Here's a short but nice article that talks about Christmas-themed comic books. I'll come up with my list of fave Christmas stories soon :)

O Deadly Night
by Stuart Moore

“There’s no bigger closet sentimentalist in the world than a comic book fan. You have to sneak up on them, but they cry buckets if you catch them off-guard.” - Dave Sim

Which brings us to Christmas comics.

On the face of it, Christmas comics are an odd phenomenon. The whole point of the holidays is communal experience -- reunion with loved ones, families gathering together. But comics-reading -- any reading -- is an inherently solitary activity. How does this fit together?

Part of the answer is that kids are very sentimental -- teenagers especially. The same hormones that surge through their bodies, making them horny or causing growth spurts, can also make them weep on a dime. And when you reach that age where you have actual friends, forge bonds with people outside your immediate family, those bonds seem all the more important.

If a kid doesn’t have a lot of friends or a warm family, that sentimentalism gets shunted elsewhere -- into solitary pursuits, like comics. And if he/she does, comics can still be a welcome refuge from the frenzy of the holidays.

This sentimentalism also explains some of the rampant nostalgia in the comics field. I once asked a respected comics artist, “If so many comics fans remember their childhood years unhappily, why do they cling so tightly to the comics that were popular then? Doesn’t it just remind them of those bad times?” His reply, which made perfect sense, was that the comics were the good part of those people’s youth. If everyone’s beating you up and your family life’s a mess, naturally you’ll remember your quiet comics-reading moments with additional pleasure.