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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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December 25, 2011

My Christmas Message:

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[Link:] Per­so­nent Hodie.

1. Per­so­nent hodie

voces pue­ru­lae,

lau­dan­tes iucunde

qui nobis est natus,

summo Deo datus,

et de vir­gi­neo ven­tre procreatus.

2. in mundo nascitur,

pan­nis involvitur

prae­sepi ponitur

sta­bulo brutorum,

rec­tor supernorum.

per­di­dit spo­lia prin­ceps infernorum.

3. magi tres venerunt,

par­vu­lum inquirunt,

par­vu­lum inquirunt,

ste­llu­lam sequendo,

ipsum ado­rando,

aurum, thus, et myrrham ei offerendo.

4. omnes clericuli,

pari­ter pueri,

can­tent ut angeli:

adve­nisti mundo,

lau­des tibi fundo.

ideo glo­ria in excelsis Deo.

Merry Christ-Mass, Everybody.

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December 16, 2011

No Jokes

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[Sent out ear­lier in today’s newsletter…]

I am for­tu­nate to have lived in Bri­tain. It taught me JUST HOW DIRE some office par­ties can be. They have Christmas-office-party dire­ness down to an art form. So I wan­ted to make a Xmas car­toon that paid tri­bute to that. With a great deal of affec­tion, I might add…

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December 25, 2007

merry christmas, everybody!

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[Link:] Per­so­nent Hodie.

1. Per­so­nent hodie
voces pue­ru­lae,
lau­dan­tes iucunde
qui nobis est natus,
summo Deo datus,
et de vir­gi­neo ven­tre proc­rea­tus.
2. in mundo nas­ci­tur,
pan­nis invol­vi­tur
prae­sepi poni­tur
sta­bulo bru­to­rum,
rec­tor super­no­rum.
per­di­dit spo­lia prin­ceps infer­no­rum.
3. magi tres vene­runt,
par­vu­lum inqui­runt,
par­vu­lum inqui­runt,
ste­llu­lam sequendo,
ipsum ado­rando,
aurum, thus, et myrrham ei offe­rendo.
4. omnes cle­ri­culi,
pari­ter pueri,
can­tent ut angeli:
adve­nisti mundo,
lau­des tibi fundo.
ideo glo­ria in excel­sis Deo.

Merry Christ-Mass, Everybody.

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December 23, 2007

all light

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[Merry Christ­mas, Everybody!!!!]

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