Johanna Parker’s new Halloween ceramics are in stores now, and the collection is spread across multiple stores. The 2026 collection spans three dozen new designs, and is in HomeGoods, Marshalls and TJMaxx.
If you have picked up a grinning black cat mug or a blush-cheeked ghost shaker in the last few years without knowing whose art it was, it was probably hers. She is one of the most widely sold Halloween artists in American retail and one of the least recognized by name, because her work reaches stores through three separate manufacturers and none of them put her name on the shelf tag.
The artist behind the black cat
Johanna Parker was born on Halloween. That is not a marketing line, it is on her own about page, and it goes some way toward explaining a career built entirely on friendly monsters.
She worked as an art director in TV news and won an Emmy there before leaving to make things with her hands. The business started in 2003 with a single papier-mâché piece: a grinning black cat head wearing an illustrated conical hat. That cat established the style she still works in, vintage-inspired folk art where the ghosts have rosy cheeks and the pumpkins look pleased with themselves. It is the aesthetic of a 1940s die-cut decoration, redrawn by someone who clearly likes the holiday rather than just designing for it.
Jack, the black cat who appears across the whole catalog, is a real cat who lives with her and inspired that first sculpt. He turns up as a mug, a candy bowl lid, a soap dispenser, an ornament and a tea towel in this year’s collection alone.
She works from a cottage studio in Colorado with her husband, JP d’Andrimont, a craftsman who fabricates and helps art-direct, and she has been featured in close to 40 national magazines. She still makes a limited number of one-of-a-kind originals each year for collectors. Everything you find in a store is a licensed reproduction of that studio work.
She also works roughly a year ahead. She has said she is already designing Halloween 2027.
What’s new for 2026
The main 2026 collection is made by Transpac Brands and covers teapots, mugs, canisters, candy bowls, and salt and pepper shakers. These are the new designs she has shown so far.
The Vintage Witch mugs are the headline, a pair of witches holding their pointed hats with pumpkin-peep bodies and a wash of vintage green on the skin. The Pumpkin Patch Black Cat Jack mugs put her cat on a bulbous jack-o’-lantern base. Kooky Spook Ghosts are salt and pepper shakers in pumpkin-peep gowns, and Romeo Ghost and Julie Boo are a second shaker pair, each holding a small black heart.
The two Big Mouth Bowls are the centerpieces. One is topped with Black Cat Jack in a warm mustard glaze, the other with Gus Ghost in distressed black and white. Parker says both are also coming in a smaller version, and the black one in orange.
There is also a Dapper Bat mug with a matching bat shaker, and Parker has said coordinating Dapper Bat pieces including a creamer and sugar pair are on the way. TJX also reordered a run of her past designs, so older pieces should be turning up alongside the new ones.
The collectibles: Bethany Lowe at Michaels, $76 to $123
The tier most people miss is made by Bethany Lowe Designs and sold at Michaels. These are not tableware. They are larger folk-art figures and lidded containers, closer to the originals she sculpts in the studio, and they carry collectible pricing to match.
The Green Eyed Copper Cat at $76 is the entry point and the closest thing here to that original 2003 cat head, a lidded copper-glazed bowl with a hat that lifts off. The Jackie Yell-O-Ween Figurine is $78 and the Gourdy White-O-Ween Container is $83, a tall cream gourd with a black witch hat for a lid.
Moving up, Happy Plumpkin Jack at $101 sits Jack the black cat on a pumpkin in a crown-shaped party hat. The Jackie Green-O-Ween Spooks Jar at $117 is a stacked harlequin container with a sage-green pumpkin head. And Hagatha and Jack Spooks Witch Jar at $123 is the top of the line, a green-faced witch in a caped gown holding Jack in her arms.
If you want the piece that looks most like her studio work without paying original prices, this is the shelf to check.
The accents: towels, ornaments and a soap dispenser
Transpac also makes a handful of smaller items that land at both Michaels and Target, which is the one place in her catalog where you can price-shop the exact same product.
The Cat and Witch Tea Towel Set is a pair of white pom-trimmed towels printed with Jack and a green-faced witch. It is $33 at Michaels and $35 at Target.
The four-piece Character Ornament Set is black glitter cutouts of a cat, an owl, a ghost and a bat-topped witch hat. It is $47 at Michaels and $49 at Target.
The Happy Jack Soap Dispenser stacks a grinning jack-o’-lantern head on a cupcake base and is $33 at Target, which is the only place we found it.
So the two overlapping items are each $2 cheaper at Michaels. Not a reason to make a trip, but worth knowing if you are already choosing between the two.
One catch if you are shopping Target online: her Halloween items are split across two different brand listings. The ornament set is filed under Johanna Parker, but the tea towels and the soap dispenser are filed under Transpac. Searching her name on target.com turns up the ornaments and nothing else. Search “Transpac Johanna Parker” instead and all three come up.
Where to actually find it
Her work reaches stores through different manufacturers, and each one lands somewhere different. That is the whole reason this is confusing.
| What you want | Who makes it | Where it is | Price range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mugs, bowls, shakers, teapots | Transpac | HomeGoods, Marshalls, TJMaxx | Not published |
| Large figures and containers | Bethany Lowe | Michaels | $76 to $123 |
| Towels, ornaments, soap dispenser | Transpac | Michaels and Target | $33 to $49 |
| One-of-a-kind originals | Parker’s studio | Her shop | Varies |
The TJX stores are the hard part. HomeGoods, Marshalls and TJMaxx get the main ceramic collection, but TJX does not publish a catalog and does not list any of it online, so there is no way to check stock before you go. A search for her name on tjmaxx.com returns nothing. This is a store-by-store hunt, and it is exactly why collector groups trade sightings the moment a pallet gets cut open.
If you strike out
Older Transpac pieces circulate on Amazon, Walmart and eBay, usually above original retail. Bethany Lowe sells its Johanna Parker collectibles directly through its own Vintage Halloween storefront if your Michaels is picked over. And Parker sells originals and prints from her own shop, which is the only place to get work that is not a licensed reproduction.
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Collection details from Johanna Parker’s June 29, 2026 announcement. Michaels and Target prices verified in-browser on July 27, 2026. TJX stores do not list this inventory online, and availability varies by location.
