This month’s Art Gallery display is from the 2008 Topps
Indiana Jones Masterpieces release. The artist is Brent Woodside, a freelance
illustrator who has worked with Topps on a couple of occasions including Star
Wars sketch cards, Lord of the Rings sketch cards and two different Indiana
Jones releases.
When I was looking for an Indiana Jones sketch card, one
of my favorite movies as a kid, I wanted to get a card depicting Indiana Jones
and I wanted it to be from the Masterpieces release because I did not cards for
the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. This limited my search, and it took
roughly a year to find a card that fit within my sketch card parameters of
reasonable price, specific subject matter and correct release. I finally found
this beauty a few months ago for around $6 shipped.
Many of the lower priced cards are rather generic, there
are plenty of skulls, natives and monkeys. You can also find a number of Mutt
Williams (Shia LaBeouf’s character) which I didn’t cards for his character.
There are quite a few amazing Indiana Jones cards featuring Indy but they are
quite expensive so this find was special.
The one thing that I do not like about the two Indiana
Jones sketch cards releases is that so many are similar. If you do a search and
you begin with the lowest priced cards you will see card after card after card
that are almost identical except a line changed here or a color added there. The cool thing about this card is every detail about Indy is there right down to the scruff of his beard.
