Halloween Series Sketches Scans

[Hustler08]

Thanks!  I look forward to seeing your sketches!

Here are my 3 sketches...the middle looks like an ORK/BOG combo...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

[bandaches]

Here are my 3 sketches...the middle looks like an ORK/BOG combo...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Sweet!

[Dr Popper]

Found this link to Brent Engstrom's site where he has posted images of all the sketches he created.  Thanks Brent for posting, really fun to see!

http://monkeyboycomic.blogspot.com/

I'm really surprised that Brent didn't do any combos of the Hairy Boo/Drac.  It would have made sense since they were both on the postcard as a 2x.

[Bigmuc13]

Look at row 6 column 2 in all the bog sketches... That's an Engstrom. All his bog sketches I have seen are very similar to this one.

I took a chance and bought an unopened Hallowen pack on ebay, and I got one of the nine 'happy' bog creatures by Engstrom.  I will post a pic later on tonight if I can.

[sco(o)t]

So it looks like Neil did a Baseball Wacky All*Stars sketch subset for the 2011 Halloween Postcards.  I would almost guarantee Neil did more. Here are 4 I have run across. Anyone have others to round off the roster?

[sco(o)t]

More updates to the BOG RED army on page 5 post.

[Gurgle]

So it looks like Neil did a Baseball Wacky All*Stars sketch subset for the 2011 Halloween Postcards.  I would almost guarantee Neil did more. Here are 4 I have run across. Anyone have others to round off the roster?

What a good idea.

[Playbug]

What a good idea.

Neil is on a roll. 

[Dr Popper]

Here are my final Halloween postcards.  I think I have one more coming in but I'll post that one separately.  Since there were so many variables with the titles/artists in this series I chose to focus on only the sketch cards to which the artists did that were from their own art.

[lucidjc]

Here are my final Halloween postcards.  I think I have one more coming in but I'll post that one separately.  Since there were so many variables with the titles/artists in this series I chose to focus on only the sketch cards to which the artists did that were from their own art.

All of em are fantastic, Love that Bog. You got all the good sketches...I got a tooth!

[Dr Popper]

All of em are fantastic, Love that Bog. You got all the good sketches...I got a tooth!

Thanks, I'm happy with them too.  Actually most of them I had to acquire on the 2nd hand market.  I did keep one of the Toothie's but the others were either bought or traded for.  I like my Bog a lot better than the one I pulled.

[bandaches]

Thanks, I'm happy with them too.  Actually most of them I had to acquire on the 2nd hand market.  I did keep one of the Toothie's but the others were either bought or traded for.  I like my Bog a lot better than the one I pulled.

Considering there are at least 650 halloween sketches, doesn't the number of sketches on ebay seem low?  Supply and prices both seem to be down, seems very odd.

[Dr Popper]

Considering there are at least 650 halloween sketches, doesn't the number of sketches on ebay seem low?  Supply and prices both seem to be down, seems very odd.

I would say it's similar to series 7 and since the quantity is higher I guess you could say we should expect to see a little more.  Maybe the flippers weren't able to get as much as the past couple series, which results in more collectors keeping sketches instead of selling.

[bandaches]

I would say it's similar to series 7 and since the quantity is higher I guess you could say we should expect to see a little more.  Maybe the flippers weren't able to get as much as the past couple series, which results in more collectors keeping sketches instead of selling.

I honestly didn't think there were that many sketch collectors.  This implies there are well over 100 sketch collectors. 

[Playbug]

All of em are fantastic, Love that Bog. You got all the good sketches...I got a tooth!

For some reason that sounds Charlie Brownish. 

[bandaches]

For some reason that sounds Charlie Brownish. 

LOL, I got a rock.....

[RawGoo]

LOL, I got a rock.....

My Halloween Charlie Brown figure came with a sack of rocks as an accessory - I thought that was a fantastic touch.

[Playbug]

My Halloween Charlie Brown figure came with a sack of rocks as an accessory - I thought that was a fantastic touch.

