Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween Everybody!

Hey Kids! What time is it?

Banshee

The Vision

It's Huckleberry Hero Hump-Day Time!
This Wednesday Huck portrays a Marvel Mutant with a sonic scream and a Synthezoid Android Avenger.

And this weeks color theme is Green and Yellow.

Zombie Fest 2008

This year's second Zombie Fest at the Monroeville Mall - the same Mall that was used for the original "Dawn of the Dead"- was a complete success and total blast! Sunday's Zombie Walk had around 1,350 Zombies invade the Mall. We more than beat any of the competing Cities from around the globe.

That's me in the circle awaiting for the official photo and tally to be taken by the event's sponsor's, "The It's Alive Show" for the Guinness Book of World Records.

This is Me with the host of "The It's Alive Show", Professor M.C. Square. He came up with the idea for Zombie Walk in 2006 for fans of the show and due to the success of this, turned it into an annual event and most important, collecting tons of food for The Pittsburgh Food Bank.

With me is the star of "Dawn of the Dead" Ken Foree. A really Great Guy. He was very gracious with his time and hosted many of the weekends special events.

You never hear of Tom Cruise doing that! I liked how he kept saying that he is a "Working Actor" and not a "Star". A lot of these "Hollywood big-shots" should take their cues from people like Ken.

The Fest was a great time and if your are in the Pittsburgh area around Halloween next year, you should all attend. Pittsburgh is the Zombie Capital of the World!

Poopdeck Pappy

It was on this date in 1936 that Popeye had finally found his long lost father, Poopdeck Pappy. The reunion was less than shall we say...sentimental.

Above is a recreation of the reunion that I did for one of my calenders for The Popeye Fan Club.

It's Huckleberry Hero Hump-Day!

Silver Surfer
Union Jack

It's Wednesday again and this week Ol' Huck portrays two Heroes from Mighty Marvel. First up is The Silver Age Sentinel of the Space Ways and then he's The Golden Age Guardian of the British Isles.

In case you folks didn't know, if you right click on the above sketch's you can view a larger image of the drawings.

Happy Birthday Curly!

Happy Birthday to one The Greatest Movie Comedians of all time, Jerome "Curly" Howard!!

NYUK! NYUK! NYUK!

Getting ready for ZombieFest II

This weekend at the Monroeville Mall (near Pittsburgh, Pa) is the Second Zombie Fest Convention. The big event of the Con is the Zombie Walk on Sunday. On our first walk in 2006 we set the Guinness Record at 894 Zombies (pictured above-that's me in the circle). In 2007 we broke our record with 1124. This year around 50 Cities around the world is going to compete with us. Pittsburgh is the Zombie Capital of the World. Native Pittsburgher George Romero has filmed all his ground breaking Zombie films here, starting with the classic "Night of the Living Dead". "Dawn of the Dead" the 2nd in the series was filmed in the Monroeville Mall in 1977. Every year we collect food for the Pittsburgh Food Bank. Last year was amazing - 50 Tons!
These conventions are a great deal of fun - especially for me. In 1977, I was one of the Zombie Hoard that attacked the Monroeville Mall. Special Effects Master Tom Savini knew my High School Art Teacher Gerald Hebert and after an assembly Savini asked members of the Art Club if anyone would be interested in appearing in a movie. I was one of two that said "Yes" and for three weekends in the fall of 1977, in the wee hours of the grave yard shift, I took part in the filming of "Dawn of the Dead". I'll write more about this experience later.
If you are in the area October 26, put on some make-up and fake blood and walk with us. And please bring a non-perishable food item. It's all FREE!
It's a blast!

Great Comic Book Covers

Master Comics #27 starring Captain Marvel Jr. done beautifully by one of the greatest illustrators of the four-color medium, Emmanuel "Mac" Raboy

Experimenting with the Classics II

This time I want to show you my "realistic" treatment of one of comics most famous sidekicks and a Comic Book Star in his own right, Jughead Jones. Appearing in comics since 1941, he started out as the best Bud of Archie Andrews and over time became very popular for his independence, woman-hating and hamburger-loving. Jughead got his own title in 1949 and has been continuously published ever since.


Below is how I think Jughead would look if he were "real".

Maybe here is where I should label his given name,

"Forsythe Pendelton Jones"

It's Huckleberry Hero Hump-Day!

The Spectre

This week Huck portrays DC Comics' Spirit of Vengeance. The Spectre was created by artist Bernard Baily and writer Jerry Siegel, the same writer/co-creator of Superman.

Sorry for only one Hero this week folks. I had to go out of town the last few days and I didn't have time to color a sketch.