about the cards
about the artist

David Zapanta was only nineteen when he graduated magna cum laude from the prestigious Depression Institute of Norway.  Two years later, he went on to become the Depression Laureate of New Jersey.

In the early 90s, under the auspices of Screaming Rice Press, he created and published the comic book HAIRBAT, about a man who gets a large, talking bat permanently ensnarled in
his hair.

In 2005, Mr. Zapanta became an intern at The Melancholy Company and has been toiling away in near obscurity ever since.  The company is currently headquartered in Bridgeport, CT, where "despair has its own zip code."

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Please direct all queries, comments, quandaries and/or conundrums to melancholymail@earthlink.net. 

Melancholy Company Technicians will respond to all emails in a timely fashion.

 

To embrace and celebrate D.R.E.A.M., or the five basic attitudes of Depression Enthusiasm: Despair, Regret, Ennui, Apathy and Malaise.

To foster a deeper appreciation of melancholia in optimists and pessimists alike, one postage stamp at a time.

To continue being the Internet's #1 destination* for depressing epiphanies.

(*According to a 2007 poll conducted by the Depression Institute of Norway.)