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No matter who wins, we all lose. An illustration from a 19th century London newspaper, back when newspapers covered REAL news.

From the back pages of those comics you had as a kid!

The cover story of the April 22, 1935 issue of the Saturday Evening Ghost.

If science teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our successes, with quiet dignity and grace. Gene Wilder: Famous Monsters style.

Who doesn't love Christopher Lee?

Who else is tired of this nonsense? Vive la révolution!

Audre Lorde: Your Silence Will Not Protect You

Love never dies.

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Bringing joy to the world one sad tee-shirt at a time.

Bringing joy to the world one sad tee-shirt at a time.

Things can't get any worse, right?

A brutal display of passive aggression.

Because goths deserve brightly colored things, too.

Let's rend the veil between worlds and see where the night takes us. What could possibly go wrong?

A retro Halloween design which can be slapped on a variety of products you don't need.

Monster Kid/retro portrait of Herman Munster.

Fortified with iron and plasma. It's the lolly that eats like a meal.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.

A Bill Gawlik-inspired tarot card, inspired by the Sandy Pearlman/Albert Bouchard/Blue Oyster Cult "Imaginos" song cycle.

The Great Pumpkin awakens and will devour us all.

This image was a weird ride. It started off as a color version of my earlier "splash page" piece, evolved into using those imges as a cover and then took a right turn into Doctor Doom territory. It was fun to use the more salacious elements of Blacula's marketing to make something garish ... but William Marshall deserves better. Marshall (and, by proxy, Prince Mamuwalde) had real gravitas, so I began to wonder what kind of stories about "Blacula" we might get with the world as a canvas. I also didn't want to lose sight of the fact that Mamuwalde had become a villain. So, this is what we get.

There's a video store in Colts Neck, New Jersey, that has a back room filled with unlikely titles. Available for rent are such movies as Stanley Kubrick's "Napoleon," an unlikely collaboration between Ingmar Bergman and the Three Stooges titled "The Third Strawberry," "Four Flies on Green Felt" (a little-seen Muppet movie that's also among the most nihilistic horror movies of the 1970s) and this movie adaption of the H.P. Lovecraft story "Herbert West: Reanimator" from 1958. The full-color film starred Vincent Price in the title role, as well as Peggy Cummins and Francis Lederer.

There is Enchantment in the Light

Django Unchained Vs Gone With the Wind.

Nothing matters anyway, and that's the hell of it.

If you ever want to drive anybody insane, ask them to catalog the deaths in 1985's Commando. The Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle rcks up an estimated body count between 74 and 108, most of them courtesy of Schwarzenegger's murder machine John Matrix. It's difficult to track all of the mayhem in the film ... there are conflicting number all over the internet, figures further muddled by the demolition of several paramilitary barracks (housing who knows how many people?) in the climax. These numbers are my guesstimate.

Everything you needed to know about Jason Voorhees that can be fit on a t-shirt.

The Tragedy of the Tribes of the Moon

They're not ready for the fire that comes next.

Because fascism is bad, people.

June 23, 1989.