Happy Halloween — a good excuse to post some monster-themed cartoons. Here’s a couple that might fit into a Halloween-themed library.

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This man isn’t worried that he’s out of candy, because he’s planned ahead.

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If there is something left, it might not be the good stuff.

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One measure of how influential Peanuts was is how familiar the Great Pumpkin is to us all.

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First mention of the Great Pumpkin, October 26, 1959. You can follow this arc at https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/10/26

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So, Monty Python’s science was right!

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Andréa sends in this synchronicity. Cartoonists are always looking for a new angle, but sometimes push it too far.

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Finally, like that house at the end of the night that gives out multiple candy bars so they won’t eat them all themselves, there’s this bonanza from John Atkinson — some cartoonists would have spread these out one at a time, and gotten a whole month out of this idea.

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