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.
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!
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.
Colin Panetta self-publishes the comic DEAD MAN HOLIDAY, which is up to issue #3. His Halloween illo was produced for a video game news blog, and he has some background here. Click for a larger version.
Jah Furry shares a preview of the new issue of Royal Flush Magazine, which contains much of comics-related interest:
• Exclusive cover story / interview with Playboy’s Hugh Hefner, including a first-time-ever-printed 60-year-old autobiographical comic strip written and drawn by Hef. In homage, Royal Flush Book 6 features two foldout posters: centerfold by comics rock star Paul Pope and calendar by poster legend Brian Ewing. Plus, a Joan Jett flip cover with 3-D “smoke eyes” spot gloss varnish.
• Interviews with Joan Jett, Leslie Nielsen, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Brian Posehn, Jeffrey Ross, Jim Gaffigan, Ahmet Zappa, Jenna Jameson, Dethklok, Basil Gogos, Danny Trejo and more.
• Art and comics by Harvey Pekar, Rick Veitch, Peter Kuper, John Pound, Basil Gogos, Danny Hellman, Sean Pryor, Cojo, Aaron Augenblick, Scrojo, Robin Eley, Steve Chanks, Erik Rodriguez, Seldon Hunt, Ryan Dunlavey and many more.
Above, Frank Zappa as a Jack Kirby character, as drawn by Rick Veitch.
In addition, this week will see the launch of the Royal Flush Festival, Oct. 15 – 19, 2009 in NYC. Details of the music/film/art fest are in the link, but we’ll be appearing at a panel on Saturday at 4 PM at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, 107 Suffolk Street. The topic: BLOGGING. The participants:
Michael K – Founder/Editor, Dlisted.com
Brandon Harris – Hammer to Nail, Filmmaker Magazine, Spout Blog, Cinema Echo Chamber
Heidi MacDonald – Editor, Publisher Weekly’s The Beat
Brandon Kim – IFC.com’s Indie Ear
The panel will be moderated by John Holmstrom.
Up first, in our celebration of all things Halloween, a zombie by John Totleben, submitted by M.D.
Dark Horse has put up a preview of the upcoming Charles Vess art book Drawing Down The Moon: The Art of Charles Vess. Not 10 pages, not 20 pages…the whole damn thing.
And you know what? It’s going to sell more books.
Is there any way you can look at a few images of this lyrical, imaginative art and NOT want to look at it full size in a form you can savor?
When we ran the Wimpy Kid press release yesterday about the fourth book in the series having a 4 million copy lay down, someone pointed out to us that Wimpy Kid has been — and still is — a free webcomic, available to all. Hasn’t hurt sales.
As for the Vess art book, it contains:
Verdant fairy forests. Whispering mountains. The fallen towers of ancient kings. Spirit-filled lakes. The distant strains of elven bards. For over thirty years, the fantasy art of Charles Vess has been acclaimed worldwide, his rich palette, striking compositions, and lavish detail second to none in the field. Vess has been the illustrator of choice for countless publishers and writers, including Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clark, and George R. R. Martin. Embodying the timeless approach of the golden age of illustration, Vess’s work is both breathtakingly singular and yet recalls an era when paint and brush were the vessels that carried readers of all ages to distant lands, bygone ages, and realms of the imagination
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Drawing Down the Moon goes on sale in December and sells for $39.99.
Pekar, one of comics’ true originals, one of its most important writers, and an icon of the small press, reaches his 70th year this day. To celebrate, his new webcomic, The Pekar Project, is running 70+ portraits of the master by a diverse array of artists. Click on the link for the whole show, but here are a few as an appetizer:
Jeff Smith
Renee French
Ben Templesmith
Happy birthday, Harvey! You are one of a kind and a national treasure!
We’ll be doing “21 Days of Halloween” starting on the 11th, and we’re looking for some seasonal art — you know, black cats, pumpkins, Robert Pattinson, Samhain…all the good stuff! Links and jpegs gratefully accepted. We have some great stuff in already, thanks to everyone for playing along.
To get you into the mood, here’s one from last year and the great, great Richard Thompson.
ALSO, Van Jensen’s Pinocchio puppet, which he’ll be bringing to this weekeneds Baltimore Comicon. Details here. Jensen’s PINOCCHIO VAMPIRE SLAYER is coming out from SLG this month.
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