Trading Cards
Rad Dudes Trading Cards: Welcome to the Jerkstore
April 10th, 2017
There are relics from the early-90s that perfectly preserve the neon-bright, carefree, kinda-stupid culture of the time… and then there’s Rad Dudes trading cards from Pacific, a strangely tone-deaf nightmare that shows off youth culture of the 1990s as only a middle-aged marketing executive could imagine it. Skate culture wasn’t new...
Fantasy Girls vs. Fantazy Girlz PART 3: Laying Awkwardly Across Cars
February 16th, 2015
The subjects of Calfun Inc.’s ‘Fantazy Cards’ trading card series can be divided into three main categories: Girls pretending to own very expensive cars Girls laying awkwardly across very expensive cars DAMNED DIRTY LIARS Even though I was born in the 1980s, I never really comprehended the idea that motor vehicles were somehow equivalent...
Fantasy Girls vs. Fantazy Girlz PART 2: California Dreaming Trading Cards
November 13th, 2014
Here’s how I imagine the origin of California Dreaming trading cards : The year is 199X. A dude purchases a camera from the seediest pawn shop California. It looks fancy enough on the outside to convince his potential subjects that he knows what he’s doing. If they don’t look close enough, they won’t see that […]
Fantasy Girls vs. Fantazy Girlz : Sexy Trading Cards of the 1990s PART 1
September 8th, 2014
The comic shop can be a weirdly libidinous place. When a young man stumbles into a building that’s designed to sell elaborately-described power fantasies and detailed drawings of idealized women, things can start to feel a little weird. And as you pseudo-accidentally stray towards the beaded curtain at the back of the shop, to that […]
Dan Lawlis: Comics Futurestars 1993
November 1st, 2013
Artist Dan Lawlis was the first to respond to my ceaseless harassment of artists from the Comics Futurestars 1993 trading card set. I bugged him about life, art, and other stuff. ——————————————————– MSI: When you were creating these Comics...
Prophetic Pecs: Comics Futurestars 1993 Trading Cards
November 1st, 2013
Comics have been through a lot of crap. If comics were a person, they’d be that guy who looked like he had his life together, only to let it fall apart because of some gross secret addiction or a failed get-rich-quick scheme. Comics would hit rock bottom and show up to events wearing really inappropriate […]
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