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Sketches for Free at New York Comic Con!

Topps had an impressive booth at New York Comic Con this year and a great offer of free sketch cards to collectors attending the show. Sketches of Mars Attacks, Wacky Packages, or Garbage Pail Kids were available from a terriffic line-up of artists, including fan.

By Oct 24,2012  0

Topps had an impressive booth at New York Comic Con this year and a great offer of free sketch cards to collectors attending the show. Sketches of Mars Attacks, Wacky Packages, or Garbage Pail Kids were available from a terriffic line-up of artists, including fan favorites Jeff Zapata, Joe Simko, Mark Pingitore, and Jason Edmiston, among several others.

Jeff Zapata sketching cards at New York Comic Con

The Non-Sport Update team of Editor-In-Chief Alan Biegel, Production Manager Harris Toser, and myself, Blogger Bob Hulsart, had the opportunity to have sketches done by artist Jeff Zapata, who had a long tenure at Topps and currently is freelancing for a number of manufacturers, including Topps, Rittenhouse Archives, and Breygent Marketing. Jeff is passionate about the trading card hobby and it showed as we chatted with him while he was working on our sketches, samples of which are seen here, as well as Jeff working on the cards. Many fans will also know Jeff from his work on Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages. Zapata even contributed to Topps’ Lord of the Rings series during his tenure at Topps.

It was a great opportunity to see an actual sketches being drawn and have a chance to talk with the artists, learn about some of the inner workings of the hobby, and get a great sketch without pack busting!  A great job by Topps and all the artists who made it a memorable New York Comic Con 2012!

Jeff sketches three Mars Attacks cards

Mars Attacks sketch cards by Jeff Zapata

 

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