My Yellow Hat

Beautiful take on the rhyme!

Anya Rose Hueing

Once they were on the bike it dawned on me that this was “Cold as Clay”

TribalSam

This was a beautiful story, both visually and drama. Since it's such an old story told by many, I'm going to try to use it in my first attempt to draw a comic. I draw traditional, and it's going to be for my blog on Tumblr. I'm giving cred to you in it. How lucky I found you! I love your style. I'm still pretty much a newbie, so I have it easier drawing semirealistic than more stylized comic. I need a hobby project of this size to find a style that comes naturally to me. Since I loved this comic it's going to be easier to keep the motivation up when it drags out in time. I took a free membership now to night, but I'm buying a tier on Monday.

Markus Sjöholm

In the Ben Wyatt voice too 😂

Psyc Melone

You can find a beautiful recording of the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMi3jvktUg

Ol' Monster-Face

The version I'm most familiar with is "The Holland Handkerchief". I love how subtly familiar the story is in contrast to the setting!

Ol' Monster-Face

This got to be one of my fav. And also I honestly know a dad like Ravi's dad..

Victor

I love so much about this comic but I'm sorry I just cannot stop hearing "Calizona" as anything other than "calzone-a" in a heavy Italian accent

Green

This makes me rethink all the chiding i do to my children.

Clare Seashell

Sad, but very nicely done!

Kalhara Caldera

Yes!! That too makes sense in the era in which the comic is set! It’s really not that far fetched…

Arslana

New commonwealth of Calizona and the beautiful way in which futurism was rendered… with corn, the led cross (we already have that in some places!), the whole landscape, the indication tables,… it’s sooooo well made!!! The details are incredible!

Arslana

thanks i cried

Sabina Moe

Incredible! Love this one.

Michael Wood

Ok but the fact that Jen dies in 2069 - nice

M

I'm always awed by the detail in your illustrations.

Sarah

You are literally so incredible at these retellings😍😍😍

Rebekah Burnette

This gave me feelings

Entropy

I think this is my new favorite.

Cerrasponda

GODDDD this is so good

spicyykels

Oooh, thank you so much!

Sarah Blume-Kelly

It's another one of his stories

Sarah Pascall

Is the corn a reference to something or just super weird?

Sarah Blume-Kelly

I've reread this like ten times

Amelia Ross

Such an elegant telling of the tale...so beautifully done.

Kyle Michel Sullivan

Wow, this is so heartbreaking but also, good for him (arson).

Vixie

I also read 3 years as well smh🤦‍♂️

Malcolm Massey

Question: I’ve been subscribed for over a month on the $5 tier, do you know how I can get the phone background?

Cristina Cumbreño

The way I was triggered by the corn and was screaming the corn is people!!!

Jordan Chaffiotte

It's probably not even important but the "you belong to me until you're 25" sticks. Just an actual legal progression of the initialization of young people

Sadie Friedman

Helps to read!! 🤣 ty

Jessica Davis

3 days ago

Camille f

Wait he was dead 3 years… but came by the week before and stole the money? So dad knew he was a ghost?

Jessica Davis

comic gave me chills

Wyatt Moon

wow now I want to fight a fictional man for being awful to their son.

Iantowuv

As he should (the fire)

L Boogie

I got to page 12 and was like "oh I hope this one isn't a spooky comic" but ofc you broke my heart

Theo Wampuszyc

Wow damn that was GUDDD!!

Luise Sébök

Something for his lover to remember him by in the afterlife ♡

Linh Nguyen

I don't know why, but the giant corn took everything to the next level.

Zile Elliven

Side note: I found it especially refreshing that the motivation for separating the two wasn't necessarily homophobia. It can be read as such, but could just as rightly be one of any other issues the father had, with either of the boys, or even simply the motivation of *money* from the contract with the factory.

Zesty Conversation

I didn't grow up with SSTTITD, so only a few things from those books ever reached me as a kid. This was a fresh tale for me & it seems like a fresh tale on the formula, too. I've read some of those stories as an adult & most of them wouldn't have scared me as a kid; I don't find this one particularly *scary* either, but I understand it being categorized as horror. It's more melancholic & tragic - very "starcrossed lovers" (Pyramus & Thisbe/Romeo & Juliet), and while I generally gravitate towards the most eerie & unsettlingly uncanny of your comics in particular, this might be one of my favourites yet.

