{"id":4255,"date":"2009-12-06T16:45:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2009-12-06T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:45:01","slug":"december-3-4-5-three-visions-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4255","title":{"rendered":"December 3, 4, 5: Three Visions of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/212-xmas-covers-harpercollins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4272\" title=\"212-xmas-covers-harpercollins\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/212-xmas-covers-harpercollins.jpg\" alt=\"212-xmas-covers-harpercollins\" width=\"600\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/212-xmas-covers-harpercollins.jpg 600w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/212-xmas-covers-harpercollins-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Christmas spirit is now in full-cheer, and so I&#8217;m about-ready to dig into these fascinating new graphic novel adaptations of classic Christmas tales, published by the good folks at Harper Collins. While they aren&#8217;t actually part of a branded &#8216;line&#8217; of books, Lilli Carre&#8217;s adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson&#8217;s <strong>The Fir Tree<\/strong>, Joel Priddy&#8217;s adaptation of O. Henry&#8217;s <strong>The Gift of the Magi<\/strong>, and Alex Robinson&#8217;s adaptation of L. Frank Baum&#8217;s <strong>A Kidnapped Santa Claus<\/strong> all share a handsome and complimentary hardcover design, lovely art, and perfect timing for holiday reading.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned I haven&#8217;t had a chance to read these ones yet&#8230; I have bought them and flipped through them though! \u00a0I guess I&#8217;m just waiting for tonight&#8217;s first snowfall, a warm cup of cocoa, and maybe a Christmas special on the TV in the background. If you want to take a peek, I&#8217;ve got a gallery of images from the book below, and you can find reviews\/discussions of the work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=23397\" target=\"_blank\">CBR<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/highlowcomics.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/three-takes-on-christmas-fir-tree-gift.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Clough&#8217;s High-Low<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All three books are available now for US$14.99 each.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4255 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/comics212.net\/?attachment_id=4272'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/212-xmas-covers-harpercollins-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" 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fascinating new graphic novel adaptations of classic Christmas tales, published by the good folks at Harper Collins. While they aren&#8217;t actually part of a branded &#8216;line&#8217; of books, Lilli Carre&#8217;s adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson&#8217;s The Fir Tree, Joel Priddy&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;December 3, 4, 5: Three Visions of Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4274,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}