Are you working on the Over The Garden Wall comic books that are coming out this April?

Sorta.

We’re doing two story-lines. One is about Greg’s dreamland adventures, and one is about Anna (the Woodsman’s daughter). They were both my “concepts” for series, but I will not be writing the actual stories in these comics. They will be written by writers close with the miniseries though.

Amalia Levari will be writing the stories about Anna. She was a writer for the TV miniseries, helping to construct the whole 10 episode story arc and writing on most of the outlines. She also wrote the majority of the last OTGW comic we did; the one about Anna (OTGW Issue #4).

Jim Campbell will be writing (and drawing) the comics about Greg. He was a storyboard artist on the TV miniseries, and co-wrote some of the most Greg-centric episodes in the series (Schooltown Follies & Babes in the Wood). And did all the artwork for the first 5 comics we did.

I’ll be consulting a bit on these new comics, and giving advice here and there, but Jim and Amalia already know the world and characters so well… and the good thing about these new comics is that they are a bit removed from the original series arcs, so they can play around and make them their own thing.

Basically I have two of my favorite writers making stories about characters I love, based on some vague ideas i had… and I get to read and enjoy the stories without having to actually write them! So that’s pretty great.

Oh, also Cara McGee will be drawing the stories that Amalia is writing. I don’t know her personally, but excited to see what she’ll do!