The New Yorker’s First Cartoon Santa Claus

You might ask yourself, as I did this Christmas morning: “When did the first Santa Claus appear in a New Yorker cartoon?” If you asked, you might’ve been tempted to guess it was sometime during the magazine’s first opportunity, in December of 1925. Wrong!  Hard to believe, but it was not until the second Christmas in the New Yorker‘s lifetime

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