it ends as i began...

Befitting this series should end with the first card I did- Santa skankin' to the holiday beat. Ah, I was a young buck back then. Happily this piece isn't as excruciating as it could be, given its twenty year vintage. I hope y'all have enjoyed these holiday greetings & perhaps you've even ended up sendin' off a couple to friends & family, or at the very least, one or two have made you smile, or maybe even warmed a cockle or two...

Cue up Fishbone's "It's a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time) in one, two &...

santa gets detained...

More righteous indignation, this time from '01, casting Santa as the perfect detainee, showing all good folk that Bush's oh-so-Constitution-usurping policies would not only ruin our country as a whole but Christmas as well~

holiday pieta...

Apologies to Michelangelo~

best holiday gift ever...

This card is from '99 when my lovely bride was pregnant.
'nuff said~

seasonal equality...

Late 90's, trying to impress a pretty girl (who would later become my lovely bride) with my clumsy attempts at animal rights, worker's solidarity, et al.~

bush's brain...

From '02, Santa delivering exactly the right present to the right person~

for those who agree with our goals...

Here's one from '04 right after Kerry's heartbreaking loss to Bush.

Santa's list reflects a nation divided indeed~

performance anxiety...

This one brings the funny...

santa's got a brand new climate...

Doctored e-mails or not, Santa knows the truth about global warming~

some of the images will be in red as I am scanning from the actual cards in the instances where I no longer have the original works.

season's greetings in which we can believe...

This was last year's card which got some play around the inter-webs, again no comment really necessary~

again feel free to share at will...

holiday chads...

Man, was I pissed in 2000...

12 days o' x-mas...

Okay, in all honesty, I am deliberating at this point whether to continue to boadcast these "very secret monster things" to the worldwide web. Now that "Design For Obama" has hit the stands, I'm not feeling it as much as I did. Perhaps that will change in the new year. But whilst I dither, I give you, my dear readers, a lil' present~

For the past twenty some odd years (& some have been very odd indeed!), I have created holiday cards for friends & family to celebrate the season. Although I waiver between atheism & agnosticism, my belief in this most wonderful time of the year & the spirit of giving & sharing therein has never been stronger.
My holiday scribblings started with a skankin' Santa, rockin' to the holiday groove (replete with "Fishbone" tattoo), & have continued unabated up until this year's oh-so-topical health care entreaty. The cards have ranged from personal to political to downright ridiculous (I will spare you "Zombie Claus"!), & during the next twelve days, I will share with you some of my favorites (complete with whatever necessary context) starting with this year's ink-stained holiday greeting.

Please feel free to save, send, print, & otherwise share in any way you'd like in the spirit of the season as it were...

Comments are appreciated & well within the nature of the season, don'tcha' think?