Carl Barks' paintings brought Duckburg to some form of reality. This one is entitled 'The Season to be Jolly', adding another la...

Below is a 10 year run of Coke ads featuring Haddon Sundblom paintings, beginning in 1933, just two years after he painted his first Santa....

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1943 The above ad was a new painting that ran at the same time as a reworked Sundblom Santa from an earlier time was running. At least he wa...

Christmas in the 20s and 30s was such a cozy thing, if it can be judged by the graphics of the time. These images, from postcards of the tim...

There's only one Christmas story in this 1924 book, but I thought it was worth showing the other lovely stylized illustrations by Kathar...

This is the time before Christmas that is so fun to be out among people. Under the right conditions, the air is filled with love and harmony...

Happy First Day of Winter, shortest day of the year. This art seems appropriate enough for that occasion. A really nice drawing from the 70s...

The previous post about Santa's Toy Shop was a set-up for this post, a Carl Barks story originally from the 1948 issue of the Firestone ...

The 1948 cover to this story:

Golden Books may be items of nostalgia for baby boomers, hopefully having fond memories attached to them. This book, originally published in...