If you see any tear-jerking heartstring tugging fruit-oriented anthropomorphic film this year, make it this one! The bad luck of citrus love probably doesn’t hit all oranges, but one fine day in this orange grove, orange A meets orange B, and it’s a match made in heaven… but not for long! We’re not really sure what the fascination has been with Jamba Juice for Mr. Kheel… (last year’s piece, someone was drinking juice while hanging in the tanning bed) perhaps we’ll never know.
But honestly, it just isn’t Gothtober without Billy Kheel, he’s been with us since the beginning. His trademark weirdness prevails yet again for another season of the type of gruesome greatness we’ve come to expect from this skilled veteran. Working with Glen Alger Schricker, they’ve put together an emotional drama that hits every button from laughter to tears, and has changed the way you think about your fresh squeezed juice forever.
Want to know more about the artist? Here’s Billy’s site!
Accompanied by music composed by Michael Mahalchick, the world of breathing stop-motion ceramics by Professor Rattlesnake (aka Trixy Sweetvittles, aka Shelly Wattenbarger) introduces an otherworldly hallucinatory metamorphosis to your monitor.
There’s nothing like a red-robed goddess riding on the back of a lion to brighten your day! Told in a mode reminiscent of the Cherial Scrolls used in storytelling traditions of India, Stephanie Abler returns to Gothtober with a beautifully illustrated tale from one of the world’s oldest religions. This six-minute sequence that combines 29 gouache paintings with sound and music tells an ancient story in which a goddess battles a demon in the form of a buffalo.
You’re sitting on the couch, eating some crumbs, and then, out of nowhere, a facsimile of yourself approaches you, picks a fight with you and all heck breaks loose! Observe the meta experience of one Sharky the Cat, here for his second Gothtober experience, a feline fray not for the weak at heart. You may be superstitious and believe that a black cat crossing your path is bad luck. Don’t worry, the rule doesn’t extend to computer monitors, black cats on computer monitors are okay, which is good, because there are TWO of them.
Jenny Walsh is one of Gothtober’s extreme veterans, you can track her pieces all the way back to the very first Gothtober. One of the cool things about Gothtober is that often, not just friends, but family gets involved in various Gothtober pieces! We know a Mom who can make the best jell-o brain you’ve ever seen, we’ve witnessed people’s cousins getting chomped by zombies, and we’ve watched babies born in the month of Gothtober grow up to be full-blown candy-eatin’ kids! You will see candy eatin’ kids in this Gothtober piece, the kids of Jenny and Dave, born and raised in Echo Park. Gothtober is made in Echo Park, and while we get to give out candy over here, we didn’t grow up as full-blown trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood. Seeing trick-or-treating through the eyes of actual kiddos is pretty cool. It is true that, like the Flying Dutchman, the Ghost Lowrider of Echo Park cruises through the neighborhood blocks, its deep bass setting off car alarms and making trees shudder as it makes its way to the great beyond…
Starring in a debut cartoon appearance today is one of the world’s most favorite cats “Children of the Corn” in this feline’s first Halloween cartoon special! Populated by multicolored houses and apartments with curly cue smoke stacks, Yellow Bird and Children of the Corn live a mostly peaceful existence. It’s only a matter of time, however, before some rough neighborhood dolphins start to cause some trouble. Can yellow bird (who has a really unkempt lawn) do what’s right to save the town? Put on your Pan Am cap and watch this pilot episode of Mind Playin Tweets on Me by Kristin (KP) Pepe for Gothtober Day 22.
On a well-drawn blustery night, some costumed individuals go a haunting! Do you remember trick-or-treating? Do you still go trick-or-treating? The weirdest thing I ever got was a handful of cough drops in Atwater Village. And the saddest thing I ever got was back in the day when I was a wee rabble rouser in my hometown of Forestville. It was probably the BEST TASTING POPCORN BALL EVER that came from a REAL cauldron from a well-meaning couple all dressed up on their well-decorated porch. The candied popcorn was ladled into tinfoil and wrapped just for me right in front of my captivated eyeballs. But you see, the paranoia had already set in, and even though we knew where these people lived, my parents wouldn’t let me have the popcorn ball. They were absolutely convinced that it was packed with hallucinogens or razor blades or.. I dunno… asbestos.
As a brain traveling a foreign country, the last thing you want to do is stand out like a sore thumb. No brain wants to be sucked into tourist traps or be an obvious target for geting mugged or even kidnapped! That’s why these brains learned the languages of earth and aren’t carrying maps (a sure sign of being an outsider) and are only ordering what the locals order at restaurants. The fair City of Los Angeles has a lot to offer, and you can see that the brains are having the time of their lives as they visit each iconic location. They have even made three postcards of their adventures available to you, so click on day 20 on Gothtober.com to get your FREE printable BRAIN TOURISM POSTCARDS from Oonstein!
Stories within stories, vignettes of the unknown, traces of movement, shadows of ambiguity and the sinister shades of this captivating preview await you, dear viewer. There is a rumor that the movie to be released will be shorter than the trailer. Who is Hertie Gertie? What’s to be gained from having bright aqua bluey greeny hair? How does The Laundress fit into all of this? What will happen to the lovers, and what’s up with the kid in the cape with the watering can? Is that timer on the window ever going to go off, or will it simply keep ticking… and ticking… and ticking? Best you take a gander at DAY 19 as we get closer and closer to Halloweeeeeeennnnnn!
You may have wondered where day 28 went last year. That’s because it morphed into day 18 on the calendar THIS year! Coming to you from their very warped and troubling minds are writer, Bill Wolkoff and artist Adriana Yugovitch.