Over the Garden Wall’s Creator is Bringing His Brand of Holiday Horror to Christmas

Since 2014, Cartoon Network’s Over the Garden Wall has go a reliable Halloween staple watches. Thankfully, that won’t beryllium changing anytime soon, but it besides turns retired creator Patrick McHale is cooking up thing caller that’ll consciousness acquainted to fans of Wirt and Greg’s adventures.

As revealed by Polygon, McHale volition beryllium contributing to Dstlry’s Christmas anthology comic Through the Boughs: A Yuletide Offering. The abbreviated communicative “The Man successful the Blood-Red Coat” volition spot McHale reteam with Garden Wall storyboard creator Jim Campbell to archer a communicative of 2 goblin children surviving with their mother. Instead of going retired to play successful the snow, their parent wants them wrong and harmless from Santa Claus, oregon successful the mother’s (largely accurate) words, “a fat, aged disfigured antheral successful a humor reddish overgarment who wanders the world sneaking into strangers’ homes.” In the press release, McHale called vacation illustrations and “old weird books…a continual root of inspiration” for their story.

Hello! @BlackfordManor and I wrote a small 7-page Christmas comic for this anthology, illustrated by Jim Campbell! It's called "The Man successful the Blood-Red Coat". Out successful December! https://t.co/8b90KxaZRc pic.twitter.com/VuWoMEYQbz

— Patrick McHale (@Patrick_McHale) September 26, 2024

Fellow Boughs contributors see Jensine Eckwall (Into the Goblin Market), Sweeney Boo (Harley Quinn), Molly Mendoza (Stray), Grim Wilkins (Petrichor) and Dstlry co-founder James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children). Being a longtime fearfulness instrumentality and writer, Tynion said he’s “always been drawn to the unusual small stories we similar to archer each different successful the dormant of winter. There’s thing peculiar astir the holidays.” As for his ain communicative he’s making with Eckwall, helium called it a “strange small communicative I can’t hold for everyone to see.”

Through the Boughs: A Yuletide Offering will deed comic shops and retailers successful December. For Over the Garden Wall fans, Dstlry’s besides astatine enactment connected an art book for the show, and Cartoon Network’s teamed with Aardman Animation to marque something celebratory for the miniseries’ upcoming 10th anniversary.

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