It had reached a certain point where I just had piles of Mego and Plaid Stallions lying around that folks have included with purchases, so I went out and bought binders and card sleeves and spent a delightful afternoon sorting through them.
I then noticed that at most toy and comic shows, the glut of the nineties that had swallowed up a number of collecting fields produced piles and piles of wonderful cardsets that the card dealers/speculators were practically giving away.
So started buying some of those, particularly many of the fantasy artist driven series, and then went out and also bought binders and sleeves to look at and display those. I wish they had card sleeves back in the day like that. It sure beats the big fat pile you carried around with a rubber band for trading... "got em, got me need em got em"
Plus a couple of members have hooked me up with the new Wacky Packages, so getting those has begun in earnest.
A friend of mine also recently introduced me to the concept of Artist Sketch Cards, which is a cool way of collecting and owning little pieces of original art.
I collect Frazetta, Boris, Richard Corben, Joe Jusko, Mad Magazine covers, Wacky Packages, and I'm currently obsessed with Mars Attacks and Dinosaurs Attacks, as well as other painted series like Batman by Norman Saunders. Trying desperately not to get hooked into Garbage Pail kids given the sheer amount of them, but it's hard to resist them as part of that lineage of Pulp Painters, Underground Cartoonists, Mad Magazine style of parody.
What cards series do you collect other than the MM and PS?
I then noticed that at most toy and comic shows, the glut of the nineties that had swallowed up a number of collecting fields produced piles and piles of wonderful cardsets that the card dealers/speculators were practically giving away.
So started buying some of those, particularly many of the fantasy artist driven series, and then went out and also bought binders and sleeves to look at and display those. I wish they had card sleeves back in the day like that. It sure beats the big fat pile you carried around with a rubber band for trading... "got em, got me need em got em"
Plus a couple of members have hooked me up with the new Wacky Packages, so getting those has begun in earnest.
A friend of mine also recently introduced me to the concept of Artist Sketch Cards, which is a cool way of collecting and owning little pieces of original art.
I collect Frazetta, Boris, Richard Corben, Joe Jusko, Mad Magazine covers, Wacky Packages, and I'm currently obsessed with Mars Attacks and Dinosaurs Attacks, as well as other painted series like Batman by Norman Saunders. Trying desperately not to get hooked into Garbage Pail kids given the sheer amount of them, but it's hard to resist them as part of that lineage of Pulp Painters, Underground Cartoonists, Mad Magazine style of parody.
What cards series do you collect other than the MM and PS?
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