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Halloween 2018 Post-A-Day: Day 31, HALLOWEEN! Horror-ible and Tie-ins The Twilight Zone #88 We look at a timeless classic TV Show tie-in Rod Serling was a special kind of genius. He loved pulp adventure stories as a kid. When he grew to adulthood, he craved stories that resonated with the headlines of the day. Philosophical stories with themes about racism, society, war, government and moral choices were his passion. As a prominent writer for television, he found network censorship his bane. His dramas were constantly hamstrung by sponsors and networks. He found that “To say a single thing germane to the current political scene was absolutely prohibited.” So Serling looked outside the standard drama. He crafted his own teleplay called “The Time Element” in 1958 and sold it to the network as a possible pilot for a weekly anthology series. It was his first science fiction story. The Time Element did extremely well in its television debut on the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Well enough

Halloween 2018 Post-A-Day: Day 30 Horror-ible Black Hole #1 Symbolic body horror, pubescence, and Charles Burns "Biology 101/ Planet Xeno/ssssssss” Writer and artist – Charles Burns March 1995 I encountered Charles Burns work in 1984. Hidden in the densely packed pages of Heavy Metal’s March 1984 (Vol7, No 12) magazine, was part of his first El Borbah story, serialized over several issues. I was buying the magazine for Moebius’ The Incal and Ranxerox and Tex Arcana. I appreciated that Heavy Metal wasn’t a kid’s comic book. That it contained art that challenged you to look beyond the four corners of a page for a meaning to what you were reading. Many of the one and two-part stories from the magazine would stick with me for years. Those weren’t what you bought the mag for, but they were part of the package deal of getting an anthology of weirdness like Heavy Metal. And nothing felt as strange as El Borbah. The art was beautiful, yet the hero was repulsive. He looked like Andre the