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The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories
Classic Christmas comic book stories by master cartoonists and illustrators. A perfect gift book for family to treasure and read.
This is the perfect gift for Christmas and will be a treasured family book. The stories delight those from ages 3 to 100! Classic illustrators and cartoonists like Richard Scarry, Walt Kelly, and John Stanley gift us with warm and fuzzy brightly colored comics full of humor, whimsey, and holiday love. The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories will sparkle under your tree and in your heart.
This is the perfect gift for Christmas and will be a treasured family book. The stories delight those from ages 3 to 100! Classic illustrators and cartoonists like Richard Scarry, Walt Kelly, and John Stanley gift us with warm and fuzzy brightly colored comics full of humor, whimsey, and holiday love. The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories will sparkle under your tree and in your heart.
176 pages, Paperback
First published November 23, 2010
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Craig Yoe
160 books34 followersCraig Yoe is an author, editor, art director, graphic designer, cartoonist and comics historian, best known for his Yoe! Studio creations and his line of Yoe! Books. Yoe is married to Clizia Gussoni, who is also his creative partner
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Displaying 1 - 14 of 14 reviews
January 4, 2013
This is a really fun book of iconic images and cute stories. The best, in my opinion, were the 5 stories by Walt Kelly, of "Pogo" fame. Beautifully illustrated and ridiculously adorable. Also with nice messages. Some of the others get a little boring or tedious, but mostly it's a great collection. Surprising turns of fantasy and invention from writers and artists I've never heard of before. More than enough satisfying material to make the volume worth it. It's in full color, too!
December 16, 2022
70 years is a long time, and these stories show it.
Most are inoffensive child-friendly Christmas stories with a surprising number of bunnies and Santa suffering all manner of setbacks. But they feel old fashioned, and not just due to the uneven hand lettering in some of the stories. It's a book founded on "old fashioned" Christmas values with almost no religious content (aside from one retelling of the Christmas story, with text taken straight from the bible), just a lot of Santa, and a couple reindeer, elves, and snowmen. None of it is bad per se (although there are a couple questionable stereotypes, like tramps, pirates, and gypsies) but there are literally no non-white characters in the entire collection, and they are lean heavy on the morals, without a whole lot of humor. At least there's not much mean-spiritedness.
If a Christmas Story feels too modern for you, or you have young children you want to share 12 days of Christmas stories with, you might appreciate this collection, or if you want to see rarely published works by classic comic writers like Walt Kelly, this might be worth a read. But I was looking to see how many pages I had left a third of the way through the book.
Most are inoffensive child-friendly Christmas stories with a surprising number of bunnies and Santa suffering all manner of setbacks. But they feel old fashioned, and not just due to the uneven hand lettering in some of the stories. It's a book founded on "old fashioned" Christmas values with almost no religious content (aside from one retelling of the Christmas story, with text taken straight from the bible), just a lot of Santa, and a couple reindeer, elves, and snowmen. None of it is bad per se (although there are a couple questionable stereotypes, like tramps, pirates, and gypsies) but there are literally no non-white characters in the entire collection, and they are lean heavy on the morals, without a whole lot of humor. At least there's not much mean-spiritedness.
If a Christmas Story feels too modern for you, or you have young children you want to share 12 days of Christmas stories with, you might appreciate this collection, or if you want to see rarely published works by classic comic writers like Walt Kelly, this might be worth a read. But I was looking to see how many pages I had left a third of the way through the book.
December 10, 2021
This book took me back to my childhood. All the classics are here: Twas the Night Before Christmas, A Christmas Carol, and The Christmas Story as well as many new-to-me comics. My inner child is smiling!
December 31, 2022
A delightful collection of old Christmas comics. From the Biblical story to the classics like A Christmas Carol and Twas The Night Before Christmas to the weird little comic book stuff like Blitzen being unable to fly due to the gout. Delightful indeed.
December 26, 2019
Lovely, whimsical collection of old comics mostly featuring Santa on adventures, or kids or animals having adventures in which Santa shows up at some point. Also includes adaptations of A Christmas Carol and the Biblical story of Christ's birth.
December 26, 2021
Interesting to read for historical study and likely fun for nostalgia factor to baby boomers. Enjoyable for littlest kids.
December 13, 2022
This was cute and I loved seeing the different art styles, but it was nothing super special.
December 19, 2022
A beautifully produced book with Christmas themed stories from a more innocent time -- from the days comics were still fun.
December 22, 2022
This was a fun little collection to get you in the Christmas spirit. Comic book versions of A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas were neat.
November 19, 2023
Very cute holiday themed stories
January 16, 2021
This was crazy! I thought that classic comics would be saccharine and predictable, but I was WRONG. So many of these were totally wild and bizarre. There is one comic called "Blitzen Jr." about a reindeer who wants to fly Santa's sleigh. I've heard this story hundreds of times, and I thought I knew where it was going. But every few pages it took a turn so insane that it left my jaw on the floor. Like, Blitzen can't fly, and he goes and looks for a job in the real world. And then a man offers to pay him to stuff his head and hang him on his wall. And then four more crazy things happen after that. These comics are not moralistic or beholden to conventional narratives. I wouldn't call them good precisely, but I wish that children's entertainment and popular entertainment in general dared to be this strange more often.
December 25, 2018
I actually waited a full-scale year to read this book. My wife gave it to me for Christmas. But since we had traveled to St. Louis to visit her family, we didn't exchange gifts with each other until after we got back a few days after Christmas 2015. So I added this treasury to my collection database, put it on my 'To Read' shelf and I waited... and waited... and waited until it was Christmas time 2016 to finally read this volume.
The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories is just that; it's over one hundred and seventy pages of classic Christmas themed comics from the 1940s up till 1960. It features the work of comic book legends such as John Stanley (Little Lulu), Walt Kelly (Pogo), and even an Al Fago yuletide yarn starring his creation Atomic Mouse. Added to the holiday fun is a rare comic story from children's book master Richard Scarry (Busytown.)
Some of these stories are quite dated, either in appearance or conventional mores. A few are quite silly and there were a couple of duds. But this was a pretty enjoyable read. Plus, not liking every story is to be expected in a collection such as this and as long as the majority of the stories are gems, it still makes for an overall favorable read.
This treasury was co-published by YOe Books, in cooperation with IDW Publishing. YOe has been building a reputation with it's massive editions of comic works featuring Steve Ditko, Dan DeCarlo, and Jack Kirby and the level of quality and detail in this treasury shows.
A really awesome Christmas present that was worth the wait.
The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories is just that; it's over one hundred and seventy pages of classic Christmas themed comics from the 1940s up till 1960. It features the work of comic book legends such as John Stanley (Little Lulu), Walt Kelly (Pogo), and even an Al Fago yuletide yarn starring his creation Atomic Mouse. Added to the holiday fun is a rare comic story from children's book master Richard Scarry (Busytown.)
Some of these stories are quite dated, either in appearance or conventional mores. A few are quite silly and there were a couple of duds. But this was a pretty enjoyable read. Plus, not liking every story is to be expected in a collection such as this and as long as the majority of the stories are gems, it still makes for an overall favorable read.
This treasury was co-published by YOe Books, in cooperation with IDW Publishing. YOe has been building a reputation with it's massive editions of comic works featuring Steve Ditko, Dan DeCarlo, and Jack Kirby and the level of quality and detail in this treasury shows.
A really awesome Christmas present that was worth the wait.
February 19, 2011
Really fun collection of classic Christmas comics.
December 3, 2013
Some of the comics are cheesy, but in all it's a great Christmas book.
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