Art For Art’s Sake: Your Halloween Art Spooktacular Starts Here

by Richard Bruton

It’s the spookiest time of year, so let’s get the scary scribblings and colourful creepiness of the greatest comic artists and celebrate the scary season just right… ready for a frightfest? It’s Art For Art’s Sake

Let’s start with a master… Jack Davis

Followed by another… Bernie Wrightson

And an Uncle Creepy from Wrightson as well…

Another genius now… Wally Wood

And they keep on coming… Alex Toth, The Witching Hour

Mort Drucker

Illustration done by Terry Beatty in 1982, dedicated to Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, and Graham Ingels.

And talking of Johnny Craig

And Graham Ingels

Dave Stevens

Charles Burns

Jose Gonzales

Gonzalo Mayo

Fay Dalton

Mark Schultz

Frank Cho

Kelley Jones

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Okay, enough with the grown-up scares… time to show a little bit of the other side of Halloween, the kid-friendly, scare them just a little sort of thing…

Jamie Smart

Neill Cameron

Colleen Frakes

Now, how about a bit of Archie – how about this from Dan Parent?

Bill Galvan

Matt Talbot

And what would it be without a little witchiness? This from Veronica Fish

Rex W Lindsey

Now, a little Disney Halloween… Carl Barks

Rick Hoover

‘Horrifikland, une terrifiante aventure de Mickey Mouse’, written by Lewis Trondheim, art by Alexis Nesme

And finally… a little few spooky things from the always great John Cei Douglas