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Life is full of little moments. One can choose to embrace these occurrences as they happen, or just let them slide into the subconscious where they lie in limbo never to resurface again. Nostalgia. Remembering the past. I chose to embrace these memories through art by applying the techniques used from my grandfather’s autograph collection.

Did I imagine after only five years that I would have been fortunate enough to meet and correspond with some of the most influential artists spanning many genres and styles? No. I was brought up at an early age reading comic books, as I grew older, I eventually found myself standing among thousands of people at the Rosemont Convention Center for Wizard World 1999. The cramped passageways, loud noises, and individuals from all over the world was my first encounter with a comic book convention. I saw fans handing out sketchbooks to artists and purchasing commissions for them to scribble something , an original work, for their collection. This intrigued me, that someone would take time out their schedule and actually draw something specifically for you. Something like this was much more personal than say an autograph or even purchasing artwork that has been published before. After the show ended, my desire to collect artwork continued to soar. While comic book conventions usually only occur once a year in a given city, it would become too costly to travel across the nation acquiring art. I needed to find a way to continue this throughout the year and to make it efficient to do this through the mail. There would be too great a risk to send out a sketchbook through the mail for fear of it becoming lost. I remembered seeing postcards with First Day stamps whereby syndicated cartoonists would autograph it along with putting a doodle of their most known character on it, then mailing it back to the person. So, I drew from this, along with my grandfather’s movie star autograph collection on index cards, and decided to mail a card along with the return postage to some illustrators to see if I received anything back, this was my humble beginning, a 17-year-old engaging in mail art. I don’t claim to have invented the genre of mail art, that credit, I believe goes to Ray Johnson in the 1940’s who would embellish envelopes with collages and send them through the postal system. I do believe though, that I have made this form of collecting artwork through the mail more accepting to a wide array of artists worldwide.

These moments make up the whole process of collecting. From meeting comic book legends such as Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, S. Clay Wilson, and Spain Rodriguez, to inspiring a Ukraine based art company to create a new line of 4x6 erotic art cards, these are memories and relationships I can only hope to build upon. People have called me a genius as well as a madman, but I only label myself as a collector.

It gives me great pleasure to present my 4x6 art collection to the public. My eternal gratitude goes to everyone who has been involved with the cards, this could not be possible without you all. Enjoy the galleries.

Jeremy Vincent Adolphson


Anyone who is interested in being part of the website, or who would like to decorate a 4x6 card, feel free to email me at: Lededglass@aol.com

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UPDATED 8/9/2007