There are plenty of bigger trading card companies, but Monsterwax is the oldest one in America to exclusively produce Non-sports cards (since 1992). What really makes us different is that we produce original non-sports series on a regular basis. It's tragic that no one else is doing so. All the corporate companies are pursuing photo sets and rarely paint anything new or different. (They stopped in the 1990s.) That's because it's time consuming and expensive to commission new art or write real stories. They can knock out dozens of sets in the time it takes us to paint a single series. Shock Stories, for example, involved over a hundred new pieces of art and half as many original stories. It took over ten years to complete!

We're not criticizing the other guys. If exploiting Hollywood properties helps to sell more cards, great. But Non-sports can be much more than just promotional tie-ins for movie and tv franchises. In fact, all the best trading card classics created original art and stories. We're doing what we can to bring that tradition back.

We're not famous. We don't rely on actor autographs or other Hollywood inserts to sell our base sets, and we only have a few releases per year. But what we lack in quantity, we make up on quality. Join the effort to bring art, creativity, and fun back to Non-sports cards. Collect Monsterwax!