This card went to Lora Ray. I should be able to say something nice about her but since part of our relationship involves insulting each other I wouldn’t want to break tradition.

Doesn’t it look more delicious now?

This card is supposed to go to Jordan and Louisa. It’s still sitting on the kitchen table. I keep forgetting to get their address from the database at work. Silly me.

When I started sketching out this portrait my first inclination was to make the doctor more “realistic”, more three dimensional, more like a real biological organism. After looking at a few pictures for reference I decided that, for this illustration at least, I would have more fun doing Zoidberg as the cartoon he is.

This card went to Kip and Jenn in Portland. There’s nothing particularly zoidbergian about either one of them but the card seemed to want to have their address on it. Who am I to argue with the universe?

When I watched the movie Harvey I was sort of disappointed when Elwood identitified his friend as a pooka; a fairy. Somehow Harvey seemed a little less special when he was one of a species of somethings.

I notice that it’s only been remade as a television movie. The 1950 version is the only theatrical version. No one’s thought to do it as a teenage sex comedy?

This one went to my Aunt Sylvia. She lives down in California. I chose this card for her after I remembered that my mother had once acted in a production of Harvey. She played the nurse.

One of the hazards of working with dark color on my old iMac is that the monitor runs dark so if there are odd variations in color I only see them when I look at the imagge on another machine. If I were doing this illustration for a client I would have thought to check that. Since we’re all friends here you get to see where my black ink ends and where the digital black fillin begins. Ah well.

Here’s our diseasedzombiemutantpsychofreakwhatever with a little color in his cheeks. And boils. And pustules.

I sent this one to John Gerboth. John and I shared a locker for four years in high school. Strangely enough this resulted in us being good friends. Considering that we hadn’t thought much of each prior to high school that’s a pretty fortunate occurance.

And then came the color.