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Holiday Hats
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| See also | Holidayfic, Christmas, Gift Exchange, Secret Santa, Ugly Holiday Sweater (trope) |
 inside illo from Pop Stand Express #6, artist unknown, portrays Ray Doyle, bonus points for elf (1985) | |
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Portraying characters in holiday hats is an artistic motif that crosses seasons as well as time and space.
Every December, many users of journaling services add a santa hat to some of their icons.
Some Holiday Hat Examples
Santa Hats
Santa hats have a long history and are still popular in fan art today.
Jabba the Hutt in a santa hat, 1990, printed in The Clipper Trade Ship, artist is Melody Rondeau
banner at Trekiverse, year and artist unknown
inside art from Warped Space #13 by Marty Siegrist (1975)
inside art from Contact Christmas #1, Sonia Gringas, also see Teddy Bear (1979)
from Felgercarb #8/9, by Deborah M. Walsh: Starsky & Hutch (1981)
inside back cover of Highly Illogical #3, Dotty Schenk, "I believe the expression is, "Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas!" (1986)
Vincent Wells from Beauty and the Beast (TV), artist Linda Lakin, from Once Upon a Time...Is Now #6 (1988)
some Feringi Christmas hijinks on the cover of Spock #56 (1989)
from Within the Mirror #3 (1989), a bearded festive Kirk
Starsky from The Fix #9, Susan Vera Carle (1990)
from the zine Engage!, issue 8/9?, unknown artist (1991)
cover of Holiday Sensations, Jim and Blair celebrate Christmas, with Jim perhaps dreaming of some new white socks (1997)
The Beast from Beauty and the Beast, drawn by Rosemarie Hauer, from the calendar called The Gift of Dreams (2001)
from the zine My Mongoose, more Christmas fare for Jim and Blair (2005)
art from Spiced Peaches #3, artist: Artemis (2005)
seasonal LiveJournal icon, featuring the tenth Doctor, by Zarina (2009)
Doctor Who, the cover of The Terrible Zodin #9 (2010)
Easter Bunny
Perhaps not as common a trope in digital art, but zine artists sometimes forced characters into Easter Bunny ears:
bit art from Pop Stand Express #9, artist unknown, "I pity the fool that makes a one crack about my outfit. Happy Easter, kids!!"
cover of Engage! #13, by Zaquia Tarhuntassa
cover of the the Starsky and Hutch letterzine S and H #9, the luckless Captain Dobey gets stuck with Easter basket duty
Other Festiveness
Mulder and Scully ring in 1998!, from News for the OBSSEsed #11
from the zine 11 & 2, the men from UNCLE dress for the occasion
cover of Happy Holidays, Sarek looks none too pleased to ring in the New Year
Data from Star Trek: TNG in Data Entries #2 enjoys a bit of bubbly, artist unknown
