I'd see the Mummyman in a Grant Morrison comics any day.
Siskoid | Email | Homepage | 03.31.07 - 5:06 am | #

My god! It turns things into molecules!
Derek B. Haas | Email | 03.31.07 - 10:28 am | #

the mummy thing looks like its from a Tim Burton movie...
rob! | Email | Homepage | 03.31.07 - 10:51 am | #

I'm loving the Handshaker. So benign yet so evil.
Mike Thompson | Email | Homepage | 03.31.07 - 2:41 pm | #

Agreed. The Handshaker is such a Morrisonian concept. You shake his hand, you fall apart. Brilliant! Get that guy into the Brotherhood of Dada, stat!
FoldedSoup | Email | Homepage | 03.31.07 - 4:40 pm | #

I think the Nutty Tutu Monster is trying a bit too hard, if you know what I mean.

And I'm pretty sure the Polka-Dotted Freak's entry is actually a personal ad. "SBF (Single Blue Freak) seeking SNTM (Single Nutty Tutu Monster) for polka dancing, invasive dentistry, flag pole sitting, toothless moray-like kisses and stubby-armed hugs. No fatties."
Blockade Boy | Email | Homepage | 03.31.07 - 6:04 pm | #

Now I have to start a band, just so I can call it "Molecule Dumb Dumb".
COOP | Email | Homepage | 03.31.07 - 8:14 pm | #

The Mummyman struck me as more Goreyesque than Morrisonian. Didn't something resembling him show up in the Utter Zoo Alphabet?
Josh | Email | 03.31.07 - 9:44 pm | #

I used to have that comic. I recognize the handshaker and the nutty tutu. Was this in a Little Lulu? I can't remember.
meadowlark | Email | Homepage | 04.01.07 - 1:52 pm | #

Seems to me that those monsters were all drawn by the same person. Most likely an adult pretending to draw like a kid.
Omisan | Email | 04.01.07 - 3:08 pm | #

Meadowlark - This page ran throughout all the comics published by Gold Key that month, so it's very likely you did see it in a Little Lulu!

Omisan - I'm sure those are genuine designs from children, but I wouldn't doubt that they were traced/redrawn from the originals by an adult for various production reasons.
Mikester | Homepage | 04.01.07 - 3:34 pm | #

I agree with omisan, those look like they were done by the same person, most likely an adult. Line width, repetition of motifs, eye structure etc. do not differ that much.
peter | Email | 04.02.07 - 4:21 am | #

The most frightening thing about the Gold Key page isn't the monsters, it's the paragraph that starts

"Our readers (that's you!) ..."

which seems to confirm that Gold Key editorial considered their "readers" illiterate.
philip | Homepage | 04.02.07 - 12:05 pm | #

I only wish that Billy P of Staatsburg, NY, would come forward and let us know what he's up to today.
Drawmark | Email | Homepage | 04.03.07 - 2:43 pm | #