Trapper Keeper artist search

November 27, 2007 2:59 PM

My friend and I were wondering about the exaggerated artwork on old Trapper Keepers. He recalls seeing some sports-themed pieces by the same artist. It's quite a detailed, caricature sort of style. Anyone know who did them?
posted by ktoad to media & arts (5 comments total)

This thread at Making Light about fantasy book cover artists might yield some names you can search on.
posted by LobsterMitten at 4:37 PM on November 27, 2007

I believe that's the work of Mark Fredrickson (some portfolios of newer work)

Re: his exaggerated perspective, quoted in a blurb about a Mad magazine cover he did: "I was experimenting with distortion as a means of heightening the drama in a scene"
posted by moift at 4:55 PM on November 27, 2007

It just might be, moift! I've sent off an e-mail to confirm it. Thanks for the name.
posted by ktoad at 5:09 PM on November 27, 2007

I couldn't confirm it via web search, but I'm pretty sure that Mr. Fredrickson did cover art for whatever company published the Sunday school materials I was given as a teen in a Pentecostal church back in the nineties.
posted by bonobo at 6:10 PM on November 27, 2007

He also did the cover for (MeFite) Charlie Stross' The Atrocity Archives. Perhaps he can get in touch with the artist more easily than we can.
posted by wzcx at 9:38 AM on November 28, 2007