Check out this great Halloween comic from Owen Dunne’s You Damn Kid. You’ll thank me later.
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Tag: Halloween
Halloween Cartoon Idea List
Every year when I sit down to write my Halloween cartoons (usually around June) I create a list of Halloween stuff to help generate ideas. And every year I think "I should keep this so I don’t have to do it again next year!" And then I never do.
But, this year I’m putting it all down here in this post. Partially for my own reference, partially to give you an idea how my head works, and partially to see if there’s anything I missed.
OK here goes:
Halloween –
- Pumpkins – jack o’ lanterns, seeds, carving, knives
- Costumes – masks, pirates, hoboes, superheroes
- Trick or treat – candy, apples, x-ray, bags
- Witches – brooms, cauldrons, spells
- Frankenstein – bride, bolts, bodies, scientists, fire, angry mob
- Vampires – blood, bats, fangs, coffins, mirrors
- Werewolves – moon, howling
- Mummy – wrappings, tombs, arms in front
- Zombies – brains, decay
- Ghosts – sheets, Casper
- Skeletons – bones, medical
- Devil – horns, pitchfork, tail, hell, fire
- Haunted Houses
- Spiders – webs
- Graves – tombstones
- Scary movies
- Bobbing for apples
Lemme know if I missed anything…
Archie Halloween Trading Card Treats
Not sure what year these are from, but the non inline roller skates and the walkman suggest the mid 80’s?
Marvel Halloween Trading Card Treats
I understand what they’re going for with the “Trading Card Treats,” but seriously, what would you rather have in your pillowcase, a She-Hulk card or a Snickers?
Widget Halloween Trading Card Treats
I’d never heard of Widget before getting these Trading Card Treats, and I’m assuming you haven’t either. A quick primer:
Widget, the World Watcher is an animated television series which debuted in September 29, 1990 until it ended in June 6, 1994.
The show focused on a 4 foot tall, purple alien from the Horsehead Nebula named Widget who could shapeshift (usually by spinning like a top into different forms. In early episodes he seems to still be getting used to his power). He and a group of young, human friends; brothers, Brian, Kevin and their teenage sister Kristine, would go through a number of adventures to protect the natural environment from those who wish to plunder or harm it. Later on they were joined by (fellow shapeshifter) Half-Pint, Widget’s mischievous, overly-curious, hyperactive cousin. Widget is frequently accompanied by the Mega Brain, an extremely intelligent but somewhat clumsy being who appears as a floating head (with a transparent cranium) and floating hands.