Fans of Over the Garden Wall won’t want to miss Through the Boughs: A Yuletide Offering, a new short comics story collection from Dstlry. Inside, they’ll find OtGW creator Patrick McHale turning the clock from fall to winter for a story about goblin children and Santa Claus — and other big comics names taking a folklorrific look at the darkest hours of the year, including James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children) and Sweeney Boo (Harley Quinn).
McHale is teaming with Over the Garden Wall storyboard artist Jim Campbell for “The Man in the Blood-Red Coat,” a “spooky little winter fable,” according Dstlry, in which “a witch mother warns her two little goblin children to beware of the strange old man in a blood-red coat who sneaks into people’s homes on Christmas Eve.”
“Holiday illustrations and old weird books have been a continual source of inspiration,” said McHale in Dstlry’s news release. “It’s been great to reunite with Jim to tell a new little story here. Good tidings to all!”
Other stories in Through the Boughs include “The Yule Beast” from Sweeney Boo, in which the fleeing beast makes an “unexpected encounter”…
…“We’ll Be Home” by cartoonist and illustrator Grim Wilkins, in which “friends come together in the flurry of Winter”…
…and “Crumbs: A Very Bad Elf,” written by James Tynion IV and drawn by illustrator and picture book artist Jensine Eckwall, “the story of Crumbs, a very (very) bad elf.”
“I’ve always been drawn to the strange little stories we like to tell each other in the dead of winter,” Tynion said in Distlry’s news release. “The strange warmth that comes from the coldest months. I can’t wait for everyone to see the strange little story I’ve cooked up here.”
Through the Boughs: A Yuletide Offering will be available digitally and on store shelves in the seasonally appropriate month of December, featuring seven short stories of wintry weirdness. You can check out two different wrap around covers for the anthology below:
