Gonna try and finish the Scary Godmother storytime nowPrevious thread>>156088155
Finishing where things left off with Wild About HarryBump if you're reading
Thank you for storytiming.
Thank you, op
>>156095404lol I like all of Harry’s expressions
>>156095492Rat Fink
>>156095035Thanks OP. And for the previous one as well.
>>156095914Kek
>>156095933F
I do appreciate all the lore and characters this introduces
What no jimmy?
>>156096950Yeah the other kids don't show up in the single issue stories
>>156095989WTF
>>156096973But he's her cousin? That makes me a bit sad
>>156096950He’s in the camp storyline
>>156097087OOF
>>156097087Tough luck, Jimmy
>>156097156Well that is horrific.
>>156097275>>156097290>>156097301Very useful.
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>>156097435Cute
>>156097091Well that's nice and thanks anon>>156097087>>156097148Will my goat ever catch a win. Also I forget sometimes he's her cousin and not her older brother
>>156095989>>156096151jesus
>>156096201JESUS
>>156097647Party!
>>156097758Cute
I love the designs and details put into the world
>>156098115That is a pretty funny costume.
Previous page is blankAnd that concludes the Scary Godmother storytimeSupport the official release if you've enjoyed itThanks to all those who bumped this thread along the way
>>156098273*If you can, support the
>>156098273Nice wait that's all damn thought the series had a bunch of books?
>>156098339Do you seriously not know what a compendium is?
>>156098351
>>156098273ty for storytiming OP it was really cool, especially the extra art at the end
>>156098380It's a printed collection of almost if not all of the books, issues, etc you casualThose WERE the bunch of books from beginning to end
Alex Ross did a Scary Godmother paintingI wish his intern would just post the pic in ideal quality on Xitter
Here's art of her meeting Akiko by their respective creators
https://www.thescarygodmother.com
>>156098408Ok thank you, anon, but what's the difference between that and an omnibus?
>>156098456An omnibus is bigger in terms of being an actual bookLarger sized pages compared to a compendium
>>156098273Thanks for the storytime.
>Scary Godmother visually looks like Jill Thompson herself>Jimmy took many cues of inspiration from Thompson's actual older cousin named JimmyBoy those comments last thread aged poorly
>>156098525speaking of what on earth is going on with ms. Thompson's hairline
>>156098536I bet it's curlers. decades of heavy curler use.same thing happened to my grandma
>>156098525What comments?>>156098536She's an older lady, and menopause causes hair loss. Sad to see, but not completely uncommon, though it's weird it moved it back in such a way.
>>156098557>What comments?The "lucky bastard" ones
>>156098566>>156098525well she shouldn't have drawn herself and her cousin on a cute dateeven if a platonic one
>>156098566In what way................>>156098590Uhhhh where is this picture/moment? Also I mean mabel and dipper are based on hirsch and his sister and no one bats a eye so not really a big deal in fact even alex says he's ok with pinecest he doesn't love it but he accepts it.
Decided to spend a few minutes looking up whatever interview or article relating to Scary Godmother that I could quickly find to share to the thread>Sequential Tart: As any good Scary Godmother fan knows, many of the characters are based on your friends and family members but where did you get the original idea for SG?>Jill Thompson: I got the idea after my niece, Hannah, was born. I wanted to give the new baby something for Halloween and I also had a hankering to be Godmother. But, then I thought of me standing in the back of the church with my motorcycle jacket, my platform sandals, my tattoos and my crazy hair and I thought, "what a scary Godmother...." When I said those two words together, it was like an epiphany. It all came rushing in.>JT: Getting people to listen to me. But with Mainframe I was lucky that their director, Ezekiel Norton and the other members of their creative department really wanted to bring Scary Godmother to life as my vision.>The hardest part now seems to be finding a broadcaster. But I'm sure that we will every soon. And I mean in the company sense, not in the personal sense. I have very little information on the sales front. But I'm supposed to have a conference call about it in a week or so. So lets all keep our fingers crossed.http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/june03/jthompson2.shtml
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*to thread before I go to sleep>ST: Judging from the preview images, the Spooktacular seems to be very true to your art style. How involved in the production process were you?>JT: Very very very. Everyone can see the trailer for the show at www.mainframe.ca>I co-wrote the show, worked as an editor, I directed art, I illustrated expression sheets, chose voices, suggested music, designed sets, painted backgrounds (or anything else that was needed or helpful), and generally bugged everyone several times a week with my yammering phone calls. Anything they wanted my input or direction on, I put my fingers all over it. I was fortunate that the director, Zeke Norton, is a patient man and that the producers Kim Dent Wilder and Sharan Wood are accommodating ladies. Plus, Zeke and I have the same taste in comics and animation, so we knew how we wanted Scary Godmother to come to life.>ST: This project seemed to be in the works for several years ... how long did it actually take to get this from an "optioned" state to produced and ready to air?>JT: It was optioned in 1999, went into pre-production in January 2002 and animation started in July of 2002
