Design of the Week "BAH, HUMBUG!"

For the Christmas season, we've brought back one of our most popular features: posting a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!

This week...

Express your true feelings about the holiday season!

None of this "Happy Holidays!" or "Good will towards men!" BS!

Say what you feel!

"Bah, Humbug!"

Say it on hot cocoa mugs, ornaments, sweatshirts, hoodies (both light AND dark!), and MANY other goodies!

Give the gift that keeps on giving, even if you, personally, don't!

And "Bah, Humbug!" to all this Holiday Season!

Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY IS A HOLLY DAY "Thanksgiving Day" & HUMBUG "Like How to Carve Turkey"

A look at Thanksgiving...including before it was Thanksgiving!

Note there is a historically-inaccurate aspect below...

Interestingly, this page from Brevity Inc's one-shot giveaway Every Day is a Holly Day (1956) plays up the fallacy that turkeys were served at the first Thanksgiving, when the primary dish was eel!
In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be America's official bird and you don't eat your official bird!

Why is this comic entitled "Every Day is a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day is a Holiday"?

Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!

Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day"), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!

We'll present the other chapters on the dates they fall upon.

Watch for them!

Now, let's switch from reverence to sarcasm, with a never-reprinted one-pager by Arnold Roth from Humbug Publications' Humbug #5 (1957) covering a major culinary conundrum...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Holiday Reading Room HUMBUG "Voyage of the Mayflower II"

Here's a look from Humbug #3  (1957) at how a trend begins...

...which writer/artist R. O. Blechman derived from the real-life adventure of the Mayflower II, which apparently made a boodle of cash and inspired construction (and exploitation) of replicas of other famous sailing vessels!

Utilizing reconstructed ship blueprints held by the American museum Plimoth Plantation, and hand-built by English shipbuilders using traditional methods, the sea-worthy vessel actually sailed the Atlantic from England to Plymouth Rock, Mass, where it's been a tourist attraction ever since.

The Mayflower II is currently drydocked and undergoing restoration.

Holiday Reading Room HUMBUG! "Humbug Award for Fake Santa Clauses"

Remember this cute tale of multiple Santa Clauses by Walt Kelly?

...well, here's a far more cynical take on the matter, courtesy of artist Will Elder from the appropriately-titled Humbug #6 (1958)!

The writer is probably Elder or editorial staffers Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, or Arnold Roth.

Any guesses?

Design of the Month "Bah, Humbug!"

Usually, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

...however, we feel that this phrase is so concise, so important, that it should remain available to our audience for the entire month!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the Trumpian XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge in a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

Monday Madness HUMBUG "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

Here's one of the koolest adaptations of Dickens' classic story...

...and most people don't even know it exists!

Note: the interior pages were two-color instead of the usual comic book-style four color.

The next-to-last page of the story is from the one-color inside front cover, while the final page was the four-color back cover of the magazine!

Illustrated by Arnold Roth, it's never been established who wrote this tale from Humbug! #6 (1958)!

It could be Roth, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, or even all of them in a collaboration!

Visit our

A Christmas Carol / Scrooge

Collectibles Store!

Design of the Month "Bah, Humbug!"

Usually, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

...however, we feel that this phrase is so concise, so important, that it should remain available to our audience for the entire month!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the Trumpian XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge in a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

HUMBUG!

Not just Scrooge's favorite phrase...

Art by Jack Davis

...for just over a year in 1957-58, it was a kool humor magazine edited by Harvey Kurtzman after the cancellation of TRUMP, a magazine Kutzman intended to be a more adult version of MAD.

For their Christmastime issue, they, of course, adapted Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

See it here, on Monday...

Visit our

A Christmas Carol / Scrooge

Collectibles Store!

Design of the Month "Bah, Humbug!"

Usually, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

...however, we feel that this phrase is so concise, so important, that it should remain available to our audience for the entire month!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the Trumpian XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge in a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

The Man Who Personifies Christmas: 2016!

