She's Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas, not one of the Day Of The Dead-style characters from Grim Fandango.
The genre only died in English speaking countries, it continued to thrive in Germany and has slowly recovered elsewhere thanks to indie developers. I'm told that Time Gentlemen Please is very good, and I enjoyed the first Secret Files game too.
Ah...thanks for corrections. hmmm, id take a look that up in google...after i finished this years study
are any of those free to download?