Drewski and friends admire their latest license plate acquisitions, January 1990.
License Plate Cartoons
“Tin Snickers”
by Drew Steitz
From January 1989 to November 2003, ALPCA member Drew
“Drewski” Steitz of East Texas, Pennsylvania published PL8S, a popular and
successful magazine for license plate collectors. Included in every issue
were photographs featuring some of the rarest and most interesting plates to be
found anywhere in the world. The magazine’s advertising section attracted
countless ads from collectors buying, selling and trading plates of every
imaginable stripe.
Not least of all, by drawing on his vast knowledge of
plates worldwide, almost every issue included Drew’s own “Tin Snickers” cartoons
about license plates and collectors of them. Admittedly, appreciation of
the humor in many of the cartoons required familiarity by the reader with the
characteristics of plates from far-away jurisdictions, but that in itself became
an enjoyable learning experience.
The original Tin Snickers artwork, archived in PDF
files, was lost in a catastrophic disk crash more than a decade ago, but Drew
has been gracious enough give us permission to scan the cartoons from surviving
hard copies of the magazine and republish them on the NMplates.com website.
About a quarter of these were scanned here at NMplates.com, but the majority
were scanned by Eric Tanner (present editor of ALPCA’s PLATES magazine), from
his own extensive
archive of Drew’s PL8S publication.
With special thanks to Drewski and Eric, NMplates.com
visitors will find nearly a hundred Tin Snickers cartoons on this page.
Drewski and friends admire their latest
license plate acquisitions, January 1990.
All cartoons © Drew Steitz. Republished on
NMplates.com by permission