A visit from the Ghost of Christmas Cards Past.This one goes back almost 20 years – it was my first greeting card sale. The landscape version was a postcard I sent out as a direct-mail promo. I was contacted about a week later by a greeting card company wanting to buy it. I was pretty psyched to make the sale, but then I found out I would have to reformat it to portrait – it drove me crazy trying to recompose all of those elements (Elvises), and took longer than the original drawing. The greeting card company got a cease-and-desist from the Elvis estate, but fought back, reached a compromise, and the card stayed in print for about 10 years. I only have the inks, but the printed greeting-card was in color. I thought about re-colorizing it, but my style's changed a lot over the years... maybe it's time to just redraw this one.
Have a Hunka Burnin' Holiday!
©1992 Barry/Right-Hemisphere Laboratory
5 comments:
Very cool!
great story, thanks for sharing that! I gotta agree: it's always easier to just start from scratch than try to "fix" things! Good work!
What's that they say about great minds thinking alike.....
Fantastic cartooning! I love the zombie Elvis.
It is great to see your old pen & ink days. Great concept and drawing. I am glad the greeting card company persisted to your benefit.
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