Schulz, the man who birthed the lovably hard-luck Charlie Brown, was known to have wrestled with self-doubt. Yet when it came to taking the reins of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965, the “Peanuts” creator was a thinker of unwavering confidence and cool-headed belief, his longtime screen collaborator and late producer Lee Mendelson — who […]
Christmas with Will Eisner, C. E. Mondfort, Joe Kubert, Walt Kelly, Bill Watterson, and many more. Newspaper cartoonists have been celebrating Christmas since The Nineteenth Century. We, however, will remain a bit closer to our times. In the comic book newspaper insert of the 1940s, commonly called The Spirit Section, Will Eisner regularly celebrated Christmas […]
You’ll note Santa’s helmet at the left. This banner was from 1944, 80 years ago, six months after D-Day and right in the heart of the Battle of the Bulge, which explains the light in the window at the right. The war was also in the heart of most comic strips on Christmas that year. […]