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Ella Cinders by Bill Conselman and Charles Plumb is another example of a comic strip that started out with a very particular premise but that drifted away from that premise as it continued. It's one of those strips that I don't think the creators thought they would be doing for a long period, so they pitched the idea as something that would have a clear ending point. However, as it happened, the strip just ended up being popular enough that it continued long past that point.

As the title of the strip and the name of the main character may suggest, it began as a 1920s retelling of the story of Cinderella, though instead of Ella wanting to meet a prince at a ball, she wants to be a Hollywood star and meet an agent at a beauty contest. She does end up going to Hollywood and has various adventures there, though she never becomes a star. She just ends up living there with her husband Patches and has different interactions with various members of her family. The strip eventually turns its focus to those other characters, and as we see in this particular strip, often she's not even in it.

This strip appears to be part of a dream sequence of some kind where Ella's younger brother Blackie visits the North Pole. It's interesting that it shows Santa Claus, Kris Kringle, and Saint Nicholas as three separate people. It's also interesting to note that in this operation, instead of any of them going down the chimney, they fire the presents themselves down the chimney with varying levels of precision. I guess this year if there was something on your Christmas list that you didn't get you might want to check on your roof.