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…
