Christmas in the American Civil War circle, and in another circle shows her husband on the battlefield, also in prayer. The same issue's cover started how Santa Claus would be perceived by future Americans, as a white-bearded Santa hands such gifts as socks to Union soldiers, while also holding a Jefferson Davis dancing puppet with a rope tied around its neck to perfectly insinuate a lynching. The Christmas 1863 issue showed the couple back together. The Nast Christmas cartoon for 1864 was a more conciliatory piece, showing Lincoln inviting Confederate soldiers into a warm lodge hall full of merriment. Lincoln called Nast's use of Santa Claus
Pepo (cartoonist) Pepo (cartoonist) René Ríos Boettiger (Concepción, 15 December 1911 - 14 July 2000), also known as Pepo, was a Chilean cartoonist, creator of the famous character Condorito. Although he studied medicine at the Universidad de Concepción, Rios abandoned his studies in the early 1930s to devote all his time to creating his cartoons. In 1932 he moved to Santiago to work as a cartoonist at the satirical magazine "Topaze". Adopting the pseudonym "Pepo" (from "pepón", "little barrel", his childhood nickname), he created the comic strip "Don Gabito" for the magazine, a strip featuring a caricatured Chilean president Gabriel González Videla.