« So, you see the little snot on the right side, move it two inches to the left and add a little bit of green gleam to it. » — Mark Newgarden, doing some art direction
If this one looks sharper than you’d expect, it’s because it’s shot from a larger version of the Wacky card that Norman Saunders (re)painted for Topps’ Wacky Posters series, circa 1973.
Ladies and gentlemen, Drew Friedman! « In 1991, I was creating many concept sketches and pencil drawings for the TOPPS company, including for their latest set of the hugely popular sticker series “Wacky Packages”. Mark Newgarden was the editor and art director for the 1991 series, and the writers for the card fronts included Newgarden, Jay Lynch, Jordan Bochanis, John Mariano and myself. I drew about 22 tight pencil images which would (with one exception) be painted by the illustrator Patrick Pigott. » If you enjoy being privy to an artist’s creative process, by all means do yourself a favour and feast your peepers on this gallery of Friedman’s roughs, finishes, used and unused pieces. In this (mummy) case, it’s Friedman pencils, finished art by Tomas Bunk.
From the 6th Series (1974, Topps). Most likely painted by Norm Saunders.
From the 8th Series (1974, Topps)… though mine’s a 1980’s reprint. Painted by Norm Saunders.
From the lucky 13th Series (1975, Topps). Another fine Saunders vintage. Topps would find Mr. Saunders most difficult to replace.
A kid in second grade stole nearly my entire WP collection. Had to rebuild from start. (the teacher didn’t believe me, so he got away with it, but, God help him if I ever run into him to-day)
Oh, you know such (more or less) petty crimes just escalate into more serious offences, so that kid likely got stabbed in the neck on the day he tried to abscond with some hombre’s Mars Attacks collection.
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A kid in second grade stole nearly my entire WP collection. Had to rebuild from start. (the teacher didn’t believe me, so he got away with it, but, God help him if I ever run into him to-day)
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Oh, you know such (more or less) petty crimes just escalate into more serious offences, so that kid likely got stabbed in the neck on the day he tried to abscond with some hombre’s Mars Attacks collection.
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Hah! It took a long, long time, but I feel better about it now.
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