I love Richard Thompson's modern celebrity Santa.
We never actually see Santa because he's always being hustled away by his keepers.
Thompson was a brilliant, beautiful illustrator who died all too young. His drawings were simultaneously wobbly yet precise. They were naive yet sophisticated. His humor was childish yet wise. For me, he ranked among the best humorous illustrators of the 20th century.
He left us all too soon, before he had a chance to make full use of his great gifts but he left behind a bountiful legacy of marvelous drawings.
Some people re-read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol every Christmas. Me, I dig out and take a fresh look at Richard's "Here Comes Santa Claus" cartoon.
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Absolutely wonderful work. I'm reminded of Charles Rodrigues.
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