Fluff My Life
Fluff My Life is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Skottie Young as the second volume of the American comic book series I Hate Fairyland. Part 1, Fluff My Life was released on June 15, 2016; Part 2, How to Drain Your Dragon, was released on July 20, 2016; Part 3, Put Your Quarter Up, was released on August 17, 2016; Part 4, Splat in the Hat, was released on September 21, 2016; and Part 5, Final Fantasy, was released on October 19, 2016.
Published by Image Comics, the series follows Gertrude "Gert", now the Queen of Fairyland, as she inadvertently brings ruin to the kingdom before seeking out a new route of returning home. Preceded by Madly Ever After, it is followed by the story arc Good Girl.
The series has received a universally positive critical reception.
Development
In April 2016, Skottie Young revealed the second story arc of I Hate Fairyland, ultimately entitled Fluff My Life, would be set in a "weird Bloodsport, Street Fighter Arcade Land – doing a little bit more, I don't want to call them "one and dones," but maybe just a little bit more episodic nature of storytelling allows", on consulting with uncredited I Hate Fairyland co-creator Jason Howard from having Madly Ever After as "your movie" with Madly Ever After, subsequent arcs would comprise "your television show", featuring guest artist Jeffrey "Chamba" Cruz in a "fun stylized story sequence" in the third part, and publishing imagery of I Hate Fairyland cosplayers who had taken to Madly Ever After with the first, talking about how:" I didn't get to do in the first arc of the series explore the weirdness of Fairyland, so in I'm going to do that. It's going to be less driven by big plots. Each issue will be a little story with an overall thing to tie the stories together over time. In one issue, we might catch Gert playing poker in Las Fugus and end up lost inside Larry's hat. In another issue, we could see her end up in a Street Fighter blood sport tournament. All these things can happen because the world is endless. We’re going to focus on the character and her mishaps and adventures. We're going to slow down and unfold a big plot slowly over the next couple arcs rather than stuff it into five issues– like a TV show. It keeps things fresh for me and for readers."
In October 2016, Young retrospectively described Fluff My Life as having been about "building up Gert's stamina for this world along, taking time to look around the place, soaking in the scenery. Also a blast, just in a different way. Treating the first two arcs completely differently my way of showing the different ways I'll be approaching this book for the rest of the run. It's a free-for-all, and anything goes!".