Elf was a Christmas-related publication by the German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast. e Thus in the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland, the modern children's folklore of Santa Claus typically includes small, nimble, green-clad elves with pointy ears, long noses, and pointy hats, as Santa's helpers. They make the toys in a workshop located in the North Pole. The role of elves as Santa's helpers has continued to be popular, as evidenced by the success of the popular Christmas movie "Elf". The fantasy genre in the twentieth century grew out of nineteenth-century Romanticism, in which nineteenth-century scholars such as Andrew Lang and the
Robert Brown (cartoonist) greet a ship, everyone was dressed as basketball players and a coach was standing in between them. Robert Brown (cartoonist) Robert "Buck" Brown (February 3, 1936 – July 2, 2007) was an African-American painter and cartoonist best known for creating "Playboy" magazine's naughty "Granny" character. Brown was born in Morrison, Tennessee, in the 1930s and moved to Chicago as a child after the separation of his parents. He graduated from Englewood High School in 1954 and then joined the United States Air Force. While in the Airforce He would pinup his cartoons in the barracks getting laughs from the sergeant