This Dredd megazine cover ‘sleighs’ me (sorry had to do it - probably six months in the cube for that stinker). There’s also this Festive howler:
Sorry again for that terrible play on words up there…it was so cheesy…
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.
An idea from 2000ad forumer Dash Descent. Gronks are timid creatures with weak hearts(es) - and here they are, DEATH BY CRACKERBLAST
Happy Christmas!
A late entry to the 2000AD forum advent calendar.
Have yourself a Mega-City Christmas
In the iso block
Judges kicked the door in, that was quite a shock…
Have yourself a Mega-City Christmas
Doing five to ten
You won’t put real sugar in the pud again…
Here we are doing ninety days, for pulling a face at Dredd,
We would never have made a gurn, if we’d known he’d turn his head…
Thirty years, that’s what he gave to Kevin
Just for going to sleep
He was flying a plane but still it’s pretty steep…
So have yourself a Mega-City Christmas, creep.
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Al Ewing has composed a little Christmas poem for us all, via Pete Wells:
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Ending his advent calendar frenzy with this:
Lastly, the mad as a box of frogs Tiernen Trevallion sent us three great images - Absalom in a Santa hat…
Coming to the end of his run of images Pete Wells has this for us:
And the always amazing Simon Fraser sent us this ominous masterpiece…
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!
