{"id":20510,"date":"2016-03-26T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20510"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:08:22","slug":"holiday-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/03\/26\/holiday-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10169\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/22\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-the-little-black-book\/it-came-from-the-sb-banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=800%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,120\" 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=\"it-came-from-the-SB-banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=300%2C45&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=640%2C96&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=640%2C96&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"it-came-from-the-SB-banner\" width=\"640\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=300%2C45&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=250%2C37&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><a title=\"Holiday Fatigue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/25772509840\/in\/dateposted\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1512\/25772509840_63110de7e1_z.jpg?resize=513%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Holiday Fatigue\" width=\"513\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>Somewhere at the end of the &#8217;80s I started dating a girl just after the holidays. I sketched out this little cartoon combining <em>Christmas, Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/em> and <em>Easter<\/em> for her as a gag greeting card.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was back when my weapon of choice was <em>Rapidograph<\/em> technical pens. I always kept a few loaded with ink and ready to go. My world was still an analog one at the time. I made my drawings on bristol; shot photostats of the results and handed them off to editors to print as spot illustrations for newspapers printed in ink on newsprint.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Former Weapon of Choice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/3768399491\/in\/photolist-6KvVy2-6K12T2-6CBT6o-4PR7MQ-4DhbRA-6Spzty\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2568\/3768399491_8dec52cf19_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Former Weapon of Choice\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>The cartoon above was never published being that it was a gift, but the photostat I have of it remains and remarkably it has not yellowed or degraded. It lasted much longer than the relationship did.<script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere at the end of the &#8217;80s I started dating a girl just after the holidays. I sketched out this little cartoon combining Christmas, Valentine&#8217;s Day and Easter for her as a gag greeting 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,18,176,7,49,16],"tags":[33,158,17,86,907,88,43,906,5,3663,480,38],"class_list":["post-20510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-drawer-cards","category-holiday","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-1980s","tag-analog","tag-cartoon","tag-christmas","tag-drawing","tag-easter","tag-humor","tag-ink","tag-joe-williams","tag-sketch","tag-usa","tag-valentines-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5kO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44291,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/12\/24\/the-tuesday-doodle\/","url_meta":{"origin":20510,"position":0},"title":"The Tuesday Doodle","author":"Joe","date":"December 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Goo-Goo Muck. 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