Baseball Card Vandals: Over 200 Decent Jokes on Worthless Cards!
By Beau Abbott and Bryan Abbott
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About this ebook
Every day since 2012, brothers Beau and Bryan Abbott have drawn crude jokes on their old trading cards from the '80s and '90s and posted them on Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram as Baseball Card Vandals. Now the fruits of this completely unnecessary labor have been collected in this stunningly absurd book.
Inside you'll find a collection of over 200 "expertly" vandalized cards—including dozens of never-before-seen artworks—that blend the Vandals' signature oddball humor and artistic flair with a charming dose of sports nostalgia.
Featuring an introduction on the Baseball Card Vandals history and process as well as a beautiful design inspired by vintage baseball cards, this book will be a hit with sports fans, art lovers, memorabilia collectors, pop culture watchers, Internet geeks, comedy connoisseurs, and permanent marker sniffers everywhere.
Beau Abbott
Beau Abbott is a copywriter and Bryan Abbott is an art director. They both live in Culver City, California.
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Baseball Card Vandals - Beau Abbott
Decent jokes on worthless cards, posted fresh daily.
This was the mission statement dreamed up by two brothers, Beau and Bryan Abbott, when we began a project called Baseball Card Vandals back in 2012. As a pair of artistically inclined baseball nerds, we were honestly just trying to entertain ourselves and maybe some friends by scribbling crude jokes on our old baseball cards. In the years since our first Tumblr post in 2012, that mission hasn’t really changed at all. Everything else in our lives, though—transformed by the strange power of Sharpies, old cardboard and the glorious people of the internet—has changed completely. And to understand how Baseball Card Vandals went from a hobby to a website to a business to the book you’re holding, you have to know how it all started: an obsession with baseball cards.
We grew up in the late 80s and early 90s in the suburbs of baseball-mad St. Louis and learned quickly from our older brothers Ben and Braden (yes, we’re all Bs) that the best way to blow all of our allowance money was to turn every last cent of it into baseball cards. This became a hard-and-fast rule that also extended to any bonus money acquired from birthday gifts, visits from Nana, or some other invented scheme to generate capital (like Bryan’s inspired idea of telling adults that he was collecting current U.S. coins.
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