Your Creative Push

Michael Vash makes his living by drawing funny cartoons, irreverent greeting cards to be more precise. Vash Designs officially began its foray into the greeting card business at the 2002 National Stationery Show in New York. Vash has found his niche in the mature humor market, servicing a retail demographic that is looking for something different opposed to the saccharin sweet Hallmark Card. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/michaelvash In this episode, Michael discusses: -How he started his greeting card company after getting laid off from his job and revisiting the idea of drawing things that make people laugh. -How he is essentially a one-man operation and some of the struggles that go along with that. -One of his earliest creative memories. -What led him astray from a career in drawing. -How he wasn't happy working at Disney even though it seemed like a dream job on paper. -How laziness is one of the big things that holds him back from doing his work. -How it can be very difficult to create work