The Spirit #65

Darling O'Shea, ever the dramatic, decides she's had enough of Christmas neglect and sues Santa Claus for failing to deliver a gift—so she’s not taking any chances, ordering her guards to shoot on sight if they spot the jolly old man.

In "Happy New Year," Jules Feiffer, having just dispatched Will Eisner in a moment of dark humor, settles in at his drawing board and launches into a satirical, Clifford-style recap of the past year’s events—wry, sharp, and unmistakably Feiffer’s own. The story unfolds as a self-aware comic within a comic, blending metafiction with the kind of wry observation that only Feiffer could deliver.