Artist R.K. Post Confirmed for New York Comic Con

TJ Collectibles, Inc. is proud to announce that famed artist R.K. Post will be in attendance at this year’s New York Comic Con, which is the east coast’s biggest and most exciting popular culture convention with over 96,000 attendees in 2010!

TJ Collectibles will be at this years New York Comic Con bringing you all kinds of awesome Magic the Gathering action including, but not limited to, Mini-Master events, Intro Pack League (featuring Innistrad), single-elimination 8-player events, 4-player EDH events and more! We’re planning a simple, but fun event schedule this year with awesome prizes that you won’t want to miss. Please see our event calender for further details as they become available.

Don’t know how to play Magic? No problem! We’ll be running demos, too!

Finally, our online store will be on site both buying and selling all Magic the Gathering products, as well as accessories such as sleeves, deck boxes and more!

R.K. Post Bio:

A farmboy from Illinois with a gift for sketching, was planning on a career as a veterinarian until illustration finally took over in his extensive college experience.  By his graduation from Northern Illinois University in 1994, rk post was freelancing for the fantasy gaming industry doing interior illustration for several major game companies, gradually teaching himself how to paint with acrylics and eventually oils. rk garnered a staff illustration position at TSR and after its acquisition, continued in this capacity with new parent company Wizards of the Coast painting cover illustrations for games and novels. Passionate about expanding his skill set, rk moved into 2D and 3D art for videogames in addition to his ongoing freelance illustrations for Magic the Gathering and other franchises. He currently works full time as a senior artist for Big Fish Games.

Rk’s freelance career continues to flourish, with clients including White Wolf, WizKids, Fanpro, Microsoft (Mythica, X Box), LucasFilm, 20th Century Fox (both Aliens VS Predator), Sega (Dreamcast), Nintendo, Ballantine Books, Science Fiction Book Club, Hasbro (televsion and animation), Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, the History Channel, and Blizzard Entertainment (Daiblo 2, Worlds of Warcraft) and SOE (The Agency). rk post published his first volume of collected works in the hard cover release, Postmortem: the Art of rk post. Though this first edition has completely sold out, it still appears on amazon.com as one of the more valuable fantasy art books in trade. A second volume continues to be in the works.  News, art, and connecting can also be found at http://www.facebook.com/rkpostart, twitter @postrk,  http://www.linkedin.com/in/rkpost, and now on Google+ .