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Look Here: “And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath…”
Interlude: Simon and Garfunkel – “Silent Night / 7:00 News”
’Tis the night before Christmas…
“Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.”
— Stephen Leacock
Look Here, Read: “A Christmas Carol”
From Santa Claus Funnies #1 (1942), here’s a starkly effective, uncredited comics-adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; it’s no masterpiece, but I’m truly surprised how much I like this one:
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Look Here: A “Mamie” Christmas card by Russell Patterson
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Look Here: A silk-screened WWII Christmas card designed by Harvey Kurtzman
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Look Here, Read: “Christmas Comes to the Wood Land” by Walt Kelly
From Four Color: Santa Claus Funnies #91, here’s “Christmas Comes to the Wood Land” by the great Walt Kelly:
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Out of Context: “Hickory! Did you and Dickory EAT my pants?”
Look Here: Looney Tunes in winter…
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Look Here, Read: “Deck the Halls,” lightly lampooned by Walt Kelly
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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