Steve Cook has a few seasonal covers for us:

Merry Christmas Morning, folks! While sitting beneath the twinkling Christmas tree, having unwrapped all my fabulous gifts, I started to wonder if there were any more festive scans I could put up here. A bit of rummaging in my plan chest 10 minutes later produced a couple of seasonally relevant Chromalin proofs. One from ‘92 and another from ‘93. First up, Colin MacNeil’s fabulously festive painting of Tharg as the Spirit of Christmas Future, co-starring the Command Module Droids. Asleep on the floor is the Burt droid (Richard Burton). The one with the glasses is the Bish-Op droid (David Bishop). Then left to right Mac-2 (Alan McKenzie), with ‘Danger’ sign - Automo-Tomlinson, (John Tomlinson), Mac-1 (Steve MacManus), Cyb-Aud (Audrey Wong) and peeking over the ledge at the top, that’s me, Robo-Cook : )

The other proof I found was for Prog #772, (which was actually a Birthday, rather than Christmas issue, but it looks seasonal enough). This was one of my own covers from 1992. I originally designed and drew all the character icons on paper, then cut them out of Rubylith film with a scalpel. They were then copied and replicated using a pmt (photo-mechanical transfer) machine, which took up half the space in my studio at the time. All the colours were specified for the repro-house and the ribbon and bow were  printed in a fifth colour metallic gold for the final publication.

boocook:

my entry for the 2000AD message board advent calendar…have a zarjaz christmas earthlets!

And from Pete Wells on the advent calendar:

The amazing Boo Cook almost melted my monitor with this beautiful Kano Claus - Bad Santa, ha!

themessinside:

MERRY X-MAS

keiren-smith:

Judge Dredd Meets Santa by ~GibsonQuarter27

for the 2000AD Advent Calendar

From Mr Wells on the 2000AD forums:

Gibson Quarter and Tom Berry collaborated to bring this awesome slice of Christmas fun… 

Kid Robson has posted his festive thrill:

For many years, visitors to various 2000 AD fan sites (and even the official one) researching the works of writer GORDON RENNIE, would have seen the name of one story attributed to him that wasn’t his. Upon discovering this, I decided to own up and take the blame, thus removing the blot on his otherwise sterling reputation.

Yes, dear reader, ‘twas I - KID ROBSON - who penned this particular episode of THARG’S FUTURE SHOCKS, entitled SLEIGHBELLS IN THE SKY. Frankly, I thought the lettering was a bit too big, the colouring too dark, and some slight editorial revision detracted from the consistency of the meter, but otherwise it was a nice-enough little Christmas issue-filler.

The cover doubled as the 2000 AD Christmas card that year, sent from the office of THARG THE MIGHTY to all writers, artists, colourists and letterers. I still have mine tucked away somewhere, in case it ever becomes valuable. Watch out for me on the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in about thirty years.  

Steve Cook’s  trawl through Tharg’s old christmas cards continues, unearthing this gem:

A fun 2000AD Christmas card by Colin MacNeil in 1990. This was also used as the cover for prog #710. 

Dash Decent has done 12 pictures for the 2000AD forum advent calendar, so I’ve picked two favourites. To see them all start here.

Things stay dark on the 2000AD forum advent calendar “thanks” to an idea from the Enigmatic Doctor X:

Sorry it’s not 2000ad related. By the time this occured to us, it was too late. Still, Goodwill to all and a Merry Christmas from Jon and I.

dnewling first attempt to remodel Dredd didn’t follow the rules (and so gets a light slap across the back of the legs from the Spurrier Overlord), so he did another one, although the one he did was also suitably seasonal: