The franchise's next release is a gorgeous return to Halloween Town, embracing its iconic atmosphere and Tim Burton-inspired aesthetic. These forthcoming collected editions combine stunning Jae Lee cover art with captivating Edu Menna interior artwork.
Fans of Disney ’s The Nightmare Before Christmas are in for a Halloween-worthy treat, as the franchise’s next release is already shaping up to be a gorgeous return to Halloween Town.
Better yet, fans can rest easy knowing this expansion fully embraces the iconic, whimsical atmosphere and unmistakable Tim Burton-inspired aesthetic that made the original a classic. Created in collaboration with Disney and Tim Burton’s team, writer Torunn Grønbekk and artist Edu Menna ushered in a new era for the franchise with The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Shiver of Christmas Town #1.
The debut issue launched a four-part series that returned fans to the enchanted worlds of Halloween Town and Christmas Town for an all-new adventure. The series followed the record-breaking success of Dynamite Entertainment’s Long Live The Pumpkin Queen. Now, after the strong reception to The Shiver of Christmas Town, Dynamite Entertainment has announced forthcoming collected editions of the latest series in both paperback and hardcover formats.
Everything We Know So Far About The Nightmare Before Christmas's New Collections Cover Art by Jae Lee for The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Shiver of Christmas Town #1 All four issues of The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Shiver of Christmas Town will be collected in both paperback and hardcover collections, each featuring gorgeously haunting cover art by all-star artist Jae Lee. Readers can find a preview of both covers above.
The trade paperback edition will spotlight Jack Skellington, while the hardcover cover will feature Sally née Finkelstein. Fans can likely expect the paperback and hardcover editions of The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Shiver of Christmas Town to be released on September 15, 2026, as this is the date currently listed on Target’s official website. At present, the retailer lists the trade paperback at $15.99 and the hardcover at $22.99, with pre-orders already open.
Readers can also find a four-page preview of Edu Menna’s stunning interior artwork below. The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Shiver of Christmas Town primarily spotlights Sally, the mischievous trio Lock, Shock, and Barrel, along with an adorable new pet created by Dr. Finkelstein named Shiver. The story follows Halloween Town’s resident trick-or-treaters as they journey to Christmas Town to teach its citizens how to properly celebrate Halloween, while the adorable Shiver secretly stows away on the adventure.
Fans can find the official synopsis below. It all begins with the unveiling of Dr. Finkelstein’s newest creation, specially designed to be the scariest creature ever to celebrate All Hallow’s Eve. But something has gone awry in the process, and the final result is more cute and cuddly than fearsome and menacing. The disappointed scientist hands the newcomer over to Sally for safekeeping, who dubs it Shiver for its freezing breath.
Meanwhile, the Mayor has tasked Lock, Shock, and Barrel with teaching the residents of Christmas Town how to trick-or-treat, as the two realms have embarked on a new campaign to share their holiday traditions. With Christmas Town celebrating Halloween for the first time ever, the trio are taking their assignment seriously — perhaps a bit too seriously!
In an effort to make their pranks extra lifelike and terrifying, they decide to “borrow” some ingredients from Dr. Finkelstein’s lab — and end up with much more than they bargained for in the form of the deceptively adorable Shiver! Fans worried about whether the series could capture the same magic as The Nightmare Before Christmas need not fear.
Torunn Grønbekk previously spoke openly about the creative process, explaining that she worked closely with Disney and Tim Burton’s team, with “every outline and every script sort of through both Disney and Tim Burton. ” With stunning artwork and a Burton-approved story, The Nightmare Before Christmas collection is shaping up to be a must-have for fans of the beloved franchise.
ScreenRant.com | DM The Castle Files Interactive Quiz ScreenRant/ Movies/ Disney/ Trivia From Steamboat Willie to Encanto · Eight Questions How Well Do You Know Disney Movies?
“When you wish upon a star…” 🐭Steamboat EraBlack-and-white Mickey 👑The PrincessesSnow White onward 🦁90s RenaissanceLion King & Aladdin 💡Pixar LampToy Story onward ❄️Modern EraFrozen & beyond UNLOCK THE VAULT → QUESTION 1 / 8MICKEY’S DEBUT 01 On November 18, 1928, Walt Disney premiered a seven-minute black-and-white short at the Colony Theatre in New York — the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released to the public, and one of the earliest sound cartoons ever made. Whistling Mickey at the helm of a riverboat became the studio’s first iconic image.
