Kyle Baker - Charlie Brown Deadpool

April 27, 2018 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

Kyle Baker - cartoonist, comic book writer-artist and animator, known for his graphic novels (Why I hate Saturn) and for the 2000s revival of the TV Series Plastic Man. HIs influences were Jack Kirby, Norman Rockwell and Jack Davis. He also spent a lot off time reading the newspaper strips, which included Peanuts, Li'l Abner, Pogo and Blondie. 

My original thought was to ask for a Plastic Man sketch, but then I came across a Star Wars card featuring Baker's art. The back of the card had a "Charlie Brown" style portrait. That's when I decided to request a Charlie Brown style sketch of any super hero he wanted to choose. When I returned to pick up my sketch, I was handed a Charlie Brown Deadpool with a Spider-Man Woodstock.

Kyle also adds an imprint of his Quality Jollity logo in the lower corner

Baker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work in the comics field

Additional works include:
The New Baker, The Bakers: Do These Toys Belong Somewhere? and Naat Turner, all self-published.
Dark Horse - The Residents: Freak Show, Instant Piano, Creepy
Wildstorm - Gen13: Carney Folk
America's Best - ABC Special, Tom Strong
Bongo - Bart Simpson's Tree House of Horror
IDW - Rocketeer Adventures
DC Comics - The Shadow, Justice Inc, The Spirit, Batmen: Gotham Knights, Justice League America
Vertigo - Undercover Genie, House of Mystery, Mystery in Space
Marvel - What The --?, Damage Control, X-Men Fairy Tales, Deadpool, Clive Barkers Hellraiser, Nightmask
Lodestone - Codename: Danger
Walt Disney - Dick tracy
Classics Illustrated - Lewis Carroll, Cyrano De Bergera

George Vega - Catwoman

George Vega is an illustrator based in New Jersey, and has provided me with beautiful work in the past, a Xenomorph from Alien. Since Lee Meriwether, Catwoman from the 1966 Batman film, I had decided to obtain an autograph, but it had to be on a sketch first day cover. I knew George would provide an excellent sketch. We both decided on a traditional Catwoman outfit as the best choice.

Lee Merewether served as Miss America in 1955. She had some very well known roles in television including Buddy Ebsen's assistant in Barnaby Jones; as Lily Munster on the 1980s remake The Munsters Today; and as Dr Ann MacGregor in The Time Tunnel...

Keith Williams - The Phantom

2018.04.27 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

Keith Williams is known for his work in the Phantom newspaper comic strip, with George Olesen. He started as a background inker for John Bryne , on DC Comics' Superman. 

At Marvel Comics, Williams was assistant editor to Jim Owsley on the Spider-Man titles, and then full-time inker on Web of spider-Man, Quasar, Transformers Silver Surfer, She-Hulk and The Mask.

In 1994 he succeeded Sy Barry on the newspaper strip The Phantom working with penciller George Olesen until 2005. Williams was inker on the Moonstone book The Phantom - captain Action crossover story.

Larry Stroman - Alien Legion - Jugger Grimrod

2018.04.27 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

Larry Stroman first gained attention illustrating the Epic Comics series Alien Legion. He would go on to illustrate various Marvel Comics, including The Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, Ghost rider and Punisher. Stroman would also provide work for DC Comics' Darkstars and Dark Horse Comics' The Mark.

In 1993 Stroman and Todd Johnson would create Tribe Comics as part of Image Comics. Tribe is a predominantly African-American and minority superhero group based out of Brooklyn, NY. The concept for Tribe was the group would continue to grow throughout the run, as a massive underground movement. Tribe issue numbers 2 and 3 were published by Axis Comics and the story line ended with issue 0, published by God Comics.

