Today’s sketch almost felt like a cheat. When I pulled Black Dog from the Halloween drawing box my immediate reaction was: “But I did a canid on Monday!” And started to obsess about how to make it different from that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m trying to be a little picky in my selection for this year’s playlist so there has to be more to a song than just Halloween subject matter to make the cut. Mood and tone are equally important. This song,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I realized after the fact that I used yesterdat’s song last year… Mia culpa! Anyway. Today’s music is from Evil Dead: The Musical, yes really. I couldn’t believe it when I first heard of it, but it actually has a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Drew another one that was challenging, because it was potentially boring and cliche, again. This time it was a ghost. Nothing specific, just ghosts. Not wanting to do the usual cliches, like the sheets and chains. But then once you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one I grew up with from my Dad’s folk music collection. Burl Ives always had a “favorite uncle” quality about him that I pictured long before I ever saw him as the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was another one I wasn’t crazy about to the point if I do this again next year I will take more time thinking about my list. So… Mummies… I confess having seen too many real mummies in museums I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was another one I think I knocked off too fast. My knowledge of the Jersey Devil was vague enough that it’s the first of this series that I needed a visual reference to remind myself what it looked like. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Halloween song I first heard in the Henry Selick movie, Monkeybone; “Hell” by the Squirrel Nut Zippers (which I always thought was called “In the Afterlife” until I was looking for it just now.) I’ve been a fan of the Squirrel Nut Zippers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I first heard this song in Shrek II and it’s been a favorite that I’ve been putting on several of my playlists so here it is very appropriately for this one, Tom Waits and Little Drop of Posion
Minotaurs are yet another one on the list I wasn’t looking forward to and I have a sneaking feeling I might be subconsciously cribbing a New Yorker cartoon but despite being another rush job I’m rather happy how this one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
