This Year's Model

This year's model, The third "Santa" image for TV-GUIDE December edition, modeled after dear old pa.

A startling discovery. Apparently for the last three years, the Illustration gracing the back cover of each holiday issue of TV-GUIDE has been created by C. F. Payne, and modeled after my father - who teaches with Payne at the Columbus College of Art and Design.

Now, from what I've heard, there is talk of a documentary being produced to unearth the mystery behind the "C.F. Payne Santa" character - which my father is of course graciously inclined to support. Seeing as though it means that he will not only be thought of as "looking like Santa" by my children, but also by the rest of illustration fandom, I can understand why he would enjoy this attention. The jolly old elf.