My "Debt Ceiling" Fall Mailer Illustration

It's the witching hour again...Fall promotion! Since it's August, it's the right time to be e-blasting and mailing out postcard bulk-mailings to garner the attention of art directors who can use my work. The subject that seems to be hot for now is the Debt Ceiling and how all the parties involved really mucked it up because of partisan politics. The people always seem to suffer while Republicans and Democrats refuse to work together or do what is best for the country. I tried to work in the effect of the Tea Party on the process too. It's all very whimsical in this illustration, but the subject is rather contentious. I love "hot button" issues.

The next mailer I plan on doing is for Halloween and it will go out in early September. That one should be a lot of fun.

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Flu Season Promotional Illustration

I just ordered a new postcard mailer and decided to send out an image about "Flu Season". Especially while it's hot. I'm deep in the middle of massive promotion on a daily basis now since work has slowed, and many newspaper and magazine budgets are cut down to a mere nub. I have a series of simpler pieces going out all week that are fun and only going to a targeted group of clients and people who've expressed a lot of interest in the past. But, this postcard is a fairly big mailing for me. At least 1000 folks.

Uncle Sam Postcard Mailer

Here's the image I came up with for the next postcard mailing. Hopefully this image says a few things....The Economy, the Government, The Recession. I don't know about you guys, but work is slowing down to a crawl. I guess it's just that deathly tax season crawl that distracts art directors from assigning or maybe they are just told to hold back on their budgets. Either way, it always freaks me out. Speaking of freaking out, I gotta finish my taxes.

Oh yeah, and by the way!!!! I fixed my subscription button to my mailing list. So, please feel free to submit your e-mail address to get updates here. Aw, come on...try it!

A Lovin' Couple

This image is on my new newspaper mailer going out later today. I just did a postcard mailer for magazines and children's industry folk using the image from the Film Festival poster I painted earlier in the month. Now that The Fall is upon us I have to plant those postcard promotion seeds and try to get as much editorial work as I can. Usually I find my busy season starts from late August and continues through late January, but this year it's been kind of sluggish. I got caught on some low-paying/tine consuming projects that kept me from promoting like I should have been doing. So, there's no time like the present. I'm hoping to do a Hallowwen promotion of some kind. Maybe a paper puppet. We'll see...we'll see.