Ruination & Despair

I’m not quite sure what to say about our latest card. I suppose it’s what we get for letting Cadwalader fool around with Photoshop.

If you expect cards to make a lick of sense, I don’t imagine this one will be for you, but Cadwalader assures me that making sense is overrated.

For those of you who don’t follow these things, The Land that Time Forgot (1918) was an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs that was later made into a movie (1975) complete with unconvincing rubber dinosaur puppets.

This one has actually been out for awhile, but I’ve just been too neglectful to get it posted here for you. Bad Cadwalader!

So far this card has been very successful at Eastern Market, vying for the top spot among our blank notecards.

The illustration is by Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose oeuvre we have already happily pillaged for our successful Fatherhood and Happiness cards.

Needless to say, we hope you like it.

I see that Customer Service Minion #2 got the jump on me, announcing this month’s clearance sale before I could post our two new checkbox cards. No extra fish heads for him today!

Cadwalader was having a little trouble coming up with a suitable holiday card this year, until I suggested that he simply reproduce his Uncle Festus’s always entertaining holiday letter.

The obvious advantage for our customers is that this fine card frees them from the odious responsibility of writing their own pedestrian holiday letters, which no one is going to read anyway.

In any event, chances are that Festus’s brood is more interesting than yours!

By popular demand, we are adding a new card to the ever important anniversary category! Did I mention that it’s a checkbox card? Admit it, some of you go in for that sort of thing.

As always with our renowned checkbox line, the new card gives you lots of exciting options.

But don’t take my word for it. After all, as the card’s designer, I have an obvious bias (not to mention a distinctly untrustworthy appearance). Instead, just click through to get the full force and meaning of the thing!

It’s a new checkbox card, folks!

With dragons, no less!

Now you can felicitate someone you know on anything from their birthday to their illicit triumph! Not to mention their recent hatchling(s) or hallucinatory adventure!

It’s just so exciting you may need to lie down in a darkened room afterwards to recover your emotional equilibrium!

(Or, then, again, you may not.)

There’s not much to say about this new thank-you note, except that we hope you like it.

The elaborate Celtic capital came originally from a medieval manuscript, but unfortunately the collection we got it from does not reveal which one.

Here at Archelaus we are happy to wrench a quotation shamelessly out of context if we think it will make a better card.

In this case the quotation was attributed by John D. Rockefeller to an engineer working on the Panama Canal. Coupled with the formidable female in the illustration, however, the thought takes on a rather different sense than either man presumably intended.

We hope you like it!

This fine new postcard features a pertinent quotation from the American cartoonist and humorist Kin Hubbard’s book Abe Martin’s Home Cured Philosophy (1919).

Actually, we’ve had this card in the works for years, but we couldn’t release it until we had tracked down the quotation’s source and established its copyright status. Personally, I think it was worth the wait!

Today we have another offering for the bibliophiles out there, which, if I’m not mistaken, is a pretty significant chunk of our market.

It features a fine quotation from Austin Phelps, who was a nineteenth-century minister and educator. But we won’t hold that against him.

Anyway, this is the first of several new cards we will be submitting for your consideration and delight over the next few days. Enjoy!

Our latest peculiar birthday offering, “A little bird told me,” exploits the timeless, enigmatic appeal of the moa (albeit in a thoroughly bizarre, surreal manner), even as it mocks the sentimental approach of conventional greeting cards.

Go ahead, just click to find out what’s inside the card!

The fine photo is taken from Richard Owen’s classic, Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand (London, 1879).

Okay, so lately we’ve been been neglecting this blog for awhile. Some of us here at Archelaus have been a bit preoccupied with other weighty matters (never you mind what they were!).

Fortunately, the imperative of designing new cards has shocked us back to reality, and we will attempt to resume posting more reliably.

Or at least that’s how I see it working in theory.