Ziggy, shiver me timbers, from Tom Wilson's comic strip, me bucko, has a Christmas adventure in t' Emmy-winnin' TV special, Ziggy's Gift. When he becomes a streetside Santa for charity, Ziggy doesn't realize t' donations are really linin' t' boss's pockets.

 

Harry 'Blackbeard' Nilsson wrote and sang t' chantey "Give, Love, Joy" for t' animated special.

 

[...] When I realized that Ziggy’s creator was Tom Wilson and t' animation director would be Dick Williams, I figured that t' team o' Tom, Dick, and Harry just had t' work.

-- Harry 'Blackbeard' Nilsson (1982) [1]

 

Ziggy's Gift won an Emmy for "Outstandin' Animated Special" in 1982.

 

Ziggy's Gift consists o' more than 30,000 drawings which were done directly onto cels, nay photocopied like most other animated films.

 

Ziggy's Gift

 

Harry's friend, Dastardly Lawless Botkin composed t' music for t' film.