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I Hate Fairyland #1-4
I Hate Fairyland: The Whole Fluffing Tale, Compendium One
Eisner Award-winning writer and artist SKOTTIE YOUNG (MIDDLEWEST, TWIG, THE ME YOU LOVE IN THE DARK) tells the bloody good tale of the gruesome, grotesque, green-haired GERT!
In this deluxe mega-sized compendium, join Gert, a grown woman trapped in a six-year old girl’s body, who has been stuck in the magical world of Fairyland for over thirty years. All Gert wants is to return home, but with an endless array of cute and terrifying Fairylanders blocking her every move, she might lose her mind in the process. We’re talking totally fluffing losing it.
Accompanied by a chain-smoking fly named Larry and her trusty blood-soaked battle-axe, Gert battles an army of cosplay Gerts, a goblin king, and her own sanity, only to find herself sucked into a fantasy hellscape forever. Forever ever. Forever ever? Yeah. No biggie.
Collects I HATE FAIRYLAND Issues 1-20, I HATE IMAGE FCBD SPECIAL
In this deluxe mega-sized compendium, join Gert, a grown woman trapped in a six-year old girl’s body, who has been stuck in the magical world of Fairyland for over thirty years. All Gert wants is to return home, but with an endless array of cute and terrifying Fairylanders blocking her every move, she might lose her mind in the process. We’re talking totally fluffing losing it.
Accompanied by a chain-smoking fly named Larry and her trusty blood-soaked battle-axe, Gert battles an army of cosplay Gerts, a goblin king, and her own sanity, only to find herself sucked into a fantasy hellscape forever. Forever ever. Forever ever? Yeah. No biggie.
Collects I HATE FAIRYLAND Issues 1-20, I HATE IMAGE FCBD SPECIAL
560 pages, Paperback
Published July 23, 2024
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About the author
Skottie Young
655 books1,053 followersSkottie Young has been an illustrator and cartoonist for over ten years working for entertainment and publishing companies such Marvel, Warner Bros., Image, Upper Deck, Mattel, and many more.
He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.
Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.
He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.
Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.
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October 20, 2025
Gertrude (Gertie) is a young girl who is unwillingly transported to Fairyland, where she is to remain until she and Larrington (Larry), her guide, find the key to the door back to her world. According to Queen Cloudia, this shouldn't take long. Twenty-seven years later, Gertie is still in Fairyland, a bitter and violent woman stuck in the body of a child. Queen Cloudia wants her gone but is forbidden from harming visitors to Fairyland, so she brings another little girl into Fairyland in an effort to circumvent the rules.
This was violent, irreverent, and gross. Vomit, snot, blood, tears, etc. were plentiful. The cartoonish gore was a little too gross for my tastes, unfortunately. I was reminded of Ren & Stimpy, which I found more repulsive than entertaining, as well as Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan.
I had some trouble feeling sympathy for Gertie when I realized that she was primarily stuck in Fairyland not because she was unfairly trapped but rather because she refused, from the beginning, to listen to her guide. From the sounds of things, she really should have been able to get out of Fairyland decades sooner.
The story got so twisted in on itself by the end that I wasn't always sure what was going on. Despite the "Compendium One" bit in the title, though, this felt like a complete story on its own, so thankfully I didn't feel compelled to go hunting for more story, although Wikipedia tells me the story does indeed continue.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
This was violent, irreverent, and gross. Vomit, snot, blood, tears, etc. were plentiful. The cartoonish gore was a little too gross for my tastes, unfortunately. I was reminded of Ren & Stimpy, which I found more repulsive than entertaining, as well as Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan.
I had some trouble feeling sympathy for Gertie when I realized that she was primarily stuck in Fairyland not because she was unfairly trapped but rather because she refused, from the beginning, to listen to her guide. From the sounds of things, she really should have been able to get out of Fairyland decades sooner.
