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Small Town Spirits

Illustrated by Gabriele Bagnoli
Paperback
6-5/8"W x 10-3/16"H | 13 oz | 24 per carton
On sale May 13, 2025 | 88 Pages | 9781506737782
Age 8-12 years
FOC Jan 6, 2025 | Catalog December 2024
A fantastical, all-ages graphic novel from the creative team that brought you Hotel REM—Zack Keller (Cuphead) and Gabriele Bagnoli!

There is a town in Ireland where people still do Halloween the old-fashioned way: an annual sporting competition to honor the Spirits.


Every year, the perfect, prestigious O’Dell family makes an absolute mockery of the lovable but laughable Flanagan family at The Spirit Games, dashing their dreams of winning. But this year, teenage troublemaker Pad Flanagan plans to change everything: he tricks the Spirit of an ancient Celtic hero into training his family for the big event…accidentally opening a supernatural floodgate of mischief, magic and monsters that threatens to destroy his town.
Zack Keller is a writer and director for TV, feature films, videogames and comic books, currently working as a Narrative Director at King and a creator/writer at Dark Horse Comics. After beginning his career at Pixar Animation Studios, he co-created Dick Figures, the highest-rated animated web series on YouTube which earned nearly a billion views and an Annie Award nomination. At Telltale Games, he was a lead writer and narrative designer for such franchises as Guardians of the Galaxy, Batman, The Walking Dead and Tales from the Borderlands. Most recently, he was a screenwriter for Cartoon Network’s animated series Unikitty!, produced by Warner Brothers Animation and The LEGO Group, wrote a three-book anthology for the hit franchise Cuphead, and created the original graphic novel Hotel REM for Dark Horse Comics. 

www.zackkeller.com
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About

A fantastical, all-ages graphic novel from the creative team that brought you Hotel REM—Zack Keller (Cuphead) and Gabriele Bagnoli!

There is a town in Ireland where people still do Halloween the old-fashioned way: an annual sporting competition to honor the Spirits.


Every year, the perfect, prestigious O’Dell family makes an absolute mockery of the lovable but laughable Flanagan family at The Spirit Games, dashing their dreams of winning. But this year, teenage troublemaker Pad Flanagan plans to change everything: he tricks the Spirit of an ancient Celtic hero into training his family for the big event…accidentally opening a supernatural floodgate of mischief, magic and monsters that threatens to destroy his town.

Creators

Zack Keller is a writer and director for TV, feature films, videogames and comic books, currently working as a Narrative Director at King and a creator/writer at Dark Horse Comics. After beginning his career at Pixar Animation Studios, he co-created Dick Figures, the highest-rated animated web series on YouTube which earned nearly a billion views and an Annie Award nomination. At Telltale Games, he was a lead writer and narrative designer for such franchises as Guardians of the Galaxy, Batman, The Walking Dead and Tales from the Borderlands. Most recently, he was a screenwriter for Cartoon Network’s animated series Unikitty!, produced by Warner Brothers Animation and The LEGO Group, wrote a three-book anthology for the hit franchise Cuphead, and created the original graphic novel Hotel REM for Dark Horse Comics. 

www.zackkeller.com
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