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Courtney Crumrin and The Night Things (Courtney Crumrin #1)
by
Ted Naifeh
Presenting the initial Courtney Crumrin miniseries in a new digest-sized format. Courtney's parents have dragged her out to a high-to-do suburb to live with her creepy Great Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old house. She's not only the new kid in school, but she also discovers strange things lurking under her bed.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
May 28th 2003
by Oni Press
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Abigail
rated it
Recommends it for:
Gunnerkrigg Court Fans / Anyone Who Enjoys Spooky, Supernatural Tales
Recommended to Abigail by:
Katri
I first became aware of the Courtney Crumrin series when I saw it compared to Tom Siddell's brilliant Gunnerkrigg Court graphic novels (originally a web-comic), which I absolutely adore. When a goodreads friend also had good things to say about the Courtney Crumrin comic, I decided I needed to give these books a try, and I'm glad that I did!
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things is a trade edition, containing the four individual issues of the comic, and is narrated by a goblin named B...more
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things is a trade edition, containing the four individual issues of the comic, and is narrated by a goblin named B...more
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Any book where children occasionally get eaten by night creatures without any apologies by the author is okay in my book! Courtney is such a fantastic character. Wish I was half as badass as she is! (Though personally I am happy I have a nose. Why does she have no nose?! Why did I not even notice she didn't have a nose until someone pointed it out to me?!)
I had read the four chapters that comprise this initial volume of the adventures of Courtney Crumrin as they had originally appeared in single issues. I had found the series amusing but nothing spectacular. It's grim and fun, but shows little staying power.
Which is why it took me so long to review the collection.
I had purchased the first two volumes of the series in a fit of patriotism (participating in wild consumer endeavors is the best way to show ones support of the e...more
Which is why it took me so long to review the collection.
I had purchased the first two volumes of the series in a fit of patriotism (participating in wild consumer endeavors is the best way to show ones support of the e...more
I stumbled across this series in the comic store, where I picked up one of the later books. I liked the style so I bought the first two volumes. And they did not disappoint. This book is very dark (horrible things actually happen to people, and this is just shrugged off by those who know about it), but it's also about being an individual and not worrying too much about what others think. Courtney's a great character. I did think her parents were a bit overdone. Yeah, we get it--they're superfici...more
A friend of mine sent me home with this graphic novel back in October. Even though I don't usually won't when someone has lent me a book, he requested that I not read it in the bathtub. That being the case, it has taken be this long to get to it. While over at this house eating lasagne and watching horror movies, he brought it back to my attention. He said that it was a quick read, which I already figured given the page numbers and the simple fact that it is a graphic novel. After finishing...more
Rose
rated it
Recommends it for:
dark fairy tales in graphic novel form
Recommended to Rose by:
NetGalley, Oni Press
"Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things: Volume 1" is rife with dark humor and imaginative interactions, much of which I enjoyed for the most part. I wouldn't say it's the most engaging comic I've ever come across for its genre, but it is entertaining for an introductory read, and one I'd likely continue to see what happens.
The titular protagonist is a young girl who, along with her parents, goes to live with her strange, but oddly alluring uncle. From there, Courtney has to...more
The titular protagonist is a young girl who, along with her parents, goes to live with her strange, but oddly alluring uncle. From there, Courtney has to...more
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Courtney and her parents have just moved to the rich suburbs to live with Courtney’s uncle in his eerie old house. Things are not going well for Courtney. She can’t make friends, her teachers hate her, and there are monsters in her room. When she mentions she can’t sleep to her uncle, she finds out about his dabbling in witchcraft and tries out some of the spells on her own.
I first heard about Courtney Crumrin from USA Today’s PopCandy. I wanted ...more
Courtney and her parents have just moved to the rich suburbs to live with Courtney’s uncle in his eerie old house. Things are not going well for Courtney. She can’t make friends, her teachers hate her, and there are monsters in her room. When she mentions she can’t sleep to her uncle, she finds out about his dabbling in witchcraft and tries out some of the spells on her own.
I first heard about Courtney Crumrin from USA Today’s PopCandy. I wanted ...more
Courtney Crumrin Volume 1
by Ted Naifeh
Oni Press Publishing
available 4/11/12
Fun dark, gothic, graphic novel.
The artwork is stellar and the characterization of Courtney Crumrin kept me laughing throughout the book.