The story got so twisted in on itself by the end that I wasn't always sure what was going on. Despite the "Compendium One" bit in the title, though, this felt like a complete story on its own, so thankfully I didn't feel compelled to go hunting for more story, although Wikipedia tells me the story does indeed continue.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
December 5, 2023
Я очень люблю арт Скотти Янга, но его ран Deadpool, Vol. 1: Mercin' Hard for the Money должен был, конечно, снизить мои ожидания и подготовить к тому, что в качестве сценариста он не настолько же хорош (хотя я и люблю Strange Academy: First Class). Ну сага о девочке Гертруде, попавшей в Сказочную страну, неплохо там свихнувшейся и ставшей ее бичом и ходячим кошмаром, вроде как была его magnum opus, так что руки должны были дойти рано или поздно.
И всё оказалось довольно разочаровывающе - после забавного стартового выпуска все довольно быстро становится очень репетативно и напоминает популярный во времена моей юности анимационный веб-сериал Happy Tree Fiends - яркие милые мультяшные персонажи и нарочито гипертрофированное насилие и гор, которыми все кончается. И так раз за разом. Лишь только ко второму-третьему тому начинается какое-то более-менее интересное развитие сюжета и развитие персонажей. Meh.
И всё оказалось довольно разочаровывающе - после забавного стартового выпуска все довольно быстро становится очень репетативно и напоминает популярный во времена моей юности анимационный веб-сериал Happy Tree Fiends - яркие милые мультяшные персонажи и нарочито гипертрофированное насилие и гор, которыми все кончается. И так раз за разом. Лишь только ко второму-третьему тому начинается какое-то более-менее интересное развитие сюжета и развитие персонажей. Meh.
August 22, 2025
Well that was insane in a pretty spectacular way. Taking a child, dumping them into Fairyland with a quest to find a key and get out, and then seeing how crazy she gets when she can't find the key, for decades, without aging.
I know I was initially drawn to this because the art reminded me a bit of Rocko's Modern Life with a healthy dose of Ren and Stimpy style writing. A bit like an adult fractured fairy tale that sticks to anger and violence rather than sexual comments, and with a sense of humor to make some of us proud.
Admittedly, this does got a bit off track sometimes, but then again, that is a bit of the fun of the read at times. The fact that this basically falls back to the plot line eventually helps too, and one could almost argue that it's a complete story, except that I know this is only the first volume of the series. It came back for a second volume that has it's own trade paperbacks out there (and maybe a compendium someday too). Still, it's mostly a lot of fun. Obscenely rude and violent at times, but still fun.
I know I was initially drawn to this because the art reminded me a bit of Rocko's Modern Life with a healthy dose of Ren and Stimpy style writing. A bit like an adult fractured fairy tale that sticks to anger and violence rather than sexual comments, and with a sense of humor to make some of us proud.
Admittedly, this does got a bit off track sometimes, but then again, that is a bit of the fun of the read at times. The fact that this basically falls back to the plot line eventually helps too, and one could almost argue that it's a complete story, except that I know this is only the first volume of the series. It came back for a second volume that has it's own trade paperbacks out there (and maybe a compendium someday too). Still, it's mostly a lot of fun. Obscenely rude and violent at times, but still fun.
October 19, 2025
Funny and gratuitously violent in a cartoonish way, ending is solid and I liked the sort of bonus issue at the end where she goes around killing all the image comic writers. Seriously one of the more unique comics I’ve read in a while!
March 26, 2025
Fun and colorful.
August 15, 2024
☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️/5
Y’all have heard me talk about I Hate Fairyland before and I’m back to tell you more!
I have read volumes 1-6 but as soon as Compendium One (volumes 1-4) was on our radars @thebookcloser and I preordered it.
This is the first time I’ve ever reread anything as an adult and I loved it just as much the second time.
I’m NOT a graphic novel girlie. But, I love this series SO MUCH. Gert is a smart sass fluffing baddie and her guide Larry is a scrotum shaped fly. The banter between these two is hilarious.
