The theme was "Home for the Holidays". I decided to use it as an opportunity to address something that the media just couldn't get enough of that particular December: the so-called "war on Christmas." I was appalled by the amount of ignorance on BOTH sides of this non-issue (which, thankfully, seems to have died down some since then...what used to be a round-the-clock "war on Christmas" watch in the news media has become just the odd news snippet) and wrote this strip affirming the true value of the holiday as something that's the exclusive domain of neither Christians nor secularists.Though the drawing is a bit rough in places (it was done in a hurry, like most newspaper work) I'm still very happy with the strip, and it hasn't been seen anywhere for three years now, so here it is, just in time for another Christmas. You can click either image in this post for the bigger version.And, oh yeah...merry Christmas!
3 comments:
Nicely done.
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Kwazy Kwanzaa to you, too!
Nice! I won't read it now, as I now plan to find that issue. And read it.
If that doesn't work out, I'll come back.
If you haven't read it, you might enjoy (and I'd love a comics version!) Stephen Nissenbaum's "The Battle for Christmas."
He gives a fascinating but exhaustive (perfect combo for people like me) history of the conflicts around the winter holiday, getting into the history of most of the traditions we now think of as "traditional."
My favorite? Kids demanding the tradition of a winter-break by barricading themselves into the schoolhouse with guns and food until the schoolmaster let them have a vacation! Thank your fore-students all you kids.
I got to interview Mr. Nissenbaum for a radio show on Co-op Radio in Vancouver, BC. It was really fun to ask the burning questions he hadn't answered in his book.
This ugly url should bring up our interview: http://accordionnoir.org/drupal/files/Battle for Christmas 2007-12-20 (nice).mp3
It's cool when he talks about the difference for researchers that the internet has made in the few years since his book came out. He had to go dig in actual libraries for old newspaper articles. Now you just search online from your desk (I was looking up stuff while we were talking).
Crazy world.
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