Tag: 31 days of halloween

What could be spookier than discounts between 50 and 85% hacked off the print price of books from Dark Horse and Fantagraphics to SelfMadeHero and Improper Books all available via the Sequential app for tablet. We've been telling you about Sequential for a while now -- it aims to be the highness app for graphic novels only, with a fine selection of top books from the finest graphic novel publishers.

This isn't actually Halloween related but there is plenty that is spooky or ethereal in the massive trove of images that the British Library has uploaded to it's Flickr account. Some 1 million of them in fact. There's a page with various albums, including maps, children's book illustrations, historical events and so on. And yes comics, mostly broadsheet cartoons. The images have been cataloged and tagged by online volunteers from images that were automatically uploaded.



I'm not sure this has anything to actually do with Halloween, but a new issue of Jordan Crane's Uptight is coming out and he describes it as:
 4 stories in which awful and terrible...

So many Halloween comics are coming out this season. Here's one that's available as part of Halloween Comic Fest: BIRTH OF KITARO by Shigeru Mizuki, the origin story for Mizuki's most popular character. Kitaro...

If there is one person who loves Halloween it was Charles Schultz...or at least he loved comic strips about Halloween. His creation of The Great Pumpkin created some classic comic strips and an indelible...

She just won a big comics award and now you can see what the fuss is about: Katie Skelly's MY PRETTY VAMPIRE #1 is available in print at Gumroad in the ink...but you can also have a sneak peek here (NSFW). It's a sexy comic about Clover, a young woman unwillingly turned into a vampire and includes the drama and melodrama required of the genre. And perfect for the season! Kelley started it on her tumblr a while ago but has recolored it for the print version.

Inktober isn't part of Halloween, per se, but it is part of the season. The purpose of Inktober is to get artists drawing, with the goal one inked drawing a day. Jake Parker has...

  YES! Right on schedule the weather cooled down and it's time for the best month of the year! Fire up your pumpkin flavored snacks and glow in the dark nail art! Halloween has now become a...

We've been engaged in a rewatching of The X-Files here at Stately Beat Manor for the last few months and wow, does it hold up.

As they did last year, the Study Group cartoonist have rolled out a whole week of seasonal comics including: The Gemini Three – Part 1 – by T Edward Bak Flash Forward – by Sean T....

No one is better than Charles Burns, and his unnamed trilogy—X'ed Out, The Hive and the new Sugar Skull—may be an even greater achievement in horror than his masterful Black Hole. The horror is...

This extraordinary book—surely one of the most beautiful picture books of the year— has a complicated history. It began with Mattotti's phenomenal illustrations, originally commissioned for the Metropolitan Opera's 2007 production of Engelbert Humperdink's...