Thumpety-thump-thump

In case you missed it in the papers and on TV, it's Christmas Season again. It means that it's also time for me to do my annual Christmas card. Waaaaaay back in 1993, I decided to design my own Christmas cards with a little cartoon on them. They were just simple photocopied and cut cards that went out to fifty people or so. Since that time, they've changed to become full-color cards and go out to much more than just those original fifty people. They're an advertising piece as well as a Holiday wish.

The hardest part as usual is coming up with the joke. My first cartoon card was a Politically Correct Christmas where the carollers were singing "And in the winter we can build a snowperson, and pretend that he's a non-denominational minister…" That's set the standard both in the format (joke on front, bonus joke on back) and in how funny I want the card to be.

This year's? Well, they haven't gone out yet, so you don't get to see them until they do. Here's a preview of the art for the card, though, featuring a certain snowman who's been the subject of a song and a couple Rankin-Bass specials.