How Tyrus Wong’s Christmas Cards Captivated the American Public The unlikely Hollywood visionary of ‘Bambi’ fame designed what would become some of the most popular holiday stationery of all ...

The animated movie was based on Bambi, a Life in the Woods, a 1923 Austrian novel by Felix Salten that entered the public domain this year (along with A.A. Milne’s first Winnie-The-Pooh book).