One of our followers was eager to see more of Count Wilhelm Whiteblood, I felt obliged to do something with him. So I drew a Halloween comic.

I'd been considering ideas that would properly fulfill the spokesperson role that Lovelock and Whiteblood are supposed to serve- as a mouthpiece for my passion and love for old-school horror- so I came up with this. It's mostly inspired by things like Halloween Peanuts strips, especially It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!, and the Donald Duck short Trick or Treat- I wanted the kids to seem like they come from a bygone era.
So here we have Count Whiteblood giving brave (or perhaps just ambitious) toon children a Halloween "treat" when they dare to venture into his domain. I initially considered using Lovelock, but then I realized that he wouldn't want anyone to find his house, so I gave him a cameo instead. See if you can spot him!

The werewolf actually has a name: Rackham, who's a supporting character in the novel I'm writing. Originally his design came from an unrelated doodle, but I decided it was suitable enough to be used for him.

I've been experimenting with comics lately to jump into hardcore visual storytelling, and this is my most ambitious project yet. I sketched it out first, and then I did the outlines with colored pencil, and colored and shaded it with Crayola crayons. I kept things a little simpler this time around, although as you can see, I'm trying out backlighting and lighting from below.
I often bite off more than I chew once I realize how much work my vision requires, so I've been working on this on and off for about a month, and did the coloring every day all last week. It was especially ambitious of me to try lighting I hadn't done before, which required me to look at a photo of Ed Wood for the top drawing of Whiteblood "pulling za strings" and the bottom drawing of him standing in the doorway.
I also tried to add a touch of Art Nouveau with the panel borders up top.

I certainly hope the smaller panels are readable, since this comic's proportions are more suited for a 1930s Sunday comics page than a comic book.