Happy Halloween

I wish all a HAPPY HALLOWEEN and thanks for stopping by this season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scanned pencils, digital finishes.

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I can't resist adding a couple of Wolf Man images.

Smiling Werewolf

I had some free time a few days ago  and drew this smiley werewolf head.

The Werewolf Principle by Clifford Simak

art by Ian Miller

art by Kelly Freas

 One of my all time favorite science fiction stories is Clifford Simak's The Big Front Yard. I haven't re-read it in a long time; but I may look for Simak's The Werewolf Principle first.

The Werewolf Principle (1967) An astronaut returns to Earth with two different creatures trapped inside him, so in times of stress morphs into either a "werewolf" or an impregnable pyramid.

Werewolf by Dale Keown

Found on ComicArtFans, a Werewolf by Dale Keown. This isn't your Disney happy harvest wolf boy.

Disney Wolf

I'm not sure which Disney character this is.  The Big Bad Wolf and Li'l Wolf look different from this Halloween wolf on the November 1937 cover of Mickey Mouse Magazine #26.

Disney's Three Little Pigs was released  in 1933 and the Big Bad Wolf stories were often in the Disney comic books.

Japanese Werewolf Samurai

If you find yourself in the mood for a Samurai movie, and the hero is a werewolf - the first Kibakichi is probably your best choice.

John Bolton Curse of the Werewolf page

If you would like to read the entire story, please go over to the excellent  Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine.

The artist, John Bolton, does some great panel and line work on this story from The House of Hammer #10.

Curse of the Werewolf

Some nice large images to The Curse of the Werewolf posters.

Godzilla vs. Wolf Man

 Cool image by Zornow at Deviantart.

FROM WIKIZILLA:

Godzilla vs. Wolfman (伝説の巨獣狼男対ゴジラ - Densetsu-no Kyoju Ookami Otoko tai Gojira) was a fan film that was directed and produced by Shizuo Nakajima and several former filmmakers of Toho Studios in 1983. It stars Godzilla, as usual, doing battle against a giant Wolfman. Toho said they had nothing to do with this film or approved of this.

SciFi Japan article about the movie.

Werewolves on Wheels

There are many movies with promising titles and exciting poster graphics that never live up to their self hype. Like another tag line for the movie says, "If you're hairy you belong on a motorbike!"

I have never seen this film but I'm am guessing that the movie isn't as interesting as the poster for this 1971 biker exploitation film.

Take a look at the trailer here.


Update: I found the dvd on Netflix. It will arrive soon. I am not expecting much; but, hey, it's a werewolf movie.

Werewolf Netflix

During October my movies from Netflix have been delivered in Halloween themed mailers. I have been enjoying the art and hoping for a werewolf.

This howler arrived yesterday!

Marvel Premier 28

Here is a poor scan, since my computer and scanner went cracker-dog I haven't rescanned, from my collection of original comic book art.

The Legion of Monsters - Starring Ghost Rider, Morbius, the Man-Thing, Werewolf by Night and Man-Thing - "There's a Mountain on Sunset Boulevard!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Frank Robbins and Steve Gan. The mightiest monsters of the Marvel Universe stand united! But can even their combined macabre might stand up to the supernatural power of the Starseed?!

Horror Contrast

The over-the-top complementary coloring sceme on this Horror Tales cover from October 1973 makes the werewolf pop.

An odd thing about the image is that when I first looked at it, I almost didn't realize there was a female figure on the werewolf's shoulder. The tonal contrast between the woman's skin color and the white blurb are very close.

Creepy Werewolves

 I can't let this Howl-o-ween season go by without mentioning how much I loved the early issues of Creepy and Eerie.

I was aware of Frank Frazetta from his first run of Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace paperback book covers he had done in the early 1960's; but it seemed that he began to experiment and mature his painting style with his covers for the Warren magazines. Frazetta said that when he began retaining the original art, he did better work.


I remember being pleased and surprised with Gray Morrow's cover. I wasn't aware that anyone else, besides Frazetta, could paint. Morrow's style is not as fluid as Frazetta's; but I enjoyed the more finished rendering in the background as a contrast to Frazetta's looser impressionistic paint application.

Alfred E. Wolf Boy

"What me worry?"

 I don't think anyone needs to be afraid of this werewolf.

PAM Werewolf

Pete Morisi was an artist who began his career in the late 1940's; but I wasn't introduced to his art until the 1960's. He signed his stories as PAM at Charlton Comics. I have read that he was a police officer at the time and didn't want anyone to know he was freelancing as a comic book artist.