The story is really three small sub plots combined into one gothic style graphic novel. To begin, Courtney is uprooted and relocated into her old Uncle's house. He is a spooky old man with an even spookier house. Courtney has an attitude...more
by Ted Naifeh
Oni Press Publishing
available 4/11/12
Fun dark, gothic, graphic novel.
The artwork is stellar and the characterization of Courtney Crumrin kept me laughing throughout the book.
The story is really three small sub plots combined into one gothic style graphic novel. To begin, Courtney is uprooted and relocated into her old Uncle's house. He is a spooky old man with an even spookier house. Courtney has an attitude...more
Courtney Crumrin is being forced to move to a more upscale suburb by her slightly opportunistic and always oblivious parents to live with her Uncle Aloysius. Thing is, though, Courtney isn't your average mall kid, the new house isn't your your modern day McMansion, and Uncle Aloysius isn't your typical crusty old coot - good thing, too, because when things start getting weird, Ucle Aloysius may be the only one standing between Courtney and disaster.
Courtney Crumrin is a modern Gothic f...more
Courtney Crumrin is a modern Gothic f...more
Courtney Crumrin was forced by her parents to move to her great uncle's home, or was it her great, great uncle? No one's quite sure to be honest but all Courtney can remember of her times there before were that the place was quite odd and it hasn't gotten any better. And as uninviting as his home is, her great uncle is just as uninviting. As she stays in the house of her Uncle Crumrin she has many adventures, or misadventures while living there and she learns quite a lot about herself and her...more
From a parent's point of view:
I thought that this was a pretty cute book, and I like that my kids are really enjoying Manga. It's an easy read for them and something that they can read in between other books to boost their confidence. I wasn't crazy about the content in this book, though, and if I had read it before my daughter, I probably wouldn't have given it to her. The age recommendation on the book is for ages 7 and up, but I found the language a bit much, and the content wa...more
I thought that this was a pretty cute book, and I like that my kids are really enjoying Manga. It's an easy read for them and something that they can read in between other books to boost their confidence. I wasn't crazy about the content in this book, though, and if I had read it before my daughter, I probably wouldn't have given it to her. The age recommendation on the book is for ages 7 and up, but I found the language a bit much, and the content wa...more
Plot Summary
This book is about a girl who had to move to her uncle's mansion and she thought her uncle was creepy. At school she was teased and talked about. She was bullied by a group of kids who beat her up and took her allowance. Then she meets a boy at school who is nice to her. But when they were walking through the woods, he was attacked and eaten by a werewolf. She gets away, but then discovers a whole new world of creatures that she never knew existed, and found out that her uncle w...more
This book is about a girl who had to move to her uncle's mansion and she thought her uncle was creepy. At school she was teased and talked about. She was bullied by a group of kids who beat her up and took her allowance. Then she meets a boy at school who is nice to her. But when they were walking through the woods, he was attacked and eaten by a werewolf. She gets away, but then discovers a whole new world of creatures that she never knew existed, and found out that her uncle w...more
Here is yet another story introducing a young character to a secret magical world, but Naifeh puts forth an above-average effort in capturing the perspective of an extraordinary girl, making it more engrossing for younger readers while losing none of the wit or edge necessary to charm those older than the heroine.
Courtney's flaky and selfish parents take the opportunity to sponge off a mysterious older relative, Uncle Aloysius, moving their family into his spooky mansion located in th...more
Courtney's flaky and selfish parents take the opportunity to sponge off a mysterious older relative, Uncle Aloysius, moving their family into his spooky mansion located in th...more
A creepy graphic novel with a good mix of reality and fantasy. Courtney and her parents have just moved in with her great-uncle, the mysterious Professor Crumrin, and Courtney is having a hard time adjusting. By nature an outsider, being new makes her transition to the new town
and school all the more difficult. Right away at school she meets the bullies, and realizes the one boy who is nice to her is really the ultimate nerd of the school. And at home her parents are off in their own world...more
and school all the more difficult. Right away at school she meets the bullies, and realizes the one boy who is nice to her is really the ultimate nerd of the school. And at home her parents are off in their own world...more
Eh.
The plot was meh (pretty predictable). The characters were meh (although I actually liked the parents since they were so self-absorbed in trying to fit in with the rest of gentry that it was both amusing and pathetic to read about).
