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Item 1: Steve Wolfhard is on Tumblr! Item 2: he’s been designing these crazy steins, like this one based on Settlers of Catan.

Happy Halloween from Cloudy Collection! It’s a big week for us: we’ve just launched Hanging with the Dead (a 5”x7” letterpress edition), we put it onto a brand new website, and this Friday, we’re going to look at this new set, plus another new set, and all ten of the earlier editions on the walls of Pink Hobo Gallery in Minneapolis. That’s about 100 prints by 80 different artists from around the world!

Thank you all for helping make the project such a huge success! And remember: wash the zombie guts off your hands before handling your new print set.

P.S. Look at those “Dead” artists: Sam Bosma, Emily Carroll, Michael DeForge, Michael Slack, Natasha Allegri, Steve Wolfhard - are you kidding me? So good!

(via Cloudy Collection / Print Editions)

Seriously, it is!  Back-to-school?  They’re back now and we’re looking ahead to holiday book ordering and displays.  First up: Halloween!  Here are some ideas to help you with your book displays:

PUMPKIN TROUBLE by Jan Thomas

LITTLE GOBLINS TEN by Pamela Jane, illustrated by Jane Manning

PUMPKIN CAT by Anne Mortimer

SCARY SCHOOL by Derek the Ghost, illustrated by Scott M. Fischer

ZOMBIE CHASERS #2: UNDEAD AHEAD by John Kloepfer, illustrated by Steve Wolfhard

JUNIPER BERRY by M.P. Kozlowsky

GUYS READ: THRILLER edited by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Brett Helquist (check out the discussion guide)

FROST by Marianna Baer (and read by Sasha Obama!)

FAT VAMPIRE by Adam Rex (now in paperback!)

POSSESS by Gretchen McNeil

What are your go-to recommendations for kids looking for scary books?  Anything fun that you do for Halloween book displays?

My new favourite comic strip? Turtie Needs Work by Steve Wolfhard

Yesterday on Twitter, Anthony Clark suggested that people should draw Steve Wolfhard’s Cat Rackham to celebrate the release of Steve’s new book from Koyama Press, Cat Rackham Loses It. Steve has posted the results in a Flickr set of over 100 drawings.

Shown here: Jon Klassen, Kyle Jones, Vera Brosgol, Chuck Groenink, and, in some sort of zombie miracle, Charles Schulz.