Every day until Christmas, I’m releasing a brand-new holiday single-panel gag — and this year’s batch has already included:
Overworked elves
Malfunctioning snowmen
Questionable reindeer behavior
And Santas who are absolutely phoning it in
Next week’s cartoons keep the absurdity rolling. If you’re counting down to Christmas with me… buckle up. We’re not even halfway to the weirdest ones. Catch them on Bluesky, Patreon chat, or the Evil Inc Subreddit.
TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1(Later) Hailey: “Come on, Rose! This is a big opportunity for me! Just tell me what Cap’s ‘usual’ is!”
Panel 2 Rose (from inside the storage closet): “Fine. He loves chicken soup — extra crackers — and a tall lemonade.”
Panel 3 Rose: “Say… do you think you could open the door now? There’s not much air in here.”
Panel 4 Hailey: “If you look in the corner, you’ll see an old battle ax.”
Be sure to tune in tonight to NBC’s live-action version of one of my all-time favorite Rankin-Bass animated specials, The Year Without a Santa Claus (9 p.m. on the East Coast). I don’t expect this to take the place of the old one in my heart, but the preview (above) looks pretty good. In case you’re interested, that’s Harvey Fierstein as Heat Miser and Michael (Lenny in “Laverne and Shirley”) McKean as the Snow Miser.
Longtime readers will already be familiar with my story about one of the voice actors from the original, Dick Shawn, who voiced the Cold Miser, and the amazing way he died. If you don’t remember, you can read it here.
P.S.: If the clip left you jonsing for the real thing, here’s the original Cold Miser and Heat Miser musical numbers.
Longtime readers will already be familiar with my story about one of the voice actors from the original, Dick Shawn, who voiced the Cold Miser, and the amazing way he died. If you don’t remember, you can read it here.
