15 Comments

1. 

   Please don’t let the clay comment be a reference to cat litter please don’t let the clay comment be a reference to cat litter please don’t let the clay comment…

2. 

   Susan, I wasn’t at all sure, but that was also my suspicion.

3. 

   I don’t get the comic strip ghost.

4. 

   @Treesong, think of how halftone shading looks when blown up for, ahem, high art purposes. Speaking of art, I don’t know if the figure from The Scream is considered a ghost.

5. 

   The comic strip ghost is a direct reference to Peanuts. I believe it was Charlie Brown’s attempt at a ghost costume.

6. 

   Yeah, it’s a kitty litter reference in Bizarro. So, a LOL-Eww.

7. 

   Ghost will holes is a Peanuts gag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bIexl5Et6c

8. 

   will -> with many

9. 

   I believe the Charlie Brown costume was only in the cartoon (“I got a rock), not the strip.

10. 

    I do love the ” types of ghosts” collection. Any one of them would merit a mere chuckle, but the set is LOL.

11. 

    The one I liked most in the “types of ghost” was the dating one — I fairly recently learned that just not showing up any more can be called ghosting. So he drew an absence.

12. 

    Here’s apparently another instance of the “ghost with holes”:

    

13. 

    Mitch4,
    That’s a reference to the Charlie Brown reference as those other masks are from the same Charlie Brown Halloween special.

14. 

    Aha! That makes sense.

15. 

    But wait, wait! Did I miss the point that the costume makes someone The HOLEY Ghost?