Cartoon of two penguins. One wears a Santa cap. The other says, “Oh please! This is the South Pole! Your outfit is so North Pole.”
It has to be a holiday fashion faux pas to wear a Santa cap at the South Pole. After all, it’s summer there and it’s daylight all the live long day. It’s practically above zero!
Merry Christmas!
Cartoon of a boy dressed as a shepherd. The boy says, “Augh! Why is it every year, in every live nativity, I have to play Linus?”
I love “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It’s the kind of classic that never goes out of style. I drew this for K! Magazine in their Christmas Issue. We own the copyright.
Cartoon of a boy and a letter carrier at the post office. The boy says, “It’s a letter to Santa. My hopes and fears of all the years are mailed with thee tonight.”
The other day, National Public Radio in the United States had a report on the tough economy and letters to Santa Claus. It broke my heart to hear how some families are struggling this year. I thought of the kids who were looking for hope for the new year.
It made me thing of the Christmas carol, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” The last part of the first verse spoke to me.
I drew this for Illustration Friday. This week’s word is “mail.”
Cartoon of an elf and Santa Claus. The elf says, “It’s another cable TV producer asking if we’d like to be in a reality show.”
I’m not sure I’d want to see elves going at each other because of deplorable working conditions, but it would make interesting TV nonetheless. It could be called “Santa’s Sweatshop” or “North Pole Goes South.” Oh the sordid details that would emerge!
Cartoon of Scrooge and the ghost of Jacob Marley. Marley says, “You will be visited by three spirits: The Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas present, and Ghost of Christmas Mall Music.”
Christmas mall music has been vexing me lately. It’s a lot of cheer without the babe in the manger. Christmas music without Christ is vain, fluffy and nonsensical… much like the rest of the mall.