​​They often had darkly humorous & outlandish designs with a twisted spin on seasonal greetings. Rather than twinkling baubles & snowflakes, their subject matter was often strangely macabre. Themes included murderous frogs, dead birds, random lobsters, ant battles,, bloodthirsty snowmen, giant insects, anthropomorphic vegetables, sinister clowns, & miserable crying children. Some of this weirdness lies in the fact that they were jokes based on cultural references of the time (well known signs of good fortune, folklore etc.) but from a modern perspective we just don’t ‘get’ the joke & so they come across as utterly bizarre!