Welcome, cartoon lovers, horror movie fans, and pop culture collectors.
This is Ahmed Sidky - monster artist at Monster Machine — a cartoon-fueled collectible company crawling with themes of comical ghouls, axe murderers, and vintage-style mischief. We are a mini-machine that creates monster for fun and sometimes money…
Think retro cartoons meets horror.
We’re kicking off our Substack with a truly garlic-adverse and fangy character spotlight and a peek at what’s coming from within the thundering bowels our monster laboratory.
Love zines? I made one just for you — and it’s totally FREE!
I’m all about connecting with my community and sharing cool content, so I thought, why not a Free Monster Spotlight Zine on Substack? It’s short, funny, educational, and a must-have for any collector.
All I ask is you hit Subscribe to my Substack to stay in the loop.
Grab your Free Monster Spotlight Zine download below!
🧛 Monster Spotlight: Count Dracula
Picture gloomy castles with resting bitch face, musty old wine bottles, cobweb-covered chandeliers, and a dusty fireplace made of skulls that hasn’t been stoked since ever and forevermore it shall remain.
Dracula’s favorite place to hang upside down (literally) is his dingy den of doom — outfitted with an overly elaborate sarcophagus, painfully uncomfortable baroque furniture, and his prized collection of vintage LPs. All day long, it’s nothing but The Smiths, Bauhaus, and whatever other bands help a lonely immortal feel something - anything.
He’s not just your average bloodsucker — Dracula is a hopeless romantic, moping in candlelight and pining for the perfect eternal match. Someone who understands the thrill of waking up with night terrors in a cold sweat, thunder and lightning, the drama of strutting around in velvet capes, and the heartbreak of falling in love every century or so.
He’s moody. He’s stylish. He’s undead and emotionally unavailable.
And he’s just one of 73+ monsters in our Famous Frights sticker collection — a wild cartoon world crawling with retro ghouls, camp slashers, swamp beasts, and other love-hateable creeps.
💌 What to Expect From This Newsletter
This might be your average product update email… but with monsters. So yeah — it’s automatically better.
Here’s what subscribers get:
🧟 Free Monster Spotlight Zine: Lore, bios, and maybe a few corny jokes
✏️ Behind-the-scenes art and creator notes
🔮 Sneak peeks at new characters and merch drops
👻 Fan polls: Help us pick what monsters get made next
🎁 Early-bird access to drops, deals, and exclusive offers
Whether you're a horror buff, nostalgic for old-school cartoons, or just really into weird stickers — we’re here to deliver the goods.
🛒 Ready to Explore?
Stagger through our haunted website:
or Shuffle through our cursed sticker shop:
Or forward this to any cartoon monster-loving friend, cryptid, or undead cousin. We consider that a monster compliment.
Thanks for creeping this far. Catch you at ‘The Upside Down’.
– Ahmed, Monster Maker & Sticker Ghoul-in-Chief