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FAN-FAVORITE ARTISTS DISCUSS WHAT MAKES STAR WARS CELEBRATION MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE.

When it comes to being a member of the Star Wars community, whether you’re a fan or a pro, a podcaster or writer or just someone who loves watching and reading the end product, there’s nothing quite like Star Wars Celebration. At the 2017 edition, Star Wars Celebration Orlando, that was apparent all over, from the show floor where cosplayers stopped for photos, often with children, representing their favorite characters, to panels where fans got to see the maker himself, George Lucas, hold court, or at fan meet-ups for favorite characters like Ahsoka Tano, at Celebration, it’s impossible not to feel at home with your fellow attendees.

That feeling is underlined, bolded, and exclamation-pointed by the artists of the Star Wars Celebration Art Show, a recurring part of the event that showcases some of the best artists in Star Wars history, with officially licensed, commemorative, limited prints honoring the galaxy far, far away. It’s a different experience for most of these artists, who also attend comic conventions, hometown shows and signings, and often work with many other properties.

“For me, the difference is it’s all Star Wars, all the time,” prolific artist and writer Katie Cook says of Celebration. Cook, an accomplished artist, has been published by several comic book companies, and has worked in Star Wars in books, prints, and even those stickers you probably still love sharing on Facebook! Her Celebration Orlando print, “Making Friends,” is seen to the right. “If I’m setting up at a regular comic convention, I’ve got my Gronk stuff, I’ve got My Little Pony because I used to work on that, I’ve got 10 years worth of stuff I’ve worked on. This show, I just bring the print! We all have our official licensed print for the show, and that’s what we’re here to promote, here to sell, and luckily I sold everything!”

Cook says that there is one danger at Celebration, however.

“I have to get corralled back in! I love Star Wars. I’ll get texts from my husband [at the Art Show table] saying, ‘Where are you?’” she says with a laugh.

That love of Star Wars is shared across the Art Show, where one of the first words out of most of the artists’ mouths about the experience is “family.”

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