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One of the most poignant illustrations by graphic designer Sedki al-Imam shows Santa Claus riding his sleigh through a starry, deep blue sky but instead of reindeer it is being pulled by warplanes.
And rather than shower the earth with gifts, Imam's Santa drops TNT-packed barrel bombs over Syria.
The drawing comes as more than 400 people, including 117 children, have been killed in a 10-day air offensive. including the dropping of barrel bombs, by Syria's regime against rebel-held areas of Aleppo -- Imam's hometown in northern Syria.
Another drawing by graphic designer Wissam al-Jazairi shows a brightly-coloured Santa Claus slumped in front of rows of tombstones at a snow-filled cemetery.
Santa is sad because he has cannot visit children to give them Christmas gifts and a caption below the drawing reads poignantly: "Santa Claus and the children of Syria."
In another illustration signed A. Wardeh, towers of black smoke can be seen rising in the shape of a massive black Christmas tree, above crowds gathering in a destroyed city.
Above the clouds is a little star, and nearby a tiny warplane.
A bleak message reads: "Bashar al-Assad wishes you a merry Christmas!"
But not all was gloom and doom, and cartoonist Juan Zero found a simple way to illustrate hope in dark times.
He sketched and shared bright yellow smiley faces standing out against the background of a black Christmas tree.
Other Syrians shared online music, including a new version of the popular Jingle Bells reworked to the tune of: "Christmas eve, Christmas eve, people fear the sound of bullets from afar."
But the song quickly turns into a revolutionary hymn: "Freedom is right behind the door, we will have a tree in the house, planted by the revolutionaries... We want freedom and a new regime."
The creator of the song, an activist from Hama named Anas Mushmush who went by the name of Mowgli, had died in detention.
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And rather than shower the earth with gifts, Imam's Santa drops TNT-packed barrel bombs over Syria.
The drawing comes as more than 400 people, including 117 children, have been killed in a 10-day air offensive. including the dropping of barrel bombs, by Syria's regime against rebel-held areas of Aleppo -- Imam's hometown in northern Syria.
Another drawing by graphic designer Wissam al-Jazairi shows a brightly-coloured Santa Claus slumped in front of rows of tombstones at a snow-filled cemetery.
Santa is sad because he has cannot visit children to give them Christmas gifts and a caption below the drawing reads poignantly: "Santa Claus and the children of Syria."
In another illustration signed A. Wardeh, towers of black smoke can be seen rising in the shape of a massive black Christmas tree, above crowds gathering in a destroyed city.
Above the clouds is a little star, and nearby a tiny warplane.
A bleak message reads: "Bashar al-Assad wishes you a merry Christmas!"
But not all was gloom and doom, and cartoonist Juan Zero found a simple way to illustrate hope in dark times.
He sketched and shared bright yellow smiley faces standing out against the background of a black Christmas tree.
Other Syrians shared online music, including a new version of the popular Jingle Bells reworked to the tune of: "Christmas eve, Christmas eve, people fear the sound of bullets from afar."
But the song quickly turns into a revolutionary hymn: "Freedom is right behind the door, we will have a tree in the house, planted by the revolutionaries... We want freedom and a new regime."
The creator of the song, an activist from Hama named Anas Mushmush who went by the name of Mowgli, had died in detention.
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