Number 231
Santa 'shrooms
Santa meets Alice and goes down the rabbit hole in this story from Dell's Santa Claus Funnies #2, 1943. It's a clever reworking of the familiar Lewis Carroll story.The unknown artist also used Sir John Tenniel's classic illustrations as the basis for the Wonderland characters.
It's tempting to throw in a reference to Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit," magic mushrooms, Summer of Love, dancing naked in the park, psychedelics, hallucinogens…but that would be cheap and of course at Pappy's we don't go for the cheap, do we? No, we don't. Just because this story got me to pull out my old vinyl copy of Surrealistic Pillow doesn't mean anything, and don't infer anything from it.
Totally bizarre. Loved it!
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ReplyDeleteI raced from the moon in time to enjoy this Santa peculiarity and love it all the way.
Nice selections lately, Pap!
Speaking of mushrooms, Mrs Pappy used to tell me I was a real fun guy. Years later I found out she spelled it fungi.
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Anybody know the copyright status on this story? I know someone who wants to make use of some of it.
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