Christian Espiritusanto - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

2019-04-06 New Jersey CollectorsFest2, Secaucus, NJ

Christian Espiritusanto started drawing at a young age, creating stories as early as age 5, and he has not stopped. Christian attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning, and currently works as a freelance artist

Pronto Comics

Christian was looking through my stock of envelopes for a potential sketch and saw the Rudolph. He became animated, since Paul Soles the voice of Hermey was sitting in the room next door. I don't think I could have stopped christian from providing this sketch. I did give the idea some thought on my way to the show, but wasn't really going to pursue it. Christian's enthusiasm sold me on the idea that this had to happen.

Paul Soles is an voice actor and television personality, providing voices for Spider-Man (1967), Bruce Banner and the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk (1966), Hermey the misfit elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) as well as the animated series Rockeet Robin Hood, The Trolls and the Christmas Express, Take Me Up to the Ballgame, The King Kong Show and many others.

As an actor Soles' appeared in The Incredible Hulk (2008) as the pizza shop owner, opposite Kevin Costner in The Gunrunner (1989). Won the 2006 Gemini Award for his role in the television series Terminal City and a 2017 Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Acot in a Digital Production for My 90-Year Old Roommate

a quick shot of Larry Storch (F-Troop) and Paul Soles (wearing a Spider-Man jacket)

Michale Grassia - Merry Christmas

2017.11.19 NJ Comic Expo, Edison, NJ

Merry Christmas to all!

Karl Kerschl - Abominable Charles Christopher

2015.06.06 NY special Event, NYC

I started reading the web-comic the Abominable Charles Christopher about 2 years ago. The comic started in 2007 following the adventures of Charles Christopher, a child like sasquatch, who's story intertwines with animals of the forest and the forest spirit in the guise of a lion...

The web-comic won the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic in 2011.

Kerchl, currently drawing the popular Gotham Academy, has also drawn Superman, Assassin's Creed, The Flash, Teen Titans and several others...

When the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stamps came out and the Bumble was featured as one of the stamps, my first thought was wouldn't it be great to obtain a Charles Christopher sketch on one of these covers... this was an early Christmas present...

Jacob Chabot - Bumble

2015.04.12 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared in 1939 in a booklet written by Robert L. May and published by Montgomery Ward...

Rudolph would gain immortality through the song written by Johnny Marks. Recorded by many artists through the years, the first commercially successful rendition was in 1949 by Gene Autry. Other artists include Bong Crosby, Spike Jones, Dean Martin, The Temptation, Burl Ives, The Jackson 5, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the list goes on...

Rudolph would gain further popularity in 1964 when Rankin/Bass Productions aired their stop-motion animated special on CBS television, which has never left the air-waves. The story follows a dejected Rudolph and Hermey the would be dentist elf who go on travels to help the misfit toys and their adventure with Yukon Cornelius and the dangerous abominable  snowman "The Bumble"...

2014 marked the 75th anniversary of Rudolph and the 75th anniversary of the television special. A series of US postage stamps was released on November 6, featuring Rudolph and his friends. My favorite characters are Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble. I asked Jacob Chabot to draw the Bumble on the 2014 Rudolph Bumble first day cover...

Jacob Chabot is a cartoonist illustrator whose work has appeared in Nickelodeon Magazine, Savage Dragon, Marvel Comics and his own The Mighty Skullboy Army, from Dark Horse Comics. Skullboy was nominated for an Eisner Award in 20078 for Best Book for Teens...

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,  Happy New Year....