Alien Legion - is a science fiction comic created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz and Frank Cirocco for the Marvel imprint Epics Comics in 1983. The stories feature a military unit Force Nomad, similar to the French Foreign Legion

Jugger Grimrod - a native of the planet Thorax, is an expert hand-to-hand and small weapons fighter. Joined the Legion to evade criminal prosecution

Beau Geste is an adventure novel by P.C. Wren, detailing the adventures of three brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion after the disappearance of a valuable jewel. The movie has been adapted for the screen several times. The US Movie poster stamps commemorates the 1939 Paramount Pictures version starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preton and Brian Donlevy

David Lloyd - V for Vendetta

2018.04.27 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

David Lloyd started working in comics in the late 1970s, drawing for Halls of Horror, TV Comic and a number of Marvel UK titles. With writer Steve Parkhouse, he created the pulp adventure Night Raven

Dez Skinn set up Warrior magazine in 1982 and asked Lloyd to create a new pulp character. Lloyd had previously worked with writer Alan Moore on several Doctor Who stories for Marvel UK, so he called on Moore to work with him. Together they created V for Vendetta, a dystopian adventure featuring a flamboyant anarchist terrorist fighting against a future fascist government

singed copy of the Marvel Comics adaptation of the movie Time Bandits

Thomas Yeates - Tarzan

2018.04.28 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

I am an avid reader of the Sunday comics, and Prince Valiant has had my attention for years. I look forward to the traditional style of art and storytelling. Since it only runs on Sunday, the story has to keep the reader actively involved.

When I heard Thomas Yeates would be at this show, I would have liked to obtain a sketch of Prince Valiant. Unfortunately I do not have any blank covers on which to obtain sketches. 

I did have Yeates sign the above Prince Valiant cover for me. The choice of sketch to obtain however, was not difficult. A self-taught artist who is influenced by Hal Foster, NC Wyeth, Al Williamson and Wallace Wood, Yeates first professional work was for DC Comics in 1978 on Sgt Rock. He would continue with DC Comics' Warlord, Mystery in Space and Swamp Thing.

Moving to Eclipse, Yeates' worked on Airboy, Scout, Lugar, Brought to Light and Aztec Ace. At Pacific comics he would work on Alien Worlds and Vanguard. At T.S.R. he illustrated the Dragonlance Saga on Dungeons and Dragons.

In the 199os, Yeates drew his boyhood hero.. Tarzan of the Apes and Tarzan, The Beckoning for Malibu Comics and Dark Horse Comics

Years would also illustrated Dracula vs Zorro for Topps Comics, Tomahawk for DC, Zorro comic strip with Don McGregor, Universe X specials for Marvel comics, as well as illustrating graphic novels for Lerner Publishing featuring King Arthur, Robin Hood, Lancelot.....

I went to the show on Friday to obtain my sketches early, so on Saturday I just walked around without intention of obtaining additional sketches. I had passed the National Cartoonist Society table, which had the same artists that were there last year, so I did not give them much attention.

Henrik Rehr viking sketch

As I was getting ready to leave for the day, I noticed a gentleman sketching in a style similar to Moebius and I was pulled in. Turns out it was Henrik Rehr a Danish artist who draw the comic strip Ferd'nand, having taken over the strip in 1989, He signs the strip Rehr.Mik. We discussed some the work he was displaying, which included Beetle Bailey. The Walker family publishes Beetle overseas in book form. Since the daily strips seen in the US are not enough to fill the pages, Rehr takes their unused ideas and transforms them into additional Beetle Bailey strips.

Rear works in different styles depending on the content of the work, as for Moebius, he was an inspiration so when Rehr has down time, he sketches in the style of Moebius...

Brent Peeples - New Super-Man

2018.04.27 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

Brent Peeples has been working in comics since 2010 and recently the artist for the DC comics' New Super-Man. Peoples also the artist for a Batman story in the Eisner Warad winning, New York Times best selling book Love is Love.

Peoples has done cover and interior work for various companies, including Dynamite, Valiant, Aftershock, IDW, Archie and Boom!

Titles featuring Peeples' work include Archer and Armstrong, Captain Kid, Grimm Fairy Tales, The Art of Red Sonja, 1001 Arabian Nights, Babyteeth, Godzilla, Star Trek-Green Lantern....

Legendary Green Hornet signed by Brent Peeples

Sarah Elizabeth Keane - Harry Potter

2018.01.21 Jersey Shore Comic Con, Toms River, NJ

Educator, Illustrator, Constant Daydreamer

When I approached Sarah's table, it was covered in small ceramic and prints, with a focus on cute and Harry Potter. A winning combination. Thank you

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)

Harry Ioor

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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