Old Tom Foolery Cards

Having trouble finding snarky greeting cards? Copywriter Joel Gryniewski wouldn’t put up with the void when he was trying to woo now fiance Lauren Wienblatt, an art director with whom he launched the letterpress card company Old Tom Foolery. One Craigslist letterpress purchase and a successful stationary show later, their “unsappy, uncrappy letterpress greetings” are earning a following on both coasts. (In SF, they’re available at Green Apple Books and Wishbone; in New York, Kate’s Paperie and  Greenwich Letterpress sells them.) One favorite reads “Kudos*” with the footnote “The congratulatory kind — not the women’s candy bar.” Another, “Wishing you a speedy recovery*,” ends “Chop-chop. I’m tired of covering for your sick ass.” The duo’s tactile and entertaining approach to high quality cards just may be enough to make up for paperless Mothers Days gone by.