These are for adults!
AMAZING graphic artwork. Adult humor. Seriously the best thing to read if you are in a rut, having a bad day or are in between books and don’t know what to read.
Can someone please just take my word for it and order it???? You can get volume 1-4 in this book or simply get volume 1. You’re gonna want the paper copy. The art is too perfect for an ereader.
Y’all have heard me talk about I Hate Fairyland before and I’m back to tell you more!
I have read volumes 1-6 but as soon as Compendium One (volumes 1-4) was on our radars @thebookcloser and I preordered it.
This is the first time I’ve ever reread anything as an adult and I loved it just as much the second time.
I’m NOT a graphic novel girlie. But, I love this series SO MUCH. Gert is a smart sass fluffing baddie and her guide Larry is a scrotum shaped fly. The banter between these two is hilarious.
These are for adults!
AMAZING graphic artwork. Adult humor. Seriously the best thing to read if you are in a rut, having a bad day or are in between books and don’t know what to read.
Can someone please just take my word for it and order it???? You can get volume 1-4 in this book or simply get volume 1. You’re gonna want the paper copy. The art is too perfect for an ereader.
August 18, 2024
The art is incredible, there are so many smaller details to notice, it’s easy to spend time just pouring over it. The storyline is pretty straightforward and uncomplicated, feels a bit like tank girl somehow. It’s irreverent, gory, and endlessly entertaining.
August 20, 2024
Loved this compendium! Very entertaining and I loved the art style. Gert is wild but she is free.
May 7, 2025
This was not for me, but I acknowledge that others might get something out of this.
First of all the art style, which reminds me of those chibi webcomics takes some getting used to. It is very basic, but cute to look at. I think I prefer my comics to have more detailed artwork.
Secondly the premise doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Gerta is trapped four 27 years (!?!?) in Fairyland and everyone involved suffers. She is offered multiple possible solutions to escape her fate, but the book comes up with far-fetched reasons of why she can't.
Then there's the edginess. Lots and lots of curse word, gory action and fourth wall breaking to squeeze in various Pop Culture references. It got old fast and I assume this book is targeted towards teens.
It's unfortunate, because the book would have potential. There could be social criticism, what happens if you don't follow the laws of a certain place or how a happy place can actually be really cruel to different kind of people. Sadly the book doesn't explore these topics, but throws another 'Haha he just died brutally' joke in the readers face.
I think this is a comic for those people who like American cartoons like American Dad, Family Guy, South Park and so on. Series that are very sarcastic and feature ugly art styles. I loathe all of those. If you like those, this book might be for you.
First of all the art style, which reminds me of those chibi webcomics takes some getting used to. It is very basic, but cute to look at. I think I prefer my comics to have more detailed artwork.
Secondly the premise doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Gerta is trapped four 27 years (!?!?) in Fairyland and everyone involved suffers. She is offered multiple possible solutions to escape her fate, but the book comes up with far-fetched reasons of why she can't.
Then there's the edginess. Lots and lots of curse word, gory action and fourth wall breaking to squeeze in various Pop Culture references. It got old fast and I assume this book is targeted towards teens.
It's unfortunate, because the book would have potential. There could be social criticism, what happens if you don't follow the laws of a certain place or how a happy place can actually be really cruel to different kind of people. Sadly the book doesn't explore these topics, but throws another 'Haha he just died brutally' joke in the readers face.
I think this is a comic for those people who like American cartoons like American Dad, Family Guy, South Park and so on. Series that are very sarcastic and feature ugly art styles. I loathe all of those. If you like those, this book might be for you.
February 23, 2025
Dubbed ‘The Whole Fluffing Tale’, this compendium collects the first twenty issues of I HATE FAIRYLAND.
Telling the story of Gert (Gertrude) a cutsie green haired six year old who gets dragged into fairyland and given the task of finding the key to return to her world.
