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Published: 2009-08-01 20:40:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 34906; Favourites: 516; Downloads: 1916
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This cover I just finished is for the short story "SAMHAIN" which will appear in the coming months for free download on [link]Related content
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Wow, the detail on this is astounding. Very impressive work 
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Umm...the blood on the knife? Who's is it? I really can't find a single gash on that poop woman.
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Omg, did I say 'Poop woman'?! xD I meant 'POOR woman'!
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Probably my favorite Halloween art hands down
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I wish Michael Myers had his awesome Kitchen Knife rather than that sloppy break knife
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Love the original Halloween. Good stuff, very scary.
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Outstanding work. It's absolutely perfect. I love it.
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It means the Lord of the Dead. The end of Summer.
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Samhain (pronounced Sow-win) is where Halloween the holiday comes from. It's Celtic, similar to the All Soul's Day holiday. Modern day Halloween comes from many old world festivals and Samhain was one of them. Basically the same old thing, the end of the harvest...the beginning of winter. This drawing was done for a short story on Halloweencomics involving a side story from the 1981 film "Halloween II". In the film, Dr. Loomis visits a local schoolhouse where Myers has broken in, stuck a knife in a desk and written Samhain on the chalkboard in blood. In the film, Loomis explains what Samhain is. Although Pleasence mispronounces it.
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This is a must have... your work is very inspirational...
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this makes me sad people continue to demonize pagan holidays
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Sorry, it wasn't meant to demonize Samhain from my end...I totally get that the pagans have been demonized wrongfully throughout history. How can people be devil worshippers if they don't believe in the devil? This, as stated in another reply, is based on the film Halloween II
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Wow you must get commisions all the time. How I envy you !!!! One thing I must know is how do you develop these illustrations? Pencil to ink to photoshop pen tool ? ?????
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I don't get THAT many commisions. They start with pencil, then ink, then scanned into photoshop where I paint them.
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this had a very good classic style. like the old "creepy" magazine
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fuckin awesome i love michael myers hes my idol... i collect all his figures and all his movies my room is all him .. im a die hard fan lol
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gorgeous piece of continuity! the concept of what happens off-screen is brought to life here!
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The story the writer wrote is actually VERY well done. It is supposed to debut on halloweencomics.com sometime soon. Originally it was supposed to debut on Halloween but the editor said it wouldn't happen till later now.
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Thanks for pointing me in that direction. I wish the studios would pay attention like the comics industry. I see our precious horror icons as ranking up there with Superman and SpiderMan et al.
I would love to have seen the movies force themselves to live again just for creativity sake. In a lot of our eyes, they are legacies and should be treated as such. Yeah, Jason, Michael & the gang have all been treated to your embarrassing moment here or there, but the fun part of story telling is figuring out new fresh directions. Sorry to ramble, feel free to just delete me when annoying! HA!
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Thanks. It was a dream come true and I hope that the publishers at Devil's Due give me steady work on their Halloween comics after this. This was done for their official website. I would love to do more Myers based work for them.
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Best of luck to you then, you deserve it doing work like that
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This is fantastic!!
The colouring is just awesome
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Is it a story about Mickhael Myers high-school years?
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lol...no. If you have seen the movies quite a bit you may recall a scene in Halloween 2 where Dr. Loomis meets police at the local school and they show him how Myers broke in a window, he stabbed a knife into the teacher's desk with a child's drawing of a family--the knife stuck in the sister. And he wrote "SAMHAIN" on the chalk board in blood. This story tells how this all happened.
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