Spooktacular

Brad McGinty ends our month of Halloweirdos with a ghoulish animated goodie. Thanks to all the contributors and everyone who stopped by for some spooky illustration fun. Wide Awake Press had a fantastic time this October. Maybe we’ll do it again soon, let us know what you’d like to see.

Thanks again! Have a great Halloween!

Universal Dreams

Bill Burg illustrates the experience children had exploring the Crestwood House Monster Books. For many this series was an introduction to classic horror films, creating restless nights filled with nightmares. In contrast the majority of Mr Burg’s illustrations and animation have fed the imaginations and expand the dreams of children everywhere. In September Wide Awake Press released “March” a collection of his autobio comics.

Vasilisa The Beautiful & Baba Yaga

A girl is sent into the forest by her family to ask a witch for fire. The witch, Baba Yaga the child eater, ask her to completes some arduous tasks for. Amazingly the girl completes each of them and the witch gives her a flaming skull of a devoured child.

This old Russian story was interpreted by artist and designer Rob Patterson. Check out more of his work and photos here.

Ghost Girl

Trick-or-treating is fun, until you ring the wrong doorbell.  Bridgette was on her way to the campus Halloween party, hoping she’d bump into Rob UIlman, that dreamy artist with the chiseled jaw.  Instead she ended up at the haunted sorority house where . . . well, you’ve seen enough scary movies to know what happens at sorority houses.  Now she’s surrounded by the spirits of sisters who want to make her the newest member of their clique.  And once you join this sorority, you’re in it until the day you die—and then some.  Kind of gives a whole new meaning to “Hell Week.”

Rob Ullman‘s new book “Hockey Tales” is surprising not full of gorgeous women like the above and the ones that adorn his Atom Bomb Bikini books. But it is full of great stories. Go grab a copy of it and everything else in his shop, if you dare!!!

The story concept of Ghost Girl was written by Robert Venditti who spins yarns like he’s your great grandma. That is If your great grandma was a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent book is the political/medical thriller The Homeland Directive.

The Hovering Spenk

A very mischievous alien from a planet where intelligent life evolved from pumpkins. His low-grade telekinesis enables him to hover around about two feet off the ground.

Artist Jared Moraitis used his high-grade power of illustration to carve up his likeness for Halloweirdos. So make sure to keep an out as you choose your pumpkins for All Hallows Day.

Make sure to check out Jared’s shop for amazing Shirts and Stuff. I like the Krool Aid but the Beast Wreck shirt is also might nice.

The Walking Fred

 
Who knew the post-zombie-apocalypse world would look so… pre-historic? Well, Josh Latta did. At least as he imagines it for Halloweirdos. Through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet the band of modern-stone-age survivors hopes to make it from Bedrock to the CDC in Atlantarock alive.

Count Creepula

Here comes that freaky and funny member of the Halloweirdo gang, Count Creepula! Duane Ballenger has transformed him into play time fun, so you can make up your own giddy happenings. Just keep him away from sun shine or he might turn to dust.

Phantom of the Opera Rod

We were looking for a custom Big Daddy Roth inspired art for Halloweirdos. So we called on Sketch Charlotte artist horrible Henry Eudy  in hopes he could roll it out. This terrifying t-Bucket was Inspired by Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera and Mr. Eudy boiled the skins off this illy. Cruise on over to his pad on the web and lay your peepers on some of his other wildness.

I wanna play

Taller than the biggest trees
A monster hides among the leaves
Watching as the fight goes on
A knight defending his kingdom
Far from sisters, dads and moms
Sticks are swords and rocks are bombs
They hit and roll and jump and run
As he wishes to join the fun

Sometimes J Chris Campbell likes to pretend he can draw with a rock tied to a string connected to a box that emits light.

Big Kraken in My Backyard

What can you do when you’ve got a giant mythical creature mucking about in your kiddie pool? That’s the question Charleston artist Steve Steglin asks with today’s Halloweirdo. Steve challenges concepts all the time with his cartoons for the Charleston City Paper and the Statehouse Report. It’s nice to see cartoonist challenging the system and still have time to draw a Kraken.

King Kong

Yes your eyes are not lying to your brain. Someone has unleashed a giant gorilla and that someone was Brad McGinty. Marvel at the horror as airplanes try to destroy this mad brute atop the Empire State Building. Feel the fear and realization that you are powerless against such a crazed creature! Now relax, you are safe from this creature from a lost world.

But are you safe from Brad McGinty’s other creations? CLICK IF YOU DARE!

Also Available as a print here.

Night On Male Pattern Baldness Mountain

Turrible Monsters

Thorgon: The Thing That Hurt My Feelings

He promised his days of destroying the city in his underwear were over. But promises from a world-crushing behemoth mean nothing.

Ashley Holt kicks off Halloweirdo Giant Monster Week with his creation Thorgon. Catch Mr. Holt destroying everything on his blog where he illustrates his tantrums and and posts portraits. You can even grab a collection of his portraits in his book Character Witness.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Dr. Anton Phibes — musician, genius inventor, wealthy sophisticate, obsessively devoted husband, and demented undead avenger. At once gruesome, romantic, charming, ingenious, and droll he exacts torturous revenge upon the nine doctors that allowed his wife to die on the operating table. With panache! (Any biblical scholar will tell you the final deadly plague is halitosis.)

Josh Latta knows a thing or two about romance and obsession. Madly devoted to the art of illustration and deeply enamored of cartooning he makes the world giggle and guffaw through is work at Lattaland.com. In fact he kinda has his eye on YOU, yes you! He wants to draw you. So stroll on over to Lattaland and throw yourself on his mercy and he may just draw you in a flattering light.

Love means never having to say your drawing’s ugly.

How about a courtesy flush?

That funky smell? That’s not a floater… that’s one of the Ghoulies. From the depths of hell to your back door. Watch out.

Justin Gammon has two defining passions: creating design work and searching out new members for his ever-growing family of not-so-normal toys. He puts his art smarts to the task to pay the bills, but while off the clock, he mans the helm of WeirdoToys.com - the home for odd, ugly and neglected toys.

Witching up a brew

This cackling concoction comes from the cranium of cartoonist Pat Lewis. Go grab a copy of his creature crammed comic collection “The Claws Come Out” and the devilishly delightful “Cragmore” graphic novel. They’ll leave you in stitches!

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