{"id":1241,"date":"2008-12-27T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T20:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2008-12-27T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T21:57:19","slug":"cartoonists-christmas-cards-ive-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Cartoonists’ Christmas\/Holiday Cards I’ve Received"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Spurgeon over at ComicsReporter.com has posted a selection of holiday cards he’s received from cartoonists<\/a> and I thought maybe with my Christmas traveling wrapped up I’d do the same.\u00a0 He’s already got J. Chris Campbell’s card posted, but I’ll repost here just in case.\u00a0 Starting off, I’ll highlight the most impressive card I’ve received this year–from Oni’s Chris Schweizer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

First off, Chris gets serious points for sending an actual, physical card.\u00a0 Most folks these days do a bulk email, which certainly has its advantages, but there’s nothing like getting an actual card in the mail (especially for us cartoonists, who tend to be pitiful shut-ins for whom the daily mail delivery is often the highlight of our day).\u00a0 Upon inspection, the “card” appears to be a regular old piece of mail:<\/p>\n

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But, when you flip the thing over, you see that it’s actually a minicomic!<\/p>\n

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And, yeah, it’s a full-on six-page mini that’s all about what the Schweizers have been up to in the past year.\u00a0 Here’s a page that contains two things that made me laugh out loud: the drawing of “Sassy” and the name “Uncle Hamhock.”<\/p>\n

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And here’s another actual card that came in the mail (yay!).\u00a0 This one’s from SLG and features an illustration by the great Scott Saavedra:<\/p>\n

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Here’re a few that arrived via email.\u00a0 Starting from the top, the first is from the Center for Cartoon Studies, drawn by Chris Wright; then, the unmistakable babe-atude of Rob Ullman, and finally J. Chris Campbell’s card\/ornament<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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For what it’s worth, here’s our card for this year which I’d intended to silkscreen, but wound up just doing as a color laser print since apparently Osama Bin Laden is hording all the world’s remaining Gocco supplies in his underground sugar cave in Pakistan:<\/p>\n

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Tom Spurgeon over at ComicsReporter.com has posted a selection of holiday cards he’s received from cartoonists and I thought maybe with my Christmas traveling wrapped up I’d do the same.\u00a0 He’s already got J. Chris Campbell’s card posted, but I’ll repost here just in case.\u00a0 Starting off, I’ll highlight the most impressive card I’ve received … <\/p>\n

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