Except things don’t go according to plan. Instead of the task taking a day, Gert ends up staying in fairyland for thirty years. But instead of growing up, Gert finds that whilst she ages mentally, her physical appearance remains that of a six year old girl.
Along with her guide, a testicular shaped fly called Larry, Gert becomes the scourge of fairyland. In her bid to find her way home, Gert chops, eviscerates, burns, destroys, explodes and all manner of gruesome methods, through fairyland.
Taking the Deapool kind of maniacal irreverence, I Hate Fairyland is a fun romp filed with blood and guts.
At times it can be a little annoying, particularly the proliferation of made up swear words, such as Muffin Fluffer. However, I did enjoy this. The artwork is garish and in your face, and there is a definite Jamie Hewlett influence in Scottie Young’s renditions, but this is not a bad thing coz I loved Tank Girl.
All in all an enjoyably, chaotic and bloody romp that made me laugh.
Telling the story of Gert (Gertrude) a cutsie green haired six year old who gets dragged into fairyland and given the task of finding the key to return to her world.
Except things don’t go according to plan. Instead of the task taking a day, Gert ends up staying in fairyland for thirty years. But instead of growing up, Gert finds that whilst she ages mentally, her physical appearance remains that of a six year old girl.
Along with her guide, a testicular shaped fly called Larry, Gert becomes the scourge of fairyland. In her bid to find her way home, Gert chops, eviscerates, burns, destroys, explodes and all manner of gruesome methods, through fairyland.
Taking the Deapool kind of maniacal irreverence, I Hate Fairyland is a fun romp filed with blood and guts.
At times it can be a little annoying, particularly the proliferation of made up swear words, such as Muffin Fluffer. However, I did enjoy this. The artwork is garish and in your face, and there is a definite Jamie Hewlett influence in Scottie Young’s renditions, but this is not a bad thing coz I loved Tank Girl.
All in all an enjoyably, chaotic and bloody romp that made me laugh.
July 3, 2025
Years ago, when the series started, I was reading the issues/volumes as they released but I’m terrible about keeping up with series releases sometimes and I feel off. So when I saw there was a compendium edition that collects issues 1-20 (It’s a chunker!) I had to have it.
It somehow hit different reading then vs the current state of the world which made it an even more interesting read and the dark humor was very welcomed. Basically a sweet little girl gets stuck in Fairyland and all she has to do is perform some fun tasks to be sent back home but instead she gets stuck, unable to complete things properly, and just gets angrier and meaner the longer she’s trapped in a little girl’s body now as an adult.
--from 📚 On Reading in June 2025 (Best of)
It somehow hit different reading then vs the current state of the world which made it an even more interesting read and the dark humor was very welcomed. Basically a sweet little girl gets stuck in Fairyland and all she has to do is perform some fun tasks to be sent back home but instead she gets stuck, unable to complete things properly, and just gets angrier and meaner the longer she’s trapped in a little girl’s body now as an adult.
--from 📚 On Reading in June 2025 (Best of)
May 3, 2024
If the creators of Ren & Stimpy teamed up with the creators of Robot Chicken who then brought the creators of South Park on board and they then (over a 'Shroom pizza) came up with a Nightmare Twisted Fairy Tale version of Alice in Wonderland, I'm pretty sure the result would resemble the I Hate Fairyland saga.
The messed-up humor, the gratuitously grotesque, the raunchy dialogue, and the author's no-holds-barred willingness to Go There reminds me of the animated shows I loved back in the day. Which, in turn, makes my weird little Gen-X heart happy with Nostalgia and ALL the Warm Fuzzies!
The messed-up humor, the gratuitously grotesque, the raunchy dialogue, and the author's no-holds-barred willingness to Go There reminds me of the animated shows I loved back in the day. Which, in turn, makes my weird little Gen-X heart happy with Nostalgia and ALL the Warm Fuzzies!
