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Spooky, Creepy, Ghastly

A selection of my most frightful designs from over the years. Pen and ink and a little bit of spooky!

A werewolf chills at a pool party looking either slightly annoyed or trying his best to not go full werewolf attack on everyone.

Created: July 16th, 2025 | Role: Illustrator

Who invited the freakin werewolf?! No matter the season, when the pool is a rockin’ and it happens to be a full moon, this werewolf is here to get down!

A happy robot in the shape of cup of coffee walks by the viewer while carrying a pumpking and smiling with its robotic jack o' lantern face!

Created: February 18th, 2024 | Role: Illustrator

Another updated robot! A bit out of season when I'm posting this, but the Pumpkin Spice Latte Bot is all steamed up and ready for the Fall!

A shark peeks out of the water wearing facepaint as a skull, surrounded by scores of Halloween candy.

Created: October 31st, 2023 | Role: Illustrator

FACT: Sharks will eat your current and past Halloween candy plunders with reckless abandon because they love them some crunchy, sweet, and gooey candy!

A sharks that has become a jack o'lantern peeks out of the water surrounded by a small group of pumpkins with jack o'lantern faces carved in them and lit up!

Created: October 27th, 2023 | Role: Illustrator

FACT: If sharks spend enough time with jack o'lanterns in the water on All Hallows Eve, they become one themselves!

A shark covered in pieces of pumpkins peeks out of the water to assess all the pumpkin destruction!

Created: October 25th, 2023 | Role: Illustrator

FACT: Don't get in the water and between a shark and it's appetite for some October pumpkin destruction this Halloween!

A jar full of bones and skulls trots by for Halloween.

Created: Ocotber 16th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator

Skull jam is definitely a pretty grim form of jam, but hey, it's full of calcium!

A figure with a head of a jack o'lantern is behind a group of jack o'lanters set up as a drum set.

Created: September 24th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator

Solos, mad steady beats, The Pumpkin Drummer has your back to keep the spooky tunes moving along in perfect time!

A happy ghost cruises by, hovering over a skateboard in motion while giving the peace sign.

Created: July 20th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator

Skaters never die! This little spectre is still shredding, but not here to be spooky! Be sure to give a peace sign back to this one skating by!

A shark peaks out of the water in bad shape looking horrifying and looking for brains.

Created: April 3rd, 2022 | Role: Illustrator

FACT: Zombie sharks are still swimming in the waters, although they are undead, and roaming the seas looking for fresh tasty BRAINS!

A scary shark rests in the water surrounded by bones.

Created: January 12th, 2021 | Role: Illustrator

FACT: The nightmare shark is a shark you DON'T want to cross. Surrounded by bones and ominous skies, this is a spot in the sea you don't want to be!

A merman is drinking a tropical drink, wearing wingies and a Hawaiin shirt.

Created: April 9th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator

While all the vacationers are in quarantine, the mermen are free to invade the nation's pools and party their asses off.

A sweet pumpkin waves and heads off ready to skateboard and do some tricks.

Created: September 17th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator

This jolly pumpkin is off to rip some spooky tricks and hopefully not a disastrous trick or treater pumpking smashing related incident!

A spooky group of Halloween characters hicthing a ride at night in a hot air balloon with a pumpkin print.

Created: September 13th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator

The spookiest way to travel!

A friendly ghost with a cool pirate sword and hat.

Created: August, 18th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator

Yarrr! The life of pillaging and burying ye plunder may be long gone me matey, but there's always one last adventure when you're a ghost pirate!

A happy ghost floats above a skateboard

Created: January 16th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator

Is the ghost skater riding his deck? Or Doing a sweet trick?

Captain Pancake has turned into a zombie after not being fully devoured.

Created: December 3rd, 2018 | Role: Illustrator

The shuffling feet! The mumbled groan! The pale green skin! Oh no! Captain Pancake has been bit by a zombie and has become the walking dead!

A hipster pumpking with a man bun checks his cell phone

Created: October 28th, 2018 | Role: Illustrator

The Pumpkin Bun is never without his phone!

A spooky version of Captain Pancake that is flying by with a couple of pumpkins in tow and a pumpkin pattern cape

Created: October 27th, 2018 | Role: Illustrator

My character Captain Pancake is in the super spooky Halloween spirit and remade as a stack of scary pumpkin-flavored pancakes!

