Helloween!

This is a real-life story, and a pretty familiar one to inhabitants of hip urban areas. But it is still SCARY AS %$^*!!!!

Courtesy of the Science Fiction Book Club, a video remembrance of the great costumes from NYCC.

Kevin sent along his version of Jack the Ripper, above and an illo of the story The Pink from a collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

We're not quite sure what this is. But if you see it, run the other way. Click for the NSFW version.

OTOH, the latest from the queen of Halloween might just be the best costume evah.

Is this the most terrifying thing you will see all Halloween? Probably.

Via Ronn Sutton, B-movie legend Vampira (Malla Nurmi) and a spooky vampire hunter. BTW, if you poke around Sutton's site you'll find an interview about his job as a courtroom sketch artist -- some of that is truly scary.

On a fixie by Tony Goins. More Ghost Riders in the link.

Bradwick McGinty, J Chris Campbell, and Josh Latta have been getting into the psirit of the season at the sketch blogHalloweirdos. Guests like Rob Ullman and Pat Lewis and Ashley Holt (Above) have also contributed. McGinty was so excited he drew his own Mars Attacks card (below.)

Todd Kent, who directed the Comic Book Literacy Documentary, sent along pictures of his 3 month old daughter dressed in ALL the Lantern costumes. I don't quite know what to say about this but it is cute...and very scary!

Simple but this should get you in the mood. Kochalka tells us he drew this map for the Halloween party at son Eli's school. It lists the various activities, but some abstractly. "For  instance, 'silly windsi is a ping pong ball race where you blow the ping pong balls with a straw."

A Halloween costume contest at a comics shop -- isn't this the most natural promo ever? Be there and take pictures!