Zesty Conversation

that’s true but it hurts more when it’s queer people, knowing they couldn’t have lived peacefully either way 💔

esper

The neon cross at the cemetery! How can I not say cunt 🔥

Moony Mood

That was great!!

LE BOY

this is awesome and the poem is also really good!

Nils Thüsing

Loved it, read the poem, now I love it even more

Zippy

Awwwww 🥺

Nina

Was wondering why the corn kernels were so big but then i saw it was 2070

Raskyl Flarestrike

My eyes

Justine Kim

This is brilliant. First day subbed and I am in tears.

Hank Cannon

Chorus of 'he had it coming' is playing in my head

MiserlyJuggler

My skin is literally CRAWLING from how good this is.

Mrs.Sickler

Damn 😭 bro burned his own dad. He lowkey had it coming, but damn

Diaman ruby

This was so good. Love beyond love.

Lincoln Eddy

To be fair in Adam stories everyone ends like this

Emily

Love your work

AwesomeAsUsual

😭😭😭😭

Riley

QAQ MY HEART ACHES FOR THEM

Ibon

Reminds me of the song: “Laurie: Strange Things Happen”

Shea

I mean. Fair ending.

Cristina A

This one broke me :(

Miriam

Great story! My only question is why he didn't take the hat, too.

Opus Bloom

Amazing!

Ernesto Rueda Mejía

Aw, all the feels. But was expecting the corn to be like *that* corn 👀

Sarah Pascall

Beautiful. I love this. And I love the world you set it in 💛

LlamaTrauma13

Aw man, this wasn't scary, just sad ;(

Winter

It's the same as the old story Adam wrote out. The girl wraps her handkerchief around her guys head and when she digs him up he has it on his head

Racheal Winson

Oh that is so beautiful and sad but also, can you imagine if That was the size of the corn in butter corn ramen?

Skye Cameron

Had an “Oh shiiiiit” moment. Loved this

Eunice Chan

Loooooove this SO much

c too

Throwing up, gagging, sobbing. How dare you.

Ili Husna Aimi

i've never felt more vindicated by a ghost story!!!!!

Breoni Hester

Loooove this inspo for this. I grew up on those books. Your ability to reimagine and illustrate stories is amazing 😍

Sarah Ploof

SPOILER WARNING ********* Mickey: “I look pretty good for a dead bitch 😏 “

Mark houlihan

This reminds me a lot of this book I read once called It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehldt. Heavy trigger warnings for homophobia, death of a gay teen, and conversion therapy (as if that didn't just spoil the whole thing lol) but it was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL book, definitely recommend if you want a cry.

rider.break97

Awww this was beautiful 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

Erwin Hernandez

Incredible 🔥🔥

Lauren D

I know it's a horror comic but like WHY MICKEY NOOOO 😭😭😭😭

Ahnzo Vincente

I thought given the title was My Yellow Hat it might have some significance 🤷‍♀️

Emma Howett

Love this

Caitlin Plank

Wow. Adam you are amazing.

john shaw

devastated.

David Carswell

How damn stunning!

Lauren

It's clearly a ghost story, and also fiction. Why would it make sense?

Savannah L. Hastey

How could you 😭

russellrd

This totally made me cry...

Tristyn Rouark

I was just reading this story in scary stories to tell in the dark! I love your version!

Chris Wing

😭😭😭🌈🌈🌈

Claire Callow

This is a very beautiful story 🥹

India Voerman

i’m too lazy

esper

What a beautiful story ! ❤️

Clarissa Frattini

noooo gimme back my gays ;-;

Pedro Parente

But how did Mickey have the hat when he only gave it to him on the drive from the factory??

Emma Howett

HELL YEAH

Bubblegum Banshee

Ohhhhh I love this 🖤

Giulia Carvelli

I'm so glad I didn't read the caption first! It had me on edge the whole time, but what an ending!

Cecile

What a great comic!

M Suzuki

T_T OMG my poor heart.

