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Sunday, September 1, 2024

Scary Godmother This Was Your Childhood Compendium TP, Vol. 1 from Image Comics + Preview

Image Comics is pleased to share a sneak peek (a-boo!) of the upcoming Scary Godmother collection.  
 
This bestselling, multiple Eisner Award winning comic by Jill Thompson (Wonder Woman, The Sandman) will be brought back to print—for the first time in over two years—from Image Comics as a complete, compendium trade paperback edition hitting shelves in October. It will also include new Scary Godmother stories.

The perfect read for fans of the campy, goth-influenced animation of Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Coraline, and Corpse Bride, Scary Godmother is a must-read, all-ages comic for the spooky season.

Available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, October 2 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, October 15.

Scary Godmother This Was Your Childhood Compendium TP, Vol. 1
October 2, 2024
Writer: Jill Thompson
Artist: Jill Thompson
Lunar Code: 0824IM339
ISBN: 9781534344464
Revisit the iconic, best selling, award winning, spooky cool, eccentric auntie, faerie scary witch from start to finish in this deluxe compendium that also includes new SCARY GODMOTHER stories!
Get on the nostalgia bus and journey back to the Frightside to revisit your Scary Godmother and her friends Mr. Pettibone, Bug-A-Boo, Hannah, Orson, Max and Ruby the Vampires, Harry the Werewolf, and more!

Just in time for Halloween, this compendium includes all of your favorite stories and brand-new adventures at the Scary Godmother’s house!
"This book deserves a prime place in every graphic novel collection." —Booklist (starred review)

10 page preview




 
  
Image Comics Press Release:
This fan-favorite series first launched in 1997 to critical acclaim, won Eisner Awards in “Best Title for a Younger Audience” and “Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior)” categories, and was adapted into two hit children’s films titled, Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular and Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy. The series was also featured in The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History by Hope Nicholson. The Scary Godmother series has seen a resurgence in popularity with the TikTok community in particular, driving redis
covery of the title.

Now longtime fans will finally have an opportunity to revisit the iconic, eccentric fairy-witch from start-to-finish when they board the nostalgia bus and journey back to the Frightside to revisit Scary Godmother and her friends Mr. Pettibone, Bug-A-Boo, Hannah, Orson, Max and Ruby the Vampires, Harry the Werewolf, and more.

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