Postcard (2)

Although this Mail Art blog is meant for works of postal art created by the senders themselves, some printed postcards just have to be added to this Your-Doctor-in-Mail-Art collection.
Postcrosser Darya sent this great cartoon from Russia. This is exact one of the images I had in mind when I started this mail art project.
I hope Darya won't attend a doctor like this (or this, one other creation by the same cartoonist...). Even though the text не болей means 'don't have a pain!', and Выздоравливай means 'get well!'...

The cartoon has been made by the Russian illustrator Владимир Камаев (Vladimir Kamaev), also known as Soamo.
More cartoons by him you can find here and here.
Kamaev's website is Soamo.ru.

Спасибо, Darya!

Postcard

As an exception on this website I show you a received postcard which wasn't intentioned by the makers as mail art.

This postcard I received from Lidia, and you see a book cover made by Hans Borrebach in 1960. Hans Borrebach (1903-1991) was a versatile artist, as not only an illustrator but also photographer, fashion drawer and cartoonist.
More about his life and work you can read and see on the websites Lambiek.net and Wikipedia (in Dutch language, a short translation you find here).
More book covers/postcards by Hans Borrebach you find here.

The reasons to include this postcard in the Your Doctor in Mail Art project, are the following:
- This was one of the images I had in mind when I started this project, and the image is very apposite,
- This postcard shows Art and this Art is transformed (by Art Unlimited) into a Mail object, so it is Mail Art!
- The sender is an excellent mail artist, see for instance her earlier contribution to YDiMA here.
- On the back side a Real mail art item made by Lidia, this apposite mail art stamp!



Hartelijk dank, Lidia!