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Busker’s Christmas Carol: Miser Beware!

By Mrstrongest @mrstrongarm

As mentioned in this prior post, I used to do a weekly strip about a street musician named Busker. I thought you might enjoy this one from December, 1996, inspired by Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.first panel of 4-panel Christmas cartoon about Busker a street musician who plays the saxophone, when Scrooge won't give him any money, Busker whistles and calls in Charles Dickens' three spirits from A Christmas Carol to go haunt Scrooge

second panel of 4-panel Christmas cartoon about Busker a street musician who plays the saxophone, when Scrooge won't give him any money, Busker whistles and calls in Charles Dickens' three spirits from A Christmas Carol to go haunt Scrooge

third panel of 4-panel Christmas cartoon about Busker a street musician who plays the saxophone, when Scrooge won't give him any money, Busker whistles and calls in Charles Dickens' three spirits from A Christmas Carol to go haunt Scrooge

fourth panel of 4-panel Christmas cartoon about Busker a street musician who plays the saxophone, when Scrooge won't give him any money, Busker whistles and calls in Charles Dickens' three spirits from A Christmas Carol to go haunt Scrooge

Busker dates back to my pre-computer days. The strip was always published as a large single panel with two rows. Here’s the original in all it’s hand-drawn, hand-lettered glory.

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Merry Christmas to all my friends, followers, visitors, and fellow bloggers!!

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What do you think? Have you read Dickens’ original story? Will you be more likely to toss a coin to a busker after reading this post?? Hope you’ll leave a comment.

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