Yorick and Bones is a Comic Book by Jeremy Tankard and his daughter, Hermione Tankard.
One fateful night, a hot dog vendor and a witch bumped into each other, spilling the witch's magic potion on the ground, whereupon it seeped deep down into the long-dead bones of Yorick, returning him to life. Soon after, a small dog comes along, sniffing for bones. He smells something in the ground and, after a night of digging, unearth's Yorick from his supposedly eternal resting place.
Feeling alone in the world, Yorick decides to seek out a friend with the dog's help. However, making friends isn't the easiest thing for a skeleton to do.
The comic was published on May 19th, 2020. The book has a sequel Yorick And Bones: Friends By Any Other Name.
Yorick And Bones contains examples of:
- Black Bead Eyes: All the characters in the comic have eyes which resemble black dots.
- Black Dot Pupils: Peoples' eyes become this when the get scared by seeing Yorick.
- Canine Companion: Bones, the dog who digs up Yorick.
- Dem Bones: Yorick is a resurrected skeleton.
- Fainting: The hot dog vendor who sees Yorick faints at the very sight of him.
- Flowery Elizabethan English: Yorick speaks this way, possibly hinting at the era he lived in.
- Friendly Skeleton: Yorick is a friendly fellow just looking for a friend.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Yorick's driving motivation in the comic is to find a friend. Kind of hard to do when the most common reaction people have to a living skeleton is to scream and run away.
- Name and Name: Yorick And Bones, naturally.
