Mr. Bug Goes To Town

This is a movie I've wanted to see for some time ever since I saw the model sheets in THE FLEISCHER STORY by Leslie Carbanga.  I enjoy GULLIVER"S TRAVELS, the first Fleischer animated feature but it doesn't come close to this movie which I found totally mesmerizing. TCM showed it last night, I was disappointed earlier in the month when I MARRIED A WITCH was not included in the Canadian schedule so I admit I had some anxiety about  if this would be bumped. MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN is filled with beautiful backgrounds, great characters, cool music and story that moves with some great set pieces of  human and bug world interactions.  A Jimmy Stewartish grasshopper hero whose mistakes are genuine in not understanding the human world  and his sexy bug gal, and the bug town folk go up against the encroaching human world and Penguin like beetle and his insect thugs.  So here is a whole mess of pics from this wonderful  movie.  I don't love television stations but I do love TCM.

Vulnavia

Morning Phibes sketchbook.. off to see DOOMSDAY BOOK as part of the After Dark film festival.

Basement cleaning

and listening to vinyl

Abominable Dr. Phibes

Sketches while watching the movie..

Dr. Phibes

Mummy Bat

Tho I'm sad to see her go, Mike Mignola is now the owner of this piece and a better home I couldn't ask for her. Mike has been fan of The Happy Undertaker for some time and has  posted on his Facebook page a number of times how much he enjoys the strips which I've always  been surprised by and  appreciated since I've been a huge fan of his work and his comments have always been encouraging. Anyway, the horror kid in me thinks its cool he wanted to buy this piece and she'll be hanging out in his place.

Car Sketches

Morning Baldwin St. Car sketches.. Went to the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera show yesterday which was really great. I like his murals but prefer Kahlo's paintings a lot more and all the photos of her were fantastic. My favorite Rivera work was the early years in Paris that a had a cubist/impressionistic  vibe.  Had lunch at related event at a mexican restaurant called Frida that was delicious and ended the day wit a ghost walk.

Bat Mummy

Mummy Pickford

Bat Mummy Queen of Sheba

Baldwin

Sitting in car waiting sketches..

Batmummy

Despite the delays in the tomb I expect everyone to have there Mummies (and more) by Halloween...

Spiders

The Halloween Tree

I love the original cover of The Halloween Tree.  I recently got Ray Bradbuy's From the Dust Returned a book I've never read that has all his Elliot family stories (tho I think updated versions of his old stories like The Homecoming ) intertwined with newer stuff.  The cover is Charles Addam's original magazine illustration for the Homecoming from the late forties. A beautiful piece.  Apparently Addams was going to illustrate a book of monster family stories that Bradbury was going to write  at that time but it never got going. How unfortunate they couldn't find a publisher to place it with  as it would have been amazing especially since those early Bradbury stories are my favorite of his .  Also, Igor awaits his breakfast tuna and meat soup.

Halloween Books

Pretty cool to see Working Mummies beside The Halloween Tree and Georgies Halloween  from this pic of reviews  of Halloween books (old favorites and new) from Giftsoc.com where the reviewer called Working Mummies one of their new favorites.

Obituary Club

Balloons

A surprise gift from yesterday

waiting

in the car sketch..

HOrrorScOpe

October Spooks

This is a older piece done for a Toronto music paper October issue contents page which I erased out, I did a month in their yearly cartoonists calendar for 3 years or so as well. I don't ink too much with a brush anymore but I still like this one and I'd like to do a longer story all brush.

More Lurid

The rest of my Gravenhurst paperback purchases..

Lurid

I got a nice gift of a skull sketchbook and Nosferatu bookmark all the way from Venice on the weekend. I really like the paper in the sketchbook hope I can find a equivalent here but thats unlikely at least in sketchbook form.
 A nice thrift store find of some classic lurid paper backs including a couple from writers I'm a big fan of (Dave Goodis and Chester Himes) in original paperbacks.

I Turned into a Martian

Not yet but I have re-turned from the wilds of Gravenhurst after almost a week and I just had my phone so was not really online much except the minimum, tho not having laptop was about the only roughing it I did,  so here's some posts before I post some new stuff..

Bat

HAUNTED HORROR #1!

From the pre-code comic maniacs who brought you THE CHILLING ARCHIVES OF HORRROR series from YOE BOOKS comes HAUNTED HORROR # 1 in comic stores 10/10/12.  Co-editor Steve "Karswell"  Banes runs the indispensable  HORRORS OF IT ALL blog so you know this comic is chock full of  the ghastliest, graphic fare from a simpler time before the man came in and made some rules about what could be in comics and took away some fun.  Now, thanks to Craig and Steve those times are back,  so raise your glass and toast the doomed that await within its pages.

Skull/Heavy Metal

Morbids-Creep Cards 3

Mad House

Morticia and Gomez

Morning sketchbook..

Howling Mad

More Ghost Stories

I couldn't ask for a better way to start October then this fantastic find on my afternoon bike ride for 3 dollars. M. R. James is one of the greatest ghost story writers and tho I have everything by him in the beautiful and definitive Ash-Tree collection having an original printing of one of his books with a killer cover like this from 1924 is much nicer. I know what I'll be reading tonight..

Munsters

Some morning Munsters sketchbook stuff. Marilyn is such a babe and what great hair.

Halloween Treasure

Its October and tho I'm not planning any official countdown  I'm going to post a spooky drawing or image along the way.

Zine Machine

Fun times at the Zine Machine on Saturday tho after being holed up finishing up projects and not leaving the house much the last couple of months it was  a bit jarring to be drawing in a loud, crowded bar.  Don't worry I survived.