Bob Englehart / Hartford Courant (click to start slideshow)

Reindeer are as important to Christmas as Santa Claus. After all, how would jolly St. Nick get all those gifts to all the good little boys and girls around the globe without Rudolph and his eight other reindeer tugging his sleigh from chimney to chimney?

Cartoonists like gifts too, so we pay tribute with our new Talking Reindeer cartoon slideshow.