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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2022 17:14:05 GMT -5
Just started my holiday break, and it's an absolute favorite annual tradition for me to read the two Carl Barks Christmas themed collections in the second image below (in their most snazzy slipcase in the first). I'm interested if others have annual reading traditions around the holidays (whether the material is actually holiday themed or not). I have a Captain America collection from the early 80's (Ideals published one with the yellow cover) that I also have to read just because I associate it with a particularly happy Christmas memory as a kid. Or even any holiday themed favorites whether you plan to read or not...'tis the season, would love to see what folks enjoy!!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 17, 2022 18:03:16 GMT -5
Not so much with Christmas, though I used to read Christopher Moore’s “The Stupidest Angel” around the holidays.
For Halloween I will frequently read Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October.” It’s formatted as something of a journal starting on October 1st and ending on the 31st so it’s easy to read in the month.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 17, 2022 18:09:50 GMT -5
I try to read Dickens' Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth every year. But my holiday traditions run more towards beloved movies and TV shows.
Cei-U! I summon the "Ho, ho, ho!"
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Post by Jeddak on Dec 17, 2022 19:45:47 GMT -5
Not so much with Christmas, though I used to read Christopher Moore’s “The Stupidest Angel” around the holidays. For Halloween I will frequently read Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October.” It’s formatted as something of a journal starting on October 1st and ending on the 31st so it’s easy to read in the month. Both excellent choices.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 17, 2022 19:57:01 GMT -5
Not so much with Christmas, though I used to read Christopher Moore’s “The Stupidest Angel” around the holidays. For Halloween I will frequently read Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October.” It’s formatted as something of a journal starting on October 1st and ending on the 31st so it’s easy to read in the month. Love Moore's writing and that particular book, especially as it is filled with characters from his various titles. A Christmas Carol has been a slight tradition with me; not every year; but, periodically. Also, Jean Shepard's In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, the story collection that includes the two stories that formed the basis for A Christmas Story. As said above, Christmas tv specials and movies are more my tradition, than comics, though I do tend to revisit the DC Christmas with the Superheroes collections.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 17, 2022 21:19:26 GMT -5
I don't really have any comic related Christmas traditions. But I like to make a point of reading the odd M.R. James ghost story and also watching the mid-80s BBC television adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2022 21:24:48 GMT -5
My erudition in comparison feels a bit lacking. I just read Donald Duck and watch He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special. (ok, I jest a bit, but just a bit!)
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 17, 2022 21:28:41 GMT -5
I have a pile of Christmas-related books I used to go through every year when I was younger (they're even stored with the Christmas decorations) but I haven't been very faithful in years past. They include Dickens' Christmas Carol illustrated by a Dutch artist, several Archie Christmas special and a translated DC Christmas book in which Superman, Sandman and Wonder Woman (each on their own) save the holidays. Also, unrelated ghost stories by the Belgian writer Jean Ray, which I somehow associate with Christmas. Last year I added this one :
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 17, 2022 21:29:07 GMT -5
I don't really have any comic related Christmas traditions. I do not, either, but I can say that when I was young and saw the tabloid / treasury books below--
---the mere sight of it just felt right.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 17, 2022 21:30:23 GMT -5
Oh, and after living in Germany for a few years in the 90s, we make a point of watching the short play Dinner for One on December 31. Not a book, but still a tradition!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2022 21:43:35 GMT -5
---the mere sight of it just felt right. I remember those well, that sentiment is so true! This is far from a tradition, and an irreverent bit of fun of course, but I have a strong memory of this one coming out during the holiday season in 1985. If my memory is correct, it was during a time when things were not so great in my family, and comic books were a much needed escape. Perhaps the crazy humor, but still with some "holiday theme", was exactly what I needed at that point:
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 17, 2022 22:48:42 GMT -5
Oh, and after living in Germany for a few years in the 90s, we make a point of watching the short play Dinner for One on December 31. Not a book, but still a tradition! Ah, yes; the most repeated tv show in history.....
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Post by berkley on Dec 18, 2022 0:49:35 GMT -5
I don<t have a regular tradition but this year I will be reading E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker": it was in a collection, (Dover Books: "The Best Tales of Hoffmann") that I had meant to finish last month but I figured I might as well save this one for Christmas since it was coming up. If I had thought of it beforehand I would have saved "A New Year's Eve Adventure", from the same anthology, for similar reasons but I was already in the middle of it before the idea came to me.
I don't think I have any special Christmas comics lined up but perhaps I'll think of something later. If nothing else, I hope to catch up on some of the new or recent (as in the last ten years or so) comics that I've had to put off the last little while due to time pressures.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 18, 2022 3:54:48 GMT -5
I have a pile of Christmas-related books I used to go through every year when I was younger (they're even stored with the Christmas decorations) but I haven't been very faithful in years past. They include Dickens' Christmas Carol illustrated by a Dutch artist, several Archie Christmas special and a translated DC Christmas book in which Superman, Sandman and Wonder Woman (each on their own) save the holidays. Also, unrelated ghost stories by the Belgian writer Jean Ray, which I somehow associate with Christmas. Last year I added this one : That is one sexy cover.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 18, 2022 3:57:31 GMT -5
Nothing comic related but I used to watch Christmas dvds particularly the George C Scott Christmas Carol. When I work in the street I listen to a Christmas music app.
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