Helloween!

Okay two of our favoritest things in one post -- Halloween and Ikea. No, it's not the existential dread of assembling a Målm. It's a hack of an old lamp painted black and turned into a ghostie forest! Brrrrrr.

It's the spooky, chilling time of year, when pumpkin muffins are consumed and woolen scarves are brought from the closet. As in years past...

Just as we dreamed about it. very envious of his autumn leaves. Here all we get is snow for Halloween.

Snowtober didn't drive them away, and now that the weather has warmed up again, Occupy Wall Street is going strrong -- and now with added superheroes. but not just any superheroes, but the characters from THE ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN, a GN anthology that came out last year. Written by Gan Golan and Erich Origen, the book was way ahead of all this 1% vs 99% rhetoric with the story of an unemployed man who gathers a team of misfit superheroes to fight the self-interested villains from the Hall of Just Us. (And why not be way ahead of it since income inequality has been a looming issue for years?)

Must survive until daybreak!

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

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.

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.

A crowd sourced Halloween comic

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.

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.

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!