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December 21, 2012

“Cartoons Drawn On the Back of Business Cards”, 15-year anniversary

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[“Shark Bar”]

It’s a story I’ve told many times over the years:

When I first lived in Manhat­tan in Decem­ber, 1997 I got into the habit of dood­ling on the back of busi­ness cards, just to give me something to do while sit­ting at the bar. The for­mat stuck.

It was 15 years ago this week that I star­ted this adven­ture, Christ­mas, 1997.

Of all the early ones, “Shark Bar” is the oldest one on record [Backs­tory here]. Here’s a pic­ture I took of the ori­gi­nal, five minu­tes ago:

Over the years I’ve done lots of them. Ten thou­sand at last count, and that was a few years ago.

I’ve had many adven­tu­res in my career; this by far has been the grea­test of them. I am so thank­ful, there are no words.

Merry Christ­mas, Everybody.

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