On top of the new Spookyverse Bios, I wanted to do something with some new licensed spooky characters in the Studio. In past years I’ve done a Bravo girl or a cereal mascot, but this year I decided to work with some witches from Tom & Jerry. From left-to-right, the first is a character just called “The Witch” who dates back to a 1956 Tom & Jerry cartoon called “The Flying Sorceress.” My understanding is she reappears in later cartoons, too, but “The Flying Sorceress” is what I know her from, as I remember seeing it occasionally on Cartoon Network as a kid. She’s just your classic old crone witch, but I think she’s really cute and fun.

Next to her is the lady who got me started on this pic, a character I’ve been interested in drawing for quite some time but never did. She’s the Wicked Witch of the West, from the Wizard of Oz, but specifically here the version from the Tom and Jerry cartoon set in that world. This character is prone to glow ups in a lot of media, but I’m a fan of her appearance in the 1939 film as portrayed by the legendary Margaret Hamilton. This version’s closer to that, and I think she’s quite captivating in the cartoon. It doesn’t convey here due to the posing, but she’s portrayed as quite tall and intimidating, and I’d love to do something with her and Dorothy somewhere down the line.

The last two are just known as the Green Witch and the Blue Witch, and as you might can tell they’re basically just recolors of the original “Witch” I talked about earlier. They’re from a 2007 Tom and Jerry cartoon titled “Which Witch,” which is the name I ended up using for this pic. The cartoon, as I remember it, is basically just the two witches feuding, with Tom and Jerry getting caught up between them and having a few different spells cast on them as a result. While these ladies might feel a bit derivative of the purer Witch from the 50’s, I do think they’re cute in their own right, and I like their colors. I’d kind of like to do something with just the two of them eventually, but probably not any time soon.

So here’s my hag lineup. There may be other witches from Tom and Jerry cartoons not included here, there’s been decades of cartoons and I don’t pretend to be an expert. They’re the ones I’m familiar with, at least, and I think they’re probably the most iconic witches from this series. I know not everyone will appreciate a pic like this the way I do, but I really enjoyed working on this and I hope some of you will find these wicked ladies as charming as I do.