Holidays

Via Ronn Sutton, B-movie legend Vampira (Malla Nurmi) and a spooky vampire hunter. BTW, if you poke around Sutton's site you'll find an interview about his job as a courtroom sketch artist -- some of that is truly scary.

On a fixie by Tony Goins. More Ghost Riders in the link.

Bradwick McGinty, J Chris Campbell, and Josh Latta have been getting into the psirit of the season at the sketch blogHalloweirdos. Guests like Rob Ullman and Pat Lewis and Ashley Holt (Above) have also contributed. McGinty was so excited he drew his own Mars Attacks card (below.)

Todd Kent, who directed the Comic Book Literacy Documentary, sent along pictures of his 3 month old daughter dressed in ALL the Lantern costumes. I don't quite know what to say about this but it is cute...and very scary!

Simple but this should get you in the mood. Kochalka tells us he drew this map for the Halloween party at son Eli's school. It lists the various activities, but some abstractly. "For  instance, 'silly windsi is a ping pong ball race where you blow the ping pong balls with a straw."

A Halloween costume contest at a comics shop -- isn't this the most natural promo ever? Be there and take pictures!

Jennifer Hayden is at Bergen Street Comics, and you will be there in your Ben Cooper costume!

There's been much speculation over the fate of Krypto, Superman's pet dog who somehow came with him to Earth, in the New 52 -- it seems, based on comments at NYCC, that in this grim, no future world of economic collapse, there is no place for a dog in a cape. We'd argue that the opposite is true -- the world needs a dog in a cape more than ever! -- but it seems that Superman's dog will only be seen in flashbacks set on Krypton, like the above Gene Ha variant cover to SUPERMAN #3. He's also been given a grim and gritty makeover as an albino dire wolf, like he wandered over from the set of Game of Thrones. Those who miss Krypto will definitely enjoy the art that is going up in an auction for writer Steve Niles's greyhound Sonny, who is undergoing a very expensive treatment for lymphoma. Artists have been donating art for Niles to sell at auction and collect into a print set to raise money for the treatment. Here's a Bernie Wrightson piece, which really should be in the 31 days of Halloween folder:

Everyone has been linking to the various Halloween goodies at Wonderful Wonderblog and the pictures of old Ben Cooper kids Halloween costumes from the 70s and 80s. It's a pretty remarkable sign of the progress in human evolution that we have gone from a holiday based around molded plastic masks of various characters accessorized with garish nylon jumpsuits to a holiday based around Sexy Nurse.

Long time web-cartoonist Millholland (rhymes with witch) is posting a story called The Last Trick or Treaters with some lovely watercolors AND cute trick or treaters.

BY JEN VAUGHN - Comic writer, podcast host and serial blogger at his own website, The Invincible Super Blog, and Comics Alliance, Chris Sims sat down to have a chat with me about his upcoming Dracula comic to be fully released on Monday, October 31st, also known as Halloween. Six delicious pages are up as a preview now.

Although it would be equally suitable for a 28 days of Valentine feature, we'll file Jonathan Case's new GN DEAR CREATURE under Halloween just because it stars Grue, a deep sea monster. Encountering volumes of Shakespeare beneath the waves, he decides to come to shore to look for romance, and finds it with a woman named Giulietta...but nothing is as it sounds like it will be. This was one of the most unexpected GNs we encountered all year, especially coming from Tor Books. It's kind of loopy but very sweet and the art, in pristine black and white, is hugely expressive.