Gareb Shamus

The NEW Lex Luthor joins the @starpicscards StarPics collection! Been a big fan of Nicholas Hoult since his role as Beast in X-Men First Class. With his big Superman film debut, Nicholas is now cemented in the superhero (or super villain) world. Every card comes CGC and JSA…

RIP @OzzyOsbourne 💔- we were lucky at StarPics @starpicscards to have an autograph signing with Ozzy late last year. He loved to two cards we created, all @CGCCards and @JSALOA authenticated

Image was on fire! There was an insatiable appetite to know what they were doing, working on, and what was next. It was too much to squeeze into a monthly issue of Wizard, so we HAD to do something SPECIAL. This cover is a masterpiece, I don’t think anything like this had been…

Jae Lee was just getting started and I loved his art, it was different, refreshing, had a distinguished look to it, you knew it was ‘Jae Lee’ when you saw it. Back in those days, we took a lot of chances, we weren’t afraid to try something new, be bold, and give creators a…

Huge Maxx fan and an even bigger fan of Sam Kieth’s art. Sam is a smart and introverted artist, and always got along great with him. I’m pretty sure I did the interview with Sam for this issue, what was I thinking? I was soooo busy at the time and doing the interview was fine, I…

This was a EUREKA moment for us! We discovered gold (and blue), the power of Wolverine. I don’t think there’s a character that has graced our covers more or had the significant impact on sales as Wolverine, not even close. I think we did everything we could to cover Wolverine…

Back to a ‘Wittman’ cover - iykyk ;), do I need to say?!? I was a BIG Spider-Man fan and loved Venom, so this was an easy call to make, plus add in Carnage and it creates a very dynamic trio. It was great working with Wittman since he has an incredible sense of design, layout…

We were doing a lot to promote Valiant at that time, I was close with the CEO and also Jim Shooter (RIP 🙏🏼💔) at the time. David Lapham was a great artist and definitely an up-and-comer. We did ok on sales in the direct market, but this did terrible on the newsstand. Come to…

This cover was PEEK STESS for me!! I was definitely feeling ambitious, probably too ambitious. We were coming off of a huge three issue run with covers by McFarlane, Lee, and Liefeld, and thought we could go deeper into the new Image-verse. This issue had to go to all four guys…

This definitely was an interesting cover in a few ways. First off, HUGE @WhilcePortacio fan from the earliest of times, and he knows that!! lol. This was not actually a cover art piece. I was meeting with Whilce and checking out his Wetworks art and he had these full size…

We were way ahead of the curve here, doing an all female superhero cover in 1992!! Working with Art Thibert on this was great, since it was a true collaboration on design, which characters, how they were positioned, incredible execution. Wizard was slightly wider format than a…

I loved Nelson’s paintings, and he’s an incredible guy, very funny, super nice guy. At the time I started Wizard, not only did we have to be ready to create/print the magazine well in advance of the street date, but the materials we needed to send the distributors (cover, main…

Incredible story on @starpicscards and me in this issue of Non-Sports Update. What an incredibly exciting time in the trading card industry to launch a new global brand of high end collectible cards with the biggest names in entertainment.

Working with @JimLee on this cover was a huge accomplishment for me personally (and Wizard). I was friendly with Jim at the time and was speaking with him about working together, but it was still early days and we needed to prove ourselves a little more. Jim was also coming off…

This cover represented a monumental shift at Wizard, we were under a year old, and had so much exclusive info from Todd McFarlane about Spawn and Image, and our sales exploded. Insane time from this moment on. Wow.

Amazing cover by “Wittman”, I’m sure we all know who that is by now ;) I was a huge Venom fan back then, this cover blew me away when I saw it for the first time. Wow.

Happy July 4th!

Lots of sleepless nights to get that issue to press! Who knew what would emerge after all of our wonderful fans got behind us and pushed us to the moon. 🙏🏼🤗🙏🏼