Super excited to be joining the Over the Garden Wall comic crew! Tomorrow’s issue includes the first of some stories written by me and illustrated by @ohcararara , as well as @officialangryjim and Danielle’s continuation on the Greg stories - so be sure you run and buy it and tip your local comic store friends.
I am so excited and thankful to have this opportunity, and hope all of you enjoy the stories to come!
The back cover of the Over the Garden Wall DVD has been revealed! Which means I can talk about the special features now:
Behind Over the Garden Wall: A short behind the scenes video that includes some interviews with the main cast, myself, and some footage of the recording sessions.
Original Pilot: The original pilot, when the show was gonna be called Tome of the Unknown and it was about Wirt and Greg looking for a magic book.
Alternate Title Cards: Before settling on using the title cards we used, Nick Cross and I got a bunch of dry ice and tried to make a foggy looking title sequence. It never really came together right, so we ended up scrapping it… but it’s sort of interesting to see, i think. I put the full version of the end credits song over this video so you get to hear that song uncut.
Deleted Animatics: We cut a lot of stuff during the storyboard phase to make sure the episodes ended up being 11 minutes long, but we also cut some stuff during the animatic phase (which is like a video of the storyboards with voices behind it). Here are some of the more interesting/funny lines that were cut. Don’t expect, like, full sequences or anything… really just a few lines here and there. But I think they’re worth seeing (which is why we’re including them!)
Commentaries: Full commentaries for all the episodes of the series by me and Nick Cross.
Composers Cut: Probably the coolest special feature… you can watch the whole series without any dialog or sound-effects; just music and visuals! It’s pretty neat! I think the composers even spiffed up a few areas, and left some easter eggs and stuff here and there!
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The DVD comes out September 8th (in about a month) but you can pre-order it now if you want.
It’s $10 on Amazon and a bunch of other sites (Walmart, Best Buy, etc). It’s also available on the Cartoon Network site directly, I believe… and probably other places. If you don’t want to buy it at any of these places I listed you can probably find it somewhere else, or ask your local DVD salesman (?) that you want to get a copy and they can figure it out. I’ll leave the Amazon link here for your convenience though:
