Another Power Girl Sketch Card by Joe Rubinstein

I showed a Power Girl sketch by Joe Rubinstein last year, and I've since added another one to my collection.

This is a less angry Power Girl, with shorter hair than the one I showed before. Both sketches are from Cryptozoic's DC Comics: The Women of Legend trading card set. Rubinstein has a Facebook page, but other than that I can't find much online presence for him. It is interesting how some artists are on every social media platform, and others are almost invisible online. Maybe part of it is that in comics he is primarily known as an inker, and he started doing sketch cards as a way to stretch his skills and range as an artist. Here's a good interview where he talks about that. I'm really happy with both cards I've picked up featuring his work, and hopefully I'll find more of it for my collection in the future.

Supergirl Sketch Card by Lin Workman

I've got a lot of plates spinning right now, so I am hard-pressed to find time for reading/writing blogs. It's just one of those periods we all go through. With that in mind, here is a pretty quick one-card post of a recent pick-up for my sketch card collection.

This is a Supergirl sketch card by Lin Workman, from the Cryptozoic DC Comics: The Women of Legend trading card set. I already have a Power Girl sketch done by him for this set, depicting her in her short-lived New 52 uniform. I grabbed this one on eBay. I am not particularly a Supergirl fan, but I recognized Workman's art style and signature and the price was right, so I jumped on it. I like the sketch cards I've seen from him, and I was happy to add this one to my collection for the price of a few packs of cards.

DC Comics: The Women of Legend Power Girl Sketch Card

I guess I might as well call this Day 3 of Sketch Card Week since I've got some momentum going with the art posts. This time around I have a sketch from 2013 Cryptozoic DC Comics: The Women of Legend set. This is probably one of the most-represented sets in my sketch card collection, largely due to my Power Girl sketch card PC.

This Power Girl sketch was done by artist Rain / Rainier Lagunsad (I've seen it spelled both ways), who appears to work out of the Philippines. He doesn't seem to have much of an online presence outside of a DeviantArt page that doesn't see many updates. It could just be that I'm looking in the wrong places. I picked this one up on eBay, and I think it's a pretty good depiction of Power Girl done in the style of a soap opera comic strip.

Sketch Card Week: Power Girl by Josef (Joe) Rubinstein

This is the last post for Sketch Card Week, which went for an extra day because I took a break in the middle of it. I actually just received a couple mailers full of sketch cards that would allow me to extend this event by another week, but I've got a bunch of non-sketch stuff in my queue and I'll probably just post these new sketches later.

This sketch is another Power Girl sketch from Cryptozoic's DC Comics: The Women of Legend product. It was done by Josef (Joe) Rubinstein. This appears to be an older version of Power Girl, which kind of makes sense because Rubinstein came into comics in the 1970's, and his work has the look of the comic art of that era. There are probably people out there who could name his influences and artistic lineage, but I am not one of those people. I mostly can categorize the art styles as recent, old, and older with moderate accuracy. Anyhow, this is kind of a cool sketch that shows Power Girl in a different light than the usual fare. I thought it was pretty neat, and I grabbed it up for my collection.

This post will barely sneak in before midnight tonight. I was in the middle of writing the draft when we decided to go walk around town with our kids and catch Pokemon on the Pokemon Go app. It was pretty fun, and there were a lot of families, couples, individuals, and groups of friends walking around doing the same thing. Everyone was friendly and smiling, and people from all sorts of social groups were bonding over something they now have in common. Pretty cool stuff.

Sketch Card Week: Power Girl by Lin Workman

After taking a break yesterday from Sketch Card Week, I am returning with another sketch card featuring DC character Power Girl, from the Cryptozoic DC Comics: The Women of Legend set. This card features Power Girl in her short-lived New 52 costume, and the artist is Lin Workman. He's got a card with Power Girl in her more recognizable costume for sale on his website, but the asking price is a little out of my range at the moment. I am still pretty happy with this sketch card, though, as I had been wanting to get one of his sketches for a while. The right one finally popped up and I was able to acquire it for my Power Girl sketch card PC. Pretty cool stuff! Sorry for the short posts lately. I've been busy.

Sketch Card Week: Power Girl by Danny Silva

It's Day 2 of Sketch Card Week, and today's card comes from a set that is going to be pretty common this week, Cryptozoic's DC Comics: The Women of Legend. I am struggling to get Sketch Card Week off the ground. I have the cards scanned, but getting the posts written has become a challenge. I spent the 4th of July rafting on the Payette River with my family, and I am absolutely exhausted. It was a fun time, but it wore me out.

This sketch card features the character Power Girl by artist Danny Silva. The eyes on this Power Girl are pretty creepy, but I think it's a really neat piece of art. He did a few other characters for this set in this style as well as a few others with a more traditional look. I think I prefer these ones, as they stand out a bit more from the crowd. I am actually a little surprised that DC let these through the approval process. The comic companies seem to be pretty strict about how their characters are drawn on sketch cards, although I think Marvel / Disney are more strict than DC when it comes to depicting characters exactly how they appear currently in comics. Silva is pretty active across his social media accounts, which are all linked to from his website.

That's about all for this post. I need to get some sleep so that I can recover from today's festivities. I am glad that I was able to get this card for my collection, and I hope to add more work by Danny Silva to my collection in the future.

Pack of the Day 107: Cryptozoic DC Comics: The Women of Legend Box Break

Continuing with the Dave & Adam's Card World order I made recently, here is another box of comic character cards I opened up. This time it's Cryptozoic's DC Comics: The Women of Legend. There isn't a lot of hit potential in the product, but there are a couple of chase sets, a parallel, an elusive fabricated memorabilia set, and a sketch card in every box.

The base cards featured new art commissioned specifically for the set, which is a lot better than rehashed art from some other source. Many of the base card artists are pretty well-known on the sketch-card circuit. I just wish that Cryptozoic would have credited each artist on the back of their cards. Many I recognize anyway, like that Katie Cook (starting to think it might not be done by her) art in the lower right, but I don't know all of them. 

You get two cards each from the chase sets, Katie Cook's Sticker Collection and Gail's Picks. Katie Cook's Sticker collection features stickers made from art by Katie Cook, whose sketch cards tend to go for a whole lot. She does a bunch of My Little Pony stuff, too. Gail's Picks is a set that features some of comic book writer Gail Simone's favorite characters. Gail's Picks are printed on sparkly foil stock. My only complaint is that these are only seeded two per box, so it will take a few boxes to complete each set.

There's only one parallel of this set. The parallel cards are printed on holofoil stock, and you get six per box. The reason for the seeding on the parallels and inserts is that Cryptozoic wanted to make sure that you got a full set of inserts and parallels if you purchased a 12-box case. That promise excluded the Totally Fabricated costume relic card set, which was seeded about 1.5 cards per case.

The big draw in this set is the sketch cards, and I definitely got a good one in my box. This is a sketch of Batwoman done by artist Jason Worthington. With this sketch and the two sketches from my box of DC Comics: Super-Villains I feel like I did really well on this order. I probably didn't break even from a financial standpoint, but I got some pretty good stuff for my collection. I believe the only thing remaining from my Dave & Adam's order is a box of Donruss basketball. That set is full of inserts, so it will be a really long post to write. We'll see if I get around to it. The scans from my last box of Donruss basketball are still sitting in my Scans folder.