Stilwell - Christmas cheer

Sort of continuing the digital restoration of "Stilwell," the comic strip that ran in the Cleveland State University student weekly The Cauldron, circa 1971-73... If you were a friend of mine or a relative I was on speaking terms with, you probably received a copy of this Christmas card, which I believe I made in 1972, exactly 40 years ago. This sort of thing is sooooo easy to do today on a home computer using similar textured card stock you can pick up at any Office Depot, but back then, this was a major project and prohibitively expensive for an average Joe Shmuck like me ... unless you happened to have a college buddy who had a part-time job working on an offset press -- ahem. I have probably already said too much. Anyway... I even chuckle at the lettering because nowadays everybody has great access to a wide range of fonts on inexpensive word processing software. Back then, I used sheets of press-on letters sold at office supply stores. Here's a bit of pop cultural trivia inspired by this card: The word "ribbit" as applied to the sound a frog makes traces back to a skit on the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," which was only a few years before this card. I can even vaguely remember Tommy Smothers dressed up like a frog for the sketch on the show. I find it worth noting, because the word entered the national lexicon and still has traction today, probably because of that one TV bit. "Ribbit" is not in any established dictionary as far as I'm aware, but it's out there, for sure. This image shows both the cover and the inside of my half-fold card. Merry Christmas, everybody!