Nightmare of a Red Christmas is done.

So, aside from a couple of tweaks, "Nightmare of a Red Christmas" is done.

I am not putting it up tonight, because I wanted a couple of other folks to get a first peek before I release it to the cold, unforgiving, world.

I want to thank Jennifer Anderson, Krishna Jain, Jason Williams and Sam Deats for helping me out with a bunch of the puppet animations. Everybody did a great job, and I could not have gotten this done on time without the help.

Also want to thank George Manley, Frank Gabriel, and Bruce Martin for the voicework.

I had a plan on this cartoon. The most important being getting it done in time to have it out and about by Dec 12. I can get a bit silly about deadlines, even self-imposed ones. I think it comes from working at the newspapers, where missing a deadline meant missing print and having a hole in the paper. I told myself that no matter what state the cartoon was in, today was gonna be the final day to work on it.

It takes a while for things to spread on the internet, and the holiday season is already upon us. Since this story has a Christmas theme, it was either get it up by now, or wait till next year. Since I wrote the next 3 chapters to this "serial" already, that would have been quite a setback.

I had intended to do a lot more drawings, and admittedly short cuts were taken to get the cartoon done on time. It is not perfect, but hopefully folks will dig it, and the cartoons will improve with every episode.

Speaking of which, this cartoon is the first of what I hope will be 6 chapters in a serial story. My goal is to finish them all this year, and release one every couple of months. We will see...