Scary Godmother

It's Halloween night, and it's up to Scary Godmother to show one little girl just how much fun spooky can be! Meet Hannah Marie, who, with the help of Scary Godmother, stands up to her mean-spirited cousin Jimmy and her fear of monsters on her first Halloween adventure with the big kids. Later, Hannah joins forces with Orson, the vampire boy, to unravel a mystery near and dear to their hearts. Some of Scary Godmother's closest (and most frightful) pals get in on the fun too, including Bug-A-Boo, the Boozle, and Skully Pettibone. • Four of Thompson's Eisner Award-winning, fully painted children's books are collected here, in their entirety, for the first time (Scary Godmother, The Revenge of Jimmy, The Mystery Date, and The Boo Flu). This deluxe edition also features some of the earliest concept designs for this haunting and imaginative series. • Thompson's Scary Godmother series resulted in a successful stage show and two animated specials shown on Cartoon Network, Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular and Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy. • "Jill Thompson's Scary Godmother is another of this comics maestro's knockout punches. Thompson delivers a series that shrugs off the censors like the dead weight they are and writes and draws directly at readers of all ages, all experience. Her work is always a delight, and much more: her craft, her precision, her delicious whimsy, all serve as a goad to the rest of us cartoonists to have as much fun as she's obviously enjoying, and to work our butts off as hard as she does. She only makes it look easy. That's the sign of a master."—Frank Miller • "A beautiful and ambitious piece of work."—Alex Ross • Eisner Award-winning series!

To save himself from the monsters that roam the Earth on Halloween, Jimmy tries to stop the holiday from happening.

How can the monsters celebrate Halloween when the Scary Godmother has a case of boo flu?

This complete omnibus collects every story from the Eisner Award-winning Scary Godmother series of kid's books and comics in one place for the first time. Enjoy this definitive collection of the hit series that has been adapted into two animated specials and a stage show, full of strange happenings, kind monsters, and Halloween adventures sure to delight and spook young and old alike! Includes the fully painted kid's books Scary Godmother, The Revenge of Jimmy, The Mystery Date, and The Boo Flu, as well as every comic-book story in the Scary Godmother canon and a sketchbook section featuring early concept art.

Half-faerie Skylar Corazzi doesn't have to go hunting for trouble, it finds her on its own. After earning a spot in the university sentinel program, Sky thinks she has it made... until the first days of boot camp. The vampire and shapeshifter coaches mean serious business and have no qualms about whipping her into shape. Shortly after Sky witnesses a grisly automobile accident, sentinels rule it wasn't a case of poor human judgment. A string of negligent mortals making reckless choices indicates an evil faerie is interfering with fate. One by one, her friends land in the crossfire. It isn't Sky's case, but if she doesn't stay on her A-game, supernaturals will die--and one may be the man closest to her. Story length: 104,000 words; 385 pages

It's summer break - Scary Godmother style! Hannah suffers through summer camp with her mean cousin Jimmy, Bug-A-Boo spends a frightening vacation with his nagging parents, Orson attends Summer Ghoul with the ancient and demented Dark Master and Scary Godmother runs into her old schoolmate Tinkaree only to wind up kidnapped and brainwashed! Will our favorite monsters save themselves in time to enjoy fun in the sun?

Scary Godmother n'est pas une marraine la bonne fée comme les autres... Bienvenue dans l'univers de Jill Thompson rempli de sourires espiègles et de citrouilles colorées. [Album primé par l'Eisner Award de la meilleure illustratrice.] C'est son premier Halloween, mais pour Hannah Marie, la fête vire au cauchemar. Elle, qui a si peur des fantômes, doit affronter son cousin Jimmy qui prend un malin plaisir à la terroriser. Mais Scary Godmother n'a pas dit son dernier mot ! La sorcière est fin prête pour donner une bonne leçon à Jimmy... Halloween s'annonce mémorable.

Some are mild mannered geeks, others mad geniuses or street-smart city dwellers driven to action. These are the men and women behind the masks and tights of America’s most beloved superheroes. But these aren’t the stories of the heroes’ hidden alter egos or secret identities…these are the stories of their creators! Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics gives you the truth about the history of the American comic book—straight from the revolutionary artists and writers behind them. From the founders of the popular comics website Graphic NYC—writer Christopher Irving and photographer Seth Kushner—comes the firsthand accounts of the comic book’s story, from its birth in the late 1930s to its current renaissance on movie screens and digital readers everywhere. Kushner’s evocative photography captures the subjects that Irving profiles in a hard-hitting narrative style derived from personal interviews with the legends of the art, all of which is accompanied by examples of their work in the form of original art, sketches, and final panels and covers. The creators profiled include Captain America creator Joe Simon, Marvel guru Stan Lee, Mad magazine’s fold-out artist Al Jaffee, visionary illustrator Neal Adams (Batman), underground paragon Art Spiegelman (Maus), X-Men writer Chris Claremont, artist/writer/director Frank Miller (Sin City, 300), comic analyst Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), American Splendor’s Harvey Pekar, painter Alex Ross (Kingdom Come), multitalented artist and designer Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library), artist Jill Thompson (Sandman), and more. Leaping Tall Buildings, like comics themselves, uses both words and images to tell the true story of the comic’s birth and evolution in America. It is a comprehensive look at the medium unlike any other ever compiled covering high and low art, mass market work and niche innovations. It is the story of an art form and an insider’s look at the creative process of the artists who bring our heroes to life.