Courtesy of good friend and SWORA colleague Jose Fiuza here's some news from Randy Martinez himself:

Greeting Star Wars™ Fans! Celebration Japan is right around the corner and I am happy to announce there will once again be a Star Wars™ Artist's area. It's an esteemed group of artists from The United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

Artists include: Randy Martinez, Matt Busch, Tsuneo Sanda, Tsuyoshi Negano, Mark Mchaley, Spencer Brinkerhoff, Richard Chasemore, Malcolm Tween, Robert Hendrickson, Monte Moore, Otto Dieffenbach, Ryan Waterhouse, Erik Maell, Jason Poratz, Ralph McQuarrie, and Jason Palmer.

As many of you know Lucasfilm has once again granted the attending artists a one time License to sell limited Edition Prints at their Tables at Celebration Japan; just as they have for previous Star Wars™ Celebrations. Star Wars™ and Art collecting fans covet these prints, as they are only available at Star Wars™ Celebration Japan. To add to their exclusiveness each art design is limited to 250 prints. Read that again, only 250 Prints!

If you are going to Star Wars™ Celebration Japan, be sure to pick up these amazing Ultra Exclusive prints from the artists themselves! If you can't make use what ever jedi mind trick you know to get someone going to pick them up for you!

Celebration Japan will be an amazing experience, and I cannot wait to share it with my ultra talented friends. I am especially excited about my Limited Edition Print.

For my Limited Edition Print I wanted to do something really different, as this is the very first Official Star Wars™ Celebration in Japan and the Far East. It was important for me to bring a bit of American culture to SWCJ but I also wanted to show my respects to the Japanese traditions. So I created this piece that is inspired by both the “underground art” movement here in the United States, and traditional Japanese woodblock printing. You will notice the familiar tall vertical format of Japanese art, but you can also see the influence of underground art by the bold design and colors.

Staying true to both cultural influences each print is a HAND MADE Serigraph (or silk screen). Each print does not simply LOOK like an individual hand made piece of art, each piece IS a hand made piece of art.

The Theme of this piece is Darth Vader’s drive or burning motivation. Which is why I have titled this piece “Obsession”. Padme’s eyes seem to burn right through the back of Darth Vader’s Black Helmet, Haunting and tormenting him until he finds redemption.

The final details of this piece are the distinctive Japanese writing in the upper left hand side of this haunting piece. In Japanese it is pronounced “Shunen”, which means “an obsession, a deep attachment, tenacity, often used in a vile sense such as spite, a grudge or vindictiveness.”

All that in those two little characters!

For the final final detail, in the traditions of japans art, I have signed my name in Japanese along the lower right hand side.

Each piece is printed on 18 X 24 fine screen printing cover stock.

Each print will sell for 5400 JPY or $50 U.S. Dollars

I don’t know if you can tell, but I am very excited by this new piece I have created and cannot wait to make it available to all the fans.

But wait there is more!

In addition to this Limited Edition Print, I will also be drawing mini sketches, and 8 1/2X 11 sketches. But these are not ordinary sketches. Every sketch will bare the official Star Wars™ Celebration Japan Logo! These special sketches are only available during Star Wars™ Celebration Japan making these Sketches ULTRA RARE and UNIQUE!

I will also be selling my official Giclee Prints from Acme Archives. Bounty Hunters, Scoundrels, Indiana Jones-Eyes On adventure: Raiders, and Indiana Jones-Eyes On adventure: Crystal Skull. Each Giclee comes with a certificate of authenticity. Remarks are available by request.

To top my table off I will have lots of goodies available including program books from both Celebration Europe (The ever popular Sgt. Lucas) and Celebration IV.