My comic book series WULF & BATSY! The Adventures of a Ferocious Werewolf and a Cute Female Vampire as they wander the earth, looking for a place to call Home. 🐺🦇🩸 Where to get it: Website: bryanbaugh.net/wulf-and-bats… Print editions: cryptlogic.bigcartel.com/ Digital: globalcomix.com/c/wulf-and-b… Wulf & Batsy on YouTube: youtube.com/@bryanbaughart76…

The old Twitter UNFOLLOW GLITCH strikes again! Just got a message from a longtime online friend, alerting me that we were suddenly no longer following each other! Even though neither of us had intentionally unfollowed the other. Must be a GLITCH! So I'm just posting this to say: I HAVE NOT UNFOLLOWED anyone lately. If I was following you and it looks like I suddenly Un-followed you, let me know and let's fix that glitch fast!

Amen, brother!

I’ve also heard theories that it has just as much to do with people’s ages. Older animation professionals who have worked in the industry for a couple decades have received promotions and pay increases along the way, they demand top rates, and typically have agents negotiating better and better deals in their favor, all the time, etc. etc. Simply put, older animation professionals are more expensive to hire. And for some reason - experience, skill level, and an ability to mentor, is less valued these days than it used to be. The studios would rather phase out the older guys and hire new kids who have no credits, no clout, no negotiating power, don’t know too much about how things work, who will accept the absolute minimum industry standard rates, and who can be bled for Union Dues for many more years to come. Maybe they’ll hang on to one overworked veteran producer who used to be a director ages ago, who can kinda steer the new kids and tell them what they are doing wrong and how to fix it. Or they can just outsource all the jobs to cheap studios overseas and keep hoping that pretty soon Ai will be sophisticated enough to replace all of these pesky, expensive creative people, at all levels. These are just theories of course. But I’ve had a lot of conversations with a lot of out-of-work animation folks over the past 3 years…🤷‍♂️

Okay, here is my UNPOPULAR HORROR OPINION of the week... So far Robert Eggers has made 2 movies (The VVitch and his Nosferatu remake), both of which LOOKED great in terms of imagery, both of which I WANTED to love... But both of which I found excruciatingly annoying to sit through. His approach to horror seems to be "everyone is unappealing and has prolonged panic attacks for no reason, every ten minutes". Sorry but that's not scary, it's just ANNOYING. I am normally a very patient audience member. If a movie looks remotely interesting to me, I will watch from beginning to end, in one sitting, to experience it "the way the filmmaker intended" - and so I can judge it fairly, afterwards. Only Eggers, like a screaming, arm-flapping teenager who thinks having epileptic fits is "edgy"... has the power to break my rock-like movie-going patience and make me want to leave the room. I had to watch his Nosferatu remake in 20 minute chunks over a couple different nights because that was as long as I could stand to put up with his bullshit. All that said - I SINCERELY hope his upcoming Werewolf movie will surprise the hell out of me by being good and scary AND (unlike his previous films) more enjoyable than a root canal. Because I LOVE Werewolf movies. It would be awesome to have a new one, to be a fan of. Credit where credit's due: The latest trailer DOES look promising! I won't be seeing it in the theater because I just don't trust the guy anymore. But I will give it a fair shot, the minute it comes to streaming, and I will hope for the best. But if it turns out like his others, then - 3 strikes you're out - that will probably be the last Robert Eggers movie for me. And I will wish him great success at going away, leaving my favorite genre behind, and making Shakespeare movies or whatever else, instead.

Here's an example of what it's like to have a brain saturated in Too Many Horror Movies. This image randomly popped up in my news feed - and I swear - at first glance - I thought Entertainment Weekly was posting an article about that biker chick from Friday the 13th Part 3.🤪

New comic project update: Today I am working on a scene involving a specific type of murderer who targets a specific type of victim. Starting this work by designing his secret lair. (Falling back on my old Animation Storyboard instincts - You gotta understand the environment before you can block an action scene). And I keep catching myself thinking, "Okay, if I was this guy, involved in this activity, what kind of layout and props would I need?"🤔 🔪🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 Not like this is the first time it's has ever happened to me. But it's one of those darkly humorous things you run into as a horror comic creator.😆

Yes! The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue is a wonderful zombie movie from the same era as George Romero and Lucio Fulci… but with its own oddball take. For years I only knew about this movie from its disturbing still photos in various horror magazines and books on zombie movies. Its reputation got really built up in my imagination!! Then in the early 2000s some boutique DVD company (sorry I forget which one) released The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue in a “limited collector’s edition” metal box set (under the film’s alternate title: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie). It was a hard-to-get movie at that time so I bought it based on what I knew about it and that cool, unusual packaging (I also bought the same company’s metal box releases of Fulci’s The Beyond and Heathers). When I finally watched the film, it did not disappoint. I agree with everything the original post said below 👇🏻 about the plot and conceptual ideas. But as an artist I must point out, this film is also a visual feast with tons of great imagery!! Which includes white-faced zombies with brilliant scarlet-red eyes, some pretty shocking, ooky blood and gore effects, cool shadowy environments - and redhead Christina Galbo in some damn sexy black boots. Definitely worth seeing, and an important entry in the 1970s-early 80s golden age of Zombie movies!

I love this comic👇🏻

I WISH that was the biggest problem in Animation right now. Let’s solve the current problem of outsourcing American animation jobs to cheap studios in other countries FIRST so we can actually get back to work in this broken industry, and THEN we can worry about artists being pressured to “follow trends”.

Today is a beautiful, gray, gloomy Ohio day. On the way home from work, I stopped by Foy's (established 1929) the legendary Halloween Store, which I grew up with in my hometown of Fairborn, Ohio. Went in, because of interest in a particular mask for a possible Halloween costume plan I've been mulling over for a month. They had the mask but... despite many tantalizing images online... in person, there were no sparks. We just weren't made for each other. BUT THEN - While strolling down the main aisle I experienced a moment of "love at first sight" with a totally different Halloween mask I'd never seen before! Similar theme as the first one - but with a totally different and far more impressive style. Tried it on, and was seduced by its deathly visage in the mirror and the intoxicating scent of fresh mask rubber inside. I don't usually make impulse buys with masks. But when you find The One, you know it. Bought it on the spot and walked out with it, into the chilly autumn air. And filled with the arcane knowledge that - - as I shall bless this mask with a good home, it shall bless me with the power to SCARE on the night of October 31st... A new plan is in motion... BEWARE 🎃🎃🎃🎃💀💀💀💀