From the Marsden Archive:
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
What does Santa do for the rest of the year?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!
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
J’ai eu le grand plaisir et honneur de dessiner la carte de voeux 2007 pour la mairie de Vacqières (Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon)
Cartoon Holiday Christmas Card – Santa Claus and Rudolph in the South of France
