The Definitive Animated version...
...starring Alistair Sim as the Voice of Scrooge!
It won both the Oscar and Emmy for best animated short subject...
AND...IT'S NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD or BLU-RAY!
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Holiday Reading Room: "Christmas in Many Lands"
Here's a kool illustrated text feature about...
...which appeared in Four Color Comics (Santa Claus Funnies) #205 (1948), illustrated by Arthur E. Jameson.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Tibet--Birthplace of Lost Heroes, in a NEW museum exhibit!
In the Golden Age, next to exposure to something radioactive, being raised from childhood or trained after you crash-landed as an adult by Tibetan lamas was the primary factor in the creation of superheroes (and more than a few supervillains)!
For more than sixty years Tibet has figured in comic books from around the world, at times creating and at times perpetuating notions of an otherworldly land roamed by the yeti, inhabited by wise and powerful lamas, or full of dark magic.
Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, Amazing-Man, The Flame, Wonder Man, and The Green Lama have either been trained or had major storylines set in that remote land.
More than fifty comic books from the Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, and the United States reflect on the depiction of Tibet, tracing the historical roots of prevailing perceptions and stereotypes and their visual and narrative evolution over time.
And, on Friday, January 13th, 2012, there will be a multi-media presentation of a new production based on one of the Green Lama's comic book stories!
The Rubin Museum is at 150 E 17th Street, between 6th & 7th Avenues.
We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ would suggest, if you go, go clad in appropriate garb like a t-shirt or sweatshirt or a canvas tote bag from our Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ collection...
or the classic comic characters' kool retro logos on
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Design of the Week--Santa Daddy!
Talk about the Gift That Keeps On Giving...
This week...while Kris Kringle is known for leaving gifts for little boys and girls, he's not noted for leaving behind little boys and girls!
Or is he?
Or...is he the kids' father in mufti as Santa (as many of our fathers and uncles have done), and the kids see through the disguise?
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Reading Room: SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "How Santa Got His Red Suit"
Didn't you ever wonder...
Well, here's the answer, from Four Color Comics #61 (1944)!
After being published annually as it's own title in 1942-1943, Santa Claus Funnies became a Four Color Comics feature, publishing annually from 1944 to 1961.
This tale was written and illustrated by Walt Kelly, before he created the classic comic strip Pogo.
Beginning with a two-part adaptation of the novel Gulliver's Travels in New Comics in 1935, Walt began an almost two-decade run in comic books, almost all of it for Dell Comics, where his distinctive style quickly developed into the "house style" for humor and funny animal stories that other artists would try to emulate.
Walt was the primary artist on the ongoing Santa Claus Funnies and Mother Goose series, and we'll be presenting several of those stories this Christmas season.
Beginning with a two-part adaptation of the novel Gulliver's Travels in New Comics in 1935, Walt began an almost two-decade run in comic books, almost all of it for Dell Comics, where his distinctive style quickly developed into the "house style" for humor and funny animal stories that other artists would try to emulate.
Walt was the primary artist on the ongoing Santa Claus Funnies and Mother Goose series, and we'll be presenting several of those stories this Christmas season.
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