Halloween 2013

via Aaron Paul's Instagram

Each year, I just post seasonal links. I used to post them on the 31st, but then you wouldn’t have time to make use of those costume design ideas. Here’s a terrible joke I saw: A skeleton walks into a bar and says “I’d like a beer and a mop.”

Census: Halloween Facts for Features
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IBISWorld: Halloween Sales to Grow a Slow 3.0 Percent in 2013
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All month, there are Pagan Scares from Postmodern Barney
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The A to Z of Stephen King Cinema, a comic of greatness
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Listing Toward Forty is Listing Toward Halloween
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Stephen R. Bissette’s WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!
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The work of the devil…
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11 Halloween Freebies: Where to Eat Free for Wearing Costumes
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Transforming black-light Bride of Frankenstein makeup
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Hauntbox: open-source hardware box for controlling your automated, electronic haunted house
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This Family Wins All Costume Contests For Forever – unless this Cheers’ Halloween Costume Is The Best
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Chief Wansum Tail Seeks Pocahottie. Because Halloween in Indan country is always a horror show of snide stereotypes peddled to mainstream America as harmless costumes.
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Zombies vs. animals? The living dead wouldn’t stand a chance
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Cover for Black Magic comic book, 1954
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A Nancy comic strip
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Mickey Mouse in Ghoul Friend, plus Disney’s Halloween Treat
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Halloween Peanuts strips for 1966 and 1967.
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Mad Monster Party: the comic book, adapted from Harvey Kurtzman’s screenplay
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Interview with MAD’s Jack Davis about his Tales From the Crypt comic book days
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Bill Sienkiewicz ~ “the Shadow Portfolio”, published by DC
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The Sensible Horror Film
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A Halloween Verizon commercial
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Skull painted on old vacuum tube
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Creepy banana dude
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Halloween in NZ