Jonathan Coulton, musician.
You can download his ode to super-villainy, "Skullcrusher Mountain", here.

They were all terrible mistakes that seemed like good ideas on paper, but ultimately were uncomfortable and impractical. I can't remember any that stand out as "favorites" so much as the ones that stand out as "disasters." I once wore a giant cardboard box painted like a Rubik's Cube to a Halloween party where there were girls. I remember making sure to paint the box just like my actual Rubik's Cube, because I wanted it to be an accurate representation of a possible configuration of the puzzle. Needless to say, the ladies didn't appreciate this detail as much as I thought they might. I just felt like a geek in a box.




Larry Young, author and publisher.
Larry is the author of the ground-breaking science fiction series Astronauts in Trouble, the comic book industry allegory Planet of theCapes, the self-publishing how-to book True Facts, the online comics columns Loose Cannon and Proof of Concept, and the upcoming high-octane action-adventure The Black Diamond.

When I was a kid, I rotated Batman, Zorro, and The Lone Ranger. But I was a kid in the 60s, so that's pretty much your cool guys, right there. Now, of course, I'm usually a hard-drinking astronaut:




Cameron Stewart, artist.
Be sure to check out his Vertigo book, The Other Side.

When I was about 6 or 7 my dad made me a costume which he called the "Black Ghost" - I was dressed head to foot in black, with dark face-paint and a big black sheet draped overtop. Once the sun went down I was basically invisible - just like a ghost! He took me out trick-or-treating and said that I could eat all my candy that night if I walked in the middle of the road to see how many cars I could "scare."




Jim Mahfood, writer/artist.
His graphic novel, The Further Adventures of One Page Filler Man, will be released by Image Comics in December.

Spider-Man or Boba Fett.




MC Chris, rapper
Check out his most recent album, Dungeon Master of Ceremonies, and look for him in the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie.

I was never into dressing up. I was more of the kinda kid that set up haunted houses in the basement all the time. When I was really little I was Ronald Reagan with a big huge mask - looked like a bobble head, more than not though. I was always a dead kid, now I just like to watch 'cuz I'm a boring adult.




Geoff Johns, writer.
DC Comics recently released his opusInfinite Crisis in hardcover and Johns' is also an author on the weekly title, 52.

The Greatest American Hero. I have a picture but I'm not giving it to you. I think I was like 10.




Chynna Clugston, writer/artist.
Current projects include Strangetown from Oni Press, an issue of Teen Titans Go! from DC this December, as well as Blue Monday (Oni Press), which should be returning next year. Also be sure to check out girlmod.livejournal.com/.

I especially dug being a ghost when I was younger. When I was 13 I was the ghost of a Red Cross nurse from WWII, I even had a uniform that fit me. The costume was sort of lost on my classmates, historically correct nurse wasn't as popular as naughty pre-teen nurse. These days I'm usually a zombie, which is no surprise to anyone. Switching it up a tad this year though, I'm going to be a speakeasy demon.




Dan DiDio, executive editor.
DiDio is profiled on Wikipedia, here.

Favorite costume, Ben Cooper version of Scott Tracy of the THUNDERBIRDS.





David Baron, colorist.
Current highlights right now are 52 and Stormwatch for DC/WS. His main blog is myzombies.blogspot.com/ where he posts about life, love and work.

My favorite costume to wear as a kid is a hard question, always wanted to be something different each year. A dead Zombie, a dead ninja, a dead baseball player. So I guess my favorite costume is a dead one. More blood, the better.




Chip Zdarsky, writer/artist.
Chip Zdarsky's Monster Cops is in stores now and very halloweeny.

Halloween was the only night of the year in which Mother would allow me to wear pants. The feeling of fabric, draped around my mildly deformed legs, still gives me a thrill to this very day.




Tom Peyer, writer.
You can check out Tom Peyer's work in The Authority: Transfer of Power and in House of M: Spider-Man.

Ironically, The Flash. Ironic because I am and have always been very slow, and because I had no way of knowing that Barry Allen would, in my lifetime, die tragically.




Mike Carey, writer.
Vertigo's final Lucifer collection will be released next year and you can currently read Carey on Marvel's X-Men.

I tended to be a ghost. Low maintenance, because all you needed was a sheet. But I occasionally went for a Quasimodo-like cowled lunatic, because I had this weird garment that was like a monk's robe with a hood and it looked kind of cool. And I could do Quasimodo with no real effort because, coincidentally, I lived in a bell tower and was congenitally insane.



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