Question

What political cartoonist is largely responsible for defining what the modern Santa Claus looks like?

Answer 1

The creatures which help Santa are called Elves.

Santa's Workshop, a disney film of 1932, features Santa Claus and his elves preparing for Christmas. A team of elves features prominently in the Rankin-Bass 1964 special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Answer 2

"Thomas Nast the illustrator and cartoonist who is still remembered for the modern Santa Claus look.

On January 1st, 1991, the weekly magazine Harper publishes a newspaper which had the modern Santa look which gets applauded and loved by many people around the world.

He had already drawn the look of Santa in the same Harper's magazine in January 1863, but it neither impressed people nor did it had the modern look

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