Acknowledging the pun, but still taking it literally, I used the characters from Nickelodeon’s “Aaahh! Real Monsters!” 90s cartoon and portrayed them as the classic Universal movie “reel” monsters from the movies Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Day 16: FULL MOON
Day 17: MAD SCIENCE MONDAY
I cheated on this one and re-used the double illustration from Drawlloween 2015 for MOON and FRANKENSTEIN. Iit still fits though. Especially since Frankenstein is the name of the mad scientist, not the monster.
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Day 12 is MOON and Day 13 is: FRANKENSTEIN
I combined these into one drawing, as moon by itself if pretty dull. Also, I am a bit of a pedant with some things and calling the “creature” that Dr. Frankenstein brought to life in the story “Frankenstein” just bugs me and I made sure to put the doctor center stage in the drawing, or at least sharing it with the moon, and the creature’s arm just coming into the foreground.
This is the first and last one-page combination of days, from now on they will all be two-page spreads (and to save time, two-day topics covered in singular posts).
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The local alt-weekly paper in Asheville, NC that I draw a weekly cartoon for asked me to draw a humorous Halloween and Election cover for the issue that would fall on the week of both those events.
I gave them some roughs and thumbnails and sketches for some classic monsters (Dracula, Mummy, Invisible Man, Frankenstein’s monster, wolf man, etc.) and, on a different tack, maybe a jack-o-lantern and a ballot box?
We ended up doing some of them voting in different, yet appropriate ways:
The invisible man is voting, of course, absentee ballot and a ghost voting reinforces the often-cited claim that dead people are voting in our elections, incurring the wrath of an angry, 17th century voter fraud mob. Dracula and his vampire fangs prefer punch ballots and Frankenstein’s creature doesn’t know his own strength when even using a tombstone touch screen ballot.
2012 Halloween cover for Mountain Xpress by Brent Brown
They liked the Republican elephant Frankenstein monster and the Democratic donkey Dracula, so I ended up drawing both of those for inside illustrations:
Finally, the weekly cartoon I also have to draw was a Halloween-Election theme too:
