December 12, 2024 - [caption id="attachment_78985" align="aligncenter" width="1032"] "have a TINY glass of coke or get WHIPPED!" says Santa[/caption] Happy holidays everyone!  Figured I'd keep things going with another story this month. This one's about how gloriously the artists' naivety can be taken advantage of in the cut throat world of business. also thought it would be nice to pepper it with some sweet seasonally appropriate Haddon Sundblom paintings. It was early 2005. Our little studio was young, going full force, and times were good. Things were starting to gel and we didn't all hate one another yet. We'd secured a large contract that enabled us to hire on actual full time staff. Looking back, it all seemed so simple then, and we really thought we had it all figured out lol. I had recently left my full time…