Barbara Dale is one of the pioneers of alternative greeting cards in the United States. The Washington Post described her and her generation of card designers as having, “changed the face of the nearly 7 billion cards Americans sent to each other last year.” In the book, “A Gallery of Rogues: Cartoonists’ Self-Caricatures” published by Ohio State University she’s described as, “Specializing in off-the-wall humor of the taste-expanding variety.” Barbara’s worked with numerous card and gift industry manufacturers such as Recycled Paper Products, Andrews and McMeel, Carol Wilson, The Ink Group, and Wild Card, American Greetings and Smart Alex, Inc. Currently, her cards are published in the United States by RSVP Cards/Sellers Publishing and in the Cafe Press and Zazzle Dale Cards Shop. She’s the co-author and illustrator of two humor books, “The Working Woman Book” and “The Joys of Motherhood” published by Andrews and McMeel. She also co-authored and illustrated a syndicated panel, “The Stanley Family” with Universal Press Syndicate in 1990. Barbara studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and exhibited her paintings and prints in several one-woman and group shows. She has work represented in numerous private and museum collections. Ms. Dale was a 2002 Reuben Award Division Finalist and was the recipient of The Jack Davis Lifetime Achievement Award in Cartooning from the Southeast Chapter of The National Cartoonists Society in 2015. She had a major retrospective at the Peale Museum in 2023.

Areas of Expertise

• Book Illustration • Editorial Cartoon • Freelance Humorous Illustrator • Gag Cartoon • Greeting Card • Magazine / Newspaper Illustration • Newspaper Panel • Other