Throwback Thursday: Vintage card madness

 The style of color and shading in Mouse the Witching Cat in particular is based on my love and appreciation for vintage, turn-of-the-century-to-1950sish Halloween cards. These things are so appealing with their old timey classic-but also offbeat take on classic staples: 

This is in part because these cards weren't being made by Americans at all, but rather commissioned European artists who weren't celebrating Halloween. Something about the subject matter they decided 'fit' always makes me feel more...at 'home' I guess. Not that they still can't be plenty bizarre in that context. 

Such as the series of cards which is obsessed with pumpkinfolk and witches driving cars that double as vegetables.

 

Not MY Halloween tradition, I guess, but who ever said it couldn't be someone's? Someone like Mouse, for example:

"HOLD ONTO MY HAT!! THIS GOURDMOBILE'S GONNA TASTE BLOOD TONIGHT!!!"

 

Mouse should be grateful of her gourd car- she can probably blast Rob Zombie with it, and she should count her blessings she doesn't have to be hugged by creepy pumpkin children like some unfortunate (always very mad looking in these cards) owls. 

Happy first Thursday of October, folks!