>ST: How does it feel to see one of your creations come to life in another form like the Spooktacular?>JT: At times it has brought a tear to my eye. It's crazy. It looks like I painted something but it came out 3-D and I don't know how it happened. They scanned in some of my painted work and use a watercolor texture to render the backgrounds, so it has a very painterly feel. Bug-A-Boo is incredible, the Vampires too, everyone really ... They are sweet and terrifying and creepy and cuddly all at the same time!>Hannah is naive and frightened at the beginning and then she meets all the monsters and comes into her own ... I love how everyone looks. Scary Godmother looks perfect and her little wings flap all the time, which I can't do in the comics.>ST: What other animated plans are there for the Scary Godmother franchise?>JT: We're looking for a home for the Scary Godmother adventure game.>ST: What does the future hold for the ever so talented Jill Thompson? Any exciting projects in store?>JT: I'm working on a children's book, I'm working on the proposal for the next manga, I'm slated to do a 'solo' for DC Comics, I have a story with Evan Dorkin coming out called Stray in Dark Horses' Haunted Anthology. I'm working on developing the Scary Godmother computer game, and we're pulling together a pitch for a Scary Godmother animated feature film, so if those things happen, I'll be involved in all that. Plus I want to do another Scary Godmother book and comic, so ... that's where I stand as of today, I may have more to tell next time I talk to you.
>>156098657Haha damn, honestly thought because of context it was going more "jokey incest" route but honestly more based than I could ever expect. Kind of a good end for jimmy dude really went from bed ridden smelly hermit to getting to spend time with scary godmother too it's cute.
>Westfield: Why set a book with such a Halloween theme during the summer?>Thompson: Because it’s convention season and because I like that kind of stuff all year round, it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s Halloween. I’ve wanted to do a story that’s a lot more in-depth that I couldn’t tell in one of the Scary Godmother books and it was a lot more complicated than just telling it in a special. I wanted the episodic nature of it. I wanted to have a convention issue coming out during the convention season to play up the things we all love and hate about conventions. Everything that I work on in the regular Scary Godmother books, I work January through the summer for it to come out in the Fall. I’m always asked why don’t I have anything out in the summertime. It’s because I’m working through the summer. It’s easier to produce a comic that I can have come out while I’m still working on it than a book that is a lot more labor intensive as far as production and printing and getting it all set up and ready to go.https://westfieldcomics.com/wow/low/low_int_050.html
>Thompson: Oh yeah. I wish I had tons of money so I could buy not only copies of all my favorite books for each of my seven nieces, but also an extra copy for me. I’ve always like Charles Adams, which I wouldn’t say is a children’s author. I’m a big fan of what I was read to by Captain Kangaroo on TV, so one of my very favorites are the Francis books by Russell and Lilian Hoban. I still pick up children’s books because I love the illustrations and the stories. I like Holly Hobbie. That’s actually the name of the woman who created Holly Hobbie, the little kind of prairie doll character. I’m also a big fan of her Toot and Puddle books, which are these two little pigs that live in a place called Woodcock Pocket. She’s an amazing watercolor artist. She has a freshness and design I really admire. I do have lots of children’s books lying around for reference and inspiration. Because I am really steeped in comic books, I’ll pull out a book and re-read it just to get the flavor of single-page illustration. I like all the J. Otto Siebold and Vivian Walsh books like Monkey Business. Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg is one of my favorites. William Joyce, Rosemary Wells. There’s a really great children’s book by Piotr & Jozef Wilkon called The Brave Little Kittens. It’s some of the best illustrations of these three little kittens going out and doing cat things like jumping at a bug, running through the grass. The expressions on these almost primitive looking drawings are so dead on it’s really delightful. That’s the problem. I can walk into a children’s bookstore or even a big Barnes & Noble or Borders and realize I could easily walk out with $500 worth of books and go back tomorrow and get some more. But I try to pick up some like at Halloween. Unfortunately, in many years past, there’s nothing that’s caught my fancy. Which is one of the reasons I started Scary Godmother.
