have no idea who signed that, but I figured I'd google to get an artist list from the convention and see if anything stood out. There is very little online about this convention. . . Then I remembered the state of the internet in 1996.
The few sites I did find were gloriously cheeky fan sites -- most fanboying/fangirling because Kate Mulgrew was signing. The few photos of the convention were amazing -- so much simpler. . . Such a different vibe than we have now.
It really took me back. I know it dates me, or whatever, but dang I miss those conventions.
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| quote: Originally posted by catskilleagle: I looked around too, trying to find even some info about the show, and read one of those talking about Kate Mulgrew. I think he wanted to marry her.
Yeah, back in the mid-late 90's, a comic book/collectible show could be maybe 10-15 dealers with some of them having comic shops outside the local area. I used to find oddball stuff in their bargain boxes. A couple of those shows still exist under different management and a new name and they are bigger with a higher admission price but they hardly ever have anything I want so I haven't been to one in years. One of them was "Super Con."
Yeah, those were great shows -- also at the time there were tons of hobby shops so you could get a bunch of collectible dealers to show up. There was something special about having those shows that seem like this one when you'd have 1 celebrity show up, and they would be treated like royalty and would be so nice with the fans. There is one picture from that Starfest show I saw where Mulgrew is in a group photo with a ton of people seemingly in a hotel lobby. . . I pretty much stopped going to shows a few years ago. Before that I would be lucky if there were 2 or 3 people with cards at a convention. Maybe it would be different now as there was a resurgence in interest in cards during covid, but the costs to get into the bigger conventions are so high now that I'm not likely to foot the bill to find out. |
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