Thursday, October 1, 2009

Star Wars Galaxy 4 Die Cut Sketch Cards Live Auction




Remember this?

Well The Sucklord is at it again Tomorrow night. Get with me if you want.


From the SL himself:
"STAR WARS GALAXY 4 CUSTOM SKETCH CARD SHOW AND AUCTION!
OCTOBER 2 at APW GALLERY LONG ISLAND CITY NEW YORK 6 - 9 PM

Huh?

What, you don't know what that is? Well earlier this year, TOPPS, yes
TOPPS the venerable institution of American Trading cards asked me to
curate a series of actual STAR WARS fucking trading cards. It was to be
part of a new set called STAR WARS GALAXY, a series of art-based Star
Wars cards. The batch that I organized were to be a ground-breaking (so
I'm told) series of die-cut sketch cards.

Sketch cards are all the rage in trading cards these days. What they are
is blank trading cards that are distributed to professional artists to
draw on. Then the actual drawings are blind packed in with the regular
cards and the collectors go nuts trying to find them all. It's very
exciting. The set I put together was a new direction for Topps for two
reasons:

1) They are die-cut in the shape of Darth Vader and Stormtrooper helmets
as opposed to the usual rectangles.

2) They asked ME of all people to draw upon my stable of underground
weirdos to do the drawings instead of their usual gang of established
professionals. The results of this experimental effort yielded a wide
ranging assortment of original, often abstract artwork that was actually
quite a hit with the fringe groups who actually care about this stuff.

NOW, we have a huge sampling of these cards up for display and auction at
APW gallery in Queens NYC. On October 2nd (this Friday) you are invited
to come out, see the work, place some bids, and get a cool buzz going with
more free beer from our pals at BEERLAO."

Here is the flicker page to see all the cards and the starting prices.
This will also be followed by a online auction for 2 other cards in the near future if you miss this event.


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