Upper Crust · Series 1

Road 8ten slices, all drawn by hand

Road 8 drew ten pizza characters on blank Upper Crust sketch cards, one card at a time. Each drawing became a printed card. Here's the whole set, every parallel, and the originals they came from.

10Cards in the set
4Chase versions
1Parallel in every pack
1 in 5Packs with a gold holo
Oct 24 & 25Sat & Sun

First at the Philly Non-Sports Card Show

The packs debut at the 85th Philly Non-Sports Card Show, Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, Hall E, 100 Station Ave, Oaks, PA. Saturday 10 to 5, Sunday 10 to 3. Find us at the Trading Card Memories table.

Road 8 will be there.
Come say hi and get your cards signed.

the checklist

The set

Ten cards, numbered RD8-01 to RD8-10. Switch versions to see every parallel, or see the hand drawn original each card came from. Tap a card to turn it over.

The base cards. Four of these in every pack.

Every card's back has a QR code. Scan it and it opens that card's page in the Upper Crust Library.

the chase

The chase

Same ten drawings, four new looks. Three parallels, one in every pack, and a gold holo one of one for every card.

Pizza Love, pepperoni parallel

Pepperoni

2 of each card

The whole card soaked in pepperoni red. Twenty in packs.

Thurmond Weatherbad, ink parallel

Ink

2 of each card

Black and white, the way the lines look before color goes in. Twenty in packs.

Berry Bad, negative parallel

Negative

1 of each card

Every color flipped. One of each card, ten in packs.

Pizza Bites, gold holo

Gold holo

One of one

Printed in house on rainbow holo board. One of each card, ten in all, each one a bonus sixth card in its pack, with 1/1 printed on the front.

VersionOf each cardIn the runOdds
Base202004 in every pack
Pepperoni2202 packs in 5
Ink2202 packs in 5
Negative1101 pack in 5
Gold holo1 of 110Bonus card, 1 pack in 5

Fifty packs, five cards each, and one of the five is always a parallel. Ten of the packs also hold a sixth card: a gold holo, one of one.

sketch to card

It starts by hand

Every card in the set began as a single drawing on a blank Upper Crust sketch card. The original stays one of a kind. Its art becomes the card in your pack.

Road 8's original sketch card for Big Nose Jawn
The original
Big Nose Jawn, the printed card
The card

Big Nose Jawn

Road 8's original sketch card for Mike the Pizza Frog
The original
Mike the Pizza Frog, the printed card
The card

Mike the Pizza Frog

Road 8's original sketch card for Slug Slice
The original
Slug Slice, the printed card
The card

Slug Slice

The back of Big Nose Jawn: a chalkboard back with the title, Art by Road 8, and a QR code

flip it over

Scan the back

Every card has the same chalkboard back with its own title and number, RD8-01 to RD8-10.

  • The QR code opens that card's page in the Upper Crust Library.
  • There you'll see Road 8's hand drawn original, and every version of the card.
  • Each original has its own Library number, so it can always be checked.

See Library No. 1

rip one

Five cards a pack

Four base cards and one parallel in every foil pack, fifty packs in all. One pack in five gets a bonus sixth card, a gold holo one of one. The packs wear three different labels, mixed through the run.

Pack label with a black and neon paint splatter background Pack label with a red and yellow comic halftone background Pack label with a purple and lime background

Follow Road 8

More slices on the way.