Name the short. APlane Crazy BSteamboat Willie CThe Karnival Kid DThe Gallopin’ Gaucho ✓ Correct! Steamboat Willie. Mickey actually finished production first on the silent short Plane Crazy earlier that year, but Walt and his brother Roy bet the studio’s entire future on retooling Steamboat Willie with synchronised sound — a brand-new technology that had only just appeared with The Jazz Singer .
The gamble worked: Steamboat Willie’s November 1928 release made Mickey an instant national icon and put Disney on the map. The short entered the public domain in January 2024, exactly 95 years after release. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Steamboat Willie.
Plane Crazy was actually animated first but didn’t find a distributor. The Gallopin’ Gaucho was the second Mickey short, also originally silent. The Karnival Kid is where Mickey first speaks. The breakthrough — the first publicly released, sound-synchronised Mickey short — is Steamboat Willie.
NEXT → QUESTION 2 / 8DISNEY’S FIRST FEATURE 02 Walt Disney sank the studio’s entire balance sheet, plus a heavy mortgage on his home, into a project Hollywood derisively called “Disney’s Folly” — the first full-length cel-animated feature film ever made in English. It premiered December 21, 1937 at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles to a standing ovation. Name the film. APinocchio BBambi CSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs DFantasia ✓ Correct!
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . The 83-minute film cost $1.49 million — an enormous gamble at the height of the Depression — and grossed $8 million on its initial release, the highest-grossing sound film made up to that point. Walt won an honorary Oscar . The film’s success funded the construction of Disney’s Burbank studio and effectively created the feature-animation industry.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Pinocchio is the second Disney feature. Fantasia is the third.
Bambi is the fifth. Snow White was the bet-the-studio first — ridiculed in production as “Disney’s Folly” before becoming the highest-grossing sound film ever made up to 1937.
NEXT → QUESTION 3 / 8DISNEYLAND OPENS 03 Walt Disney’s vision of a film-quality theme park opened to a chaotic, oversold “Black Sunday” debut — counterfeit tickets, a gas leak, and asphalt soft enough to swallow women’s heels. The Anaheim park was built on 160 acres of orange groves in just 12 months. In which year did Disneyland open? A1948 B1955 C1962 D1971 ✓ Correct!
July 17, 1955 — press preview day, dubbed “Black Sunday” in Disney company lore. ABC broadcast a live two-hour TV special featuring Ronald Reagan, Bob Cummings and Art Linkletter . Disneyland was built on Anaheim orange groves Walt mortgaged his home to fund. Walt Disney World opened in 1971 in Orlando, six years after Walt’s death — that’s the date many people confuse with Disneyland’s opening.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 1955 — specifically July 17. 1948 is when Walt first sketched the concept. 1962 doesn’t mark a major Disney park milestone. 1971 is when Walt Disney World opened in Florida — that’s the date most often confused with Disneyland’s. The original Anaheim park opened in 1955.
NEXT → QUESTION 4 / 8THE 90s RENAISSANCE 04 The Lion King was pitched internally as “Bambi meets…” a particular Shakespeare play — and the parallels are unmissable: a young prince’s father is murdered by his uncle, who usurps the throne; the prince later returns to avenge him. Which Shakespeare tragedy provided the bones of the story? AMacbeth BOthello CHamlet DKing Lear ✓ Correct! Hamlet.
The internal pitch was famously “Bambi meets Hamlet” : Mufasa is the murdered king-father , Scar is the usurping uncle , Simba is the exiled prince , and even the ghost-on-a-cliff appearance plays out beat-for-beat. The Lion King grossed $968 million worldwide and remained the highest-grossing animated film for 16 years until Toy Story 3 broke the record in 2010. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Hamlet.
Macbeth is the “ambitious wife pushes husband to murder the king” story . Othello is the jealousy tragedy. King Lear is the divided-kingdom tragedy. The Lion King’s bones are unambiguously Hamlet’s — ghost, uncle-murderer, exiled-prince and all.
NEXT → QUESTION 5 / 8FROZEN 05 Frozen became the highest-grossing animated film at the time and won two Oscars including Best Animated Feature. Its standout song — performed by Idina Menzel as Elsa, written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez — won the Oscar for Best Original Song and dominated radio playlists for an entire year. Name the song. ALet It Go BDo You Want to Build a Snowman?
CFor the First Time in Forever DLove Is an Open Door ✓ Correct!
“Let It Go” — the Oscar-winning power ballad that fundamentally rewrote the film’s plot in production: Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote the song so persuasively that the directors threw out the existing script and rewrote Elsa from villain to misunderstood protagonist. The song spent over 30 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, was translated into 41 languages for international releases, and its Idina Menzel single sold 10.9 million copies.
