Here there be monsters!

Well as I'm sure you've no doubt noticed, I've changed my blog around quite a bit lately.

I was trying to find a look that suits me and the blog, and until now was unable to do so. I got tired of searching for something so I finally just pulled up photoshop and created a background that suited me much better - kinda makes a monster-kid like me feel right at home, and I hope it does you, too.


Thought I'd share a couple more of my old monster cartoons with you today. I ran across the originals while going through a box o' stuff recently, so I slapped em' on the scanner today to toss up here. The originals didn't have the Monster Mash border around them like the others, but they were bigger and scanned nicely...

Treat yourself this Halloween!

Every Halloween I take some time to enjoy reading a good book to enjoy the season. Last year I read the Marvel Comics Essentials Dracula series - these collect the DRACULA comics from the 1970s by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, which is one of my favorite comic book series of all time. I have vol. 1-3 of the essentials, which complete the entire run of the initial series.


The year before last I re-read Death Makes a Holiday by David J. Skal, who is one of my favorite writers. This book is a fantastic history of Halloween, and traces it's roots back centuries. This is a really interesting and fun read, and I may have to pull it out again soon to reread again.


THIS year I am continuing the vampire motif from last year, and reading DRACULA by Bram Stoker. Not many books are better Halloween reading material to get you in the spirit of the holiday than Dracula. Makes you realize why so many different version of this story have been filmed, as the original is so powerful and entertaining, even 110 years after it was written!


So treat YOURSELF this Halloween season by picking up some spooky reading material. Doctor's orders!!