Okay. Christmas comic art. We do these every year, normally a few Christmas cards and a few images for the day itself. So I set up a post for Christmas Day. Then realised we had loads this year. So you’ve got a post for Christmas Eve as well.
And then, over the course of the last week, I kept stumbling over more and more and more and more and more comic Christmas art. So we started going backwards into the week before Christmas….
Garen Ewing:
Hunt Emerson (from his Facebook)
Terry Wiley pulls himself away from getting the next issue of Verity Fair to give us Mrs Claus and Krampus:
… and Phil Noto again, more of these great spoof Marvel behind the scenes pics:
Evan Larson (via Lulu Bonanza)
A Christmas card from Paul Register – of the Stan Lee Excelsior Awards:
David Frankum (artist on the much enjoyed Zenith Invasion mashup strip from Zarjaz #12) has this great contribution to the annual 2000AD forum’s Advent Calender. Colour and B&W – I prefer the B&W, as Zenith should always (in my head at least) be in B&W.
1990 2000AD Christmas card by Colin MacNeil, also the cover to Prog #710 (Via Steve Cook):
“A Silent Night in Mega-City One”. Another 2000AD Christmas card, this time by Arthur Ranson. 1992. Again via Steve Cook:
Again from Steve Cook (it really is a great blog he runs you know!) – he says “here’s a specially commissioned, Marvel UK Christmas card from 1983″ – but I definitely remember it being published somewhere. Art by the great Jerry Paris.
More from Steve Cook…. I’ll stop now, but sometimes you just can’t resist, especially his great 2000AD pictures from his time at the mag. This is from 2001, art by Kev Walker:
December 23rd, 2011 at 9:10 am
Yes, I too remember that perfect Jerry Paris piece – it was the wraparound cover of an issue of the Spiderman weekly. The number? Forget it! I’m manfully resisting the temptation to devote god-knows-how-long to rummaging through my comics collection.
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Yeah, I remember that Jerry Paris cover from Spiderman Weekly too. Wonderful piece. Marvel UK did sometimes have some very nice new covers for their reprint comics.
Oh, and it’s nice to see that the UK Hulk weekly strip is getting collected next year too.