These pages are from Charlton's 1977 Haunted #33. He had a very cold and clean style, without a lot of emotional content.

For a different werewolf story by Morisi with a more prominent creature click here.

The Stamp of the Werewolf

There are probably more werewolves on stamps. These are the ones I could find that appear to be issued by a country's  postal service.

Wolf Gal

Another subtle werewolf reference is Al Capp's Wolf Gal.

Wolf Gal was a character in Capp's Li'l Abner comis strip. She had been raised by a pack of wolves and lived in Wolf Valley. She was always on the lookout for a good man.

Regardless of you feelings about Capps later politics, his strip was one of the best ever produced.

Here is a link to more of the strips that introduced Wolf Gal.

Not A Werewolf

You have noticed that this isn't a werewolf post; but I did run into the image of the standing male model when I was researching a poplin shirt.

As soon as I saw the figure, I was reminded of the Jack Davis' Frankenstein art for the "Giant Life Size Frankenstein Pin-Up" from the back of Jim Warren's magazines.

If you must have a werewolf image, and why not, here is what the black and white art that was used on EC's Tales from the Crypt  #46 looks like.

Werewolf 2007

I drew this werewolf several years ago. It was directly drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet.

An American Werewolf in London

I miss the strong graphics and illustration that was once used in posters for movies. I'm not sure if the first werewolf one is from the time of the original release of the movie; but the subtle poster of Great Britain is from a 30th Anniversary screening.
 

Wolf Man Pose

My plastic figure looks like it may have been modeled from this Wolf Man pose in Universal's 1943 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man film.

I like a lot of the visuals in this movie; but it was the beginning of the decline in the quality of Universal's monster movies.

From Wikipedia:  During lunch at the Universal commissary, screenwriter Siodmak had joked to producer George Waggner that he had a great title for a new film in the series (half-heartedly — he needed a down payment for a new car): "Frankenstein Wolfs The Meatman". Waggner, not known for a casual sense of humor left to have his lunch; shortly thereafter, he called Siodmak to his office, telling him to "Change the title to Franeknstein Meets The Wolfman — and go ahead, buy the car."


NOTE: I found someone is selling the pvc Wolf Man figure on ebay. The discription lists it as from 1991 and is a Universal licensed piece from Hamilton Gifts Ltd., who had produced a series of four figures.   

Toys From the Shelf

I took a photo of several Wolf Man figuars I have around the apartment.

The Wolf Man battling Frankenstein is a Lemax Spooky Town piece from 2011. I haven't set up my Spooky Town village in many years, but I still buy a few new figures.

The center piece is a Marx glow in the dark Wolf Man copyrighted 1963. I'm not sure if the set I have is original or a later issue.

I don't remember where I got the crouching Wolf Man. It is marked TM & copyright 1991 U.C.S.

Dark Shadows Werewolf

When I was still just a pup, I didn't watch the soap opera Dark Shadows.  It's run on ABC was from 1966 into 1971. Our family's tv antenna didn't pick up the ABC affiliate station's weak signal from 50 miles away. Recently, I have begun to watch a few episodes on Netflix. I haven't reached the point where this werewolf character has been introduced, but Chris Jennings, as the werewolf, has a rather nice shirt also. Is it a wool shirt, maybe a Pendleton?  Should there be a "werewolf" Project Runway competition.

Stylish Werewolf

Speaking of well dressed werewolves… here is a page taken from Superior Comic's Journey Into Fear #7, May 1952.

If you want to read the story, and the entire issue online, go to Comic Book Plus. This werewolf may be dressed well, but his speech is not very eloquent. "SNARR" and "GERRR" seem to be the extent of his vocabulary!

The Wolf Man's Shirt

I have always had a thing for the Wolf Man's shirt. The Lon Chaney movie version of a werewolf was quite stylish.

Several years ago , someone mentioned to me they thought it might be a poplin shirt.

• Ruben Yandoc, signed Rubeny, was not a favorite comic book artist of mine in the 70's. His quirky style didn't appeal to me then. When I had the opportunity to see his original art, my indifference chanced to admiration.

The low quality printing and poor paper comic were being produced on in the 70's couldn't display his intricate and often delicate line work. His art seems to have been best suited to stories with a Twilight Zone quality. Some of the best Twilight Zone episodes have a humorous undercurrent.

Here is one from my collection of original comic art .