A donut made up of pieces of other donuts that resembles Frankensteins monster

Created: October 13th, 2018 | Role: Illustrator

Pieces of various delicious pastries brought back to life!

A jar of jam dressed in the theme of Halloween with candy corn contents and a jack o'lantern face.

Created: October, 2018 | Role: Illustrator

A spooky jam brimming with candy corn and all sorts of other seasonal favorites! The Halloween Jam is the best jam for your buck this spooky season!

A log wearing a terrifying hockey mask rises from the water.

Created: August, 2015 | Role: Illustrator

Rising up with a hockey mask, out of the water of Camp Crystal Lake, evil stirs! A part of my October Inks and log series!

A log wrapped in mummy fabric is super confused.

Created: October, 2018 | Role: Illustrator

The Mummy Log has one question: 'Why?'

A T-Rex dressed as the Grim Reaper.

Created: September, 2018 | Role: Illustrator

Stalking the Jurassic! The dinosaur you never learned about in school, the Tyrannosaurus of death! The Grim Reapersaur!

Captain Pancake is dressed as a vampire!

Created: September, 2018 | Role: Illustrator

Happy Halloween! The spookiest time of the year! Our friend Captain Pancake has his most frightful costume on and is in the Halloween spirit!

A crow with multiple heads and wings is covered in blood.

Created: October, 2017 | Role: Illustrator

A wicked multi-headed crow that guards the gates of Hell! It's the Crowberus!

A jar that looks like a witch flies by with her cat on her broom.

Created: October, 2017 | Role: Illustrator

Up, up and away! The skies fill with a cackle of laughter as the Witch Jam takes flight to cast potions and spread fright during Halloween night!

A skater with a jack o'lantern for a head zips by the viewer.

Created: October, 2017 | Role: Illustrator

In October, skaters have Halloween on the brain.

A pumpkin powered by steam has robotic arms and stands over an assortment of jack o' lanterns.

Created: September, 2017 | Role: Illustrator

The steam-powered mechanized wonder!

Ten happy Santas, one worried one, and one evil one.

Created: January, 2016 | Role: Illustrator

Out of these 12 friendly Santas, one is just straight up EVIL.

A log with a face is in a trance, possessed by fungus and mushrooms.

Created: December, 2014 | Role: Illustrator

You don't have to work about a body invasion when you're a log but you do have to worry about fungus! It's an October Ink of a scary possessed log!

A log carved as a pumpkin is holding a pumpkin in his hand.

Created: December, 2014 | Role: Illustrator

Everyone always carves pumpkins and gourds, but why not carve a log for Halloween? Check out this October Ink of a scary Jack O'Lantern log!

A log covered in slime looks terrifying!

Created: December, 2014 | Role: Illustrator

October Ink of a slimey and scary log!

A scarecrow shark pops out of the water to shoo away the crows.

Created: December, 2014 | Role: Illustrator

The best way to scare away crows is the apex predator of the sea!

An astronaut with chainsaws for arms steps over a large pile of skulls.

Created: August, 2012 | Role: Illustrator

Check out my first ever Threadless print (back when 'prints' were a thing)! The Texas Chainsaw Astronaut steps over a moon of human skulls and DEATH.

A skull with branches growing out of the jaw and head on red.

Created: August, 2009 | Role: Illustrator

A human skull completely reclaimed by nature and turned to wood and root! Check out the red version of my Lumbermancer piece.

A skull with branches growing out of the jaw and head on black.

Created: September, 2009 | Role: Illustrator

Black and White version of my Lumbermancer print piece.

A skull with branches growing out of the jaw and head on grey.

Created: June, 2014 | Role: Illustrator

Grey version of my Lumbermancer print piece.

A cyclops monster with a really big eye is smiling.

Created: May, 2014 | Role: Illustrator

Just an original monster with a big eye and a big heart.

A shark pops out of the water that is a zombie.

Created: January, 2014 | Role: Illustrator

Fact: Some sharks just want you for your brains!

A witch is tickled by spiders covering her body, while evil things lurk in the background.

Created: August, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Spiders are so tickly aren't they?

An evil circus robot travels with its dark companions.

Created: January, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

The Dark Circusbot travels the land with a show that displays the darkness of the creatures of the night.

A robot builds a star with its hands in the depths of space.

