Tony Fleecs and Tim Seeley Turn Fairy-Tale Princesses Into a Whodunit With The Princess Murders

Stray Dogs creators Tony Fleecs and Tim Seeley are reteaming at Image Comics for The Princess Murders, a horror-comedy launching December 9 that takes direct aim at the cheerful iconography of animated princess movies. The premise: a beloved princess turns up dead, and it falls to her wicked stepsister and put-upon fairy godmother to figure out who did it.

Fleecs and Seeley made their names turning familiar, cutesy imagery inside out - Stray Dogs did it with dog cartoons, and Princess Murders looks to apply the same trick to the sanitized world of castles, talking animals, and happily-ever-afters. Early coverage of the announcement points to a tone that's equal parts campy slasher and self-aware fairy-tale parody, with the stepsister-and-godmother detective pairing doing a lot of the comedic heavy lifting.

Given how well Stray Dogs performed for the pair - and Image's track record of turning these creator-owned horror-comedy books into surprise hits - retailers who chased that book's reorders will want Princess Murders on their radar well ahead of its December ship date.

Source: Comic Watch