Helloween!

Today is not only the 60th anniversary of the debut of Peanuts, but part of an ongoing COUNTDOWN TO THE GREAT PUMPKIN social media game whereby fans can contribute their own memories, videos and so on on a variety of platforms. Participants win points towards winning a custom Peanuts iPad, and then a further $25,000 prize. Full details in the link.

Yep, it's that time of year again! And we already have so many awesome contributions we may have to to do more than one picture a day just to keep up. But please keep the links and art coming. We kick off this year's festivities with Andrea Tsurumi's 13 Witches project. According to her website, Tsurumi is an illustrator/cartoonist who is part of the Tapir Tooth comics collective, and creator of the webcomic TERKA.

All this horror put us in mind to answer the question several of you have emailed: Yes, we will be doing 31 Days of Halloween this year! Send us Halloween-themed art or a link and we'll share it with the world, or at least with people who read The Beat. Send it to heidi dot macdonald at gmail dot com, and try to put the word Halloween in the subject somewhere so it's easier to find. Thanks in advance.

With the Green Lantern movie underway for delivery in 2011, the emerald warrior is getting all kinds of promotions to make sure that by the time Ryan Reynolds has been on 100 junkets, everyone will know who Green Lantern is. And to that end, he's already being licensed out the wazoo. For instance, the Asbury Park Press tells us that Green Lantern is getting his own roller coaster at the Great Adventures in New Jersey. The ride -- 15 stories of 63 mph mayhem -- will open to coincide with the movie.

Jill Thompson's Scary Godnmother has become something of a Halloween classic, with two animated specials that are still shown on Caqrtoon Network, and a DVD. However, the original Eisner Award winning graphic novels have...

There are about a billion comics/Halloween photos up on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere, but we'll just steal two. Marion Vitus Tom Neely In trends, we noticed that ORIGINAL STAR TREK costumes far, far, far outnumbered STAR...

Okay it's not a comics, but nothing has influenced the imagery of Halloween more than James Whale's classic, so let's give it up for the king. And with that, we're off to Trick or...

The Invisible Man

Aw, come on, did you think iI was gonna leave out Bruce Campbell?

Does anything signify contemporary terror in comics more than this series? Cover by Charles Adlard.

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The great Jim Woodring is always available for some chills. Wish this one was larger. Here's a bonus image.