Jingle Belle - watercolour, pencil and ink sketch - Wilma Simmons J is for Jingle Belle These Christmas celebrities are becoming more curious as the month progresses. Jingle Belle is a very modern creation of comic book writer Paul Dini. Jingle Belle is the teenage daughter of Santa Claus. Jingle Belle has a a strangely elfin look, and is forever a teenager - well, Santa and Mrs Claus don't seem to age, do they? The Jingle Belle comics were first published in 1999 and the stories mostly relate the antics of a rebel teenager and her contentious relationship with her famous father. There are constant complaints of a non existent social scene - just a few elves and Eskimos to hang out with and practically the only excitement she claims is to sneak a joyride in the old man's sleigh. In spite of all that teenage angst, there appears to be a "Christmas" side to Jingle Belle. Here is an extract from a story she tells about a time when her father, Sant...
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