Merry Christmas from Gun-Toting Penguin Santa

Because really, what sums up the spirit of Christmas like a penguin with a handgun?

Gun-Toting Penguin Santa

Little Hashtag Funnies callback for you there.

Due to the miracle of advance-scheduled posting, I am off stuffing a Turkey right now... unless I've been like hit by a bus or something in the day or so between typing this and Christmas Day. God, that would be morbid, wouldn't it? Why am I being so morbid? It's Christmas, for God's sake.

Merry Christmas, everybody! I hope I don't get hit by a bus now.

2009 Advent Calendar of Awesomeness FINAL


Vampire Santa

Here, to strike terror into your hearts on this dark, icy, Christmas Eve... it's Vampire Santa!

Vamp Santa

Only one more door top open on the Advent Calendar of Awesomeness! I am setting it to advance-post for tomorrow, so check back for that and the final, finished advent calendar.

Paul Erdős Santa

Here's today's Santa! It's... Paul Erdős Santa!

Paul Erdős Santa

This one's for my Dad, who has an Erdős number of 1. Yeah, that's right, you heard me. 1. I have provided illustrations for various of my Dad's books and lectures over the years, and so I have arbitrarily decided that this means I have an Erdős number of 2. If you have no idea what Erdős numbers are, there was a little piece on the subject on a recent episode of the wonderful podcast Radiolab, or you can just, y'know, look on wikipedia or something.

And to the 99.9% of regular readers of this blog who I have just completely baffled / alienated: it'll be mutant crabs or zombie pirate lizard-men or something again tomorrow, promise.

Giant Robot Santa

Hey, shall we open today's door on the Advent Calendar of Awesomeness?

2009 Advent Calendar 21-12-09

It's... Giant Robot Santa! I had a feeling he might show up.

Giant Robot Santa

Giant Robot Santa actually visited our house early this year, and brought with him the best Christmas present imaginable, which is the news that my comic Mo-Bot High is going to be published in a collected edition in 2010 by David Fickling Books / Random House. To say I'm excited would be woefully inadequate - I'm doing everything I can to make sure this is the best-looking and most crammed-full-of-awesomeness book I can possibly manage.

Mo-bot High - 2010

More details in the new year! And another Santa tomorrow!

Bulldog Santa

Here is today's extra-Old-School Santa-of-the-Day!

Bulldog Santa

Captain Winston Bulldog, star of Jason Cobley's long-running UK small press comic Bulldog Adventure Magazine, and star of some of the first comics I ever drew. That did not involve binmen swearing, anyway.

Another Santa tomorrow!

Titanic Santa (and Mrs. Claus)

Here is today's breathlessly romantic Santa-of-the-Day!

Titanic Santa (and Mrs. Claus)

Another Santa tomorrow!

Overworked Artist Santa

Here's today's extra-autobiographical Santa-of-the-Day!

Overworked Artist Santa

This is the first one that feels authentically Christmassy to me.

Another Santa tomorrow!