Why are so many criticizing the eating habits of a 1700 year old? What possible medical evidence is there for suggesting A1C, diabetes, or obesity are an issue for people over 1000?
It’s strange to remember Sundblom’s usually mild pinup girl advertisement art as my pre-adolescent ideals of what pretty teenagers and young women should be vs. how I perceive them today — 50-plus years later. The flowers still bloom, but they’re not along the paths that I stroll anymore.
This looks like the guy I saw at WallMart yesterday…..of course he was wearing sweat pants and an old Jane Fonda workout T-shirt with holes in it. Some things you just can’t unsee.
There’s an anecdote from World War II where a British mobile workshop that was low on fuel asked the Americans to send them a half ton of coke, and they got…
have info about this illustration. Due to copyright issues with images of works by this artist, who passed less than 70 years ago, I can’t post it to Wikimedia Commons.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3049 (December 22, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Steve Melcher, Call me Ishmael, Solstice*1947, Bookworm, and all the commentators who help make this strip… priceless.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
Product placements is one way Santa gets funds to run his sweat… workshop.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 1 year ago
“I’m obese and diabetic but what the heck, I have to have my fix.”
Tyge over 1 year ago
Santa’s not obese. He’s all bladder by morning!
Solstice*1947 over 1 year ago
/// All those cola drinks Santa Claus sneaks,
sipped with sugary cookies, bespeaks
the probable reason
that each Christmas season,
it’s rosacea which ruddies his cheeks.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
One night a year Santa ignores his A1C numbers!
Ubintold over 1 year ago
Things go better with Coke.
P51Strega over 1 year ago
Why are so many criticizing the eating habits of a 1700 year old? What possible medical evidence is there for suggesting A1C, diabetes, or obesity are an issue for people over 1000?
jdculhane46 over 1 year ago
Well, he did say he wanted “something cool, dark and curvy”
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
It’s strange to remember Sundblom’s usually mild pinup girl advertisement art as my pre-adolescent ideals of what pretty teenagers and young women should be vs. how I perceive them today — 50-plus years later. The flowers still bloom, but they’re not along the paths that I stroll anymore.
khmo over 1 year ago
Was the “freaking” at all needed here? Makes the author sound like an illiterate.
Egrayjames over 1 year ago
This looks like the guy I saw at WallMart yesterday…..of course he was wearing sweat pants and an old Jane Fonda workout T-shirt with holes in it. Some things you just can’t unsee.
[Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago
Growing up when I did, this is the quintessential image of Santa to me.
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
Mr. Claus, a most popular Saint/
In this painting exposes the taint/
Of his willing adoption/
Of commercial co-option/
So “saintly”? Well, maybe he ain’t…///
His endorsement Is eagerly sought/
For the trust of the masses he’s caught/
To your young sons and daughters/
He sells sugar waters:/
Santa Claus can clearly be bought!
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
One fears there will come a day/
(And it may not be far away !)/
When logos- quite garish/
(In a manner “NASCAR-ish”)/
Will festoon the sides of his sleigh !
kv450 over 1 year ago
He could have had both in the same package until 1929 ;)
aerotica69 over 1 year ago
Dear Santa, It wouldn’t hurt you to drink a DIET Coke once in a while. Love, the Reindeer.
phillip w over 1 year ago
Funny
Another Take over 1 year ago
davanden over 1 year ago
There’s an anecdote from World War II where a British mobile workshop that was low on fuel asked the Americans to send them a half ton of coke, and they got…
The Wolf In Your Midst over 1 year ago
Judging by the color of the beverage and of Santa’s cheeks, that’s rum in that bottle, and Santa is now more loaded than the sleigh.
Publius10608218 over 1 year ago
Well if it was original formula…
schaefer jim over 1 year ago
No wonder he is so jolly!
anomaly over 1 year ago
Well, yes, it looks like Coke. But then so does Scotch.
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
Mama when I return I need more than this, I will need lots of schnapp’s!
mabrndt Premium Member over 1 year ago
Coca-Cola Santa:
https://museum.oglethorpe.edu/exhibitions/sundblom/
and
https://www.illustrationhistory.org/illustrations/coca-cola-santa
have info about this illustration. Due to copyright issues with images of works by this artist, who passed less than 70 years ago, I can’t post it to Wikimedia Commons.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3049 (December 22, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.
Ivan the Terrible over 1 year ago
The original COKE was great!
KEA over 1 year ago
before coca-cola ads Santa was usually pictured wearing green and brown
Dragoncat over 1 year ago
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Steve Melcher, Call me Ishmael, Solstice*1947, Bookworm, and all the commentators who help make this strip… priceless.
MS72 over 1 year ago
More time off?
Funny_Ha_Ha over 1 year ago
It’s the real thing. Santa and the big lie, not so much.
samsoltan_48323 over 1 year ago
Yeah, but the bubbles tickle his nose!