What I've been collecting the last year.

About this time last year I caught the sketch cover bug. I have to assign most of the blame to Kaholo1256. I'd never really been exposed to sketch covers until he posted a journal sharing some of his recent acquisitions, specifically a piece by Whilce Portacio. That moment got me curious and I decided to ask him what all I had to do to get in.

I decided to venture into the signature room and looked through the Edgar Tadeo thread. All of his work is amazing, but a Wolverine vs Sabretooth cover just jumped out at me and I knew I needed something from him. If you haven't seen that cover, do yourself a favor and go check it out. If it ever goes for sale I will definitely bid on it.

So after talking to Kaholo, he was able to put me in touch with Force Majeure, who was facilitating the Tadeo opp. I was able to go all out and requested a wraparound cover of Apocalypse vs Archangel in color. I am extremely happy with the final result and glad this was my first sketch. It definitely wasn't the last. While I waited for it I went and purchased an already completed sketch by Freddie Williams.

After I signed up for Tadeo I just kept going. I signed up for numerous others as well as getting a couple done at some local cons. Those unfortunately weren't graded as there was no cgc rep. Its been a lot of fun and a lot of money. So I'll be taking a bit of a break with getting so many done but I don't think I will ever get rid of the itch for comic art.

But many thanks go out to all the facilitators and boardies that helped me acquire all this. And thanks to Kaholo for starting it all.

Below are some scans and pictures of what I've received so far.

Edgar Tadeo

Uncanny X-Men cover recreation by Chris Mangold

Jamie Jones

Freddie Williams

Adelso Corona

Darryl Banks

Kokkinakis Achileas

Hugh Rookwood

Jeff Edwards

Pop Mhan (one of my ungraded ones)

Jim O'Riley (ungraded)

Matt Slay (ungraded)

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