Scary Godmother is a series of children's books and comic books created by artist Jill Thompson and published by Sirius Entertainment beginning in 1997. Later adapting two animated films produced by Mainframe Entertainment (Now Mainframe Studios).
Books[]
- Scary Godmother. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/1997. Book.
- Bloody Valentine Special. SIRIUS Entertainment. 02/1998. Comic.
- Revenge of Jimmy. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/1998. Book.
- Holiday Spooktacular. SIRIUS Entertainment. 11/1998. Comic.
- The Mystery Date. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/1999. Book.
- Wild About Harry. SIRIUS Entertainment. 02/2000 - 04/2000. Comic miniseries (3 issues).
- The Boo Flu. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/2000. Book.
- Activity Book. SIRIUS Entertainment. 12/2000. Comic.
- Wild About Harry TPB. SIRIUS Entertainment. 09/2001. Collecting Scary Godmother:Wild About Harry #1–#3.
- Scary Godmother. SIRIUS Entertainment. May 2001 - February 2002. Comic miniseries (6 issues).
- Ghoul's Out for Summer TPB. SIRIUS Entertainment. 07/2002. Collecting Scary Godmothermini-series #1–#6.
- Spooktacular Stories TPB. SIRIUS Entertainment. 08/2004. Collecting Scary Godmother Summer Preview 1997, Bloody Valentine Special, Activity Book, Holiday Spooktakular.
- Scary Godmother HC. Dark Horse Comics. 10/2010. Collecting Scary Godmother, Revenge of Jimmy, The Mystery Date, and The Boo Flu.
- Scary Godmother Comic-Book Stories TPB. Dark Horse Comics. 06/2011. Collecting Scary Godmother #1–6: Ghoul's Out for Summer; Scary Godmother: Holiday Spooktacular; Scary Godmother: Bloody Valentine Special; Scary Godmother: Activity Book; Scary Godmother: Wild about Harry #1-3; Scary Godmother and Friends Ashcan; Scary Godmother: Six Feet South of the Border from Action Girl #13; and more
Films[]
Two films have been produced based on the series. The first, Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktacular, premiered on television in Europe, Latin America, Australia, and Canada in 2003. Later, it premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network in 2004. The film was the first one Mainframe Entertainment used its new software/animation pipeline for. Jill Thompson co-wrote the script, and had some creative control over the project. When she was shown early character designs for the film which resembled the watercolor illustrations in her books, she requested that the characters instead be fully computer-generated. (In an interview, Thompson stated that she wanted them to go with CGI because "I'm doing 2D. Nobody else should be doing 2D, just me.") However, the mostly static backgrounds used in the film more closely resemble traditional cel animation or the illustrations in Thompson's books Because of that, the 3D characters often appear to "pop out" from their backgrounds. The visual style of the film has been described as resembling that of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas rather than that of computer-animated films such as Finding Nemo. A review of the film in School Library Journal, however, described the film as "Toy Story meets Tim Burton", and thought that the animation closely resembles Thompson's watercolor illustrations.
The second, Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy (based on the second book), premiered in 2005.