Created: May, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Deep in the dark vacuum of space, epic, awe-inspiring, god-like robots construct brand new stars with their bare hands hands from the fruits of the cosmos!

A victorious warrior stands above a pile of bodies.

Created: July, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Made this for a challenge to see who was the greatest Nick on threadless!

A haunted house looks bored as a spooky bat-filled sky looms above.

Created: July, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Haunted Houses are so bored, is it Halloween yet?

A horseman that only has a head and water for a body, rides a horse with octopus tentacles.

Created: June, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

A seahorse and headless horseman of the sea!

A smiling monster wearing glasses and sporting a large grin.

Created: February, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Original Monster Mr Grin is in a good mood even though his eyesight isn't the best!

A three color popsicle monster with arms and a face meleting in front of the viewer.

Created: February, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Original Monster Mr Melty should probably get back in the freezer!

An underdressed man walking through a field of frozen zombies during a snowstorm.

Created: May, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Winter zombies are just as dangerous as warm weather zombies.

The text 'zombie zombie zombie' repeated in a rough application with zombie heads as the periods of the exclamation points.

Created: July, 2011 | Role: Illustrator

Said three times zombies shall appear!

A ninja robot owl with antlers that's a captain holds his robot arm up.

Created: January, 2012 | Role: Illustrator

The amalgamation of all the popular tee design cliches in 2012. Not for sale.

Monsters playing rock paper scissors.

Created: January, 2012 | Role: Illustrator

A couple monsters engaged in a game of rock paper scissors. Not for sale.

An astronaut in space wielding chainsaws for hands standing on the surface of the moon.

Created: February, 2010 | Role: Illustrator

The Horror of Chainsaws...in Outer Space!

A crow with four wings and multiple heads against a teal brush stroke background, illustrated in a scary manner.

Created: September, 2009 | Role: Illustrator

At the gates of Hell, the crowberus circles the skies keeping guard!

A Chicago superfan lingers on as a haunting reminder of hockey's stars and figures of long ago from the Mad House!

Created: October 20th, 2025 | Role: Illustrator

It's the spookiest time of the year and why not reminisce on the juggernauts and figures of Chicago's hockey past! The Mad House! Where hockey reigned.

An evil puppet has popped out of a box with a crank, smiling wryly while ringing its hands.

Created: September 21st, 2025 | Role: Illustrator

Dusting off what was originally my logo for nickvolkert.com but now a cool new tee and sticker design for DangerHuskie! It's the evil jack in the box!

A mummy wrapped in gauze lunges at the viewer!

Created: April 18th, 2024 | Role: Illustrator

This terrible and evil mummy has escaped its tomb, its sarcophagus and is on the prowl to reclaim its throne in the modern world!

A giant set of pointy and menacing vampire fangs attached to a small body, wearing a cool cape, lunges at the viewer.

Created: April 14th, 2024 | Role: Illustrator

Oh no! The horror! These pointy vampire fangs have arisen from their slumber and are on the hunt for fresh victims! And fresh blood!

A spooky and sinister man with a Jack O'Lantern head lunges by in a three-piece suit and a dashing cape!

Created: November 25th, 2023 | Role: Illustrator

A dashing cape! A Jack O'Lantern head! What possible evil deeds could this evil three-pieced suit villain have in store for his unsuspecting victims!

A figure in a cape with a head that is a giant Evil Eye lunges at the viewer.

Created: November 21st, 2023 | Role: Illustrator

Donning a purple cape, and a new body, the Evil Eye is lurking about looking to lunge at unsuspecting victims to spread...what could it be? Oh yeah, EVIL.

A yellow vector graphic eye with a red iris points upward to signal that it has just come up with an evil idea!

Created: November 15th, 2023 | Role: Illustrator

Free from an evil eye socket, the evil eye wanders about looking to do EVIL, and voila, an evil idea has landed in this little wandering eye's mind!

A friendly floating ghost holding a hockey stick that's taped up, and hockey gloves, all while keeping warm with a stocking cap!

Created: June 20th, 2023 | Role: Illustrator

Who says you need to quit being a Chicago Hockey fan after you die? Da Chicago Hockey Ghost says it's clearly not da case.

A spooky floating ghost looks creepy but comfy with a stocking cap

Created: October 9th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator

Do ghosts wear stocking caps in Chicago because it's so cold most the year? I would argue that yes, yes they do.

