The latest thing I’ve encountered from the demise of Inkworks are blank Inkworks sketch cards. I’ve seen these from Family Guy (the seller indicates they have both Family Guy 1 and 2 available), as well as some from Alien Vs. Predator.

I’m sure if Inkworks were still around they would have a big problem with these as they certainly aren’t going to go through any approval process. . . at least they aren’t numbered like the official sketches from the series are so you can tell the legitimate ones from the ones that were ‘lost,’ only to be found later, sketched on unofficially and sold.

This probably bothers me more than it should. . . but when does it stop? How many of these blanks are out there? Inkworks was always great about trying to protect the integrity of their sketch cards — no other company numbered all of their cards, and no other companies posted as many scans of their sketch cards as Inkworks did. I wish other companies followed Inkworks’ lead on this. . .

For example Upper Deck — Mark Irwin (former Upper Deck art director) is offering up an artist proof from Iron Man 2 — a set he never worked on . . . and he doesn’t see a problem with that.

Sheesh.

Jon