Halloween is only a month away!!!!!!! I'd intended to do a review of what's on display in the Halloween stores this year, only they're still putting things up, so I guess I'll have to wait. In the meantime, here's a few pictures.
Here's (above) my favorite, an astonishingly beautiful, die-cut cardboard Moon and cat, probably from Germany in the 10s or 20s. Man, the Germans were good at this sort of thing! The piece is a work of art, yet you could buy it for the change in a kid's pocket! Is Halloween celebrated in Germany?
A vintage, paper-
mache pumpkin (above), possibly also German.
This picture of a skeleton sitting on an old porch (above) reminds me of a job I had selling door-to-door in small, Sleepy Hollow-type towns in Pennsylvania at Halloween time. The towns were nestled in the hollows of hills and from a distance all you could see were old, wooden church steeples rising above mounds of October-colored Maples and Chestnut trees. All the Halloween decorations on porches and windows were home-made.
A terrific pumpkin design!
Plastic and day-glow paint (above) made into an art form.
Soon we'll all have robotic
Igors (above) to do our bidding. Maybe they'll rebel and turn nasty.
It's great to see designers turn their attention to the holiday.
What part of the body is this (above) ?
A mask (above) that looks like a zombie version of the lead singer in the band "
Sha-
na-
na."
Siamese pumpkins (above)!
This (above) is only slightly more exaggerated than what you see on the street. Robert Crumb would love this girl!
Painterly paper-
mache masks with oddball fabrics (above)...a delight for the eye.
Nice, very nice!
It's hard to believe that God isn't a cartoonist.
This (above) is the reason you don't see Wonder Woman on the street anymore, catching bad guys. She had an almost fatal attraction to Twinkies, and now leads a quiet life in a small town, eating Jenny Craig and watching daytime TV.
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Aaaaargh! Where's the eyewash!?