A disembodied hand flies through the air with the gesture of 'the horns'.

Created: October 2nd, 2022 | Role: Illustrator

A metal fan in life and in DEATH (maybe death metal even). This flying hand with the horns is here to party.

A floating Jack O'Lantern reaches out with a full moon, clouds, and bats in the background.

Created: August 3rd, 2021 | Role: Illustrator

The Varsity Pumpkin is using the cover of clouds to bear it's green hands and sharp vine claws to come and getcha!

A man in a varsity jacket with a Jack O'Lantern digs out of his own grave!

Created: April 4th, 2021 | Role: Illustrator

The Varsity Pumpkin is rising from his grave after being cursed by a witch on Halloween! That varsity jacket is still looking good though!

A man in a varsity jacket with a Jack O'Lantern head approaches the viewer.

Created: April 4th, 2021 | Role: Illustrator

Cursed by a witch with a jack o'lantern for a head the Varsity Pumpkin is creeping around, looking for victims on Halloween night!

A dingy rainbow sports an angry grimace between to storm clouds.

Created: November 22nd, 2020 | Role: Illustrator

Menacing, muddy colors, slightly terrifying. An Angry rainbow in the sky would be pretty scary, aye?

A dingy rainbow sports a frown between to storm clouds.

Created: November 22nd, 2020 | Role: Illustrator

Dark, grumpy, muddy colors, a real downer. This rainbow is like if the year 2020 was a rainbow in the sky.

A black cat with yellow eyes and neon bolts is angry at the viewer.

Created: November 1st, 2020 | Role: Illustrator

Check this out, it's a menacing black cat filled with green energy and full of pulsing electric power at full voltage!

A tear away calendar from 2020 is crazed and on fire.

Created: October 27th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator

What a horrible year. What a little diabolical standalone calendar. If we only knew!!!

A man with a jack o' lantern head is marching by in a varsity jacket in the dark.

Created: August 21st, 2020 | Role: Illustrator

The varsity football squad leaders have been cursed by a witch and turned into men with scary and horrible pumpkins for heads!

A donut that is a werewolf.

Created: March, 2015 | Role: Illustrator

Some donuts should fully be avoided during a full moon during the Fall months. Especially around October. Definitely around Halloween!

A donut with a big bite out of the top of it slowly walks by as it goes through a melting process and has turned green and also into a zombie.

Created: March, 2015 | Role: Illustrator

A donut perfect for anyone celebrating Halloween! It's a partially eaten, delicious donut that is unfortunately now one of the undead! Oh no!

So many monsters, so wow

Original Monsters

A few monster designs as a part of a contest on Threadless!

A three color popsicle monster with arms and a face meleting in front of the viewer.

Created: February, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Original Monster Mr Melty should probably get back in the freezer!

A smiling monster wearing glasses and sporting a large grin.

Created: February, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Original Monster Mr Grin is in a good mood even though his eyesight isn't the best!

A monster is wide eyed after drinking too much caffeine in the Winter.

Created: February, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

This fuzzy, antler and stocking cap wearing original Monster Mr Caffeine might've over-revved on the 'joe trying to keep warm! So jittery!

Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger

Burger Designs

Just a few tasty burger illustrations

A large robot travels with ketchup, mustard, and burger condiment pals.

Created: August, 2013 | Role: Illustrator

Quite the robotic burger stack coming your way!

An astronaut burger is falling apart in outerspace.

Created: May, 2015 | Role: Illustrator

Burgers make horrible astronauts.

A burger and fries are excited for the weekend!

Created: September, 2016 | Role: Illustrator

It's the weekend! Treat yourself!

Twinkle twinkle little stars

Outer Space

In the deep starry darkness of space, these designs dwell!

An astronaught holding a particle that is exploding with light.

Created: July, 2012 | Role: Illustrator

Entry into the Society6 Whiteout Challenge.

An astronaut with chainsaws for arms steps over a large pile of skulls.

Created: August, 2012 | Role: Illustrator

Check out my first ever Threadless print (back when 'prints' were a thing)! The Texas Chainsaw Astronaut steps over a moon of human skulls and DEATH.

A female astronaut floats in space and gives the view the 'hush' gesture.

Created: February, 2017 | Role: Illustrator

If you're patient, they will be revealed.