Here is the first look at
one of the upcoming IDW Ghostbusters Halloween comic book covers by artist Nick Runge. The Halloween issue will be the first comic from IDW that features interior work done by Ghostbusters Fans' own
Dapper Dan. The Halloween issue also has some heavy involvement from some serious fans. Patrick Creel of The Real Tampa Bay Ghostbusters (who portrays Dr. Egon Spengler for the cover) lets us in on how the cover was created using members of the Ghostbusters community:
Nick Runge wanted our help based on the equipment and faces he saw within our group. The most important thing to Nick was to get it right, and bring as much realism to the covers as possible. IDW wanted to capture the spirit of the Peanuts classic "The Great Pumpkin," and they wanted Ray and Janine to be the most prominent characters. We had also decided we were going to go into the GB community for some new faces for this issue. We had five days to get this done.
You can
read the full story of how the cover was created
here.
In the end,
Austin Young of the Oklahoma City Ghostbusters and GBTV was chosen to portray Dr. Ray Stantz for the Nick Runge cover. For Dr. Peter Venkman's role, Robby Fuselier of the Tallahassee Ghostbusters was used and Janine Melnitz is portrayed by
Kimberly Balevre.
Be sure to look for the comic in the
Ghostbusters Fans Shop in October! And a huge thanks to Patrick Creel, Austin Young, Nick Runge, Chris Ryall & IDW for this sneak peak.
