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The above page of original art was produced by Jack Rickard for a piece called “Modern Wildlife Species” that appeared in the paperback collection, Mad Looks at the Future (1978). If you like it, it’s available right now, cheap, on ebay from a very reliable seller (not me).
Here in the Queen City, the end of Christmas vacation is today; school starts tomorrow.
From Creepy Things #2 (October 1975), here’s “Slimes, Slogs and Glumps,” with script by Nick Cuti and art by Tom Sutton; the cover of this issue is also by Sutton, so I’ve included that as well:
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From Captain Flight Comics #2 (May 1944), here’s “Captain Flight’s Microbe Plane” by Frank Stevens; since this technologically prescient (!) story is a whopping 20 pages long, I have decided only to display the first image on any page here that includes other posts, but if you click the link to the individual post, you’ll be able to read the whole thing:
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From Mad #228 (January 1982), here’s “The 1981 Night Before Christmas, or A Final Visit from St. Nicholas,” with doggerel by Frank Jacobs and drawings by Harry North; this post includes scans of all of the original art, which is currently available for purchase, as a complete set, on ebay, from a first-rate seller (not me):
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Don’t worry, kids! Nineteen eighty-one may have been a tough year for old Santa, but he powered through his difficulties and depression, and even now, thirty years into the future, he is still on the job.
From Santa Claus Funnies #254 (1949), here’s “Albert and Pogo’s Christmas,” with script and art by the incomparable Walt Kelly:
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From Glamorous Romances #57 (January 1952), here’s “Romance for Christmas,” with script by an uncredited writer and unsigned art by an uncredited cartoonist; ah, the good old days… :
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The Cul de Sac Christmas Cards have been available since 28 November 2011. You can buy them at the Cul de Sac Shop, your official source for anything Otterloop! Of course, it’s too late now for you to order these in time for Christmas 2011. But since they’ll never go out of style, you will probably want stock up for 2012 and beyond!
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