The art was decent. However, I had a big issue with Courtney's face. While everyone else's faces were relatively normal looking with chins and whatnot, Courtney's face was basically a rounded blob that sometimes was more square-ish with rounde...more
The plot was meh (pretty predictable). The characters were meh (although I actually liked the parents since they were so self-absorbed in trying to fit in with the rest of gentry that it was both amusing and pathetic to read about).
The art was decent. However, I had a big issue with Courtney's face. While everyone else's faces were relatively normal looking with chins and whatnot, Courtney's face was basically a rounded blob that sometimes was more square-ish with rounde...more
I loved this story. Courtney's courageous, smart and has a lot of spunk. If your looking for something that's got a little bit of a creep factor, but enjoyable even for younger readers I recommend this one.
This story opens up with Courtney and her parents moving to a posh part of town to live with their Uncle Aloysius. In the opening pages Aloysius is described to us by a gremlin creature Butterworm
who is peaking through the monstrous houses' windows about the
creature...more
Courtney moves into a gothic mansion with strange noises and a fey forest right outside her door. "Harry Potter," this is not. After Courtney's only kind-of friend is eaten by a goblin in the woods, she decides that she's not going to put up with the trouble in her life, both everyday and supernatural. With a book of spells she "borrows" from her uncle, she takes on school bullies with the aid of a goblin, tries to make friends with a magic spell, baby-sits a changeling, and ...more
Courney Crumrin tells the story of the eponymous girl, middle-school-aged, who discovers that her mysterious uncle is actually a wizard of some sort. She begins dabbling in the occult arts and nearly gets herself killed, enslaved, and blown up. In other words, she has a whole lot of fun.
It's an entertaining story with solid characterization and a dark narrative that fits the style of the art well. It's probably a little advanced for a six-year-old, as evidenced by the fact that I...more
It's an entertaining story with solid characterization and a dark narrative that fits the style of the art well. It's probably a little advanced for a six-year-old, as evidenced by the fact that I...more
I was sucked into the story right away! Courtney's parents, living well beyond their means, jump at the chance to live rent free at Great Uncle Aloysius's creepy old mansion that happens to be in the rich area of town. Having use of the lower floors but strictly forbidden to enter his upper domain the parents settle in. Courtney can't make friends at school due to her association with the Crumrin house and she hears things in the night. This leads to her snooping around and finding an old book w...more
I got an eGalley of this book through NetGalley.com. It was a really excellent graphic novel filled with mystery, some creepy things, and magic. After reading it I want to go out and read all of the other books in the series.
Courtney Crumrin is forced to move into her great-uncle's old creepy house with her parents (who are broke and need a place to live). To say that Courtney doesn't fit in in this prestigious town and preppy school is an understatement. Then one night Courtney ...more
Courtney Crumrin is forced to move into her great-uncle's old creepy house with her parents (who are broke and need a place to live). To say that Courtney doesn't fit in in this prestigious town and preppy school is an understatement. Then one night Courtney ...more
This was about a girl who sees herself as an outsider. Her and her ditzy social climbing parents move into her great uncle's house so that they can live rent free (and also so her uncle can change his reputation; he wants to be perceived as harmless). Courtney encounters all kinds of mysterious night creatures and gets herself into some serious scrapes one of which her uncle gets her out of. The story pulls from many old celtic fairie myths, such as changlings, and goblins. At the end of the...more
I read this book this summer with a very reluctant reader in the 8th grade. At first he wasn't sure it was O.K. to call a "comic" a book, but by the end of the summer he not only read this book but the other two that follow in the series.
I read along with him and liked Courtney and her anti-Harry Potter antics. I found her parents rather repulsive, in that they were truly shallow and materialistic. The pictures were fun and I notices that even those characters who were ...more
I read along with him and liked Courtney and her anti-Harry Potter antics. I found her parents rather repulsive, in that they were truly shallow and materialistic. The pictures were fun and I notices that even those characters who were ...more
Rae
rated it
This is a cute little graphic novel about a middle schooler, Courtney Crumrin who moves with her parents into the old, spooky house of her great uncle who has an unusual hobby--occult. She runs into all sorts of trouble with goblins, changelings, and by casting her own spells.
