The cotton balls? Are for...in case you want to daub some on? I don't really understand, like, 'makeup' or whatever. Anyway, Merry Christmas

#989; The Odious Gift

  — December 17th, 2013

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The British Library has just released a Flickr set of over a million archival images from their collection into the public domain. This is pretty wonderful! In their honor, I have made today’s comic out of their images exclusively, and I will even cite my sources:

The men: from here and here
The environments: Panel 3 here, the others here

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A good thread on Terrible Dickens Sequels

December 25, 2025 by David Malki !

Over on Bluesky, Ryan Estrada has done a deep dive on the 22 (!) Christmas stories that Dickens wrote in the aftermath of the success of A Christmas Carol.

An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history. But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels? Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.

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— Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada.com) December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM


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