[misteraitch]

Greetings & Salutations One & All,

Virgin On The Ridiculous
Snapping at the heals of the Blood For Oil series is 'Crucifact or Crucifiction?'. Celebrating one of the most important dates in the Christian calendar the MrH Postal Orifice has released a new series of prints and First Day Covers.

As usual, only a limited number of art1stamp sheets have been produced, with 2 designs, Sacred Art 1 and 2, both produced in a run of 12 sheets per design that will be used to create of 16 FDC's and 10 Signed Presentation Sheets.

The First Day Covers will be available for pre-order until the 4th April (or until they sell out - whichever comes first), and will be delivered by the fat-thumbed one on the 5th due to the fact that the lazy work-shy fop will be on holiday on the 6th.

New Prints
In an attempt to reduce the amount of work needed to update the MrH website only 6 prints have been designed.

• Sacred Art 1
• Sacred Art 2
• Ascension
• Test of Faith
• My Dad's Better Than Your Dad!
• Crucifact?

Both the Pop and Signed edition prints are available immediately, and will be delivered on the first Saturday after your order is received.

2nd MrH Postal Cudgel
The 2nd MrH Postal Cudgel is drawing nearer and will occur on 30th April with most of the current designs up for selection.

Thanks again for all your support and remember - philately will get you everywhere!

MrH

www.misteraitch.co.uk
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[johnas]

morning H

am liking 'ascension' and 'my dad'....

not sure my catholic gran would see the funny side though... might be pushing my luck with her already by hanging the Turin Scam ;D

[corblimeylimey]

My favourites are ASCENSION and CRUCIFACT OR CRUCIFICTION

I've still got a smile on my face after seeing the Ascension, brilliant.

[manchestermike]

ASCENSION is absolutely class

[misteraitch]

Thanks guys ;D

[BME]

Wow- Ascension is one of the best prints that I've seen all year. Funny and touching. Will absolutely be ordering one. Thank you.

[BME]

Have just emailed you

[mcnuts]

Agreed.... ascension is great. My fav of the lot. Respect for that. Must take a long time to source the images and do a photoshop mashup. Great stuff.

[chrisps303]

Have also emailed you.
Do you still have the prints rated pg and rated r in stock Mr H?

[goffy]

As a fundamentalist atheist I applaud anything that mocks the various gods. So the new work gets my vote, well in H. Now if you can just start releasing prints at the begining of the month when I get paid I will be happy.

[misteraitch]

chrisps303 said:

Have also emailed you.
Do you still have the prints rated pg and rated r in stock Mr H?

yes I do

Thanks again for everyones kind words - I must admit I've had this range completed since christmas - I was just waiting for an appropriate religious holiday to release them. ;D

Just wait unti lthe christmas ones are released

[misteraitch]

goffyxtc said:

As a fundamentalist atheist I applaud anything that mocks the various gods. So the new work gets my vote, well in H. Now if you can just start releasing prints at the begining of the month when I get paid I will be happy.

Don't worry goofyxtc - I never sell out

ooh and extra respect point (thank you!)

[goffy]

'Never knowingly selling out'

I don't know H, I think you have hit the christ in the head with this set. I like it a lot.

[corblimeylimey]

goffyxtc said:

'Never knowingly selling out'

I don't know H, I think you have hit the christ in the head with this set. I like it a lot.

More like in the feet and hands ;D

[hasselhoff]

Where have the new prints gone? They were there whilst at work and now I've got home they've gone!!!

[romanywg]

"Don't panic Mannering!" Still there. www.misteraitch.co.uk/MrH_PrintGallery.html

[chrisps303]

I cant see the new prints anymore, have you sold them all already?

[Octopus UK]

Interesting prints. Do you have anything similar planned for ramadan or eid later this year?

[classy]

Ascension is terrific. How much is P&P to New York?

[misteraitch]

mcnuts said:

Agreed.... ascension is great. My fav of the lot. Respect for that. Must take a long time to source the images and do a photoshop mashup. Great stuff.

Thanks mcnuts - TBH having been a Photoshop user since version 3 it doesn't take that long to mash up (although sometimes it can) but yeah sourcing the images is the hard part.

[dmandpenfold]

I'm liking these too, very refreshing set of prints. Ascension is Also like Sacred Art 02, but maybe i've just got a boob fixation

[misteraitch]

octopusuk said:

Interesting prints. Do you have anything similar planned for ramadan or eid later this year?

Actually I wanted to have a go at all religions as I dislike them all! However, as a white kid raised by a christian family I thought it only fair that I start with Christianity.

As for the My Dad's better than your dad print - well - when I found the image the idea just popped into my head. ;D

Now, if I knew more about Islam, or if there was a visual representation of mohammed as opposed to a sigil or glyph, then he would be on my hit list too.

Actually, dislike is probably the wrong word - if you need it in your life to help you get through the day to day living that's fine - just don't preach it...

After all, he made us all to be just like HIM, so if we're dumb, then God is dumb...and maybe a little ugly on the side

[Octopus UK]

OK. I look forward to seeing the rest of this religeous series, which faith were you thinking of depicting next time?

[misteraitch]

octopusuk said:

OK. I look forward to seeing the rest of this religeous series, which faith were you thinking of depicting next time?

I don't have any preferences - we'll see which religion deserves it next. ;D

I didn't chose Christianity because it's an easy target - I chose it because it was part of my upbringing and my culture.

[goffy]

Ignore people who say "you wouldn't do that with Islam" All religon is nonsense. Just ridicule what you know, and christianity is wide open for it.

[Octopus UK]

I am hoping that you aren't going to be so, well, lazy, in your art. We all know that it's so easy to pick on the "kid in the playground" who wont hit back.

[misteraitch]

octopusuk said:

I am hoping that you aren't going to be so, well, lazy, in your art. We all know that it's so easy to pick on the "kid in the playground" who wont hit back.

Actually, I've never found Christians to not hit back as they're usually the first ones to voice their opinions.

Like I mentioned earlier, I chose Chritianity because it's my culture - I spent many of my early years in the church - hell, as a kid I was even in chorister of the year at York Minster so you get some idea of my level of involvement. And having wasted many of my early years doing so I got to see some things that I don't agree with - hence my dislike of religion - but hey, that's just MY opinion and MY experience

As for the 'older' religions, I don't really know too much about them - and to be honest I really can't be arsed to waste my time reading about them either - so to a certain extent I don't consider myself informed enough to parody them

As for the Crucifact or Crucifiction series, I always thought it was bizarre that we always celebrate the birth of christ on the 25th, but the date that he was crucified changes on a yearly basis?

[goffy]

That's because Brian, I mean, Christ was born on Christmas Day. Everyone knows that. I have actually read the Koran and it's basically all of the same stories that are in the bible. And all made up by people who weren't there.

[misteraitch]

goffyxtc said:

That's because Brian, I mean, Christ was born on Christmas Day. Everyone knows that. I have actually read the Koran and it's basically all of the same stories that are in the bible. And all made up by people who weren't there.

;D ;D ;D ;D

[corblimeylimey]

I think all religions start off good and basically the same with the general message of, be good, helpful, peace loving and treat the planet and other humans (and some cases animals) with respect.

Somehow religion has become very twisted, and IMO become an excuse to do all the opposite of what I've just mentioned above.