The art style is good and cute, even the goblins look cute throughout. Courtney is an awesome heroine, sarcastic and not that fond of people (except her uncle, of course). Her struggle to make friends in a new s...more
The art style is good and cute, even the goblins look cute throughout. Courtney is an awesome heroine, sarcastic and not that fond of people (except her uncle, of course). Her struggle to make friends in a new s...more
Courtney Crumrin raconte l'histoire d'une petite fille solitaire et de sa difficulté à s'adapter dans notre monde et dans le monde des choses de la nuit. C'est lors d'un déménagement qu'elle découvre cet univers, qui est aussi celui de son oncle, un personnage de prime abord assez froid, et cet univers va l'intriguer de plus en plus. Les dessins en noir et blanc sont très intenses et les jeux d'ombres sont très jolis. Les petites mimiques genre "yeux ronds" rendent les situations parfo...more
Ted Nafieh paints a wonderfully gothic picture that channels the best parts of Mike Mignola's Hellboy and Emily the Strange, populating a world of creepy victorian mansions, imposing elder forrests, exotic mystical marketplaces, and fantastic creaures that live in a world on the fringe of our own.
The enchanting title character, is a lovable dark, and dispossessed brooder dealing with life in a new school while unraveling the mysteries of her family lineage and learning you can't tru...more
The enchanting title character, is a lovable dark, and dispossessed brooder dealing with life in a new school while unraveling the mysteries of her family lineage and learning you can't tru...more
I have never read a graphic novel before this book, nor did I have any interest in doing so. I assumed that all graphic novels were written specifically for teenaged boys, with a lot of BANG!, POW! and ZOWIE! inserted into the picture during a ridiculous fight scene between two even more absurd characters. I also thought they all had to do with Superheroes and Villians like the Marvel comics or they were all Japanese Anime; I couldn't have been more wrong. I ended up really really enjoying th...more
Courtney can be annoyingly persistent at turning everything into a bad time, but then again she is a teenager in high school. I like this series a lot, but I'm not quite sure exactly why. The characters are fairly predictable but I like the general plotline and the humor infused throughout the whole thing. What can I say, I can't turn down a book with dark humor, magic, creepy creatures, and a mysterious relative.
(Most people I think who would enjoy reading this would likely be in mi...more
(Most people I think who would enjoy reading this would likely be in mi...more
Courtney Crumrin and The Night Things is one of those graphic novels that catches your attention from page one. The artwork is amazing through its simplicity; the characters are unique, and the story is fascinating.
I really got attached to Courtney, and I’ll admit that I’m jealous of her. I wish I could live in her world... Any person should have his or her own monster buddies, don’t you think?
My only problem was the lack of coloring that started since page 36. However, s...more
I really got attached to Courtney, and I’ll admit that I’m jealous of her. I wish I could live in her world... Any person should have his or her own monster buddies, don’t you think?
My only problem was the lack of coloring that started since page 36. However, s...more
Good stuff. I was first introduced to Ted Naifeh through his work on Tristan Crane's "How Loathsome," one of the few comix to portray trans characters convincingly and respectfully. The art in this series is very different -- less realistic, cleaner lines -- but the irreverent, dark humor is in full effect. Courtney's an outsider in the straight world but she's learning how to navigate the world of ghouls & goblins with some help from her mysterious uncle & his library. Sometimes she g...more
My Rating: 3.8/5 Stars
I don’t read many graphic novels – if I had to guess, I’d say I read maybe five a year – but when I saw Courtney Crumrin, Volume 1 on NetGalley, I was intrigued. A dark, twisted story with plenty of humor, I really enjoyed reading this one.
Courtney’s parents have dragged her to live with her Great Uncle Aloysius at his creepy old mansion. Uncle Aloysius is getting up there in age and her parents are running out of credit to support their fantasy life, so m...more
I don’t read many graphic novels – if I had to guess, I’d say I read maybe five a year – but when I saw Courtney Crumrin, Volume 1 on NetGalley, I was intrigued. A dark, twisted story with plenty of humor, I really enjoyed reading this one.
Courtney’s parents have dragged her to live with her Great Uncle Aloysius at his creepy old mansion. Uncle Aloysius is getting up there in age and her parents are running out of credit to support their fantasy life, so m...more
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Ted Naifeh is an American comic book writer and artist who gained notoriety for his illustrations in the goth romance comic Gloomcookie. Naifeh has since become most known as the creator of the Eisner-Award-nominated series Courtney Crumrin, published by Oni Press.
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