The Art of Over the Garden Wall

About this book

Venture into the Unknown! A complete tour through the development and production of the Emmy-winning animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall this volume contains hundreds of pieces of concept art and sketches and a comprehensive look at the shows breathtaking production art. From the original Tome of the Unknown: Harvest Melody pilot through each of the episodes and beyond take a strange and wonderful journey with Wirt Greg and Beatrice. Learn how the award-winning backgrounds were created see animation storyboards and even take a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the Mondo vinyl soundtrack and For Sara mix tape as well as the ongoing Boom! Studios comics. Sean Edgar guides the tour which includes commentary from creators Patrick McHale and Nick Cross. Im so happy Sean and Dark Horse got this book to happen! Its been really interesting going through all my old sketchbooks notes and file folders in search of lost bits and pieces from the shows development said Patrick McHale. This handsome volume will contain a nice mixture of beautiful drawings and paintings from the series amusing anecdotes about the process unseen and unused artwork that didnt make the final cut other mysterious odds and ends and a whole lot of horrible ugly early development sketches that should inspire people to say Hey I could do better than that!