Tag Archive | "Christmas"

Tracking Santa

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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If your little ones (or indeed you) are too excited to sleep as they anticipate the arrival of Santa you can go to NORAD, the US facility more usually associated with tracking aircraft, missile and satellite threats, who are continuing their festive tradition of tracking the aforementioned Mr S Claus’ progress across the globe on [...]

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Merry Christmas – Beat Style…

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Heidi, over at stately Beat mano has been celebrating Christmas time in her own fashion, with a selection of Christmas goodies in her 18 Days Of Christmas feature. Much lovely stuff to look at there, but my fave so far has been this from Larry Marder, creator of the wonderful, the marvellous Tales From The [...]

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Socks for Christmas

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Comics creator and Beano regular Kevin F Sutherland’s Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre explain exactly why socks suck as Christmas presents, which is true. On the other hand, much as I love collectable action figures, they don’t keep your tootsies warm!

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Somersault shares some more of that festive spirit

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Following on directly from last week’s strip Somersault continues to spread the joy and delight of the festive season to warm our hearts: (Somersault this week is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; click the pic for the larger version. If you’ve missed any [...]

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Lew Stringer’s annual Christmas comics posting begins….

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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Lew Stringer’s excellent blog; Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics always has something special and Christmassy for the holidays. Having run out of classic Christmas comic covers last year Lew’s decided to concentrate on just 4 comics in depth for 2009. First up is the Christmas 1971 edition of Valiant, which Lew gives us a [...]

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Christmas, Plunk style

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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Christmas in the inimitable Plunk style by and (c) Luc Cromheecke, from his blog (via Wim’s Ephemerist)

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Somersault – that special Yuletide feeling…

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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‘Tis the Season for joy and warmth and love and, well, maybe not in the world of Somersault… (Somersault this week is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; click the pic for the larger version. If you’ve missed any episodes you can find all [...]

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Christmas Presents from Mirablis….

Sunday, December 13, 2009

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A nice trad ghost story from Dave Morris and Martin McKenna to celebrate Yuletide. Originally designed as promotional material for the Mirabilis strip that featured in The DFC and will hopefully be completed/collected sometime in the future. It’s a short story, with unfinished art, although McKenn’as pencils are certainly tight enough to read. A nice, [...]

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Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus….

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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You can always tell it’s coming up for Christmas when we start seeing lots and lots of lovely comic Christmas cards… and so it begins: Courtesy Darryl Cunningham, whose Psychiatric Tales is much anticipated from Blank Slate in early 2010. More to come as we get closer.

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A 2000 AD Christmas

Thursday, December 10, 2009

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Via the 2000 AD Twitter comes a peek at the artwork for the Christmas prog, due next week, with art by Greg Staples; now I want a chess set with pieces just like this. No, scratch that, I want a chess set like this but Star Wars a New Hope style on my own holographic [...]

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Neill Cameron and Howard Hardiman get that Christmas spirit

Saturday, December 5, 2009

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It’s Christmas you know. Which means a chance for comic folk to enter into the spirit of things. First up we have Neill Cameron’s Advent Santas. Last year Neill posted as many different Santas as he could think of on his blog. This year, building on the ideas of his A-Z of Awesomeness and the [...]

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The New Vampire’s Handbook – now we’re definitely looking at Christmas.

Friday, November 13, 2009

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The New Vampire’s Handbook by Joe Garden, Anita Serwacki, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, and Scott Sherman Square Peg A sure sign that Christmas is coming – novelty adult stocking filler books begin to dominate the shelves of your local book megastore. Which explains the existence of The New Vampire’s Handbook. It’s one of those books [...]

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