5/16/2007
I was just checking my supply of Svengoolie autograph cards- the color cards that I sign for you guys when I make a public appearance- and the supply appears to be dwindling! That means it’s time to either reprint the current one- or, have our graphic department make up a new one! It may be time for a new one- we’ve been handing out the current one- which looks like a movie poster, the same graphic that appears on our current t-shirt- for a while now, and I know that fans who come to my signings on a regular basis like to get different cards every once in a while.
The very first card we did here was only two colors- a black and white picture of me with red lettering and drippy blood –like borders!(Yeah, I know, the blood wasn’t all that was ‘drippy’…) The next one was the first full-color picture- featuring myself and Tombstone. That was also a design for one of our t-shirts. That brings us to the current card, which is now in short supply.
Often, at appearances, folks will bring an old autograph card they got from me years ago- I think I’ve mentioned the orange, cheaply-printed first cards that they did at WFLD, where the picture on the front was often smeary-looking…or , was that just the way I looked? We followed that up with some nicer printed cards- a series that included drawings that I made of Myself and Doug, and later, one that included “Goolia Child, TV Trench Chef.” People don’t usually bring as many of those to show me- I think it’s because they were in shorter supply, and are now much more rare!
So- now the decision will be what to put on the new card (unless we just reprint the movie poster one)…from what some of the people I meet have said, they might like it to have a bigger picture of me, like the previous card did (…why? Does that make it easier to see the target when you put it on your dart board?) One idea I had was to possibly show my coffin in the background- I know some people have requested that in the past…and I know a lot of people want to see a rubber chicken somewhere in the photo!
If you have an idea- feel free to e-mail it to me here at svengoolie@wciu.com -just remember, if you submit an idea, that automatically means that you agree that it becomes our property, and we can choose to use it with no compensation to you. Or choose NOT to use it, with no compensation to you.
Unfortunately, there will be no compensation to me, either… but I’m used to it…
The very first card we did here was only two colors- a black and white picture of me with red lettering and drippy blood –like borders!(Yeah, I know, the blood wasn’t all that was ‘drippy’…) The next one was the first full-color picture- featuring myself and Tombstone. That was also a design for one of our t-shirts. That brings us to the current card, which is now in short supply.
Often, at appearances, folks will bring an old autograph card they got from me years ago- I think I’ve mentioned the orange, cheaply-printed first cards that they did at WFLD, where the picture on the front was often smeary-looking…or , was that just the way I looked? We followed that up with some nicer printed cards- a series that included drawings that I made of Myself and Doug, and later, one that included “Goolia Child, TV Trench Chef.” People don’t usually bring as many of those to show me- I think it’s because they were in shorter supply, and are now much more rare!
So- now the decision will be what to put on the new card (unless we just reprint the movie poster one)…from what some of the people I meet have said, they might like it to have a bigger picture of me, like the previous card did (…why? Does that make it easier to see the target when you put it on your dart board?) One idea I had was to possibly show my coffin in the background- I know some people have requested that in the past…and I know a lot of people want to see a rubber chicken somewhere in the photo!
If you have an idea- feel free to e-mail it to me here at svengoolie@wciu.com -just remember, if you submit an idea, that automatically means that you agree that it becomes our property, and we can choose to use it with no compensation to you. Or choose NOT to use it, with no compensation to you.
Unfortunately, there will be no compensation to me, either… but I’m used to it…
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