I mentioned in this post that one of my responsibilities was composing the family holiday card. Each year I accept the challenge of destroying creatively editing a classic christmas carol and transforming it into a holiday greeting card that offends most right-thinking americans. Here is a blast from the past from the holiday season of 2004.
November 26, 2006 at 12:28 pm |
Did you draw those pictures? They are wonderful. Especially the cat with his head in the toilet.
Ignore this is you like: (One bit of editing advice though, you’ve used your instead of you’re in the verse next to the couch.)
November 26, 2006 at 6:54 pm |
Thanks Meno. I painted the illustrations, scanned them, and set the type.
Thanks for the editing suggestion…If I had noticed it, I would have definitely changed it before I sent out the card in 2004. You now how it is. Look at something long enough and you forget to actually read it
I plan on posting a copy of the 2005 before NaBloPoMo is over. For now, I’m slaving over the 2006 card.
November 27, 2006 at 11:07 am |
Sorry, i wouldn’t have mentioned the editing had i been paying attention enough to know that it had already been sent out.
I really like the pictues. Are you an illustrator?
November 27, 2006 at 10:05 pm |
I would be flattered to be considered something so glamourous as an illustrator…I’m more of a wannabe trying to find my way back into the fine arts. I worked in utilitarian, non-creative graphic design and printing for ten years. Now I’m trying to get back to the basics of drawing painting, and collage.
December 20, 2006 at 5:54 pm |
[...] As promised earlier, here’s this years card. If you care to look at the previous cards, you can check them out here and here. I promise, Ill resume making proper posts soon. [...]
December 9, 2007 at 11:54 pm |
[...] tradition of creating my own holiday cards. This year’s design is more complicated than the previous years’ attempts. Nonetheless, each year raises the bar, and complicates the construction [...]