Merry Christmas?

I raise a cup of cheer to all on the Holidays.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

I am not feeling sinister or pessimistic this holiday season. The cute and happy side of me has surfaced for now in this drawing.

I wish you all peace and happiness!

Happy Holidays!

Santa can be happy and take some hope that he might be able to find insurance by the Spring of 2010 - but who knows what future surprises are still to come.

Uncle Ernie wishes you a happy and healthy Holiday and New Year!

HiNi Santa

Two more victims of the H1N1 virus are ready to be hung onto a Christmas tree. I'm glad I got my shots.

The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

Charles Dickens had a particular fondness for the supernatural. It would not have taken much coaxing for him to fall headlong into spiritualism. His nursemaid, Mary Weller, can be given some credit for helping to shape his imagination and storytelling abilities through the grim and ghostly tales she told to the young Dickens.

I have just discovered this creepy story by Dickens from, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (known these days as The Pickwick Papers.) You will notice a striking similarity to a later, more famous, Dickens Christmas classic; but The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton is darker in tone. It seems to work better as a ghost story for this first day of October.

A Cold Day in Hell

I think some folks were a bit disappointed that I didn't make a creepier Santa this year. No one can say that Uncle Ernie doesn't listen to the public. Here is… A COLD DAY IN HELL.

Bobby's Christmas Dream

Barnacle Press is a great site to spend some time reading old comic strips. Many of them are strips you may never have heard of. It is interesting to look at these strips from a time before the watering down of political correctness and approval by committee process has given us mostly milk toast for comic strips. Check out the entire run of Bobby's Christmas Dream. I wonder which reindeer's was slacking off to get it's head mounted on Santa's desk?