A few of the fun book signings we did with the Santa and Rudolph Animagic figures

I think this was our first events with the restored Santa Claus and Rudolph on Black Friday 2006! I know it was a full house at Amazing Fantasy Books and Comics in Tinley Park, IL, as we had lots of media coverage. My Making of Rudolph book was only five years old then! #rudolphtherednosedreindeer #Rankinbassproductions #Christmas

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer expert takes the Animagic dynamic duo around for the public to view!

 As the Rankin/Bass Historian/Biographer for about thirty years now and the expert on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, I have taken the original Animagic screen used puppets to many, many places!   This was one of the first appearances at Amazing Fantasy Books and comics in Tinley Park, Illinois.   The line was around the entire store, due to my early appearances on CBS NEWS and WGN TV NEWS and an article that broke that morning in the Southtown Economist newspaper.   It was an Amazing event!  We gave away a Limited Edition ornament set of the Heat Miser and Snow Miser with each book purchase.  What a Christmas season!

Doing another book signing event at AMAZING FANTASY BOOKS in Tinley Park, IL August 2nd from 5-7 pm

I started a FACEBOOK Events page for it with more info!   Going to try to plan some very cool things for it!

AMAZING FANTASY Books 2006

I am still signing those books!

Memories

I am thinking back to our RANKIN/BASS event at AMAZING FANTASY BOOKS in Tinley Park, IL Black Friday 2006! This was a blast! We were on CBS MORNING NEWS and WGN MORNING NEWS that day and there was a big article in the DAILY SOUTHTOWN as well, so the turnout was huge!

Kevin Kriess shows off his exclusive MISER BROS ornament set from www.timeandspacetoys.com just above the original SANTA & RUDOLPH ANIMAGIC figures from the RANKIN/BASS TV Musical Spectacular!