March 23, 2025
I'm my dad's daughter. If he says to read a graphic novel or that a book is fun, I'm going to check it out. He's not been wrong yet!
This graphic novel was just what I needed to split up my heavy reads at the moment. It follows Gert, a little girl who falls into fairyland and for many years tries to fight tooth and nail (literally) to get home. I fluffing loved this muffin hugging book about this little sasshole (IYKYK)!
This graphic novel was just what I needed to split up my heavy reads at the moment. It follows Gert, a little girl who falls into fairyland and for many years tries to fight tooth and nail (literally) to get home. I fluffing loved this muffin hugging book about this little sasshole (IYKYK)!
January 11, 2026
If she had only listened to her guide, I suppose she would have been released.
It was unhinged and irreverent. There is only so much death and mayhem before it wears on one.
Why didn’t I enjoy it more? It unwinds toward the end. It reminds me of Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe. Highly derivative and not in a good way.
It was unhinged and irreverent. There is only so much death and mayhem before it wears on one.
Why didn’t I enjoy it more? It unwinds toward the end. It reminds me of Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe. Highly derivative and not in a good way.
July 25, 2024
Like JTHM before, angry children doing evil things. I'm all in. Love this comic.
Gertie is a nearly 40 year old woman trapped in a child's body , she has been stuck in Fairyland for 3 decades. She's angry, she's over it, and Fairyland is going to suffer.
Gertie is a nearly 40 year old woman trapped in a child's body , she has been stuck in Fairyland for 3 decades. She's angry, she's over it, and Fairyland is going to suffer.
August 10, 2025
So in planning a future tattoo, I realized that Skottie Young's style is what I want, so I finally tackled this gruesomely fabulous graphic novel after only leafing through the comics at bookstores. Blood and brains and Gert's toxic green ringlets, yes please.
October 16, 2025
Dove into my first comic read to date. Fantastic and whimsical story, with extra blood and gore. If you appreciate “Happy Tree Friends” with a mix of fantasy and humor, this read is for you. Can’t wait to dive into other issues and genres. 🐻 ⭐️ 🍭
January 6, 2024
What a fluffing son of a journey
September 8, 2024
3.5 stars.
January 1, 2025
So much fun!! A great way to start off 2025. I absolutely loved it!
January 11, 2025
Hilarious. Larry the fly is my favorite for his dry and sarcastic humor. The art is bright and wonderful even if it’s occasionally morbid.
January 21, 2025
It's so ridiculous, silly, and violent, and I absolutely love it ❤️🪓
April 15, 2025
Did not like. Not my style of humor, at all.
September 9, 2025
The whole fluffing story all tangled into one bloody good time. A vibrant bloody fairytale that pays tribute to the magic we all know. Highly recommended!
December 14, 2025
4.16/5 is a fair grade. I colour, the art, the ridiculousness, and the humour were all great and made this very enjoyable. Although it did get a tiny bit repetitive, I would definitely recommend it.
May 3, 2025
Devilishly fun in both story and art.
September 29, 2024
Holy fluff I enjoyed this one. It’s super violent but the art style is so bright and bold, and the MC is hilarious.
Literally stopped trying to guess what was going to happen next because I was constantly wrong. Haha
The main Q: Do I keep my print copy or pass it on?
A: Keep.
Literally stopped trying to guess what was going to happen next because I was constantly wrong. Haha
The main Q: Do I keep my print copy or pass it on?
A: Keep.
June 22, 2025
One of my favorite of all time. I don't laugh a lot in my life except when i watch "Family Guy" or "Rick and Morty", but this comic is the funniest. There's a lot of puns and jokes and the best thing that the story is ongoing
August 13, 2024
If you want gore it doesn’t disappoint. Parts seemed to drag a little, but it was funny and inappropriate as you would expect.
September 26, 2024
My favorite by this author.
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