A Halloween treat for you!

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Today marks 2 special occasions - Halloween, and the return of the Girlz 'N' Games webcomic! You don't want to know how the idea for this admittedly disturbing strip came about, but let's just say it involved a discussion centered on extended periods of celibacy.

Anyway, I'm off to spend the evening watching horror films and devouring tender, marinaded poultry flesh... There's really no better way to celebrate a holiday that has been so commercialised that many of us actually have to do some research to remind ourselves what it actually was originally about.

In keeping with the Halloween spirit, I've been listening to the delicious Nightmare Revisited cover album a lot these last 2 weeks. Definitely check it out if you have a thing for animated cult classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, movie scores, and alternate artists like Marilyn Manson and Korn, as well as their lighter cousins The All-American Rejects and Rise Against.

Listening to the soundtrack has made me very keen for a rewatch of Tim Burton's stop-motion classic. Seeing as it's Halloween, the first 5 minutes of The Nightmare Before Christmas, with its opening musical number, are very appropriate. Hope you all have a great weekend, with lots of treats and not too many tricks.

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Anonymous said…
Hey.. just stumbled across your blog while randomly surfin - great comic! Have just my own cartoon blog called wonkie.com actually (a lot more southparky - don't have fraction of the illustration talent you have!)

How often do you post your cartoon strip?
10:29 AM
Pfangirl said…
Hi Pratish, thanks for the kind words. I'll definitely check out your site.

At the moment my aim with Girlz 'N' Games is to have a new strip appear online fortnightly - I just have to fit it around my full-time job, blogging, after-work sports activities and various other commitments. That's why I can't update any more regularly.
4:07 PM
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