But is it Gothic? – Adventure Time

But Is it Gothic? – Adventure TimeMarceline the Vampire Queen, Adventure Time opening sequenceVampires? Check. Creepy landscapes? Check. Radioactive fallout resulting in mutations of sentient lollipops – come again? No I didn’t spill magic-mushroom flavour ice cream all over my handbook to Gothic literature, I’m just very excited to be writing a piece on one … Continue reading But is it Gothic? – Adventure Time →

But is it Gothic? – Courage the Cowardly Dog

This week, the Gothic Reading Group met to discuss the childhood cartoons that formed us into the wonderful Gothic adult-children we still are to this day. Daniel Southward here discusses his relationship to a cartoon dog. Why do we watch things that make us afraid? It's an important questions and one that dogs Gothic and Horror … Continue reading But is it Gothic? – Courage the Cowardly Dog →

Going ‘Over the Garden Wall’

Since we find ourselves once again the greatest season of them all (Autumn, in case you were wondering) and fast approaching that most awesome of holidays (Halloween, obviously) it seems like a good time to talk about a little cartoon called Over the Garden Wall, which first aired on Cartoon Network last November, and released … Continue reading Going ‘Over the Garden Wall’ →