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Hello!
Did you know that paying subscribers to Get Wit Quick receive limited-edition postcards illustrated by brilliant artists with the cleverest quips ever uttered? They’re called Riposte Cards, a regular mailing of real paper postcards commissioned from the best artists who will return my emails.
But wait! There’s less! Your free subscription stays free and continues to offer all the myriad riches of Get Wit Quick, including weekly issues, your sacred right to participate in the Quote Vote, an all-access pass to the archive, and the comfort of regularly confirming that your email address still works.
So don’t subscribe to Riposte Cards and everything stays as is. Whew!
But if you DO subscribe, well, then we embark on a fun little adventure in reader-supported mail art. Using skills I used to survive as a newspaper editor back in the Pleistocene era, I commission some of my favourite artists and illustrators to letter some of their favourite witty lines on postcards, which I’ll then mail to you. How often I do this depends on how many of you sign up, but we’ll start with a quarterly commission with the goal of scaling up to monthly. At that point, it’ll be less than the price of a doppio cortado per beautiful postcard suitable for framing, sending to a friend, or using as a coaster to protect your coffee table from aforementioned doppio cortado.
AND! Some portion of the subscription money (I’m thinking 5%?) will go to PEN Canada, my local affiliate of the non-partisan international organization that celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression, and aids writers in peril — all the conditions necessary to promote more wit.
Here’s the latest on this Worthy Canadian Initiative:
No. 1. Chesterton By Hare
