Christmas in the American Civil War had a drawing in the Christmas 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly depicting the heads of several Confederate generals at Ulysses S. Grant's feet in an image that centered on Santa. After the war Nast purposely made the North Pole the home of Saint Nick so that no one else could use him for nationalistic propaganda like Nast himself did. Christmas in the American Civil War Christmas in the American Civil War (1861–1865) was celebrated in both the United States and the Confederate States of America although the day did not become an official holiday until five years after the war
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.