We certainly didn’t mean Jon’s Hallowe’en costume to be any sort of top secret project (as per the Oct. 21 post), but we try to keep ourselves amused. Here’s what it currently looks like:

Partial view of the costume, a/o noon today. Any guesses?

Every year many person-hours are spent doing Jon’s costume. Part of it is because of our Hallowe’en-happy neighbourhood (every year a bunch of neighbours down the block put on a Hallowe’en spectacular in front of their houses, with a huge stage, much choreography, even a lighting grid. Literally hundreds of people show up to watch—how do you compete with that?); part of it is because of Jon’s interesting costume choices (he picked last year’s mountain goat, not us!)

Mainly, though, because Jon’s in a wheelchair, we have to think of clever and always time-consuming ways to integrate the chair with the costume. (Or maybe we don’t have to, but you know how designers/illustrators are with creative projects! Your average graphic designer also goes overboard with their toddler’s birthday invitations, but I digress…) So how do you integrate the chair with a mountain goat? Throw in a mountain! There’s not much precedent to go by; you generally don’t find commercial patterns for wheelchair costumes. So when you do come across some great costumes, it’s very gratifying. Check out the wheels and babe of this dude!