HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM 1977!
I am finishing up drawing characters for a local author’s children’s book and thus I don’t have the time to draw any pages this week or next (Oct. 26th & Nov. 2nd). In the meantime, I’ll give you a remix of last year’s Halloween drawings put together into one handy image. I added in some background stuff like extra trees, clouds, some bats, and funky lines that were supposed to represent marshland but looked cool anyway. I did a little touch-up of the foreground as well by adding in some blood on the gang where the zombies have torn their clothes, a few evil pumpkins, plus a bush to hide the fact that I didn’t draw the entire sexy zombie who is ripping Bud’s pants off. The drawings last year were mock comic covers and she went off the cover thus why she wasn’t completed.
The image below is linked to a desktop sized version if you’re so inclined to download and decorate your computer’s screen with my silly drawings.
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” was a great film to watch while stoned and/or drunk back in the late 1970s when I was in college. The cosplaying and singing-along wasn’t a big deal back then, or I just don’t remember it. Either way, let’s do the “Time Warp” again for old time’s sake! If my hips can take all that jumping around that is.
Hope the bats find a place to den during the winter so the little guys don’t freeze. I remember saving a poor little bat on sunny May day he couldn’t find his way home after eating mosquitos and moths. They are vampire bats but they’ll never live in Illinois the winters are too long for them. In the movie night wing vampire bats reach the United States. But they really live in Brazil drawing blood from cattle so need to fear turning into vampire which they can’t do but they can give rabies. However there is always the romantic Italian comedy Uncle was a Vampire or Tempi duri peri vampiri (Hard times for Vampires). A indebted baron’s lake side castle is turned to a hotel and his uncle turns him into a cute chubby vampire cured by a kiss from his lover. Stars Renato Rascel, Christopher Lee, Lia Zappelli, Antje Geerk and Kai Fisher. Oddly enough I have dresses and swimsuit like the ladies in the movie I see remake. I saw the 1964 Last Man on Earth , Mario Brava’s Black Sabbath, Plant of the Vampires and Barberella. Dressed as the tyrant if only I could find a angel wearing a diaper named Pygar or some one to dress as Durant Durant? Maybe Jeff in a diaper, Robyn as Durant Durant, Lorraine as Barberella and Buddet as the tyrant after all who on Halloween doesn’t want to wear a sexy body suit and go go boots. Of course I love the rocky horror picture even sing along and dress as Frank’N Furter, Columbia, Janet Weiss and Magenta wearing corsets on year mini dressed maid outfit the next year and always high heels even annoying some poor George Carlin guy. Wonder if the stuffed cat wearing a boa is a jaguar or leopard. I know it is not a poor little snake in too small terrarium freezing in the cold boas needed warmth they are from the tropics. Hope the children like your pictures and happy Halloween my you be enchanted by a fair in a pink playboy bunny suit that’s what I wore to a local party.
Once again, your comments intrigue and entertain me. Speaking of children looking at my pictures… my youngest son when he was in middle school, was showing his classmates my comic on the school’s computer. Nice parent-teacher conference that year.
I live in an older neighborhood now, so very kids coming by the door these days. Just as well, more candy for my wife and I.
Fantastic picture, and a great song to go with it! At our wedding reception we had the band play “The Time Warp” (and “Truckin”).
Thanks! I’m glad you liked it! I had fun drawing it. And “The Time Warp” at a wedding sounds very cool!
Love the time warp on Dancing with Stars gotta love the sexy costumes the ladies wear who cares about metrosexuals. They do this is Halloween from Nightmare before Christmas in cute body suits and ankle high shoes, Heads will roll by yeahs yeahs, Ghost busters and Monster mash. It would be cool if they did Driver’s seat or East Bound and Down but they do in the TV show Archer. I’m leaning toward, sky blue halter tops, pink denim short shorts or mini skirts and black heels or ankle high boots for all the dancers since the guys are metrosexuals anyway. You add Wendy O Williams The Damned she blows up a school bus in the rock video and Living Dead. How about Zilch Inside a Pervert Mound maybe Sinsstar Psychosexy from heavy metal 2000 but don’t forget Alice Cooper no more mister nice guy have plan 9 including Jeff make him suffer mohahahaha dance in steel cages in silver halter tops, hot pants and heels. Happy Halloween may you get to sing the time warp with a Drag Queen.
