‘Sam: The Soul of Halloween’ Launches With a New Short

Sam is animated again. Sam: The Soul of Halloween went live on October 1 with a website, a YouTube channel, a teaser and a 63-second cartoon called Hello October, all built around the sack-masked trick-or-treater Michael Dougherty first drew as a film student at NYU in 1996.

The hub marks thirty years of Sam, who began in the four-minute animated short Season’s...