A Wayback Halloweekend
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Plenty of Halloween comic strips today and this past week but we’re going to go back a bit further.
“In October 1989, Garfield woke up to a chill in the house and no sign of Jon or Odie. Over the next six days, things only got weirder. We collected every strip from the week Jim Davis made Garfield face his greatest fear.”
Going back nearly 40 years and the famous Garfield in limbo episode – GoComics has put it in one place.
Good Stories For Children
From 1902 to 1905 Walt McDougall issued a weekly illustrated story for children syndicated to newspapers. Good Stories for Children had some very pleasant tales but some of the fantasies and the accompanying illustrations could go to the darker side. The above was one the the nicer ones featuring a witch, which I thought was apropos for Halloween, Monster Brains features some of the scarier bogeymen art.
Some of the early stories were collected in The Rambillicus Book (1903) which is available to read via the Internet Archive. The book features such creatures as the Collywobbicolon, the Snollygaster, the Polyzoodle, and, naturally, The Brannigan among others. None are as fearsome as shown in the Monster Brains post.
A Gorey Halloween
What is Halloween without Edward Gorey, at least that’s Mark Manivong’s thinking at The Library of Congress.
“With the days growing shorter, the weather becoming chillier, and All Hallows’ Eve almost upon us, I thought it might be a good time to take a look at some selections from the Library of Congress’s extensive holdings on Edward Gorey. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division holds two major Gorey collections: The Glen Emil Collection and the Edward Bradford Collection. Between these two collections, the library has nearly every instance of Gorey artwork in print, including book covers, interior illustrations, periodical appearances, special editions, calendars, postcards, and posters, as well as a significant number of realia, such as key chains, buttons, mugs, plush characters, etc.”
The Monster Mash
Rather than putting the earworm in your head by playing the song we’ll do it by showcasing cartoonist Leslie Cabarga‘s adaptation of the song from The Monster Times #21 (April 1973) via World of Monsters.
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