Listen to “Hell’s Bells.” Doesn’t this song swing? I learned some information about the song from Uncle John’s Crazy Town. He also posted several cartoons that feature “Hell’s Bells,” of which “Red Hot Mamma” with Betty Boop is excellent.
Welcome to Dragsylvania! Drac’s ‘32 hearse is ported, relieved, strokin’ four, she’ll do 140 in the top end floor, and if it had a pair wings, man, I know she could fly. So Dracula’s got that going for him.
Oh, the horror of these lyrics stay with you long after you hit stop (which will probably be around the 13 second mark.) From 1965, I give you:
Special bonus song! (Amazing how many tunes there are about Dracula drag racing.)
A much better tune for this illustration is “Dragula Au Go Go” from a great surf band, the Moon-Rays. I wish I could embed it, but head over to their MySpace page and it’s in their playlist. That platter’s got bite!
Love the Beatles! Any era! Even their brief famous monster phase.
The idea for this t-shirt came from the B-Movie Cast podcast. Really, anyone who can make it all the way through Manos: The Hands of Fate should proudly declare their success to the world.
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So far, the subjects of my Countdown to Halloween have been slightly … eclectic? Obtuse? Obscure. I’ll be getting into some more famous monsters starting tomorrow.
Don’t pick up strange, skinny toes. What sort of germs do you think are on that thing?
“Skinny Toe” is a story off the old “Scary Spooky Stories” record and is a variation of the “Golden Arm” story that Mark Twain loved to tell. Many kids had great giggling fun speeding up the story on the record player. Courtesy of the awesome WFMU blog, I present “Skinny Toe” at scary, spooky speed.
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The Countdown to Halloween continues! Shrimpenstein! (Adobe Illustrator.) Dr. Von Schtick’s creation, patterned after Frankenstein’s similar but taller experiment.
Here’s a Frankenstein tune from Dr. Von Schtick himself, Gene Moss, off his album “Dracula’s Greatest Hits.”
A pinup for Steve Hamaker’s Fish N’ Chips comic. I’m a fan of Sixties power pop. Their outfits are straight out of an old Kinks publicity shot. The sketch:
October begins the day after tomorrow!
Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati is putting on the “Cincinnati Walks for Kids” event next month to raise money for the hospital. This is my shirt design for Jen’s team at work.
This is a piece for the fine folks at Yog-Sothoth.com. The project has yet to be announced, but as you can tell from this illustration, it has something to do with Canada.
