Happy Halloween!

Above, a greeting card by the ever bright Mary Engelbreit.

Below, talk about awkward family photos. That's me, with my brother on the left, way back in '57, trick or treating ('course my mom didn't get around to developing the film 'til the following January, which for us was perty fast). I have no recollection as to why my brother was inhabiting that particular persona, and let's not ask him as I feel it's a repressed memory for the guy.
I don't expect one person to pluck this photo, but it's cathartic for me to post it.

Wonderful

Staying with the always wonderful New Yorker covers, let's use the cover below by the wonderful Owen Smith as a segue between Halloween witches and Halloween pumpkins:

Below, the wonderful children's book illustrator William Joyce:

Below, the wonderful William Steig:

Below, the wonderful Charles Addams:

Below, the wonderful George Booth:

Below, the wonderful Warren Miller:

Below, the wonderful Peter de Seve, with a wonderful tribute to New York's finest, just a month after their darkest hour:

Below, not a New Yorker cover, and no punkins, but entitled Trick or Treat, again by the wonderful Peter de Seve:

Addams Witches

A quartet of Charles Addams New Yorker Halloween covers—not as spooky as I'd like them to be, but hey—

True Vision

Ah, the always wonderful work of William Stout. This image gives us a true vision of what these seemingly youthful and seductive witches really look like.

William Stout — Halloween — 1995

Witchery

While these drawings by Stephen Fabian are not my favorite by him, they certainly fit the bill for our theme of witchery, and certainly not the hags that we expect this time of year.

Fabian — Witch House

Fabian — Psyche the Witch Girl

Fabian — The Witch Before the Altar

Fabian — Gillian the Witch - from Bell, Book and Candle

Fabian — Witch's Spell

The Witches' Well

A variety of witches—barely dipping into the well . . .

Willy Pogany

Willy Pogany

H.J. Ford

Albert Hurter

O'Malley

Ida Outhwaite

Ida Outhwaite

Lawrence Stevens

My FAVORITE: Yoshitaka Amano

That Time of Year

It's that time of year when witches are more likely to come to mind, with all the stereotypical associations such as the witch's familiar, the black cat.

Black Cat — © Meg Dawson

I think the next few posts will be witch oriented, mostly stereotypical but with a couple exceptions.