2018- ongoing. The Postcard of the month started in 2018 when I realized that I could do the postcard machine possibly from the future online. With my inverted pyramid scheme of delight in place as my marketing plan, I figured if each person who followed me on Instagram purchased one postcard per month, I’d be able to pay my bills. I began managing my postcard of the month subscriptions via Patreon and now I send a newly illustrated postcard to between 3 and 100 patrons. Each year there are a few themes that you can count on seeing in postcard form. I try to make one happy birthday, one thank you, one cool science fact, and one note of encouragement. Each month I sit down to draw what I most want to draw and it has been an experiment and a joy. I still look forward to doing it and I think part of the pleasure is addressing each envelope by hand. I send them in a cherry-dilly-bar-red envelope.

One thrill for me is not knowing what the month’s card will look like until I begin to make it. In this way, this is a sketchbook practice which I share with anyone willing to take the risk.

To support this project you can purchase a full year of future postcards here. Or join me on Patreon throughout the year.

Postcards of the Month 2020-2025