Back in 2000, I was in love with someone who lived in the Mid-West, and we had a bit of an on-again, off-again relationship. I had just moved to New York City, so when she decided to move here, I was just beside myself with joy and all that. As some of you may remember, when I pitch woo, I make little paper things for the lady-fair of mine eye. In this case, the object of my affection had both a cat and a dog, so I figured I would write something for them. The downloadable pamphlets below were both drawn in a single sitting late one night in 2000. I was living in Greenpoint in an illegal sublet above a factory, pining for some normalcy and perhaps some romance.

They are rather primitive, but capture a bit of how excited and hopeful I was. Originally, they were folded into pamphlets. I broke the scans out into paginated PDFs.

So You're Moving to the Big City (for Cats)

So You're Moving to the Big City (for Dogs)

These should go in the Valentines section under Ephemera from Crushes, but what the hell. 

Oh, and the relationship lasted for a while, more then less happily. Alas. We'll always have these bits of paper to commemorate the good times.