How old fashioned? This old fashioned. My dad made Christmas cards each year back before a whole lot of technical advances, and here is the plate from his 1951 card to prove it. If you mouse over it, you'll see that I slugged it "cut" because that's what graphics were referred to back in the days of hot metal.
Hence the term "cutline" in place of what civilians call a "caption."
And here is the result, which went out to all our friends and relations and that's my nearly-two-year-old butt on the left. His job became more challenging as the years went by; eventually he had to fit seven of us into it.
Though somewhat aged in the interim, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and, to celebrate both the day and my dad's card, here is what else people could contemplate on December 25, 1951, and I'm putting Ella Cinders first because her title got snipped off:
(Mark's not in this strip, but I'm going to assume that's the Cherry he'll eventually marry.)
(I'm puzzled. It's not Snuffy, but Loweezy is name-checked, and it's still Barney's strip.)
Now here's your moment of ancient Yuletide zen:
At some point in my wee childhood, my folks got a silent 8-mm version of this 1951 film and it was added to things we needed to watch regularly.
When I say it was silent, I mean the film itself and not the projectionist, who was in the back of the room muttering to himself and dealing with sprockets and bulbs and other aspects of a 1950s technology that has since been marvelously improved. His ability to consistently stop just short of profanity fills me, in retrospect, with wonder.
Merry Christmas!!
Posted by: Christine | 12/25/2017 at 09:53 AM
Merry Christmas Mike. And thank you for all you do. Every morning I anticipate 8:30 AM. Peace.
Dave
Posted by: Dave from Philadelphia | 12/25/2017 at 09:57 AM
Merry Christmas, Mike and everyone. And thank you for sharing the card and plate. Is that a shmoo that you've crawled under?
(I make my cards, too, but with the aid of a camera, software, and laser printer. Now I just have to send them. I bet your father had his cards in the mail well before the 25th.)
Posted by: phred | 12/25/2017 at 10:31 AM
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Merry Kwanza Too!
Ho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493Qs--Lj0Q
Posted by: Brad Walker | 12/25/2017 at 03:35 PM
Merry Christmas, Bodacious Boxing Day, and thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Paul Berge | 12/25/2017 at 07:14 PM
Thanks for the memories ! (I may have been reading those funnies on my own by then, but probably my Dad and I were still reading them together.)
Posted by: Mary McNeil | 12/25/2017 at 07:55 PM
Loved your Dad's Xmas plate
Posted by: Mark Johnson | 12/26/2017 at 06:02 PM