Scary Go Round is a webcomic by John Allison. Running from 2002 to 2009, it is set in the fictional North Yorkshire town of Tackleford and follows university students battling fantasy and science fiction threats to the town. The comic was a successor to Allison's first comic, Bobbins, and was followed by Bad Machinery, all of which take place in the same general setting. The comic received praise from multiple British newspapers and it won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for best comic in 2005. History Scary Go Round began in 2002. It followed on from Allison's first webcomic, Bobbins, and features many of the same characters. According to Allison, Scary Go Round was originally intended to run at the same time as Bobbins, but Allison said that he ended Bobbins for several reasons: to leave Keenspot, to focus on Scary Go Round, and because Scary Go Round was a "clean slate" to write compared to Bobbins which he called "a big mess". By contrast, Scary Go Round was intended from the start to be a work that could be printed in book form. Scary Go Round first appeared on Modern Tales, but Allison said that joining the service was "a straight out mistake" and by 2003 had moved Scary Go Round off Modern Tales and onto its own website. In an interview in 2004, Allison said that Scary Go Round made up the majority of his income; and in a later interview he said it was "his living". Scary Go Round was created in vector graphics program Adobe Illustrator, as opposed to earlier comics by Allison which he drew by hand on paper. Scary Go Round ended in 2009. Allison said that he felt is work was becoming uninspired: "I had a lot of characters that I didn't care about, and I was making whole runs of strips about characters that people didn't really like... Seven and a half years is a long time and I had lost perspective and direction. I was also losing readers for the last year and it was evident that changes had to be made." Scary Go Round was succeeded in the same year by Bad Machinery, another webcomic in the same setting focusing on younger characters. Bad Machinery was initially published on the scarygoround.com site. Allison has also used the term "Scary Go Round" to refer generally to his works that are connected