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Recycled Paper Greetings, Inc. (RPG) is a Chicago-based greeting card
Greeting card

A greeting card is an illustrated, folded card featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment. Although greeting cards are usually given on special occasions, such as birthdays, Christmas or other holidays, they are also sent to convey thanks or express other feeling....
 company founded by Phil Friedmann and Mike Keiser in 1971. They became successful as one of the first greeting card companies to print their product on recycled paper, and to give their artists recognition by putting their names on the cards. The designs created by Sandra Boynton
Sandra Boynton

Sandra Keith Boynton is a popular United States humorist, songwriter, children's author and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated more than forty books for both children and adults, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and four music albums....
 became very well known, especially her "Hippo Birdie Two Ewes" birthday card.






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Recycled Paper Greetings, Inc. (RPG) is a Chicago-based greeting card
Greeting card

A greeting card is an illustrated, folded card featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment. Although greeting cards are usually given on special occasions, such as birthdays, Christmas or other holidays, they are also sent to convey thanks or express other feeling....
 company founded by Phil Friedmann and Mike Keiser in 1971. They became successful as one of the first greeting card companies to print their product on recycled paper, and to give their artists recognition by putting their names on the cards. The designs created by Sandra Boynton
Sandra Boynton

Sandra Keith Boynton is a popular United States humorist, songwriter, children's author and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated more than forty books for both children and adults, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and four music albums....
 became very well known, especially her "Hippo Birdie Two Ewes" birthday card. These design styles were eventually adopted by the competition and are common today. Artists like Mary Melcher, Cynthia Bainton (granddaughter of Roland Bainton
Roland Bainton

Roland Herbert Bainton was an English church historian....
), the Bjorkman Brothers, Kathy Davis, The Farside, David Walker, Susan Allen, Vicky Barone and cartoonist Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Guisewite

Cathy Lee Guisewite is the cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy in 1976. Her main cartoon character is a career woman faced with the issues and challenges of work, relationships, her mother and food, or as Guisewite herself put it in one of her strips, "The four basic guilt groups."...
 also produce or have produced greeting cards through RPG. The Product Development Group of Andrews McMeel Publishing also contributes significantly to the RPG offering through a line of original concepts called Zero Gravity and well-known licenses like Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine and the Close to Home cartoon panel.

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