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Saturday, June 27, 2026

Happy 60th, Dark Shadows!

 Dark Shadows, serving Gothic ghoulishness for sixty years! Happy anniversary to my favorite show!

The first of the Dark Shadows comic strips since I started running them back in 2014!

My very favorite from all of the photo shoots: this sums the entire show up perfectly, and includes ...
 


 ... the divoon Mrs. Cassandra Collins, Angelique after the devil painted her hair.


 I've nursed a fairly long-standing (like, 30 years exactly) crush on Don Briscoe and his tortured, queer-coded (hey, who wasn't on this show?) alter ego, Chris Jennings the oft-shirtless werewolf; but I've nursed an even longer crush on ...


 ...hotsie-totsie Joel Crothers, who spent his own fair share of time sans shirt ...


 Observe.


 


Sorry. What were we talking about?





 Oh, right! Dark Shadows! Hey, you celebrate your way, I'll celebrate mine. Hey, here's some of my hand-drawn fan art from a billion years ago ...



...and some faux-Paperback Library covers for books that never existed that have dazed and confused many a fan for the last fourteen years since this blog came into existence ...





 



 ...including some ersatz covers for the Night of Dark Shadows novelization that never was:







 But anyway, happy anniversary to my favorite television show of all time. Here's to the next sixty years!













Dark Shadows Comic Strip Season 15: Summoning the Countess!


 

Friday, June 26, 2026

Dark Shadows, Hanna Barbera Style

 In the wake of the announcement about the pending Dark Shadows animated series, I wanted to showcase Eric Marshall's imagining if Our Favorite Show had become a Scooby Doo-inspired, Hanna Barbera-esque cartoon in the 70s. Courtesy of Terror at Collinwood (where I have guested a time or two; check out darling Penny Dreadful and her podcast right this very now). 

(Serving Cassandra Collins with a skeleton claw!)