>Westfield: So it was your intention to make Scary Godmother young reader friendly?>Thompson: Oh yeah. I wanted it to be something that I personally would enjoy and people in their 20s or 30s wouldn’t feel stupid reading it, especially if they had children and they wanted to read it to them over and over again. I wanted something that bridged the gap between children’s books and comic books because a lot of the comics I remember from my childhood were all ages friendly. Comics are so segregated now. It’s hard to go into a comic book store and find a good amount of books that are good for all ages; books that I could read and have and good time but then I wouldn’t feel creepy passing them on to a kid. I think that the fact that there aren’t many comics for kids just makes our industry dwindle. People always try and make comics specifically for kids, but I’ve found that when I would look at those, I would never have picked them up if I was a kid. They were fairly insulting and really insipid. I wanted something that might be good for everybody and that’s what I’m actually trying to do. I really enjoy when little kids come up to me or when I get letters from kids saying how much they like the Scary Godmother. The best thing is that lately I’ve been getting letters for the Scary Godmother, which is really cool. At first, it was “Dear Jill Thompson, I like the Scary Godmother. I think she’s cool.” And now it’s “Dear Scary Godmother, I think Bug-a-Boo is neat. He can live under my bed. It’s stinky under there, but he might like the stinky part.” My day is made when I get a letter for Scary Godmother herself. It’s pretty cool.
>Westfield: Are there any plans for more Scary Godmother-related merchandise on the horizon?>Thompson: Not that I know of. With Scary Godmother being optioned for animation, a good deal of that kind of stuff is tied up in the option agreement. There’s stuff that we can do, but because there are so many things that are just almost going to happen that we don’t want to kill their license. I’ve been really caught up in getting the mini-series put together and doing some other stuff at the same time.
Does she still write new comics or have the long since been over?
>>156098781>the new comicsShe seems pretty done with making Scary Godmother comicsThis is a compendium after all and it's not even the first time the series in full has been collectedThe new re-release under Image exists to include the short story (the one with the black-eyed kids) she made to contribute to an anthology made to support Ukrainian victims back in 2022 (Stan Sakai, John Layman, Rob Guillory, Howard Chaykin, etc contributed with stories of characters they wrote/made as well)Judging by credits it was the first new Scary Godmother comic in about 20 yearsShe's not fully retired though, back in 2023 she contributed to a Svengoolie comic and she still draws if you check her social media
>>156098821Wow as recent as 2022 that is a bit crazy but mostly sounds like just a fun donation/fun one off like how image comics sometimes will bring a series back for a one issue comic during comic days.
Fun fact, the cast of Scary Godmother cameo'd (among many others) in Nocturnals' troll bridge
I actually considered storytiming this series for October but someone else already did it in 2019
*Troll Bridge one-shotGood night
>>156099036>image comics sometimes will bring a series back for a one issue comic during comic days.>image comicsThat's not how Image as a company worksThat's something strictly on the creators if they so chooseOutside of Skybound, Image central doesn't have an editorial making shots like that
I like how expressive Scary Godmother can be in these comicsKind of reminds of how Morrigan was as susceptible to slapstick in classic Darkstalkers
>>156099072I mean that was my point it's more just for a one off, or a long form cameo. Like they used to do with spawn a lot and a few others gert has done cameos and had cameos before.
I'm gonna be honestI didn't realize Skelly was gay until much later in life
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>>156099355Which is funny, because they beat you over the head with it over and over again in the animated special.
>>156091604Fucking lol
>>156100804I didn't know what a gay voice was at the time
>>156101219I really liked this scene and story nice seeing ole wolfy being kind of a big bro but also getting the poor kid involved in his freeloading scheme. Yeah I knew the skeleton was gay for a long time before I ever read the books. Though like many it wasn't in my first watch.
Thanks for the storytime OP! It's always neat to see the art style compared to the animated movies. Once I get a few more paychecks, I'll make sure to have this in my comic collection.https://youtu.be/lAwY3sY4ZtM
>>156099355same
>We almost got a Scary Godmother gameHuh, do you think a build is ever gonna leak?
>>156104961sexy stick
>>156099355that is how most good people arethey are just people
Reading
>>156089329I mean if the interviews are to go by Jill Thompson still liked itIt's done by MainframeRemember, they were the GOOD studio back then
>>156108271if done by Mainframe, then it was in the best of hands for public television 3d animation
>>156096005would
I’ve known about the movies since I was like 12 but never actually read the books, really good artstyle desu. Here’s a fun fact the writer wanted it in the janky 3D because she didn’t want it to imitate her style. Which is a shame because the scary godmother movies would probably have a more lasting legacy besides ‘that janky 3D Halloween movie we all saw as children on Cartoon Network’
Did she work on anything else, she has such a unique style and like the watercolor style she has
>>156109134Beasts of Burden
>>156109264Huh looks interesting, what's the comic like? Is it good?
Scary Godmother is not racist
>>156109298>what's the comic like?It's dogs solving paranormal mysteries > Is it good?It's great
>>156109309What?
