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\"Kareema

Kareema Corn by Joe Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

In an effort to stave off ever mounting clutter, Tina and I exchange handmade cards instead of gifts on most holidays. This was the Valentine’s Day card I gave her this year. It’s based on a hapless chap I saw\u00a0 having a loud and fairly dramatic cell phone conversation in a store in Philly. With his coiffure, couture, swagger and the patois he picked up from far too many hip-hop records he tried mightily to shake off his Caucasian origins however the red hair and pasty complexion were a dead giveaway.<\/p>\n

This was done using brush markers and colored in Photoshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an effort to stave off ever mounting clutter, Tina and I exchange handmade cards instead of gifts on most holidays. This was the Valentine’s Day card I gave her this year. It’s based on a hapless chap I saw\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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],"tags":[8,3664,3661,5,38],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","category-illustration","tag-cartoons","tag-drawer-cards","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-valentines-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":884,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/02\/14\/valentine-cards-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":0},"title":"Valentine Cards 2010","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Amazing Recliner Man by Tina Garceau This is one of Tina's brilliant, digital collages combining vintage clip-art, colors and textures. 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Earlier Tina presented her Valentine to me, and here is my rebuttal.","rel":"","context":"In "Drawer Cards"","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\/2024\/02\/card-out-02-14-2024-valentine-pattern.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/card-out-02-14-2024-valentine-pattern.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/card-out-02-14-2024-valentine-pattern.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/card-out-02-14-2024-valentine-pattern.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43957,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/10\/19\/amethysts-and-orchids\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":4},"title":"Amethysts and Orchids","author":"Joe","date":"October 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In the event of birthdays, anniversaries and a few other holidays, Tina and I exchange cards we make for one another.","rel":"","context":"In "Drawer Cards"","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\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2251,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/02\/14\/valentines-day-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":5},"title":"Valentine’s Day 2011","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Tina's Valentine to Joe for 2011. 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