Artist Jude Beers, who goes by the name Grimbro, shared his own Halloween countdown: a tribute to horror illustration great Basil Gogos. You can see more of his art here.

Newcomer Jean Arrow writes to introduce herself:
I am an up and coming comic book artist, currently working on my first comic book that I am going to debut at the Phoenix Comic Con in 2010. I am also currently mentoring under Steve Rude. You can see more of my art work at jeanarrow.deviantart.com.

Check out his Flickr set: Creatures, Creepies and Crazies.

Here’s a nice Halloween exclusive, courtesy of The Pekar Project

Pekar Project artist Rick Parker, fresh off drawing Tales from the Crypt: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid, series “Deaditor” Jeff Newelt and Dr. Harvey Pekar concocted this Halloween treat featuring the Pekar Project artists and other frequent Pekar collaborators and subjects.

Click for larger version.

BTW, we have a ton more Halloween art to post so it’s just going to go up all day and night! Celebrate the season!

The NY Times teams up Lizzy Ratner and Seth for some haunting views:

Even in this cheek-by-jowl town, the realm of other people’s apartments remains resolutely mysterious. Sure, New Yorkers share walls, overhear fights, inhale the sweet-spiced victories (and, all too often, failures) of sundry kitchen experiments. But the odd, unholy secrets of our neighbors’ homes remain hidden — and some of these secrets are very odd indeed. Voices whisper, spirits hover, stereos scream and stuffed animals rearrange themselves on beds. While we enjoy cozy, sleep-filled nights in our shoebox-sized sanctuaries, our neighbors toss and turn in the Gotham equivalent of Whaley House or Bly. And why not? New York is a city built on the dead, on mass graves and potter’s fields, old battlefields and spiffed-up shooting galleries. Surely some spirits are hanging around.

Via Peggy Burns

Or at least her Twitter stream.

Today’s artwork is by the amazing Richard Thompson, author of the wonderful strip Cul de Sac. Click for a larger version.

We’ll be having a Halloween blowout over the next few days as we catch up with all the wonderful submissions to stay in the spirit of the season. Enjoy, and thanks for reading!

Artwork created as a T-shirt for the band The Black Dahlia Murders, entitled “Monsters.” Details here. Gazin is an NYC-based illustrator and the comics editor for Vice Magazine.

Ware did the cover and a comic inside this week’s issue. [Via Graham Linehan.]

Pop surrealism founding father Robert Williams has a new show opening this weekend at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, and for the first time ever, it will include sculpture. Art Nouveau Magazine has a preview.

An avid blogger and prolific tweeter, Ben Templesmith is the creator or co-creator of Fell, 30 Days of Night, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, Welcome to Hoxford, and the upcoming Choker.

Eleanor Davis illustrates fairy tales for the UK Guardian and everyone wins.

[Via the FP International blog.]

W Magazine, of all places, rounds up a selection of sketches, illustrations and ephemera by R. Crumb to showcase “Varieties of Women”, from angry goddesses to asylum inmates to long lost high school Amazon crushes.

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As we enter the final stretch, today’s Halloween art comes from Matt Sundstrom, illustrator and sometime cartoonist (Dark Horse Presents.) Click for a full-sized version of this boo-tiful piece, and check out Matt’s website for some process notes.

How about a double dose of William van Horn (above) and Carl Barks (below) to get you into the mood?

Thanks to Susan Daigle-Leach for the suggestion.

Guy Davis has worked on a ton of great comics and just this year won the Eisner award for Best Penciler/Inker for his work on B.P.R.D. His current project is THE MARQUIS, being published by Dark Horse, a dark tale of justice and and the torment of religious faith. For our Halloween fest, he shared with us some he did for the Turner Classic Movies, TCM Underground website back in 2006/2007. Guy writes: “Attached are some from The Black Sleep, Night of the Living Dead, The Sadist and one of my favorites, Madhouse.”

More in the jump. Enjoy!

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Colleen Frakes, Ignatz- and Xeric-winning author of the marvelous WOMAN KING, provided this. Frakes is a CCS grad, and I’m sure we’ll be seeing more from her in the years to come.

More pumpkin carving, stolen from Warren Ellis.com.

A side note: we still have openings for art. Doesn’t have to be new — a link or jpeg will do. Whatever shares the spirit of the season.

Also, we’ll be on the road (again) for the next week, but in a more relaxed and recharging manner. We’re not taking time off. You’ll recall the last time we did that all hell broke loose. No, we’re just spending a little time away from the rat race. We’ve earned it.

Here are two disabled people who have really overcome their handicaps to become kick-ass monster fighters! Cherry from Planet Terror and Ash from the Evil Dead. They come to us courtesy of Mexican cartoonist/illustrator Uriel A. Durán, who has a website and a sketchblog. (Click for larger version.)

Eels, the much admired indie band that’s mostly just a guy named E, have just announced a new album for early next year, with art by Adrian Tomine, who has previously worked with the group. The name of the album — End Times — and the gloomy art combined to disturb many anxious indie music snobs:

Is that meant to be GOD as a homeless man? Just a homeless man? The End of Times? The End of Days? Heck, maybe it’s even E. in 25 or so years? Who knows what the hell is being suggested in this cover? ALL I KNOW is that I now want to watch King Of The Hill forever more, which I may well do. Possibly some Aqua Teen Hunger Force, too…

What to be for Halloween? Jim Rugg has solved your problems with this AFRODISIAC HALLOWEEN MASK.

AFRODISIAC, in case you didn’t know, is a new comic by Rugg and Brian Maruca: “Inspired by the blaxploitation films of the 1970s and classic superhero comics, the Afrodisiac collects art and comics starring the original super badass and featuring cool cars, sexy women, scary monsters, self-righteous superheroes, corrupt cops, aliens, Dracula, Richard Nixon.” It’s coming from Adhouse Books in January 2010.

A larger image and instructions for the use of the mask are on Rugg’s page, but we should pass along this warning: “This costume is not recommended for married men due to the unusually-high levels of attention it will command from women.”

For our 21 days of Halloween celebration, Stephen Gettis reminded us of his Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time!!! blog in which cartoonists imagine famous authors and works of lit. Mucho Halloween appropriate art there, including stuff by Bissette, Mignola/Zulli (who both did Dracula) and Eric Powell (Jabberwocky), and a fair share of Lovecrafts, Poes, and others.

But we found this image of The Lord of the Flies by Skottie Young the most bone-chilling. Perhaps you’ll agree?

Young’s latest work is the best-selling adaptation of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ with Eric Shanower. You can see much more spooky stuff at his blog in the above link.

Former Beat intern Cindy Arias gets into the game with a CSA (community supported agriculture) program gone wrong…or right!

If this MAD Magazine cover by the late, great Kelly Freas does not get you into the mood for Halloween, nothing will.

Freas (1922-2005) is known as the dean of science fiction artists with innumerable covers for Astounding Science Fiction, and was nominated for 20 Hugo Awards, winning 11.

[Submitted by David Clemons]

Über talented Pete Von Sholly is a cartoonist, storyboard artist (The Mist) and author (Capitol Hell). Check out more at his demented website. AND becuz we missed a day, TWO pieces of art today.