Ho, Ho, Ho: Christmas in Comics-Land

I always enjoyed the last afternoon before a major holiday, both at school and work. I remember a lot of sitting on edges of desks waiting for people to finish up, or watching people pack to go home, the satisfaction of forced closure settling in for at least a 48-hour stay. I can't imagine anyone's up to doing a whole lot of anything mentally strenuous or challenging, so below please find a dozen or so Christmas-related links and samples of comics art.

For those of you interested in something a little more comics-y, you can read Brian Hibbs' piece on ordering DC Comics titles after the entire line is re-set -- it's sort of like hanging around with my Uncle Bob while he guesses how many jellybeans are in the jar at the local fair except Brian does this for a living and his hunches are therefore a lot more informed and wise than my uncle's. Mark Evanier has a nice piece on a character named Captain Victory I kept meaning to post about and kept forgetting, and Ted Stevens' Incredible Hulk tie. You could also look at Chris Arrant's interview with Xeric grant winner Mike LaRiccia. The Fantagraphics people suggest an interview with Martin Kellerman, a music video by Kim Deitch and a conversational video featuring the old vaudeville team of Lethem and Clowes.

I always enjoy Peter Bagge's essays for the political magazine Reason, even when I don't agree with them, and the latest one of those is up here.

Tangentially related to comics is the first volley in a year-long attempt to make the forthcoming Ghost Rider movie look like a gigantic hunk of shit, so that when it turns out to be a regular hunk of shit and wins that first weekend's box office over a movie about post-partum depression starring Drew Barrymore Marvel can declare it a resounding victory. More to the point is Matt Fraction and Joe Casey selecting their comic books of the year, from Black Hole to Seven Soldiers. This guy chooses Infinite Crisis as his book of the year. I read the first three issues of that last night and I'm definitely pulling for the ascendancy of whatever Earth doesn't have comics like Infinite Crisis.
 
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