Via Steven Gettis, Mike Mignola draws Jacob Marley for Gettis’s art collection of literary characters by cartoonists.

Cartoonist Lew Stringer explores the contents of the 1971 Christmas issue of VALIANT.

Whew, things got a little heated around here this week! Time for other things. Let’s just go out and buy some awesome graphic novels as gifts and then kick back with some nice mulled cider! Celebrate the season! Fruitcake isn’t so bad.

You will want to read the whole hilarious thing. A holiday tradition in the making.

Yo ho yaoi!

Irish artist Will Sliney of the art blog Eclectic Micks graces us with a Wayne Family Xmas.

We still have some slots open, so keep the art coming, kids.

A page from Alex Robinson’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s A KIDNAPPED SANTA CLAUS, one of three delightful gift books published by HarperCollins this winter.

More here.

This animation style was hugely influential in the ’60s. Art directed by Gene Dietch. Via the D&Q blog.

Reminder, please send us your art links for this ongoing feature!

It’s Black Friday, people. Remember to be kind to the harried and overstressed retail employees.

We have much to be thankful for this year, and hope that everyone reading this is enjoying a safe, happy holiday.

One of the things we have to be grateful for is that Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom From Want” — of a series of four paintings saluting the Four Basic Freedoms– has to be one of the most parodied images of all times, so we always have something to post here.

This Redneck Thanksgiving from MAD Magazine is almost as well known. I have it in my little book of facts that it’s by Will Elder – I’m sure the peanut gallery will swiftly correct me if it isn’t.

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Let’s ease into the turkey glut with this delightful cultural mashup.

(pretend for the time being there are shirtless pictures of Gerard Butler and Clive [used to be cool before finding out he was a Liverpool fan] Owen here)

We’re sure that FMB will give the Beat a wonderful birthday, let’s hope that AMC also delivers a present of a good adaptation of The Prisoner tonight.

There are about a billion comics/Halloween photos up on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere, but we’ll just steal two.

Marion Vitus

Tom Neely

In trends, we noticed that ORIGINAL STAR TREK costumes far, far, far outnumbered STAR WARS costumes, a demographic shift showing that this year’s movie definitely did the job of making TREK cool and fun again.

Okay it’s not a comics, but nothing has influenced the imagery of Halloween more than James Whale’s classic, so let’s give it up for the king.

And with that, we’re off to Trick or Treat

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The Invisible Man

Aw, come on, did you think iI was gonna leave out Bruce Campbell?

Does anything signify contemporary terror in comics more than this series? Cover by Charles Adlard.