who wants to see something awful?

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

as you may already know, i am a big fan of Valentine's Day though not for the obvious reason i.e. celebrating our relationships with loved ones. no, i love Valentine's Day because it is a shining example of desperate consumerism combining with a deep, universal emotion to ruin everybody's day.

naturally, this has led to the truly bizarre phenomenon we know as candy hearts Valentine's Day cards: slips of cardboard with pictures of things that may or may not have something to do with love and text that usually involves the brutal abuse of puns.

this year, i'd like to share some 'vintage' Valentine's Day cards that demonstrate the long and storied history of humanity's supreme suckage on this holiday. behind the cut you will find creative proportions (even for cartoons), mind-crushingly awful punnery, blatant and grotesque racist caricatures, unintentionally dirty imagery, and motherfucking terrifying clowns - essentially, images that will likely haunt your dreams for weeks.

( get ready for some OG VALENTINES Y'ALL )