Rhapsodies

I can’t believe I did this to myself again this year. While I’m doing them they feel like they’re more trouble than they’re worth and I keep making more work for myself as the ideas become more ambitious year after year.

But I still like doing them for a number of reasons. First I have always liked Christmas specials, especially the old Rankin/Bass ones, with stories about Santa Claus. Most of them are painfully saccharine which makes them comedy gold when it comes to parody but at the same time I like the myth of Santa Claus and all the questions we ask like how does he get down the chimney, how does he deliver all the toys in on night etc… All of these are fun things to think about even if you don’t believe in any of it. In fact one of the best parts of the season is willfully deluding oneself for the two weeks of the season.

The other fun thing about this is how the raw fantasy of these story lines feel incredibly liberating and it’s always a nice challenge to come up with a new setting, and of course most of all I get to draw Peaseblossom again.

So everybody fasten their seatbelts and enjoy.