Trash the Tree!

Mangle the Mistletoe!

Exterminate the EggNog!

It's 2016!

And only ONE MAN can show us the True Way to Financial Salvation!

Ebenezer Scrooge!

Charles Dickens' immortal hero is back to lead us thru these dark times!
And only Atomic Kommie Comics™ could offer you so many different bargain-priced ways to show how you appreciate Him!
We offer almost two dozen designs including...
Several from the very 1st Edition of A Christmas Carol!
Several from the A Christmas Carol edition illustrated by legendary fantasy artist Arthur Rackham!
A trio from A Christmas Carol the 1951 movie with Alastair Sim as the definitive screen Scrooge!
PLUS: several other Scrooge and Christmas Carol designs including a "Bah, Humbug!" in classic Victorian-era lettering!
What better way to show what Christmas 2016 means to us all?
Choose from our miserly-priced Clothing, Collectibles (including 10 or 20 packs of greeting cards /  Christmas cards!), or Aprons and Stockings to proclaim to the world your loyalty to Him!

Give the gift that keeps on giving

(even if you, personally, don't)!

And "Bah, Humbug!" to all this Holiday Season!

Jack Davis (1924-2016)

In tribute to the late, great, Jack Davis...

Here's a never-reprinted pic of him (sitting in the tree) from Playboy Press' Trump #1 (1957)

And here's a never-reprinted Davis pencil and ink feature: " 'You Know Who' Gets Killed" from Humbug Publications' Humbug #1 (1957)!

Rest in Peace, Jack.

Retro Christmas Kool is HERE!

With Halloween over and Thanksgiving right around the corner, it's time to reveal the coolest Christmas goodies ever, exclusively for your shopping pleasure!
(Don't ya just love soft-sell?)
Ornaments, clothing, mugs, shopping bags, magnets, and many other items with stylish retro graphics that will make great under-the-tree gifts or stocking stuffers!

Santa Claus--the Man Himself!
12 different 1960s Santa Claus designs (for the 12 days of Christmas!) that will bring back nostalgic memories of your Baby Boomer childhood!

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!

He's the jolly ol' elf in a red suit.
They are big green men from Mars with an even bigger robot!
Who will win?
YOU, that's who, with these kool collectibles based on the weirdest Yuletide movie ever!

 
The Hardly-Abominable SnowMan! 
Along with St. Nick, our frosty friend is one of the most recognizable symbols of Winter and the Christmas Season!
5 different Frosty designs!

PLUS: The saga of Scrooge! "A Christmas Carol" brought alive with a dozen different images from, among others, the very FIRST edition EVER, the classic 1951 movie, and the famous Arthur Rackham edition!
Bah, Humbug!

Happy Holiday Shopping from Atomic Kommie Comics

Design of the Week Redux: Bah! Humbug!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another...except in cases like this where the response was so overwhelming that we've decided to extend the offer another week!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge is a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

Design of the Week: Bah! Humbug!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge is a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

Design of the Week--"Bah, Humbug!" (Redux)

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...due to unprecedented demand, we present once more...
Express your true feelings about the holiday season!
None of this "Happy Holidays!" or "Good will towards men!" BS!
Say what you feel!
"Bah, Humbug!"
And say it on hot cocoa mugs, ornaments, sweatshirts, hoodies (both light AND dark!), and MANY other goodies!
Give the gift that keeps on giving, even if you, personally, don't!
And "Bah, Humbug!" to all this Holiday Season!

Design of the Week

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...
Express your true feelings about the holiday season!
None of this "Happy Holidays!" or "Good will towards men!" BS!
Say what you feel!
"Bah, Humbug!"
And say it on hot cocoa mugs, ornaments, sweatshirts, hoodies (both light AND dark!), and MANY other goodies!
Give the gift that keeps on giving, even if you, personally, don't!
And "Bah, Humbug!" to all this Holiday Season!