As the music starts Greg's frog begins to sing Over the Garden Wall during the boat ride. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this miniseries. Beatrice convinces Wirt to play the bassoon instead and does so beautifully. McHale abandoned the original idea centered around chapters of a mystical tome and the series' title became Over the Garden Wall. The first thing to say about Patrick McHales Cartoon Network miniseries 'Over the Garden Wall,' after noting that it is beautiful to behold and worth the while of anyone interested in. After creating a pilot episode, Tome of the Unknown: Harvest Melody, McHale and the network settled upon the miniseries format for the ensuing series, as McHale felt that it would lead to "something that felt higher quality than what we could do with a regular series". Aside from its message, the beauty and grace with which the story is told brings an almost comforting air to the idea of our own mortality through music, a warm, soothing aesthetic. The network later asked him if he had interest in developing a pilot, which led to him returning to Tome of the Unknown, polishing it and pitching it again to the network. Shows like Over the Garden Wall slowly open the door to conversations with our children about what it means to die, and to be dead, even if it opens just a crack. After his work for Flapjack, McHale moved on to co-develop Adventure Time, where he served as creative director, and subsequently as a writer. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. McHale saw it as "a possible Halloween special", but had trouble adapting the premise with a larger story arc. Take an exclusive first look at Monlongo’s character designs, as well as the first issue’s.
The series would follow two brothers, Walter and Gregory, who after signing themselves into a Faustian deal with a devil named Old Scratch, journey across the Land of the In-Between to track down the pages of a book of forgotten stories. Over the Garden Wall: Hollow Town 1 is available digitally and in comic stores in September 2018.
Perfect for its Fall and Halloween vibes, I revisit it each Autumn around October to feel Over the Garden Wall’s nostalgic warmth all over again. Before working as a storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, artist Patrick McHale pitched the show in 2006, then known under the title Tome of the Unknown. Patrick McHale’s animated family dark fantasy miniseries Over the Garden Wall (2014) is an essential experience from Cartoon Network’s first mini-series. Over the Garden Wall was first envisioned in 2004 with a scarier and more adventure-based storyline. Beatrice, jokingly: Fun game, play peek-a-boo with your child but never reappear.
Over The Garden Wall is an animation miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network.