Preferably Blue

The Author Wain Ching Speaks

Preferably Blue is a bittersweet fairytale that your parents would never have read to you before bedtime. Their fear that you may turn out to be a bitter adult, knocking back antidepressents like they were liquorice allsorts, if you didn't get what you wanted for christmas, was probably the reason.
Based on real events, it's the story of how the Easter Bunny managed to stop drinking and found peace, joy, and a good friend. Its also the story of Santa. We all know that "modern shopping mall" Santa is just some guy dressed up in a musty, damp, sweaty red suit. But ours is the story of the real Santa, who was indeed a very nice chap, but lonely. Oh so lonely.

Before when I said that Preferably Blue is based on real events, I didn't mean Santa and Easter Bunn y, because they're not real. But when I was young all I wanted was a banana seat bike and I never got one. I got models of tractors instead and that made me miserable. Every Christmas the Bromley family who lived next door would be riding around on their new bikes, and I'd watch them from inside, pushing my dumb tractor up and down the windowsill.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the story when it gets animated.