Formerly Known As Morno wrote:
Oh, and Cosmic Frog was just me.  "Dragonlord" was the one game WW did that was designed by me, as well as having my illustrations/cover.

This is a really cool factoid. I couldn't dig up anything on this in my research. There you have it.

I really like the line:

"Retropolitan images, set in the world of the future the way it used to be."

I like your recent stuff.  I also think you could find a market for your old style.

Mark  

scribe wrote:Your latest stuff is great. It is just too bad there isn't a way to provide originals with digital work. I guess I could always buy a poster...but you know what I mean, right?

That is probably the biggest downside to digital work; the matching upside is that unlike traditional media, you can hardly ever overwork or spoil a piece, and not being able to spoil it mens that you can experiment without fear.  So the work tends to be better and to get better more quickly.

My answer to the lack of originals is the archival quality prints - in fact my whole network of websites grew into being because I wanted to produce those, even though for the first few years I was limited to poster quality prints.  I figure that a reproduction that will outlive the buyer is close enough to an original for most purposes.

If you look around this site you will find frequent references to artists from the golden age of gaming.

Some of us here have even contracted to purchase new works from classic artists...and the work of these artists is still selling very well.

There are changes in style evident in the work of these artists...although Jim Holloway's work on Cairn of the Skeleton King looks exactly like his TSR illustrations.  Still, they remain popular artists.

It just seems to me that any artist should not overlook any market that is interested in paying cash for his work.  If you were not into producing new Morno art, you would still find a ready market on Ebay, the Acaeum, conventions and other websites for projects like posters and art compilation books.  I can see a signed and framed Morno print being a prized piece on the walls of many gamers and collectors.

From some of the things they say, I don't think that many of the classic era writers, artists and creators realize the emotional impact of their work on the adults who used to be kid gamers.

Something to think about.

Mark  

Finally have a moment to post these, long overdue:

The Endless Dungeon

HermitFromPluto wrote:I noticed our friend PurpleDragon has just put up a Wee Warriors Misty Isles for sale:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


This item has not even been discussed in this thread yet. I have a question though. Why is this item not listed on the Acaeum? Were only PoTVQ and Dwarven Glory distributed by TSR and not Misty Isles?

IIRC Misty isles was not distributed by TSR, the other 2 were.

It's not a very good adventure, and seems to be the cheapest of the WW products. I'd be surprised if it reached $200, although if both Mark and Lance want a copy it might be a good fight.

I believe my Misty sold for less than my Dwarven Glory, and both of them went for around $150-ish

mbassoc2003 wrote:It's not a very good adventure, and seems to be the cheapest of the WW products. I'd be surprised if it reached $200, although if both Mark and Lance want a copy it might be a good fight.

I wouldn't count out Addermcone either.  He bid up the Guidon Games Black Box Tractics to over $500.  Which btw, I think it is safe to say that there are at least 2 different prints of the GG Black box Tractics for those Tractics completists out there.