Frozen grossed $1.28 billion and held the highest-grossing-animated-film record until its own 2019 sequel. ✗ Wrong. The answer is “Let It Go. ” The other three options are also Frozen songs by the same Lopez/Anderson-Lopez writing team.
“Do You Want to Build a Snowman? ” is the early childhood-montage number.
“For the First Time in Forever” is Anna’s coronation-day song. “Love Is an Open Door” is the Hans/Anna duet. The Oscar-winning monster hit is “Let It Go. ” NEXT → QUESTION 6 / 8PIXAR’S BREAKTHROUGH 06 In November 1995, Pixar — then a small Disney distribution partner founded by Ed Catmull, John Lasseter and Steve Jobs — released the world’s first fully computer-animated feature film.
It became the highest-grossing film of 1995 in North America and won a Special Achievement Oscar for John Lasseter. Name the movie. AA Bug’s Life BToy Story CMonsters, Inc. DFinding Nemo ✓ Correct! Toy Story .
Made for $30 million, it grossed $373 million worldwide and immediately rewrote what was possible in animation. Steve Jobs — who’d bought Pixar from Lucasfilm in 1986 for $5 million — took the company public a week after the film’s release at $22 a share, instantly making him a billionaire. Disney bought Pixar outright in 2006 for $7.4 billion in stock, making Jobs Disney’s largest individual shareholder.
A Bug’s Life was the second Pixar feature; Monsters, Inc. the fourth. ✗ Wrong. The answer is Toy Story . A Bug’s Life , Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo are all later Pixar features.
Toy Story was the studio’s first — and the first fully computer-animated theatrical feature in cinema history. Its release a week before Steve Jobs took Pixar public effectively turned him from struggling NeXT-era founder into a billionaire.
NEXT → QUESTION 7 / 8THE BIG ACQUISITIONS 07 In a roughly seven-year span, Disney made a sequence of franchise acquisitions that transformed it from an animation studio into a global IP empire. Pixar , Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox bracket the era. The remaining major brand — bought in 2009 for $4 billion — brought Iron Man, Spider-Man and the Avengers under Disney’s roof. Name it.
ADC Entertainment BImage Comics CMarvel Entertainment DDark Horse Comics ✓ Correct! Marvel Entertainment, acquired August 2009 for $4 billion. The deal followed Marvel Studios’ first independent production and gave Disney rights to over 5,000 characters — though crucially not Spider-Man or the X-Men/Fantastic Four . Disney’s combined Marvel-Lucasfilm-Pixar-Fox portfolio is now the largest IP holding in entertainment history.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Marvel Entertainment. DC Entertainment is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery .
Image Comics and Dark Horse remain independent. Disney bought Marvel in August 2009 for $4 billion, two years after Marvel Studios’ first self-financed film .
NEXT → QUESTION 8 / 8MOANA 08 Disney Animation’s Moana features Hawaiian newcomer Auli’i Cravalho as the title role and Dwayne Johnson as the demigod Maui. Its musical numbers — including “How Far I’ll Go” and “You’re Welcome” — were co-written by a Pulitzer- and Tony-winning Broadway composer who’d become a household name with Hamilton the previous year. Name him. AStephen Sondheim BAndrew Lloyd Webber CLin-Manuel Miranda DAlan Menken ✓ Correct!
Lin-Manuel Miranda — co-writing with Te Vaka frontman Opetaia Foa’i and composer Mark Mancina. Miranda’s Hamilton had opened on Broadway the year before and turned him into the rare Disney songwriter with crossover Broadway-rap credibility. Miranda has since become a Disney mainstay, returning for Encanto , where his songs “Surface Pressure” and “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” topped the Billboard Hot 100. ✗ Wrong.
The answer is Lin-Manuel Miranda. Stephen Sondheim wrote Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods and West Side Story’s lyrics — but never a Disney animated feature. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Cats, Phantom and Evita — also never a Disney film. Alan Menken is the great Disney Renaissance composer but didn’t write Moana’s songs.
Moana is Miranda’s, with Foa’i and Mancina. REVEAL MY RATING → The Castle Has Spoken · Final Tally Your Magic Kingdom Standing 👑 / 8 True Disney royalty — or just a tourist with churros? ⤴ ANOTHER WISH The Nightmare Before Christmas PG Animation Fantasy Holiday 9/10 43 9.0/10 Release Date October 29, 1993 Powered by Expand Collapse
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