Thursday, April 07, 2005

Metti Cards

Metti Cards

[entry: jimlee}

So I am back in San Diego after an eventful and incredibly busy trip to NYC. The Sin City premiere was a fantastic gathering bringing together so many of the great names in comics together under one roof to celebrate the accomplishments of one of our brightest stars and the Big Apple Con was a chaotic whirlwind of signing and posing (for pics) and sketching (though not many).

At the show, one of the coolest things I got were these homemade trading cards. I should really put homemade in parentheses because the design and layouts are very professionally and thoughtfully done. Each card had a unifying look to em with a shot of art, usually taken from the Metti site and the backs had quotes from either the site or from various interviews with an appropriate mugshot. Apparently they were printed out on card stock at a local kinkos type shop which goes to show you how far desktop publishing has come. These look and feel incredibly authentic.

Unfortunately in the chaos of it all, I mislaid the creator's name but I know he is a Mettitista so please step forward and take a bow. All the artists were flipping over these when I brought em to the studio so thanks for your efforts. We are always impressed with how passionate and industrious the fanbase can get over comics and this certainly proves the rule.

Here's a closer look at the front and back.

8 comments:

G said...

Alright, I'll be honest.....whoever did those, they are amazing. I think that's a really cool idea and the layout, design, implementation is superb from what I can tell from Jim's picture. You definitely deserve some credit. Bravisimo!

-- Jonathan

Rob Rosenblatt said...

Those are excellent! And although I've been lurking here since the original site's inception, I don't recognize some of the artwork. Great job, whoever you are!

Jason said...

Impressive! Everything from the layout to the design is great.

david golbitz said...

Yeah, those are pretty sweet. Whomever did it sure put a lot of time and effort into them. Very nice.

Ryan said...

As a devoted reader of this blog, I can honestly say my appreciation for the work you all do PALES in comparison to the dedication of some other fans.

Truly amazing what this person(s) has done with the artwork and postings from this blog. Step forward and take a bow, you deserve it.

Ryan
Jim Lee come to the PCTC! PLEASE!

G said...

Jim --

The back of one of those cards is for Carlos, however there isn't a card pictured that the front is for Carlos. The back of Carlos's is yellowish, but I see no yellowish front. Is there one more that didn't get pictured both front and back somehow? Just curious cause those things are pretty damned cool and I'd like to see 'em all. Best wishes.

-- Jonathan

Unknown said...

cool! fantastic work! no doubt a very talented guy/girl. a friend of mine did a similar thing using the VS theme. the difference was that he used all of us members of The Comic Brook message board giving us funny superpowers and using our business/occupation as venues and plot twists. this thing just inspired me to try and actually get those stuff printed for playing.

thanks for sharing jim! what a treat that must have been for you and the gelatomettista gang.

Ken said...

Great job man!