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 rediscovery 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.

Comic Review (ARC): Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch

Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch
Writer: Evan Dorkin
Artist: Jill Thompson
Cover Artist: Jill Thompson
Genre: Horror, Action/Adventure
Publication Date: August 01, 2012
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $3.50
UPC: 7 61568 18921 6 00111
Preview

Adventure, mystery, horror, and humor thrive on every page of the Eisner Award–winning Beasts of Burden. The four-legged occult-investigating team—a heroic gang of dogs and one cat—are doing their best to protect their home, Burden Hill, from a chicken-stealing goblin, a frightful basilisk, and a strange lost herd of sheep!

* This special one-shot reprints three stories from Dark Horse Presents!

* Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson return to the characters that won them the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Short Story!

Gosh, I just love Dark Horse. They bring the crazy like no one’s business with a comic about a group of dogs and one cat that protect their neighborhood from supernatural threats. I think any dog lover is going to enjoy this comic. There are three creative stories combining my favorite elements: horror and humor. This is a one shot comic, which I feel works best for this subject. I think the novelty of dog vigilantes would lose its appeal if this was a series.

The comic works well visually. The artwork has a soft watercolor feel and the animal's facial expressions add to the humor. I liked how the artist used a monochromatic color scheme to set the mood for the ghost story portion. The panel layout is appealing with some cool variation and the dialogue is easy to read and well written.

My favorite of the three stories was A View From the Hill. A flock of sheep (oh,yeah!) and their dog guardian wandered near town and the dog gang has gone to investigate. There is something very wrong about the sheep and only Jack, the Beagle, seems to know, but he has fainted. The last page of this story is priceless and had me rolling and snorting, but I can’t share it with you cause that would be spoiling the surprise. I also enjoyed Story Time. An Old English Sheep dog teaches a litter of Golden puppies a lesson through a ghost story. I wouldn’t give this comic to your doggie loving 5 year old, though, since it's classified as horror. I would compare it to a borderline PG-13 movie.

At the end of the comic is a three page preview of Billy the Kid’s Old Time Oddities and the Orm of Lock Ness. A new comic releasing Oct. 17, 2012. Lovely art work, but not quite sure what it is about. Maybe a collection of stories like Uncle Creepy, but with Billy the Kid instead…


I enjoyed reading Beasts of Burden. It is worth the read for a smile.

4 “well done” Sheep

SharonS (edit by BAK)