THE STAR WARS GRAPHER

Thank you for visiting my page in cyber space.  This is a chance for me to showcase my collection, which includes Star Wars actor/actress autographs, Metallica vintage and modern autographs, Rock-N-Roll autograph collection, Star Trek autographs and one of my favorite areas of collecting, Carlton Fisk.  I've always wanted to do this and I finally got up the nerve to give it a shot.   Anything listed on this site, is part of my personal collection and is not for sale.  I do not sell autographs, I just collect them, sorry!  

Like millions of other people across the country, I grew up with the Star Wars movies.  In the early 1990's I finally decided I really wanted to focus my collecting in the Star Wars genre. In 1992, Harrison Ford was a visitor to Chicago to film the movie "The Fugitive".  Since I had been actively getting autographs from celebrities and music stars I knew where most celebrities stayed while in Chicago.  My first experience was nerving to say the least with Ford, and I ended up getting one picture signed and talking to him for several moments.  From that moment on I was hooked on Star Wars autographs and since that time I have assembled one of the larger and more diverse SW collections around. 

I also enjoy collecting autographs from my favorite band Metallica.  I've been lucky enough to see them perform 26 times since 1991 and I've also met the band members numerous times, too many to recall.  After getting fed up at collecting the modern signatures of the band I shifted my focus to pre-1987 autographs from the band, specifically the era when the original basist Cliff Burton was alive.  As you will see, I have one of the most diverse and unique Metallica autograph collections in existence.

I hope you enjoy viewing the signatures that I have featured here.  Countless hours of waiting outside hotels, standing in lines at shows and mailing requests away have been put into making this collection a reality.  I'm going to try and update the site as much as possible and I hope you come back frequently. 

So I'm lazy, I can't help myself!  Honestly, I'm always doing other stuff except working on my website.  I've actually been adding a bunch of stuff and changing up some of the pages.  Mainly the movie pages for the six Star Wars films and I'm giving them each their own page.  It's alot of work and I must admit I'm terribly far behind schedule.  I was really hoping to have this re-tooling finished by now (it's March!) but I'm still working on it.

The last few months have been quite kind to my Star Wars collection and I've been fortunate enough to get a boatload of new Star Wars autographs in person including Harrison Ford, George Lucas, Dennis Lawson, Gil Taylor, Alec Mills, Peter Suschintzky, Lawrence Kasdan, Joe Johnston and Rick Baker.  I have added most of those to the site and there are some fantastic pieces.  Getting Joe Johnston was a goal of mine for years and years and it was finally accomplished in early February when he was in Los Angeles promoting The Wolfman.  The movie panned but he signed up a storm and it was great meeting this iconic Star Wars figure.

I have alot planned for the up and coming year including plenty of house calls and more shows..  I'm still contemplating attending Celebration V and I certainly hope they come up with a good guest list.  I can certainly hold out hope that a Bob Anderson, Ian McDiarmid, John Morton or John Ratzenberger will make a rare appearance. 

I promise to update the site more often.  I've really been putting alot of attention lately on finishing up my changes.

Enjoy the site and thank you for visiting.

What's new?  What a question to ask me!!!!  Alot, just check out some of the images below and mind you, this is just Star Wars.  I can't wait to update my Indiana Jones stuff.