My Xmas panel (previously teased out here) that ran in last year's Sundays section (subscribers "get it" first). It's also doubling as this year's Xmas card, which gets handed out in person, and mailed out to inlaws + the handful of relatives still alive or not on the shit list. At least the ones who send me one first, so I don't have to do the requisite detective work finding out where they get snail mail.
Actually that always just reminds me how most folks are grown-ups by now and thus have had a house for many, many years where they've since lived and raised a family, and haven't moved around like a migratory peasant. Ah yes, the twenty-fifth of December, where I get both of the year's most depressing events over with both in one day.
But seriously, folks light up when you actually hand them a card, as in a tangible, physical object that manifests and encapsulates all those feelings into an actual thing that they can throw away later. One of the meta-reasons print media is still the main, original "platform" for my work is how I deeply appreciate the opportunity to directly give readers a sort of a "card" via the newspaper. Which they can still throw away.
Here's also a bonus watercolored version I know, it's confusing, as I leave the freshest material unreleased on social media, usually staggered a year later or at least a few month after it appears in print (Instagram posts are mostly scheduled two years after publication). Membership, or in this case, subscription has it's privileges. Still on the scale of specialness, nothing beats the real thing, especially while doing a demo and making something appear for the first time.
... plus a bonus teaser of what'll appear in print this weekend. Stay safe folks, and thanks for reading: CHEERS
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