Gumby’s Winter Fun Special

    (COMICO, 1988)
™ and ©1988 Art Clokey

In Hell the damned are subjected to 72-hour Karen Valentine film festivals, a twenty-year Hee-Haw retrospective and pop songs from the 1970s such as “Muskrat Love.” These are only some of the surprising bits of satire to be found in Gumby’s Winter Fun Special, a genuinely funny book that features Gumby and Pokey on a mission to the Underworld with the Mole People to rescue Santa Claus. Santa has been sentenced to Hell due to a bureaucratic glitch. In another unique twist, the Mole People know Santa as Ray Crabbe, his headquarters are in Morocco, and he looks a whole lot like Sean Connery. Nevertheless, he is quite a catch for Beelzebub, or as Gumby refers to him, Mr. Bub.

The book can be appreciated on two levels: a charming story featuring Gumby (the popular Claymation character created by Art Clokey), and an absurd romp through pop culture with crisp, clean art by Arthur Adams.

— George Haberberger
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December, 1988
Cover Price: $2.50
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