THE MONSTER MONTH OF HALLOWEEN!

            October is one week old already and the Halloween Season is officially full speed ahead. 

                                                 Also, today is my son Ricardo's Birthday!

                                  So, as we greet October, I salute my offspring and wish him all the 

                                                         health, happiness and joy he deserves!

13 Days Before Halloween...

 As Halloween draws closer, I'm reposting these few Halloween-inspired cartoons from several seasons ago:

 

                                    

The LLERA Cartoons Collectible Merchandise!

Some of my favorite original drawings are now available as collectible merchandise. You can find tote bags, scarves, accent pillows and more at
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THE CASTLE presents: CREEPY CONDO

Back in 1964, during the height of the great 60s "Monster Craze", I developed a private comic book named "THE CASTLE". I was 13 years old and drew the comic in simple bond paper with pen and ink with color added with markers and color pencils. I only completed four issues and left the project for something else. "THE CASTLE" was never intended for publication of any kind and as I left my parents home years later, the comic books were lost. I recently recreated the cover of the first issue by memory and I am reposting it here as well as a few samples of a new comic strip inspired by the same characters. The new strip is called "CREEPY CONDO" and it was done just for fun in the spirit of the forthcoming Halloween. Hope you enjoy it!

THE CASTLE - Faux Gold Key Comics Cover (1964)

This of course is not a real Gold Key comic!

Back in 1964, I was a thirteen year-old bitten by the Monster Craze of the early Sixties and tried my hand doing some private comics for my own recreation which were then stashed away for some future and unforeseen use. I managed to churn out three or four complete issues of THE CASTLE before I abandoned the project and went on to something else. This is a re-creation of my original cover from 1964 which I did imitating the Gold Key comics style, complete with the familiar Gold Key seal. The comic's premise was, of course, a family of monsters living in a hilltop castle. The twist here was that they were the ones being terrorized by the nearby town's denizens who came knocking at their door with an assortment of wild schemes and requests. My original artwork from that era has been forever lost.