Good thing you didn't get the Linus figure. You would of been instructed to go into a Pumpkin Patch ! Good Grief...

[jaylynch]

I have done another painting on a Halloween Postcard 2011 return sketch card, which I have put on ebay for a 3 day auction.   Here is the link.    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260897496992

[sco(o)t]

Jay posted another artist return sketch card on eBay...WOLFURELLA
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260900697860&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_922

(checkout the crater-wolf image on the moon in the background)

Gotta love the description....
This is the third and final black and white return sketch card I have done for the 2011 Wacky Packages Halloween Postcard series. It features the Lil' Werewolf Gal from the Hairy Mane Wacky Postcard. This character is also featured in WACKY PACKAGES Comics #1. In this original black and white painting, This beloved character tries her hand at COSPLAY, which is very popular with the kids today at comic conventions in the U.S. and abroad. The youngsters dress up as Superman, Vampirella, Harry Potter, and even Stan Lee. They seem to enjoy it. It may have started in Japan... Or it may have started with the furries... I don't know. These kids today with their crazy trends...I don't know. I just don't know. When I was a kid we didn't have CLOTHES, let alone Lara Croft costumes. But hey! What are you gonna do? It's a space-age a-go-go world we live in today. Used to be you'd have to go to The Century of Progress Expo to even SEE a microwave oven. Now we all have 'em in our homes. They used to call those things "Radar Ranges". I wonder howcome they changed the name of those things. Oh well.... It doesn't matter. What DOES matter though, is that this card is an extremely fancy gouache painting that I did with a tiny brush under a magnifying glass. I've been doing the gags on the printed trading cards for Topps for the last 40 years. I remember the Topps cafeteria back in the day. They even had one of those Radar Ranges in there. That was in the '60s. I remember in the 80s... Mark Newgarden used to order a tuna sandwich with a slice of Swiss Cheese on it. A little bit of trivia for you out there who collect Garbage Pail Kids. Sometimes ( this is when Topps was back in Brooklyn) Art Spiegelman and I would go out of the building and eat at Burger King. Once Len Brown and Rick Varesi and me went to this Italian place, which was really close to Topps. Len and Rick had baked ziti. I think I probably had something simpler, though. Spaghetti and meatballs, probably. It's funny. When old Topps employees get together, they usually can't remember much about the gum cards we did. But they DO remember the various meals they ate. Anyway...I just finished painting this card. So here it is for your bidding pleasure.

[jaylynch]

      ...and when Topps had their own cafeteria, another favorite food item there was pizza.  Yeah, pizza.  I don't recall what Bhob Stewart would eat for lunch.  But I think this might make a great Abrams book.  WACKY PACKAGES: What They Ate For Lunch.
I don't think any of those guys, including me, had the foresight to take polaroid pix of our food back then, though.  So the book would have to consist of re-creations of the foods we ate in the form of paintings.  I will suggest that to Abrams...once I hear from them if they accepted or rejected by book on early microwave ovens.

[Duznt]

These kids today with their crazy trends...I don't know. I just don't know.

Speaking of crazy trends... Kids back in the 60's and 70's began collecting and trading these flimsy little pieces of sticky paper with painted images that spoofed grocery store products. Wacky-something or other... 

[jaylynch]

Mainly I remember those crazy little stickers that they used to put on food products at the grocery store that told how much an item costs on 'em.  Before they invented UPCs, which allowed them to easily raise the price of stuff every day.

[Duznt]

      ...and when Topps had their own cafeteria, another favorite food item there was pizza.  Yeah, pizza.  I don't recall what Bhob Stewart would eat for lunch.  But I think this might make a great Abrams book.  WACKY PACKAGES: What They Ate For Lunch.
I don't think any of those guys, including me, had the foresight to take polaroid pix of our food back then, though.  So the book would have to consist of re-creations of the foods we ate in the form of paintings.  I will suggest that to Abrams...once I hear from them if they accepted or rejected by book on early microwave ovens.

