{"id":10005,"date":"2012-10-07T07:26:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T12:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:08:12","slug":"happy-birthday-tina-the-2012-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina-the-2012-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Tina! The 2012 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/happy-birthday-tina-2012.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10007\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina-the-2012-edition\/happy-birthday-tina-2012\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/happy-birthday-tina-2012.jpg?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"happy-birthday-tina-2012\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/happy-birthday-tina-2012.jpg?fit=640%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10007\" title=\"happy-birthday-tina-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/happy-birthday-tina-2012.jpg?resize=640%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/happy-birthday-tina-2012.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/happy-birthday-tina-2012.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/happy-birthday-tina-2012.jpg?resize=250%2C125&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>This is the 2012 edition of my birthday card to Tina. This is the front or outside of the card.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and this is the inside of the card which marks the <strong>Triumphant Return<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/20\/cosmic-maaaannnnnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina-the-2012-edition\/cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside.jpg?fit=800%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside.jpg?fit=640%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10006\" title=\"cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside.jpg?resize=640%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cosmic-man-2-w-star-field-inside.jpg?resize=250%2C125&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><em>Happy birthday, Tina!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 2012 edition of my birthday card to Tina. This is the front or outside of the card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,7,4],"tags":[17,8,312,912,911,27,3664,1993,913,43,3661,5,1990,1991,915,917,6,1992,3660],"class_list":["post-10005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","category-illustration","category-news","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-comic","tag-cosmic","tag-cosmos","tag-digital-illustration","tag-drawer-cards","tag-happy-birthday-tina","tag-hippy","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-maaaannnnnn","tag-planets","tag-space","tag-tie-dye","tag-tina-garceau","tag-universe","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2Bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10011,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/08\/the-return-of-cosmic-maaaannnnnn\/","url_meta":{"origin":10005,"position":0},"title":"The Return of Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn!!!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tina's birthday was fast approaching, and I didn't have a rock solid, hysterically funny idea for a card so I decided to revisit a friend from last year's anniversary card, Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn! I did the sketch above during my commute to and from work on the Market-Frankford El in a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/outer-space-background.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/outer-space-background.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/outer-space-background.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10162,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/19\/sweet-sixteen\/","url_meta":{"origin":10005,"position":1},"title":"Sweet Sixteen","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"16 years ago, Tina and I tied the knot all nice and legal. As is our custom, we exchange cards that we make ourselves. This is mine to her. Once again, I didn't have a rock-solid idea of what I was going to do. I let my pencil do the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sixteen-jw.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sixteen-jw.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sixteen-jw.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sixteen-jw.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41681,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/10\/07\/cosmic-maaaaaannnnn-sticks-around-for-another-birthday\/","url_meta":{"origin":10005,"position":2},"title":"Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn Sticks Around for Another Birthday","author":"Joe","date":"October 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"As I have written before, it's Tina's and my tradition to exchange birthday, anniversary and holiday cards we have illustrated ourselves. It's more personal and making your own cards is a lot cheaper than a Hallmark card from one of the drugstore chains. Have you priced them recently?! Ouch! 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