This post is a long time in the making and it's about the quickest I've ever decided to buy a pricier piece of cardboard. I had been planning and planning for this day for years, knowing that if and when it arrived I could not hesitate and I would simply need to fork over the cash and lock it up before it had a chance to scurry away. When you've been working on a project for a decade or so, money becomes no object at the tail end of the chase if the project means anything to you beyond something to pass the time.
My Archer Sketch Card Quest certainly is more than just a fun way to pass the time. The set is my favorite non-sport set of all-time and one of my absolute favorite sets of any kind, period. The sketch cards are absolute beauties and it's a true treat to have a little piece of the portfolios of some of the talented and dedicated artists who worked on the show.
A few of the artists from the show only crafted a dozen or so sketches, making them insanely tough chases in a product that yielded about 3,600 total sketches. That would mean 0.003% of the available sketches came from each of these "higher-end" artists, so finding them -- let alone acquiring one -- is near impossible.
April Babcock is one of those super tough virtuosos of the drawing world. She was a Character Designer and Illustrator on somewhere between 13 and 44 episodes of the show, depending upon which internet resource you trust. Her style was very unique and I had hoped and prayed (to the cardboard gods) that one day I would track down that needle in a haystack.
The sketch featuring my favorite character, Krieger, made it all the more imperative that I did not wait and jumped on this opportunity from my long-time source of all things Archer. April references Season 4's "Viscous Coupling" (Episode 5) in her artistic rendering of the good Doctor's tentacle porn escapades watching Fisherman's Wife II: The Re-Tentacling with his virtual girlfriend.
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