24 Hours of Halloween: Chernabog

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Must survive until daybreak!

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24 Hours of Halloween: Hellboy

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Let's face it, nothing says Halloween like Hellboy by Mike Mignola.

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24 Hours of Halloween: “Ghost Town” by the Specials

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At a time of similar hopelessness and when people are actually asking if Brutalist architecture contributed to the UK Riots, it's good to revisit this classic from the Specials. When I first watched this video I thought it was a modern remake as it looks so current and timeless, but apparently it's from 1981, and directed by the late Barney Bubbles, a designer who killed himself a few years later.

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24 Hours of Halloween: MARGOT’S ROOM by Emily Carroll

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If Heidi Klum is the queen of Halloween costumes, Emily Carroll is now the queen of Halloween webcomics. Following last year's "His Face All Red" Carroll has created MARGOT'S ROOM, an interactive comic that is guaranteed to give you the creeps. Read the poem on the first page and then click in the proper order on the main image...if you read this after dark we DARE you not to feel a chill.

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24 Hours of Halloween: Scaredcited by Lucy Knisley

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A crowd sourced Halloween comic

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24 Hours of Halloween: MR MURDER IS DEAD

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Writer Victor Quinaz and illustrator Brent Schoonover, the creative team behind the recent Archaia and Before the Door graphic novel, Mr. Murder Is Dead, have created a brand-new strip just for Halloween.

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24 Hours of Halloween: “Raw Head and Bloody Bones”

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Cullen Bunn and Drew Moss have collaborated on a short comic from the Crooked Hills universe. The comic is part of a longer project being compiled for 2012. Bonus: An interview with Bunn at The Outhousers.

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24 Hours of Halloween: Knights of the Living Dead

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Download the first issue of Knights of the Living Dead by Ron Wolfe and Dustin Higgins (Pinnochio Vampire Slayer) FREE from SLG. King Arthur vs the Zombies? Why not!

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24 Hours of Halloween: Cute Boys of the ’80s! — Horror division by Abby Denson

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Abby Denson covers the half-shirted cute boys of the 80s, in a Tumblr blog that includes some horror icons like Udo Kier in BLOOD OF DRACULA and Johnny Depp in A NIGTHMARE ON ELM STREET. But here we see Corey Feldman from THE LOST BOYS, which as we revealed on Twitter today, we only saw for the very first time this weekend. Yes we had never seen "Death by stereo!" and the Two Croey's greatest moments, as well as one of the most titanic assemblage of cute gothy boys in one film EVER. WHY DID WE WAIT SO LONG??!!?!??!?

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24 Hours of Halloween: Rhode Montijo

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The artist has collected all his Halloween art in one big post. Enjoy!

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Introducing: TRIP CITY

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It's kinda comics for the people involved. TRIP CITY is a new art salon/web site that features many Brooklyn-based creative peeps including cartoonists. PR below.

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24 Hours of Halloween: Rob Berry

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The ULYSSES SEEN artist passes along a poster he made for a Philadelphia theater company. "Their programming this year includes an old Radio show (with local actors and a foley sound-effects artist) as well as a dramatic-yet-hillarious reading from TOMB OF DRACULA #10. Great fun for all ages and, as you can see, something I really enjoy taking part in," Berry writes.

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24 Hours of Halloween: FLESH AND BLOOD by Tinnell, Vokes and Brereton

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Monsterverse presents another anthology, FLESH AND BLOOD a four-book new series of mature horror graphic novels written by Robert Tinnell and illustrated by Neil D. Vokes. Book One has a cover by Dan Brereton.

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Ted McKeever’s MONDO debuts in January

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Continuing his pageant of quirky heroes and bizarre adventures, Ted McKeever has a new three-issue miniseries coming out this January called MONDO. The story deals with Catfish, a chicken-farm worker who gains strange powers and takes on even stranger foes. We're sold.

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24 Hours of Halloween: John Kenn

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When he isn't making TV shows for kids, John Kenn does spectacular monsters drawings on post-it notes.

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