Jingle Belle
Jingle Belle is a cartoon character created by Paul Dini. She's Santa Claus's spoiled teenage daughter. The stories depict Jingle's usually contentious relationship with her famous father.
The character has appeared in a number of comic books, all written by Dini and illustrated by variety of artists, including Stephen DeStefano, Bill Morrison, J. Bone and Sergio Aragonés. The books were first published by Oni Press, starting in 1999. The summer 2001 one-shot special, "Jingle Belle: The Mighty Elves" was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Humor Book. There has also been a spin-off series, Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red. From 2004 until 2007 the series was published by Dark Horse Comics. In 2008, the character moved to Image Comics's Top Cow Productions as the first title in a new line of comics all created by Dini, Dinicartoons.
In 2000 Jingle Belle appeared in a series of animated shorts.
The name Jingle Belle is a reference to both the Christmas song "Jingle Bells" and the Memphis Belle, a B-17 bomber whose pin-up-style nose art inspired the character. "Belle's Beaus", a 2004 story set partially during World War II acknowledges this link.
Collected editions
- Jingle Belle: Naughty and Nice (ISBN 1-929998-08-2; collects the original miniseries, the short story from Oni Double Feature #13 and a new color story)
- Jingle Belle's Cool Yule (ISBN 1-929998-36-8; collects Jingle Belle's All-Star Holiday Hullabaloo, Jingle Belle: The Mighty Elves and Jingle Belle: Jubilee)
- Jingle Belle: Dash Away All (ISBN 1-929998-61-9; Winter 2003; original graphic novel plus a short story co-written with David Mandel)
- Jingle Belle (ISBN 1-59307-382-8; collects the four-issue Dark Horse series)
A fifth volume, Stocking Stuffers, was scheduled for December 2010 publication by Top Cow, but was removed from the publication schedule and most of its contents combined with the 2010 Top Cow Holiday Special.
References
External links
- JingleBelle.com
- Jingle Belle at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016.