Courtney Crumrin

{{Short description|Independent comic book series by Ted Naifeh}}

{{more citations needed|date=October 2012}}

{{Infobox comic book title

| image = Courtneycrumrin.jpg

| caption = Cover to Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things

| schedule = various

| format =

| limited = y

| publisher = Oni Press

| date = March 13, 2002 - Ongoing

| issues = 13 (Including Courtney Crumrin Tales) + 10 (2012 series)

| main_char_team = Courtney Crumrin, Aloysius Crumrin, Miss Crisp, Butterworm

| writers = Ted Naifeh

| artists = Ted Naifeh

| subcat = Oni Press

| sort = Courtney Crumrin

}}

Courtney Crumrin is an independent comic book series written and illustrated by Ted Naifeh and released through Oni Press.

Courtney Crumrin was originally published as a limited series of 12 episodes compiled into three books entitled Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things, Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics, and Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom. Two shorter books entitled Courtney Crumrin and the Fire-Thief's Tale and Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere followed, then compiled into a fourth volume Courtney Crumrin's Monstrous Holiday. They pick up from the end of book 12 where Courtney is invited to join her uncle on a trip to Prague.

During the summer of 2005, Naifeh released a one-shot entitled Courtney Crumrin Tales, which focused on Courtney's Uncle Aloysius as a young man. A short color prelude appeared in Oni Press Color Special 2002.

In April 2012 Oni Press and Ted Naifeh started a new ongoing series, simply titled Courtney Crumrin, for the first time illustrated in color.{{cite web|title = Oni Press: Courtney Crumrin #1 2012|url = http://www.onipress.com/title/courtney-crumrin-1|access-date = 3 July 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120616043415/http://www.onipress.com/title/courtney-crumrin-1|archive-date = 16 June 2012|url-status = dead}} This series ran for ten issues and was collected in two volumes, Courtney Crumrin: The Witch Next Door and Courtney Crumrin: The Final Spell.

Naifeh was quoted in 2013 as saying "[I]f I feel drawn back to Courtney's world, I may take another trip there someday. It's not a completely closed door."{{cite web |url=http://www.newsarama.com/17243-courtney-crumrin-wraps-but-naifeh-has-new-plans.html |title=COURTNEY CRUMRIN Wraps, but Naifeh Has New Plans |last1=Pitts |first1=Lan |date=2013-03-22 |website=newsarama.com |publisher=Newsarama |access-date=2014-07-02}}

On July 27, 2007, DreamWorks Pictures, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald acquired the film rights to this comic book title as a collaboration with Oni Press's film production arm Closed by Monday Entertainment along with a film adaptation of The Damned.{{cite web|last=McClintock|first=Pamela|url=https://variety.com/2007/film/features/dreamworks-drawn-to-comic-pair-1117969147/|title=DreamWorks drawn to comic pair|date=July 27, 2007|website=Variety|access-date=November 3, 2023}}