Christmas Covers - December 5

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Rudolph helps Santa in the North Pole Workshop on the cover to 1950's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #1 by Rube Grossman.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 20 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Animaniacs: A Christmas Special #1)
(2005: Shanda the Panda #14)
(2004: Famous Funnies #125)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
 

Making Rain Online

Way back in 2004, one of the very first comics I reviewed on YACB was Making Rain, a graphic novella by Ursula Murray Husted. I gave it 4.5 stars and named it one of the Best of 2004. At the time I stated that the only drawback to Making Rain was its relatively high price. But now Husted has put Making Rain up online, for free! That's a price that cannot be beat. So if you haven't read it yet, go and give it a try.

Christmas Covers - December 4

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

From waaay back in 1936, Dick Tracy graces the Christmas-themed cover to Popular Comics #12.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 21 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Yogi Bear #11)
(2005: The Batman and Robin Adventures #3)
(2004: Dell Four Color #1154)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Covers - December 3

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

It's a Web-Swinging Holiday when Spider-Santa comes to town, courtesy of George Pérez on the cover of the Marvel Holiday Special 1994.

Just 22 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Tom-Tom and Itchi the Monk #2)
(2005: Marge's Little Lulu #18)
(2004: Superman #369)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

Christmas Covers - December 2

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

We're making snowmen with old-school Sabrina on Dan DeCarlo's cover to Sabrina, The Teen-Age Witch #77.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 23 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Dennis the Menace Bonus Magazine Series #111)
(2005: Limited Collectors' Edition #C-43)
(2004: Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #9)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

Christmas Covers - December 1

It's time once again for our annual Christmas Covers event: twenty-five more comic covers with a holiday theme, in our little virtual comic book advent calendar.

Hover over the image to reveal today's cover, and click on it to see the larger-sized version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

To kick things off, The Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman join Santa Claus in wishing you a happy holiday season on Frank Harry's cover to Comic Cavalcade #5 from 1943!

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.

Just 24 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Justice League Unlimited #16)
(2005: Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #3)
(2004: Limited Collectors' Edition #C-34)
(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

YAMR: Christmas Extravataganza 2007

It's December, and that means it's time for our annual Christmas Extravataganza on Yet Another Music Radio!

Tune in and listen to more than one hundred tracks, including music by:

Adrienne Pierce; Aimee Mann; Ali Lohan; Allison Crowe; Aly & AJ; Antigone Rising; The Apples in Stereo; Asleep at the Wheel; BarlowGirl; Bethany Dillon; The Beu Sisters; Bianca Ryan; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; Billy Dean; Billy Paul Williams feat. Nicole Henry; The Bird and the Bee; Blackmore's Night; Blondfire; Brad Paisley; Britt Nicole; Built for the Sea; c. basinet; Celtic Woman; Chris Isaak; Chris Rice; Christine Evans; Christy Carlson Romano; Cliff & Danielle Young; Colbie Caillat; Cyndi Thompson; Deana Carter; Deanna Kirk; Derri Daugherty, Julie Miler & Third Day; Ellis Paul; Emily Richards; Enya; Erin Alden; Fountains of Wayne; Hayley Westenra; Hillsong; Iain Archer; Ingrid Lucia; Israel & New Breed; Jack Ingram; James Taylor; Jane Monheit; Jars of Clay; Jason Mraz; Jeff Black; Jessie Daniels; Joan Osborne; Johanna Stahley; John Tesh; Joy Williams; Kelly Willis; Kimberly Locke; KT Tunstall; Kutless; Lauri Carrigan; Leigh Nash; Lisa Loeb; Lisa Theriot; Los Straitjackets; Luscious Jackson; Martin Sexton; Matt Costa; Mediæval Bæbes; Melanie Doane; MercyMe; Michelle Tumes; Mindy Smith; Moya Brennan; Méav Ni Mhaolchatha; Natalie Grant; Nazanin; Nichole Nordeman; Nnenna Freelon; Olivia Olson; Over the Rhine; Persephone's Bees; The Pipettes; Play; Point of Grace; Rebecca St. James; Relient K; Rhonda Vincent; Rihanna; Sara Groves; Sarah McLachlan feat. Diana Krall; Saturday Looks Good to Me; Sister Hazel; Skye Sweetnam; Sleigh Ride; Sonicflood; Starfield; Sufjan Stevens; Tears for Beers; Tiffany Giardina; TRALALA; The Trophy Fire; Tywanna Jo Baskette; Universa Honey; Venus Hum; Whigfield; The Young Playthings; and ZOEgirl.

It's six and a half hours of not-your-typical Christmas music to get you into the holiday mood!