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Can you identify these signatures?

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I was looking at my Baltimore Comic Con Yearbook trying to figure out all the signatures and I'm having a hard time with two of them.
Please let me know if you recognize any of the following. It's driving my crazy.

I have no clue who the second one is.
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This looks like an Amy or Lucy. Too bad no one with that name contributed to the book. :lol:
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This is why I'll be getting signatures on the actual art for now on. I can't remember who's who. :?
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Here's the list of artists who were actually at the show.
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Them's tough.... I'm no help here. :?

Do you recall 'who' you had sign, to narrow it down?

Or, try asking a pharmacist to decipher them... :wink:
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This is why I'll be getting signatures on the actual art for now on. I can't remember who's who.
This made it sound like I actually went around getting the signatures. :oops: That wasn't the case.

Someone from the Dojoboard picked it up for me. They couldn't remember who the artists were either.
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After spending an hour on comic art fans I came to the conclusion that the first sig I was missing was Craig Rousseau. Only two more to go.

Good thing I had nothing better to do today.
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haha.... way to go Gaffey! :P

Now I see it - "Craig R" :lol:
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I would try to confirm 100% on the first one, but the Craig Rousseau piece I won from the CAPS auction doesn't have his signature on it!
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I just figured out the one I thought said Amy/Lucy is Terry Moore. I was looking at signed art on eBay and it looks just like it. Only one to go!

My only guess is Ken Hunt. I'm giving up for the day. :P
Mayhem wrote:I would try to confirm 100% on the first one, but the Craig Rousseau piece I won from the CAPS auction doesn't have his signature on it!
I think he signs some of his more detailed pieces with a C! and others (mostly sketches) with his name.

Edit: Yep, I just looked at yours and it's the C!. Which you already knew. Great pick up.
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You've got two right, Craig Rousseau (page 18) and Terry Moore (who did the tip-in, not a page in the book). The third is Rich Woodall, page 34.

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My signature has evolved or devolved over the years into a series of curly cues. Is it still legible as being me. Twenty years ago it was very blocky letters, similar to how I sign it on my art in the box. I often draw Usagi along with it so people know it's me.
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Stan, your "chop mark" is as blocky as a signature can get! :wink:

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Shadowfax wrote:Stan, your "chop mark" is as blocky as a signature can get! :wink:

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Ah, but I am talking about my actual signature as in the middle of Gaffey's page. Actually, that is my autograph. My signature is different.
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Oops, I've been calling them signatures instead of autographs.
Shadowfax wrote:You've got two right, Craig Rousseau (page 18) and Terry Moore (who did the tip-in, not a page in the book). The third is Rich Woodall, page 34.

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Wow!, the autograph under Craig Rousseau is Rich Woodall? I never would have guessed that. On page 34 it sort of looks like a greater than sign, then an apostrophe and then a less than sign. When I looked him up on comic art fans he just printed his full name on the art. Of course I didn't go through all 100+ images. Now I can get a good night's sleep. Thanks.
Stan Sakai wrote:My signature has evolved or devolved over the years into a series of curly cues. Is it still legible as being me. Twenty years ago it was very blocky letters, similar to how I sign it on my art in the box. I often draw Usagi along with it so people know it's me.
:lol: If Usagi wasn't attached I don't know if I'd know it was yours. Assuming I hadn't seen it so many times.

How do you choose how you're going to sign your watercolors? I noticed on some you put an S, some you sign in cursive, some are just SAKAI and others are signed SAKAI with the year.
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Went looking through my copy of the yearbook when I got home, but by the time I went online I see it's all been figured out. I would have never guessed Rich Woodall!
Terry Moore is obvious now... but I never thought of him since his name isn't on the alphabetical listing .... :|
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maichan wrote:Went looking through my copy of the yearbook when I got home, but by the time I went online I see it's all been figured out. I would have never guessed Rich Woodall!
Terry Moore is obvious now... but I never thought of him since his name isn't on the alphabetical listing .... :|
I didn't think about that either. They listed 4 of the 5 tip-in plate artists.

Maybe they meant to put Terry Moore where Tradd Moore is. I don't remember a Tradd Moore piece in the book.
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