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Mrs. Claus

Martian Comics

on Dec. 25, 2011

a couple of years ago, I brainstormed a project about what Mrs. Claus gets up to during the other 365 days of the year, while the Big Guy is making toys.
This came from seeing MacFarlane Toy's Twisted Christmas line. True to McF toys style the archetypes of X-Mas were portrayed as random horrors: Rudolph was a mutant deer in an S&M harness covered in jingle bells. Frosty was a demon snowman with pointy stick limbs, and Ol' St. Nick was a gas mask wearing freak with Freddy Kruger claws.
Mrs. Claus, you ask? was she some gnarled hag or she demon? Nope. She was an anorexic meth-head stripper with a candy cane pole. Seriously.
I have no probs with making monsters of childhood icons, but, it bothered me that the token female not only WASN'T a monster, but had to be a bag of bones that looked like she'd just smoked an entire meth lab.
I decided to make my own Mrs. Claus and go the opposite route. This is Zaria Holly, Santa's second wife. A young kitchen witch who travels around the cosmos with her 3 elf assistants, Tom, Dick and Harry and Karella, her drow bodyguard, doing the "Kim Possible" thing, thwarting holiday themed supervillains and other ne'er-do-wells, like Jack Frost, Harland, the evil Easter Bunny and Madeliene, Santa's evil Ex Wife, who wants X-mas for herself.
The original pic of her has been lost to a past computer crash, but, this X-Mas pin-up and the naughtier New Years Eve pic remain.