Hmmm…. an Alice Cooper/Plan 9 crossover. Now that’s a good idea!
Not many drag queens here in my neck of the wood in North Carolina, so that’s not on the list tonight.
Liked this last year and like it even more this year, little touches sometimes make a difference.
It often said that an artist never finish a piece, but simply abandons it when it is “good enough” for the moment. I resist doing things like this, but every so often I have too. I have done it several times over the last year mainly to help reacquaint myself with the characters and how they’re drawn.
Looks like that isn’t the only ‘bush’ we’re getting glimpses of 😉
Nice work all around.
Hallowe’en songs, gotta like ’em, and not just ‘Moster Mash’
A lot of good ‘not so much for children’ songs can be sort of used for the night, if you squint hard and tilt your head just right 😉
Walk Like an Egyptian- Bangles
Fairies Wear Boots or Iron Man – Black Sabbath
Frankenstein – Edgar Winter Group (try the live version)
Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon
I put a Spell on You – ‘Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (CCR too :))
Swamp Witch – Jim Stafford
Witch Queen of New Orleans – Redbone
Legend of Wooley Swamp – Charlie Daniels Band
Sign of the Gypsy Queen – April Wine
Burn – Deep Purple
and so many more…
including one of my favourites by the 5 Man Electrical Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT3j9BC0Zdc
And one I sadly only discovered recently after he’d died 🙁
I’m not much of a country fan but I bought all his albums as soon as they hit the shelves and still have them today.
Oddly enough, ‘Convoy’ wasn’t my favourite song by him, not by a long shot, he had so many both comedy and heartful and sometimes both at once that it paled in comparison even if it did inspire a movie.
CW McCall definitely keeps you Comin’ Back For More 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OXqRciinw
My uncle was a trucker and loved CW McCall’s music. Of course, as a trucker, he liked blasting “Convoy” while he drove. He also blasted “East Bound and Down” by Jerry Reed. Definitely truckin’ music.
But, as a hard rocker at heart, I never gave McCall’s other music much attention. I shall do a deep dive and see what sticks. Thanks for the suggestion!
I’m not a country fan, period.
That said, I do get along well with the upbeat fun ones from the likes of CW McCall, Jerry Reed, Jim Stafford, Ray Stevens, Charlie Daniels, Joe Diffie, Hank Williams Jr and a few more that don’t drive you to depression by the first chorus.
Garth Brooks can drive you places too but this cover has a better video 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHAji8DdmGQ
Excellent list. I love “Werewolves of London”! And I have the 5 Man Electrical Band’s two Top 40 singles here in the USA; “Signs” and “Absolutely Right”. I dig the latter way more than “Signs”.
“We’ve got bush!” Yes, I snuck in a wee-bit of bush on Robyn and Lorraine. And I purposively gave Lorraine tan lines and not the rest of them as a joke, for Lorraine is the most promiscuous of them all yet she has tan lines. I never draw them with tan lines mostly because it takes just that much more time to shade in the non-tan areas. It’s just easier to make them all the same color with or without clothes.
5 man Electrical Band was pretty big up here and some of their better tunes, like a lot of other Canadian bands, didn’t seem to trickle down south…guess we kept the best for ourselves 😉
Tunes like ‘I’m a Stranger Here’, ‘Hello Melinda Goodbye’, ‘Absolutely Right’, ‘Moonshine(Friend of Mine)’ and one of my favourites ‘Money Back Guarantee’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEYrmkagzY
‘Absolutely Right’ was one of the first tunes where I noticed what I called ‘lead bass’ and always looked for it afterwards.
If it were a Zombie Jamboree, it would take place in a New York cemetery—and could advance the current plotline.
Damn, I could have the gang come back in October of ’77 and recreate this scene! Unfortunately, it’s only July of ’77 in the storyline at the moment.
NYC cemeteries would be too busy registering voters… 😉
Have you ever seen THIS take on “The Time Warp?”
https://youtu.be/9WBqHdI5Bdw
No, I have not! But that was pretty cool! Thanks for the link!