Santa Needs Comics! - NYTimes.com We here at Motherlode (like the Today Mom Jacoba Urist) are fervent Santa-supporters. Santa lives at the North Pole, and once a year he flies around the globe in a sleigh pulled by reindeer delivering toys to all the good boys and girls - and Santa knows that all boys and girls are good at heart. But at Christmas, sometimes, Santa gets bummed out by the nay-sayers (even though he knows they're good at heart). James Sturm and his colleagues at the Center for Cartoon Studies in New Hampshire (authors of two Adventures in Cartooning books dearly beloved by my own children) posit that a depressed Santa would surely feel more appreciated if his many fans sent him ... comics! Center for Cartoon Studies Children like the third graders in Della Thompson's class in Tucson, Ariz., have already been sending their comics in care of the Center for Cartoon Studies. See images of their art here, and invite your children to send their own.