>>156109471It's just guy spamming a variation of that post for some reason
>>156098536I remember when there was a thread posting pics of her in diffeent tight leggings she had on in different pics was fun
Kind of sad there is no /co/ art of scary godmother or hannah. They are halloween icons in the cartoon space
Did anyone watch Quinton Reviews' video?
>>156110738Check the booru.
>>156096658Man Jimmy is such a good big cousin. Hears hannah's getting bullied and swoops in to give her the win so kind
Gonna be honest, I'm starting to see the appeal of Jimmy now beyond the memes
I never even knew that the movies were based on the books. While I liked the movies, they absolutely do NOT do justice to the original illustrations.
>>156112279Remember, it's MainframeThey're the good ones
>>156112279>they absolutely do NOT do justice to the original illustrations.Always makes me wonder now if Jill Thompson were to ever pitch another animated project based on this series. If the style could be better replicated whether it'd be in 3D or 2D.
>>156112614You're probably gonna hate me for saying this but they might take inspiration from Spider-Verse
>>156112636I wouldn't be surprised. Still it could work in the sense of better capturing that painterly look for the characters and environments.
>>156109134She did a Death of the Endless comic with a more manga inspired artstyle
>>156110769I assume that was the impetus for the creation of this storytime, since so few people realized it was a whole book and comic series.
>>156114454OP said it wasn't
>>156114454OP hereAbsolutely notI storytimed Scary Godmother in full because nobody else had done it yet in spite of it being a fairly common suggestion in the Spooktober threads
>>156095989poor vampire girl
>>156090876>>156090888>>156090914I didn't expect Scary Godmother to have /ss/.
>>156112911Why is death just older hannah
Please someone tell me they have the authors post-gym sweaty workout pics off her Instagram saved????Also thanks OP for storyiming this!
>>156119119Why would anyone save them?
>>156112911cute
Was most surprising to learn that Harry's actually even MORE of a selfish cunt in the books and tv specials softened him if anything. I always just assumed it would be the other way around for some reason
>>156121356If the series had its own tv show with actual seasons Harry probably would've took over the plots the same way Captain Hero took over Drawn Together
Kind of surprised nobody has thirsted over Ruby yet
>>156097768I think this story was made for the CompendiumHannah looks noticeably older
>>156121356To be fair, the specials only did the first two hardcover books and never touched anything after thatIt's not until those when we really see how much of a parasitic NEET he is
>>156092033Ruby and Scary Godmother are so hot.
>>156092219>69>once you go bat you'll never go backlmao
Bump. I wonder if the thread will be around when I wake up.
>>156125943Here's a boost Anon
>>156117775Your mind is in the gutter Anon
>>156095050Bump
>>156117775based
>>156125943It will.
>>156098273Thanks bunches OP. I have 1000% intentions to get the big collection book. I've took it out from the library before but that was years ago and I basically forgot everything except that Scary went to magic school. Happy Halloween
>>156130509It was. I'm about to start this half. Liking it so far, but I'm multitasking with a stream.
>>156121356Honestly hate Harry. Poor Irene, she has Stockholm syndrome
>>156112614>>156108547My vote is stop-motion. Respects Thompsons wish not to have something to close to her art style (as lovely as it is) but the CGI sadly doesn't hold up (lots of respect to mainframe as the pioneers). I know stop motion is practically cliche for Halloween stuff but I think it would work with her stickly proportions
>>156130711Sounds like a solid ideaAny particular moments that'd have to be compromised though?
Huh. Actually reading the source material after watching the show 4 or so times, it is interesting some of the things I thought were strange were from the source material, but also how many things where changed or adapted backwards from the future. Some like Jimmy having different food he gets filtered by while Hannah eats spaghetti are so minor I wonder why they bothered. I wonder how much involvement she had with the script for the show. The artwork is really amazing though. If I read this when I was a kid, I think I would have been obsessed with it.
>>156130711I approve Anon
>>156119555Anon use your imagination
>>156098444
>>156098444cute
>>156109298>Is it good?It's honestly Evan Dorkin's best
Not allowed to fall off before November.
>>156092764Harry is more insufferable in the comic.
>>156093333>Bigfoot doesn't exist in the Fright Side
Some sexo ruby I found the best girl
>>156139445Artist?
>>156095050Zazie is hot. I am happy there is another sexy spider in /co/ media.
>>156095083>>156095104Why do they have a camera on?
>>156095117Nice reference to The Blair Witch Project in the last panel.
>>156139543PepperoniRaviol
>>156095143Humans can't understand monsters?
>>156095206The celebrity is cute.
>>156095268>All those werewolves want to give Scary Godmother the knot
>>156140088She seems to be generally popular since she ended up with a harem by a few kids saying complements about her.
>>156139445SEXONEWRUBY
>>156140988Indeed a bit shocked how little art there is of her but guess cause she got a hubby.
