The Story

In a small, hidden village near Devils Lake in Oregon, a group of the world's most well-known monsters have gathered together and formed a community of their own. Last year, the children of some of Devils Lake's most prominent citizens attended the newly-chartered Monster High; and, following a successful first school year, teenaged monsters from all over the globe are flocking to Devils Lake in the hopes of pursuing a monstrous education and making friends with other monsters their age.

One of these new students is Frankie Stein, daughter of Monster High's Mad Science teacher, Dr. Herman Stein. At only 15 days old, Frankie still has a lot to learn about the world—how is she supposed to survive high school on top of it?

The Backstory

"Freaky Gone Fabulous" essentially began as a Monster High fanfic back in 2010. I wrote a few chapters, but I was having trouble keeping up with the ever-evolving canon of the various MH universe (two different sets of cartoons, constantly changing diaries, Lisi Harrison's books, Gitty Daneshvari's books, etc). At the same time, I was getting heavily into the hobby of photographing my dolls. At some point, I thought, "What if instead of a fanfic, I did a webcomic with my dolls?" I spent a long time wondering if such an undertaking would be possible, but as new playsets and furniture became available, it seemed more and more reasonable of an idea. I finally decided to do a few test pages and loved the way they came out! So I decided to give it a shot.

FAQs and JSYKs

Just so you know...

• "Freaky Gone Fabulous" follows my headcanon for the Monster High dolls and characters. The basic storyline began based on the diaries, so there will be a lot of similarities between the diaries and FGF, especially at first. However, the story will begin to diversify and go in a different direction before long (since I pretty much threw my hands up in despair and gave up trying to figure out canon after the first wave dolls came out). I hope you'll enjoy seeing the different direction I take the series in!

• Please don't try to make FGF fit into the continuity of any of the Monster High canon universes. I have not seen any of the cartoons or movies beyond "season 1," nor read any of Lisi Harrison's books. I have read the diaries that came with every doll I own (but I don't own them all). I have also read Gitty Daneshvari's first book. I will likely draw some plot points from these sources, but others will be discarded. I'm definitely playing fast and loose with canon, please forgive me for that. :3

• "Freaky Gone Fabulous" is based on the characters as presented in the Gen 1 diaries. The Gen 3 canon has made a number of changes, including to characters' ethnicities, gender identities, and sexual orientations. While, as a queer woman, I am pleased to see more inclusive rep in new MH gens, "Freaky Gone Fabulous" adheres to the characterizations of Gen 1. This includes the gender identities and sexual orientations of the characters. I already scripted the story back in 2010 and I don't plan to change my scripts. Queer original characters will be appearing later in the series, as was scripted at the time I wrote the series in 2010.

Frequently asked questions...

• What tools do you use? I photograph my dolls with a Canon Powershot. The photos are edited in Photoshop Elements with a Genius drawing tablet. For a list of other resources that I use, please see below.

• How can I help FGF? I have a list of items that I am looking to use in upcoming issues of "Freaky Gone Fabulous." If you can help me track any of these items down, I'd be eternally grateful! You can find a list of these items here.

Resources

Here's a list of the resources I've used to make this comic. Major thanks to the amazing artists who have made their stock art, brushes, etc. available for people like me to use!

Patterns for Custom Clothing:
• Creations from a Mad Plastic Surgeon
• Kristine Ann's

Monster High Backdrops:
• Shadow-People
• sinayastarchild
• Chunk07x
• ShaiBrooklyn
• Kiyoshiko

Photoshop Brushes:
• ElizaVetBrushes
• Winerla
• Obsidian Dawn Resources