"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
From Four Color: Santa Claus Funnies #91, here’s “Christmas Comes to the Wood Land” by the great Walt Kelly:
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From Four Color: Christmas with Mother Goose #201 (1948), here’s “Deck the Halls,” with cartoon illustrations by Walt Kelly; it’s no “Deck Us All with Boston Charlie,” but Kelly is clearly having fun with it:
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For your holiday enjoyment, here’s an episode of Frank King’s “Bobby Make Believe” Sunday strip, hand-coloured by Matt Masterson and dated 12-19-15, in which Bobby “imagines he’s the official driver for Santa Claus” but is apparently unable to imagine that he does so without some accidental destruction of property:
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From Four Color: Christmas with Mother Goose #201 (1948), here’s “Three Jovial Welsh Men,” a traditional song adapted for comics with wit and energy by Walt Kelly:
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From Captain Marvel Adventures, vol. 7, no. 42 (January 1945), here’s an uncredited story entitled “Captain Marvel and the Plot against Christmas”:
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Does stuffing a guy dressed as Santa down a chimney to teach him the true meaning of Christmas count as superdickery? I think so…
From Big Shot Comics, vol. 9, no. 97 (January 1949), here’s a Christmas-themed “Mickey Finn” strip by Lank Leonard:
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From Big Shot Comics #31 (January 1943), here’s a Christmas-themed “Bo” strip by Frank Beck:
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Sister will get a dolly,
A blonde one I believe,
‘Cause I heard Santa Claus say he’s got him
A blonde doll Christmas Eve.
— “77 Santas”
Apologies in advance for the poor quality of the images this time around: I scanned all nine of the single-panel comics by Hilda Terry displayed below — seven from 1942, two from 1945 — from printouts that I made from microfilm of back issues of The Saturday Evening Post. I’ve made some adjustments to my scans of the printouts to make them more readable, but they’re definitely a lot rougher than I’d like. And yet, I still think they’re well worth posting. Enjoy!
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Publication information is in the file names. Looks like I forgot to record the day and month of the issue of The Saturday Evening Post from 1942 that included the comic with the caption, “We just came in for a glass of water!” I also neglected to record the page numbers. Sorry!
To see more energetic and attractive work by the wonderful Hilda Terry, start here.
From Arcade #4 (October 1975), here’s “Stalin” by Spain Rodriguez, who died yesterday at the age of 72:
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