MERRY CHRISTMAS and
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ONE and ALL!
If you don’t celebrate any particular holiday,
I wish you peace and happiness all the same.
Mr. Peabody set the W.A.B.A.C. machine to December of 2009 and dug up this Christmas comic I drew. I resisted the urge to correct anything in the drawing. I did update just the coloring, but not the shading or highlights. A little trivia for you: I would use the end of the year comics to introduce new elements like clothes, hair styles, how I drew eyes, and the like. This would allow you readers to chime in and say “yay” or “nay” to the changes. In this comic, I was working on eyes as well as outfits for Lorraine, Robyn, and Bud. I ended up not using any of the stuff in this drawing.
Some old cast members in this one! For you newer readers, I’ll breakdown who everyone is. The front row: Lorraine, Robyn, Little Annie with her pet hamster Mr. Niblet (who lives next door to Bud and Jeff), Bud, Lily (Bud’s ex-girlfriend and future wife), Jeff, Rose (Lily’s mom and Jeff’s ex-girlfriend), Dr. Carlin (based on George Carlin), and of course Poco sitting on the wrapped present. The back row: Chet (a friend of Bud’s who wrote computer programs), Brenda/Rhonda (Bud’s older sister who is a Playboy Playmate), and of course the squirrel that used to torment Jeff. The reason Bud’s sister has two names is that I originally referred to her as Brenda, but then later on accidentally called her Rhonda. I covered the mistake by saying Rhonda was her Playmate name, thus covering up the fact I just simply flaked out on her name.
I wrote Lily and Rose out of the comic a while back, but obviously at some future point in time Bud and Lily will reconnect, end up getting married, have a daughter named Ivy, and then Lily passes away for yet unknown reasons. I purposely named Rose, Lily, and Ivy after flowers/plants. Little Annie, an obvious rip on Playboy’s “Little Annie Fanny” comic name, was last seen as a teenager. I aged her mainly as it was weird for 20 year old guys to be hanging around a 10 year old girl. Chet faded away as an unnecessary character. Brenda/Rhonda has not been seen in a long time but she could make an appearance as she lives in California. Dr. Carlin pops up now and then as he has a Free Clinic located in Lombard. The squirrels were retired a while ago as were Jeff’s exotic pets. Poco has not been seen in a while, but may reemerge toward the end of the run of the comic. I mostly got rid of these characters as I got tired of trying to keep up with such a large cast of regulars. I wanted to focus on just the four main characters and have anyone else in the comic simply be one-off characters that most likely will not be seen again.
Let’s lighten the mood this holiday season with some classic Bob Rivers’ Christmas parody songs. This one cracks me up every time. Happy Holidays and see you February 1st with new comics!
Good to see that one again, Happy Holidays!
Thank you for a happy joy holiday picture unlike the poor Ukrainian family in the spider and the Christmas tree they can afford to decorate it. In the tale a spider takes pity on a family too poor to decorate their tree. So she covers it with fabulous webs which grant good fortune. Even today Ukrainian children make paper or embroidery webs to honor the kind hearted arthropod (arachnid). Remembered it on book about Christmas trees around the world. Speaking of arthropods beware of the snow crabs lurking in snow drifts ready to give snow divers in speedos the pinch. Made it up from Abbott and Castello movie Lost in Alaska when the face crusty crabs in the snow screaming like girls . Get it snow crabs (crustaceans). But I doubt if they snow drift big enough to hide those grumpy creatures in North Carolina snip snip. I hope small children aren’t reading this because I was thinking of racy Christmas song. The Elf on the Shelf is a perv with nerve so I’ll tell what I did after he looked up my dress and became a hot mess.
1: Made him eat his own cereal dooming him to dentures.
2: Moved him into prefab gingerbread house in a blizzard they sell them in grocery stores.
3: Grafted triple Ds, big hair, high heels and the smallest dresses now he’ll know the discomfort of wearing a minidress in winter.
4: Stripe him naked but for S&M jock strap and grafted on batwings paint him green now he’s a tiny gargoyle.
5: Play William Tell he wears tights lets get medieval with a tiny crab apple.
6: Put in a basket wearing diapers and a blankets and float him down the river tiny Moses “bricks without straw rahahahaha.” I need to get out more.
7: Give him cement shoes throw him into the great lakes or sea.
8: Glue him to ice skates or dress him as Peter puck hockey or figure skate yes I know he see my underwear under my tutu.
9: Glue him to a bob sled or ski maybe snow board down the slopes.
10: Glue him to a sky rocket or weather balloon if he gets over 50 miles he’s astroelf. Wild card: Give the little guy love but he keeps sneaking in the shower looking up my dresses then he’s getting glued to a stock car at a Canam speedway.
Well Merry Christmas and happy new years hope for amusing comics.
Bob Rivers IS xmas 🙂 used him a lot for filler during the season.
My favourite is still ‘The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlIs27Z5Hrk
Followed closely by ‘Oh Come All Ye Deadheads’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_BA9Nm3iy0
and of course…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXcbZDzb8f8
Let’s hope none of the girls get bras for xmas and everyone enjoys theirs 😉
and of course…..
Happy whatever-you-celebrate from the Great White North 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DTwLqR071M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXKdBJ7HKOU
Missed your twelve days of Christmas especially the swimming mystic frogs. I saw the John Waters movie desperate living Queen Carlotta who forces the peasants of Mortville dress and walk back words. Her hot looking body guards in leather pants. Princess coo coo who is in love with a naked plumber but is given rabies. Even neurotic Peggy Gravel who sucks up the queen and dresses as a witch with her caldron making rabies are better than king Charles rahahahahaha. Love the strapless tops handy for a sexy Santa or Chrissy Claus Santa’s sweet daughter wears red bodysuits with stockings, boots and jacket. Someone made a cartoon of her and it’s fun to dress like her.
From what’s poking through some of the costumes, it must be pretty cold in that room. Well, it gives us a Merry Christmas, too.