Topps needs to finish their Wacky book series. The 3rd and final volume would have plenty of space left over that you could fill with these stories.

[WackyGPK]

I couldn't resist not opening the sealed set I had set aside. I just opened it and pulled a sketch by Neil that glows in the dark! It says "glow in the dark" on it, but then Neil coated it and it actually does! I don't ever recall seeing this on any others before, do I have the only GID sketch?? I would take a picture, but it is proving near impossible.

[Porkie]

How cool is that?! Can you take a pic of it "glowing"? 

[RawGoo]

I couldn't resist not opening the sealed set I had set aside. I just opened it and pulled a sketch by Neil that glows in the dark! It says "glow in the dark" on it, but then Neil coated it and it actually does! I don't ever recall seeing this on any others before, do I have the only GID sketch?? I would take a picture, but it is proving near impossible.

Very cool!

Here's another glow in the dark sketch Neil did for this set that was sold in an ebay auction last month:

[bandaches]

I couldn't resist not opening the sealed set I had set aside. I just opened it and pulled a sketch by Neil that glows in the dark! It says "glow in the dark" on it, but then Neil coated it and it actually does! I don't ever recall seeing this on any others before, do I have the only GID sketch?? I would take a picture, but it is proving near impossible.

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I still have a sealed pack, makes me want to kill it but I have been saving a sealed pack from many of these non ans sets.

[RawGoo]

I still have a sealed pack, makes me want to kill it but I have been saving a sealed pack from many of these non ans sets.

As I've said to you before, I am in awe of your self-restraint!  Old School boxes and Postcard packs do not stay sealed very long around me........   

[bandaches]

As I've said to you before, I am in awe of your self-restraint!  Old School boxes and Postcard packs do not stay sealed very long around me........   

LOL, I will try to dig out the unsealed packs that I have.  I am pretty sure I have Post Card 6(whatever series it was that Toppsvault had extra packs at the philly show), 2011 Halloween, Olds 1 and Olds 2 sealed packs

[jaylynch]

I didn't tell anyone... But all of the Halloween 2011 sketch cards I did have imbedded Halloween sounds in 'em.    To hear these sounds, you will need an old casette tape recorder.  What you do is hold the mike over the card and record the inaudible vibrations coming from the card at FAST SPEED with the record volume on the tape recorder turned up ALL THE WAY.   Then switch to slow speed, and play it back with the volume turned up all the way.  Warning:  The resultant sounds may be too frightening for some.  So if you have any medical condition that might be affected by these intense frightening sounds, please only play back your tape in the presence of a physician or registered nurse.  And feel free to post your audio recordings of this phenomenon.

[Duznt]

I didn't tell anyone... But all of the Halloween 2011 sketch cards I did have imbedded Halloween sounds in 'em.    To hear these sounds, you will need an old casette tape recorder.  What you do is hold the mike over the card and record the inaudible vibrations coming from the card at FAST SPEED with the record volume on the tape recorder turned up ALL THE WAY.   Then switch to slow speed, and play it back with the volume turned up all the way.  Warning:  The resultant sounds may be too frightening for some.  So if you have any medical condition that might be affected by these intense frightening sounds, please only play back your tape in the presence of a physician or registered nurse.  And feel free to post your audio recordings of this phenomenon.

I think you can also hear the Halloween sounds if you hole-punch a sketch card in the middle and play it on a phonograph. Kinda like the records you could cut out from the back of cereal boxes.

[lucidjc]

I wrap all my sketch cards in tin-foil, it helps with the voices. 

[sco(o)t]

I think you can also hear the Halloween sounds if you hole-punch a sketch card in the middle and play it on a phonograph. Kinda like the records you could cut out from the back of cereal boxes.

I read on the Internets that you can color the edges of each card with blue magic marker to increase the audio quality.

[Jean Nutty]

I read on the Internets that you can color the edges of each card with blue magic marker to increase the audio quality.

Imagine the backward masking a Wacky might contain

A flashback to Stairway to Heaven