CSotD: An Old Fashioned Christmas
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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.
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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