An onslaught of creature creations are crawling your way all October long. Each week day we will post spooktacular images from some of the gruesomest talent from Wide Awake Press. So prepare your eyes for for a frightful gouging of Halloweirdos!
Who knew the post-zombie-apocalypse world would look so… pre-historic? Well, Josh Latta did. At least as he imagines it for Halloweirdos. Through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet the band of modern-stone-age survivors hopes to make it from Bedrock to the CDC in Atlantarock alive. Someday, maybe Fred will win the fight and the zombies will stay dead all night. Yabba dabba boo!
Here comes that freaky and funny member of the Halloweirdo gang, Count Creepula! Duane Ballenger has transformed him into play time fun, so you can make up your own giddy happenings. Just keep him away from sun shine or he might turn to dust.
We were looking for a custom Big Daddy Roth inspired art for Halloweirdos. So we called on Sketch Charlotte artist horrible Henry Eudy in hopes he could roll it out. This terrifying t-Bucket was Inspired by Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera and Mr. Eudy boiled the skins off this illy. Cruise on over to his pad on the web and lay your peepers on some of his other wildness.
Taller than the biggest trees
A monster hides among the leaves
Watching as the fight goes on
A knight defending his kingdom
Far from sisters, dads and moms
Sticks are swords and rocks are bombs
They hit and roll and jump and run
As he wishes to join the fun
Sometimes J Chris Campbell likes to pretend he can draw with a rock tied to a string connected to a box that emits light.
What can you do when you’ve got a giant mythical creature mucking about in your kiddie pool? That’s the question Charleston artist Steve Steglin asks with today’s Halloweirdo. Steve challenges concepts all the time with his cartoons for the Charleston City Paper and the Statehouse Report. It’s nice to see cartoonist challenging the system and still have time to draw a Kraken.
Yes your eyes are not lying to your brain. Someone has unleashed a giant gorilla and that someone was Brad McGinty. Marvel at the horror as airplanes try to destroy this mad brute atop the Empire State Building. Feel the fear and realization that you are powerless against such a crazed creature! Now relax, you are safe from this creature from a lost world.
But are you safe from Brad McGinty’s other creations? CLICK IF YOU DARE!
Also Available as a print here.
Walt Disney’s most terrifying and vain villain usually only appears on Walpurgis Night to raise the wicked dead from their graves for his own entertainment. But he’s agreed to make a special appearance for Halloweirdos. He’s brought his favorite fiery woman because she is beautiful, loyal, and pocket-sized.
Conjured forth by your good friend at Lattaland.com Ave Latta!
It’s the real monster jam with Charles Barkley going toe to toe with Godzilla. Whose got the most game? Rico Renzi does, as he relives this epic battle of the ball for day 2 of our Giant Monsters Week.
He promised his days of destroying the city in his underwear were over. But promises from a world-crushing behemoth mean nothing.
Ashley Holt kicks off Halloweirdo Giant Monster Week with his creation Thorgon. Catch Mr. Holt destroying everything on his blog where he illustrates his tantrums and and posts portraits. You can even grab a collection of his portraits in his book Character Witness.
Dr. Anton Phibes — musician, genius inventor, wealthy sophisticate, obsessively devoted husband, and demented undead avenger. At once gruesome, romantic, charming, ingenious, and droll he exacts torturous revenge upon the nine doctors that allowed his wife to die on the operating table. With panache! (Any biblical scholar will tell you the final deadly plague is halitosis.)
Josh Latta knows a thing or two about romance and obsession. Madly devoted to the art of illustration and deeply enamored of cartooning he makes the world giggle and guffaw through is work at Lattaland.com. In fact he kinda has his eye on YOU, yes you! He wants to draw you. So stroll on over to Lattaland and throw yourself on his mercy and he may just draw you in a flattering light.
Love means never having to say your drawing’s ugly.
