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Head into the Unknown Once More with the Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition

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Venture into the Unknown once more and experience Patrick McHale’s beloved award-winning animated miniseries, Over the Garden Wall, with Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition. Written by Sean Edgar, Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition overflows with concept art, illustrations, and developmental material from creator and showrunner Patrick McHale and the show’s creative team, offering a definitive exploration into the iconic animated show. Originally airing in 2014 on Cartoon Network, Over the Garden Wall follows two half-brothers, Wirt and Greg, journeying through a strange autumnal fantasyland to find their way home.

This newly designed and updated edition includes all the content from the first edition and adds over thirty pages in a brand-new chapter featuring new cast and crew interviews (including Elijah Wood, Melanie Lynskey, and Collin Dean), artwork from the various BOOM! Studios comic series, concept designs from Mondo’s collectible figures, and photography and preproduction art from a wide range of delights created to honor the show’s legacy since the first edition was published. Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition will also include new cover art by Over the Garden Wall art director Nick Cross and a new foreword by Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch.

Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the original book’s release, Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition will be available in a standard hardcover and a deluxe edition that features exclusive cover art with foil treatment, gilded pages, and a ribbon bookmark in February 2027.

Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition and Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition (Deluxe Edition) (both hardcover, 208 pages, and 10 × 11”) will be available in bookstores and comic shops on February 9, 2027. They are now available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Dark Horse Direct, and your local comic shop or bookstore for $54.99 and $109.99, respectively.

KaBOOM! Joins Cartoon Network for a Peek Over the Garden Wall in Comic Special

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KaBOOM! and Cartoon Network Enterprises have announced the November 5th release of Over the Garden Wall, an oversized comic book special based on Cartoon Network’s first original animated mini-series that will air over the course of five nights beginning Monday, November 3rd.

The Over the Garden Wall comic is an oversized, 26-page story written and directly supervised by the mini-series’ creator, Patrick McHale. Acclaimed cartoonist, illustrator, and colorist Jim Campbell, who was personally hand-picked by McHale, is drawing and hand-lettering the entire story himself. Designed to seamlessly tie in with the animated mini-series, the comic story is one of the adventures that brothers Wirt and Greg and their ill-tempered bluebird friend Beatrice go on while trying to find their way home from the Unknown, a strange forest adrift in time. In their attempt to get to Adelaide of the Pasture, a mysterious figure who might have the key to getting them home, they team up with a group of wayward soldiers in search of adventure and risk getting thrown even further into the Unknown.

Headlined by an all-star voice-cast that includes Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, and Melanie Lynskey, Over the Garden Wall is Cartoon Network’s first ever mini-series, an animated comedy/fantasy story about two brothers, Wirt and Greg, who are trapped in a mysterious world. In this 10-part production, music plays an important role with a soundtrack full of Americana-influenced original songs. Over the Garden Wall is created by Patrick McHale and produced by Cartoon Network Studios.

The Over the Garden Wall one-shot arrives from KaBOOM! in comic shops on November 5th with a cover price of $4.99, under Diamond order code SEP141163. The main cover is illustrated by Jim Campbell, while the retailer incentive cover (1 in 15) is drawn by Patrick McHale.

OVER THE GARDEN WALL Incentive Cover OVER THE GARDEN WALL Main Cover