Charles Apple

Were you a little thrown off by the page one topper for today’s Virginian-Pilot?

Yeah, that’s a little different. We’re getting into the Halloween spirit, thanks to the wonderfully sick mind of visual genius Sam Hundley.

On today’s features front, Sam showed kids how to carve a really, really sick pumpkin:

Want a closer look? Click on the thumbnail:

Nice stuff. Of course, Sam is a huge Halloween nut.

On his personal web page, Sam includes photos of what he does with his house at Halloween. He definitely gives neighborhood kids a reason think twice before they approach his place for candy:

Very cool. But Sam — quite typically for him — goes that extra mile to toss in details that the rest of us mere mortals wouldn’t dare:

You have to wonder why he’s not in a padded cell somewhere.

Sam’s pumpkin brain page reminds me of a Columbus Dispatch halloween page — I’m not sure whether this ran in 2006 or 2005. But the Dispatch asked several artists to come up with interestingly different pumpkin carving ideas.

Note the Dispatch helpfully included how-to instructions across the bottom for kiddies.

We found this page in Kathleen Dlabick’s portfolio at NPD.

One of our all-time favorite Halloween projects was the one Martin Gee designed last year for The Mercury News:

Cut out the pieces and create your own paper-bag Halloween mask. Note the instructions on the right. Click the thumbnail for a look at a larger version:

Find Martin’s NPD portfolio here.

Finally, back to this year: Our inventive friends at The San Antonio Express-News have come up with some animated halloween fun.

Dean Lockwood writes;

Just Halloween silliness — but I tell ya, this was the perfect project to get people motivated to expand their Flash skills. (Actually, there’s a mix of Flash, Final Cut Pro and Cinema 4D.)

Make sure you click on the Grackles last. It’s a great one to end with.

So is your paper doing something special for Halloween? Let us know.

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