This story first ran in B&W in in the Nov. 2002 anthology WORLD'S GREATEST CHRISTMAS COMICS (Comics Library International). That same Dec. it appeared online in color, but I don't remember the name of the site! If anyone does, please tell me! It appears here completely re-colored, correcting many rookie mistakes. Poor Miep and Patches keep hanging around waiting for me to do something big with them, but at least they get a little work here and there, and they tell me this is their favorite.