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Ever wondered what Santa is up to the rest of the year? You’ll wish you hadn’t! For 364 days of the year Santa has nothing at all to do. The elves do all the manual labour and these days he orders all the presents online. All he has to do is deliver them. So, for the rest of the time he is bored out of his tiny mind. Dave Cornmell’s brilliant and inspired comic strip is an irreverent and incredibly rude look at Santa’s real life featuring an hilarious cast of characters including Mrs. Claus, the elves, reindeer, a variety of arctic wildlife, Santa’s bath toys and some maggots. Find out where Santa goes on holiday, what he does with his garbage bags, what he watches on television, how he copes when his wife goes away and whether or not the rumours are true about him and Vixen. Whatever your idealized image of Santa may be, the truth is that he’s just a bored fat bloke who hates his job. Get used to it.
Santa Claus struggles with profound existential boredom during the 364 days of the year when he is not actively delivering gifts. The protagonist finds himself largely redundant in a modern world where elves handle production and online shopping replaces traditional toy-making. He must navigate the monotony of his domestic life, his strained relationship with Mrs. Claus, and his own general dissatisfaction with his role. The narrative unfolds through a series of irreverent comic strips that deconstruct the myth of the jolly gift-giver, presenting him as a cynical, idle individual.
This work functions as a biting subversion of holiday sentimentality, stripping away the magic to reveal a mundane and often crude reality. The narrative relies on the contrast between the expected jolly persona of Santa and his actual, deeply bored existence. Readers likely encounter a series of vignettes that prioritize shock value and dark comedy over traditional storytelling arcs. The tone remains consistently irreverent, aiming to dismantle the idealized image of the North Pole through a lens of modern cynicism.
Page Count:
192
Publication Date:
2010-01-01
Publisher:
Harpercollins Pub Ltd
ISBN-10:
0007362196
ISBN-13:
9780007362196
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