Scary Go Round

Scary Go Round is a webcomic by English artist John Allison about the lives of a number of young people in the fictional English town of Tackleford . For the scene of the comic typical events and being part of the horror - genres , such as parallel universes , time travel , zombies , ghosts and the devilitself. At the center of the story, however, are the interpersonal relationships of the protagonists, which are depicted in a humorous way and form a continuous plot. The comic has existed since 2002, has received several press reviews and has received various awards.

Comic Scary Go Round

history

Scary Go Round was released from June 2002 to September 2009 and is the successor to the webcomic Bobbins , which comes from the same illustrator. It was initially created entirely on the computer with the help of Adobe Illustrator , but is now drawn on paper with a pen and colored and lettered on the computer . The webcomic Bad Machinery , which takes up some of the characters from Scary Go Round, has been released since September 2009 .

Reviews and prices

In a review of the Webcomic Examiner the idiosyncratic atmosphere of the comics is described as “hard to describe” and the dialogues as “hyper-ironic with false naivety” (“hyper-ironic faux naive”). The social interaction of the characters is compared to that of a sitcom , while the supernatural events are essential, but never really threatening. The style has since found some imitators.

The Sunday Times described Scary Go Round as "postmodern British horror" and as "subtle and stylishly drawn".

The comic has received various honors since its inception. Among other things, it was included in the Webcomic Examiner's 2004 Best Webcomics and won several Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards (2003 and 2005).

Others

The title of the comic is a play on the English expression “merry-go-round” (German carousel), in which the word “merry” (happy, cheerful) is replaced by “scary” (creepy, fearsome).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Whitney: "Laboratory and Obsession". In: WebComics Examiner. URL: Laboratory and Obsession ( Memento June 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed February 8, 2008)
2. ↑ Danny O'Briend: "Site test: The tooniverse explodes". In: Sunday Times, February 26, 2006. URL: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article735072.ece (accessed February 8, 2008)
3. ↑ The Best Webcomics of 2004 ( Memento August 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed February 8, 2008)
4. ↑ http://www.ccawards.com/2003.htm ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and http://www.ccawards.com/2005.htm ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2010 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 8, 2008)  

Web links

• Scary Go Round (Official Homepage, English)
• Review by the WebComics Examiner ( Memento from June 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Bobbins (predecessor of comic Scary Go Round, English)