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Series 6.1
Mailed out the week of October 29, 2007.

I guess it’s been well over a year since we sent out postcards and we were feeling a bit of collector’s withdrawal. On Monday, Eric starting sending our current series.

For the first time we’ve numbered the cards, though of course, life being what it is and my insistence at not being as disciplined as Eric would prefer I be, they won’t be sent out in the order they’re numbered. But hey, it’s a start.

As many of you know, our first five series of cards were compiled into a book published by the Easton Press in 2005.

Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998
Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999
Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000
Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003
Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005
Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008

Of course there are lots of reasons, and sure Eric Homan’s a nice guy, got great taste, and works hard (I won’t embarrass him further by going on and on and on about how smart he is). But as often is the case with a person you’ve worked with for a long period of time, there’s got to something more. With Eric it’s his sense, which I try to share, of the world beyond our cartoon borders.

Yesterday we were going through this season’s limited edition postcards we’ll be starting to send out this fall. “I would maybe slightly alter the American flag to an Election Day card.”

Right on Eric. Thanks.