Dog Eat Doug by Brian Anderson for December 30, 2019

Thank you for not leaving that up until spring!

Catching that decoration probably wasn’t easy, but it would have been interesting to watch

That looks like Krampus to me! What else would we expect from the wee tricksey beasties?

I was hoping for the Icelandic Yule cat.

I wonder what the rest of their decorations looked like?

So that is where my ‘monster under the bed’ disappeared to. Good riddance.

translation: cats are pure evil!

Well, we’ll…just leave you to it, then.

Samhain decorations should all come down before Thanksgiving.

At least they didn’t built the Futurama Santa Claus robot…

Back under the children’s bed until next year?

Putting up decorations is one thing, putting up WITH decorations is something else.

And I thought they were pagan.

Cats are not like these evil creatures.

There are, occasionally, comics I keep coming back to for a second look. This one is one such.

Aside from the dark humor, which is brilliant, I think what strikes me the most is the background color. I would love to have seen this one in an actual, real-life, honest to goodness newspaper, to see it smack dab in the middle of all the jolly, merry, gay Christmas and holiday comics. It is such a powerful contrast to everything else this season. Which, of course, was its purpose.

Well done. I’m off to the official website. Excelsior!