Jeffrey Dean

2018.01.21 Jersey Shore Comic Con, Toms River, NJ

Jeffrey Dean is an independent New Jersey-based comic artist and creator of "The Breaker".

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Nick Mockoviac - TMNT

2016.08.27 Monsters and Robots, Somerset, NJ

When Turtles Cosplay...

Kate Hayden - Edgar Allan Poe

2016 add-on cachet from Kate Hayden. Another eBay purchase, so I have no information on the artist

I thought I would show a few of my favorite commercially produced cachets for the Poe issue.

 Aristocrats (Day Lowry)

 Cachet craft (Ludwig Staehle)

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Chaczyk - Edgar Allan Poe

Drawn 1983.07.07 - 2015 purchase

Artist is unknown, besides the name Chaczyk.. I can find little information on the artist, except that he produced a line of cachets for first day covers in the 1980s and 1990s, out of the Detroit area. This was purchased on ebay.. I am a big fan of Poe so I could not pass on this..

Samantha Johnson - business card.

I met Johnson at the Non-Sport Card show in Allentown, Pa. picked up a nice sketch card, but I really liked her Poe business card...

Emily Heierbacher - Wonder Woman

2018.01.21 Jersey Shore Comic con, Toms River, NJ

Emily Heierbacher is a freelance artist and comic creator. She has a long running passion for story-telling, and pursues this through her illustrations, comics and poetry

Emily has created the comic Theatrics, a web-comic about troubled theatre teens and a young stage hand who takes not he task of looking for the leading lady when she goes missing.

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Brianna Renee - Padme Amidala

2018.01.21 Jersey Shore Comic Con, Toms River, NJ

Brianna Renee is a student artist, who set up a table at the Jersey Shore Comic Con. Brianna's tumblr stated she has been drawing since the age of 12, and is ready to share her art. I was impressed by her art and enamel pins, which were heavily influenced by Star Wars.  Therefore it was  a no-brainer that I would request a sketch of Padme..

Ron Wilson - The Thing

2018.01.21 Jersey Shore Comic Con, Toms River, NJ

Ron Wilson is known for his work with the Thing. Wilson worked with the Thing from 1975-1986 chronicling the Thing's adventures through various Marvel titles, including Marvel Two-in-One

Wilson provided covers for Marvel, including Captain America, Avengers, Daredevil, Defenders, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Hulk, Black Goliath, Marvel Fanfare, Power-Man and Iron Man and others

He was the regular penciler on the Marvel UK Captain Britain. Wilson has also provided sketch cards for the Avengers and DC Legacy sets. For the DC Universe, Wilson penciled Milestone Media's Icon, providing character design work and pencils and on the mini-series Arion the Immortal. 

Wilson provided the art for eh cover of the second issue of the pro-wresting comic Headlocked, from Visionary Comics.

Ty Peterson - Joker

2016.11.19 NJ Comic Expo, Edison, NJ

Ty Peterson is a student at Joe Kubert's School of Cartoon and Graphic Art.

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Matthew Clark - Star Trek Mugato

2018.02.10 WinterCon, East Brunswick, NJ

Prior to the show, I had looked through some of the commissions that Matthew Clark had done. Lots of Batman and Wonder Woman. Both good choices, but I get a lot of artists who want to draw them, so my preference has been to ask for villains, since they are more interesting. I asked my usual question, what would you like to draw. Matthew's response, "When I am asked to draw what I like, you will get a tribble."

I came back with I have Star Trek! - I handed over the envelope and Matthew perked up saying he already knew what to draw, but did not tell me. When I returned I was pleasantly surprised to see the Mugato, a simian-like creature with white fur, a rhino horn and sharp fangs. The character appeared in A Private Little War season 2, episode 19.

Mathew Clark originates from Portland, Oregon. A long -time fans f comics, he has had the pleasure of drawing for many of his favorite titles, including Superman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Vampirella, Ghost Rider, Doom Patrol, Outsiders and others

He is also one of the founders of Mercury Studios (Periscope Studios)

Jae Lee

2017.11.18 NJ Comic Expo, Edison, NJ

Jae Lee has provided work for Marvel Comic, DC Comics, Image Comics and Dynamite Entertainment working on titles such as Action Comics, Batman: Jekyll & Hyde, Fables, Superman, The Darkenss: Prelude, WildC.A.T.s, Hellshock, Witchblade, Captain America, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Hulk & Thing, Spider-Man, Transformers/GI Joe and many others...

I was looking forward to obtaining a sketch from Jae, but was not sure what I should request. I did my usual and asked what he would like to draw. His response was he liked to draw monsters. I offered the Star Trek envelope and Jae immediately knew what he wanted to do...

When I went back to his booth to pick up the cover he handed me a Gorn. The Gorn appeared in 1967, Star Trek season 1, episode 18 The Arena. When 2 ships enter a guarded sector of space by the Metrons, they beam the captains of both ships to the surface of an unnamed planet. Here the Gorn, a reptilian creature, fights Captain Kirk in a trial by combat...

Reilly Brown - Outrage

2018.02.10 WinterCon, East Brunswick, NJ

Reilly Brown and Fabian Nicieza are creating a webcomic about a superhero who goes after the jerks who tweet and post anything that picks on others. Outrage a mysterious hero can navigate his way through the internet, As Reilly put it, "it is like a hand reaching out through your computer to smack you in the head!" The Webcomic will be hosted at WebToon

Reilly is traditionally is an comic book artist and illustrator, who started with self published comics in 2002. He has contributed work to Dark Horse, Archie, Tantor Media and most notably Marvel Comics on Deadpool. He has also created the webcomic Dash Hudson - Tentacles of the Trident, and as co-creator, with Kurt Christenson, of Power Play available on comiXology.

Since I have not read a lot of Deadpool, I was more intrigued by the character Outrage. I picked a Progress in Electronics first day cover and asked if he would be willing to provide a sketch of Outrage. Reilly agreed, saying this would be his first commission sketch of the character!

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Joe Wigfield - Conductor Pug

2017.11.19 NJ Comic Expo, Edison, NJ

While I was looking over Joe's booth, I noticed a trend of Pug art. Pug Iron Man, Pug Captain America, Pug Ragnaruff, Pug Batman..you get the idea...

It seems Joe has a Pug and it's his inspiration. So I requested a sketch of a Pug, in any incarnation that Joe could think of. I picked the Owney mascot of the Railway Mail Service first day cover. Joe and his wife looked up the story of Owney, a stray who traveled the rails in the Post Office cars. The postal workers adopted and cared for him as he traveled around the country. Check out the Smithsonian site for more info here

I thought Joe was going to sketch a superhero, but he read the story and changed the idea to a Pug train conductor. Excellent idea, Thank you Joe...

Greg Land - Wonder Woman

2017.11.19 NJ Comic Expo, Edison, NJ

Greg Land got his start with independent publisher StormQuest, after advertising himself as an artist for hire at a Mid-Ohio Comic Con. He was later hired by DC in 1999 to finish the covers for Birds of Prey, based on sketches by Brian Stelfreeze. This would lead to runs as penciller on Birds of Prey and Nightwing...

From 2001 through 2004, he worked on a series called Sojourn for CrossGen Comics.

At Marvel Comics,  Land collaborated with Greg Pak as the main artist on X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong. Land would also pencil issues of Ultimate Fantastic Four, Marvel's Ultimate Power written by Brian Michael Bendis, J. Michael Straczynski and Jeph Loeb.