Archive for the ‘holiday card’ Category

What does Santa do for the rest of the year?

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

From the Marsden Archive:

Santa Claus and Rudolph play a deadly game of cat and mouse in opium dens all over the world

Apparently he is hiding out, heavily armed, in dubious underground pubs all over the world, while playing a deadly cat and mouse game with an equally armed-to-the-teeth Rudolph….

Black and white pen and ink cartoon, comic, graphic novel illustration by Ian Marsden

A cat up the Christmas tree - Cartoon by Ian Marsden

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

…with several dogs waiting patiently below….

This is a black and white pen and ink cartoon I drew for my own personal Holiday greeting card. (Ca. 1995)

Dogs chasing cat up Christmas tree cartoon by Ian Marsden

Cartoon artwork © Copyright 1995 Ian D. Marsden

Happy Holidays and All the best for 2008 from your friend Ian Marsden

Monday, December 24th, 2007

I hope you have a marvellous Holiday Season, see lots of loved-ones, experience many surprises, recive and give tons of lovely gifts and may 2008 be a fantastic year for all of you!

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson nearly discover Santa Claus - animated Holiday Christmas Cartoon card

Cartoon Holiday Christmas Card - Santa Claus and Rudolph in the South of France

Monday, December 10th, 2007

It was my great pleasure to draw a cartoon Holiday Card  for the local Mairie this year. Although it doesn’t really snow very frequently in the south of France, I used some wishful thinking to give Santa Claus and Rudolph something soft to land on.

As the region produces some really fantastic wines (if you have not yet tried a Languedoc-Roussillon rosé or red you are in for a treat!) it seemed only fitting that Santa would find a nice bottle left for him by the local people.

The drawing itself is a pen and ink drawing on paper which I later colorized in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Corel Painter 9.5

Santa Claus Cartoon Holiday Christmas Card - Carte de Voeux Père Noel cartoon bande dessinée BD

J’ai eu le grand plaisir  et honneur de dessiner la carte de voeux 2007 pour la mairie de Vacqières (Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon)