Craig Kringle: I watched Adventure Time religiously with my kids (and multiple times with my younger son who adores it), and I was immediately captured by the ads for Over the Garden Wall when they first aired. I knew from the first night that it had a mood and storytelling style that I would love, so it was one of my favorite shows even before I saw more than half of it.
But then a year later, I finally found the original short with Old John Crops online. His melon car tipped me off that you had seen some old Halloween postcards, and, since I collect of old holiday postcards, I rewatched everything looking for connections. It was thrilling when Art of Over the Garden Wall came out because it confirmed that you had been looking at a lot of these things.
So how did you first come across old postcards talked about in Art of Over the Garden Wall?
Patrick McHale: I’ve always enjoyed going to antique shops, and postcards were something affordable that I could flip through and actually purchase even when I was younger. So over time I started getting a better understanding of them, and it started becoming a bit of a game to find oddball ones. {read}