Here’s a brief but informative piece from Cincinnati.com on Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon creator, Milton Caniff, arguably the single most influential newspaper cartoonist of all time.

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/ourhistory/2010/12/21/remembering-iconic-cartoonist/

It goes without saying that a Bruce Jones/Al Williamson Creepy christmas story would be of interest but as a bonus, here’s the odd but fascinating combination of Carmine Infantino and John Severin on a macabre holiday western!

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/12/12-days-of-christmas-2010-black-and_22.html

Here’s the one and only Bucky Ruckus, one of Wally Wood’s triumphant moments, in his 1967 newspaper debut in that year’s NEA Christmas comic strip, Bucky’s Christmas Caper!

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/12/wally-wood-buck-ruckus-christmas-1967.html

Finally today, Harlan Ellison famously praised George Carlson’s Pie-Faced Prince of Pretzelburg from Jingle Jangle Comics and here’s a little-seen screwball Christmas story of that crazy character!

http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/12/pie-faced-prince-at-christmas.html