As Of 10.20.2026

Halloween looms. That means ghosts, goblins, monsters and other creepy things. I wanted to add some holiday flavor to our shop at the Fremont Sunday Market so I’ve printed out a few of my older Weird Heroes (Fantomah, Octobriana, Stardust, the Face and the Heap) illustrations as posters. Most of the images needed little or no adjustment to fit the 11×17 print size. I’ve included before and after versions of a couple that I did think needed changes. Below is, I think, the first illustration I ever did of Fantomah. I originally did it as part of coloring practice I did in 2016. It was one of a series of black and white ink drawings that I colored in Photoshop. The changes I made this week were minor, mostly to get Fantomah on model with how I draw her these days. I extended the background to make the image fit better as an 11×17 poster. I made even bigger additions to this portrait of Mama Heap and her girls. I drew this first version in 2021. The original wasn’t wide enough to look…