Kids Comics Pitchfest 2025 Showcase

The Trick or Treaters

Mysteries abound in the sleepy town of St. Amelia’s Discovery. Good thing the local high school’s historical mystery club, the Trick or Treaters, is on the case.

That is, until the club becomes run by an unlikely band of misfits solely interested in the club’s added benefits: the allocated clubroom to hang in and budgetary allowance to buy snacks.

When the evil that destroyed the original Trick or Treaters returns, it falls on the current lineup’s reluctant shoulders to solve their predecessors' final case and save their hometown.

My Why:

As a teenager, I couldn’t get enough of supernatural teen detective stories and teen comedies. Due to overlapping themes and characters, it is natural that my mind would seek to merge both into a single unit. I envisioned a seamless marriage in which the former’s complexity, intrigue and terror wouldn’t be lessened by the latter’s hilarity.

My prayers for this tailor-made Frankenstein’s monster went unanswered. I searched and I searched, but I never found the story that would satisfy my exact cravings.

Years later, I have decided to take matters into my own hands and create the humorous supernatural teenage mystery thriller of my dreams. The Trick or Treaters is the graphic novel that I would have wanted to read as a teenager.