1975 - 2024: 50 Years of Bliss Holiday Greetings

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​In December 1975, I mailed a handmade postcard. I didn't realize until at least five years later that this postcard was the beginning of a series of holiday greetings. This year, 2024, marks fifty years of the series and, though I appear to have missed a few early years, it's time to conserve and catalog this work.​

 

I deeply enjoyed the process of locating the elements for and resuscitating these originally ephemeral works. There are five years for which I have neither record nor recollection of the work; it was either lost or never created. There are other years, before camera-phones and personal computers, for which I do recollect the work but had to recreate it from scratch.

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Many thanks to my principal collaborator over the past thirty-nine years, Merrily Weiss, as well as Lee Armstrong, Howard Asher, Janice Marcoux and others whose feedback was vital.

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This book is dedicated to the recipients of these greetings, particularly those of you who saved them. Without an audience, this work would not exist.

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Thomas Bliss
Los Angeles, 2024