HALOWEEN PICTURES

I was thinking about possible Halloween porch decorations today, something to scare the Trick or Treaters.  How about something like this (above) looming over the front door?  

Is it okay to put up menacing circus posters on Halloween? The gorilla in this poster looks like he's about to bash his tormentors with one of their own.

Before recent times people must have been terrified by gorillas. Here's (below) an excerpt from a gorilla adventure story:  

Above, a Picasso-influenced picture, perfect for a Halloween porch decoration. Very nice!

Above, a dark ride figure. 

Where did I get this? I forget. It looks like the top of a haunted House ride. I like it because the shapes suggest how houses could be made to look in real life. This should be the second floor of a two-story house. I don't believe in wasting interesting detail on the tops of high buildings.

This (above) reminds me of scenes in the sci-fi thriller "Inception."

Above, a couple of stills from Mario Bava films.

Geez, even I can be a mask (above)! Wait a minute...I just noticed that my nose has the texture of an orange.

Here's a caricature done by Bill Peet. If you're a cartoonist and you have an old newsprint pad and some crayon stubs lying around then you can do what Peet did and make all the porch decorations you'll ever need.

Above, more porch cartoon ideas...but who did these? Dan Krall? I forgot to write down the name.

HALLOWEEN MASKS AND PORCH DECORATIONS

I like this idea (above) of underlit faces that get larger as they emerge from the cauldron. This idea might work as a porch decoration with paper bag heads.

Yikes! An evil marionette (above)!

Here's an example of the embossed cardboard decorations that used to be everywhere at Halloween time. I wonder if the net has any articles about the German company that used to make them.

Lots of people have a bench outside their front door. Benches just cry out for big sitting paper puppets.

Above, more paper puppet ideas.

Aaaargh! Here's (above) another vintage cardboard decoration. These sold cheap, believe it or not. Kids used to buy them. I like the idea of inexpensive, imaginative things of quality that kids can afford to buy with their own money.

Above, more porch decoration ideas.

Wow! Nice costumes!

Ditto!

Haw! Halloween stores should sell posters like the one above. You could leave them up all year.

I love the masks that kids make. Instead of a Kool-Aid stand kids should open up lawn stores at Halloween to sell masks that they make.  I'd buy them, wouldn't you?