The jolly, rotund figure of Santa Claus in a red suit is a staple of Christmas imagery. While Santa's figure existed before, ...

Here comes the real Santa Claus! Remarkable new high-tech images reveal the face of the real-life bishop who inspired the concept of Santa Claus — more than 1,700 years after he first made ...

Coca-Cola did help popularize today’s image of Santa Claus, but its version of Santa drew inspiration from an 1822 poem and earlier Santa depictions. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...

Thomas Nast, the Harper’s Weekly cartoonist who gave us donkeys for Democrats and elephants for Republicans, played an instrumental role in envisioning Santa.He first drew him in 1863, during the ...

How did Santa Claus become the figurehead of Christmas? ... In 1881, Santa's image was solidified by cartoonist Thomas Nast who depicted Mr. Claus as a large man with a white beard, ...

The continuing fluidity of language completed the change to Santa Claus. There were many mythic Christmas gift-givers early in the 19th Century: not only Nicholas, but La Befana, Babuschka, the ...