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

1 Comment POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 5:16 pm BY The Beat

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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24 Hours of Halloween: Rob Berry

1 Comment POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 4:01 pm BY The Beat

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

5 Comments POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 3:40 pm BY The Beat

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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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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24 Hours of Halloween: Bizarre Magazine, March 1962

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They don't make 'em like they used to.

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24 Hours of Halloween: DRACULA THE COMPANY OF MONSTERS

0 Comments POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 1:01 pm BY The Beat

To celebrate the season, Boom! Studios has launched one of its comics as a webcomic, DRACULA: THE COMPANY OF MONSTERS by Kurt Busiek, Daryl Gregory, Scott Godlewski, and Damian Couciero. To start off with, the webcomic is serializing the print version, but then will start running new material.

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24 Hours of Halloween: Better Zombies Through Physics 01 by Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri

1 Comment POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 12:01 pm BY The Beat

More spooky webcomic from Tor.com. This one is by Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri and it's about ZOMBIE KITTENS.

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24 Hours of Halloween: The Last Mortician by Tim Hall and Dean Haspiel

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Now complete! READ IT!

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24 Hours of Halloween: EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson

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Quite a few holiday-themed strips are up at Johnson's EXTRA-LIFE webcomic.

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What Halloween is Truly About, Or the True Meaning of Halloween

8 Comments POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 9:58 am BY Jen Vaughn

BY JEN VAUGHN - Opening up my mail the other day I was assaulted by religious propaganda from Jack Chick for the most fabulous of holidays, HALLOWEEN. My pack included TWO holiday-appropriate comics that I will not share with you but be certain they took all the fun out of pranks, scary stories and trick-or-treating in their clumsy attempt to remind you that 'Halloween was created by the devil.'

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24 Hours of Halloween: Freelance Blues

0 Comments POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 9:01 am BY The Beat

In the real life terror dept. we have FREELANCE BLUES created and written by Ian Daffern and Mike Leone and drawn by Vicki Tierney. Here's a cover by Mike del Mundo.

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24 Hours of Halloween: Hound Kids Comics launches

0 Comments POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 8:01 am BY The Beat

A new line of kids graphic novels has launched today for iPhone and iPad from Hound Comics, including MY FAVORITE GIANT, about being Chewbacca and being tall by Peter and Angie Mayhew with art by Terry Naughton. There seems to be something terrifying about this so it fits in with the spirit of the season.

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24 Hours of Halloween: NIGHTMARE WOLRD

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Dirk Manning sent us the covers of all three NIGHTMARE WORLD collections, by Kristen Perry. The third and final volume just came out.

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24 Hours of Halloween: Mari Naomi’s Sleep Deprived

0 Comments POSTED ON Oct 31 2011 AT 6:01 am BY The Beat

This is a real-life story, and a pretty familiar one to inhabitants of hip urban areas. But it is still SCARY AS %$^*!!!!

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