Sammie Auburn

He said three days not three years

Ronan Sullivan

Billy Dunbar

You can't do this to me Adam 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔

Rosie Brtk

Loooove this!!

Matea Barrett

Love it Adam!!! 💞💞💞💞

Miss Stonehill

😭 WHO’S CUTTING ONIONS?!

Christian Santiago

Ohh Love it, it's perfect!! The love, the spirituality, the gays... Ah ✨🔥

Edith

Love it!

Kayla Newhook

Thanks for the cry, Adammmm😭

Melissa Gaugler

MAN THAT ENDING. GOOOOD STUFF ADAM.

Ghost

It gives me Miss Atomic Bomb by The Killers music video vibes iykyk 👀

Stephanie Choong

I love the color yellow (the color you say you buy an item of when you’re sad) and corn (just like the ramen horror story) are part of the plot. Like your special easter eggs.

Olgy Rodríguez

This was a good one!!!

Angelo Santini

SOBBING. I got the tingles with the ending. 😭😭😭

Viv

Now where are the patreon exclusives of them naked kissing

Dani Franck

🥲❤

Bientoro Wibowo

The high tech vehicle, genetically engineered corn, and neon cemetery are nice touches.

Pingu

Amazing but god, I wish Mickey lived :(

Sarah Wenger

found a link with more info on the original folk song: https://mainlynorfolk.info/watersons/songs/thesuffolkmiracle.html

OMGitsSEDDIE

Incredible.

Lindsay Trostle

anyway wear your helmets, kids

Pauley

Oh my heart. Wow what a story

Maureen

that's the point lol, in the original story the dead guy's wearing the lady's handkerchief

Howard Orlina

you've done it again father

Howard Orlina

Beautiful ❤️❤️

Kathryn Miller

Read the poem 😂

Raine Chester

This is heartbreaking

Raine Chester

Hungry for lore

MIRAMARI (Mariana Gomes)

I was JUST listening to them tell a version of this story on Scary Stories We Tell On The Pod.

Sam

Man, I was not supposed to be crying during my lunch break. Excellent adaptation, Adam.

Grace 'Gengar' Soria

loooove this one, and so intrigued by the world they live in 🤔

che

😲

Rach Meister

😭😭😭

Daniel

also did anyone else notice he had the yellow hat in the grave? or was that obvious and I’m just slow💀

esper

I want to eat nucorn so bad.

Bailey Hinton

Why do the gays always have to end like that 🙁

esper

Incredible, your renditions are always something else but this one felt even better

Kathleen Dull

He deserved it, to freedom!! Sad they couldn’t be together in the end 🥲

KXNG_PIN

You know what? Good.

Miranda

I'm terrified of your corn. And I want to be the president of Calizona

Kaylyn P

That was amazing!!

Ben Bozovich

Hell yea!

P00hPlays

Beautiful 🥺❤️👏🏻

Maggi Saar

Wow. That brought me to tears. That was too darn good.

ADR

Wow. This one will stick with me

Erica

Oh wow 🥺 This was so good

D

My heart T-T

S. H.

I love that it’s in a fallout setting! I had a feeling just based on the neon lettering in the first panel, I always use those for my settlements in Fo4 😅

CmmanderShepard

The lighting is EXCELLENT! ...so is so much of it. Thank you.

Reddy

Well there's Cuzco Corn s'got pretty big kernels, softer than normal, at least from the soup (albondigas) I've had. Probably used for cornmeal. Would probably make a hell of a cornbread though.

Blaqhawq

Wow. The whole world you created in this brief, tragic masterpiece!

Joelle Lardi

I love all of this but I'm kind of obsessed with the NuCorn...I wonder what the texture's like...

minohoonoo

This is so haunting and poetic. I loved that story as a kid and I really enjoyed your version as well. Thanks for sharing it with us!

Amanda Arlene

Burn it down & don’t look back baby

HillaryGayle

That's as good an ending as we could get.

Karla24.wintaebear

This is hauntingly beautiful

Bella Lee

I love it <3

ScrapHeapChallenge

Amazing

Errol Lobo

This isn’t horror it’s just reminding me of my depressingly lonely life

Infinite Villager