Thomas Nast’s illustrations of Santa for ‘Harper’s Weekly’ shaped the Father Christmas we know today. ... Santa Claus. Nast first drew him for the January 3, 1863, ...

Yet the first images of Santa Claus looks little like the Santa we know today. ... Born in 1840, Thomas Nast immigrated with his family to America from Bavaria as political refugee in 1850. The family ...

(WVUE) - Cartoonist Thomas Nast, more than any other single individual, seems responsible for our modern day image of Santa Claus as a fat, bearded elf. Thomas Nast's iconic 1881 image of Santa ...

Thomas Nast, an editorial cartoonist known as the "Father of the American Cartoon," pulled from his native German folk traditions when he drew Santa Claus for Harper’s Weekly in an 1862 cartoon.

Thomas Nast, “Santa Claus and Little Bo Peep (published in Harper’s Young People)” (1879), relief print and electrotype. In 1889, after leaving Harper’s and having made a series of poor ...

Thomas Nast’s 1863 cover illustration for Harper’s Weekly is largely considered the first version of what today’s Santa Claus looks like: chubby, happy, and bearded. Odin, the Wanderer by ...

Yet the first images of Santa Claus looks little like the Santa we know today. ... Born in 1840, Thomas Nast immigrated with his family to America from Bavaria as political refugee in 1850.

Thomas Nast, an editorial cartoonist known as the "Father of the American Cartoon," pulled from his native German folk traditions when he drew Santa Claus for Harper’s Weekly in an 1862 cartoon.

Yet the first images of Santa Claus looks little like the Santa we know today. ... Born in 1840, Thomas Nast immigrated with his family to America from Bavaria as political refugee in 1850.