Book request: It was a children's graphic novel/comic book series--I think there were at least three of them? The main character was a young female Old English Sheepdog, and I'm pretty sure her name was Sam/Samantha. She was grumpy and ungrateful. She was owned by a 11-ish girl. In one book they went camping (the girl, the dog, the parents, the girl's two(?) friends) and were investigating some spooky stuff and some suspicious scientists. I remember a lot of the colors in these as being very cool; blues and violets, possibly. These books would've been pretty new; they had a modern cartoon style, and they were new enough for only three to have been out when I was reading them four years ago.

Matching book description: In the first book in the Sam and Friends Mystery graphic novel series, , Jennie meets Samantha, the sheepdog belonging to her new next-door neighbors. No ordinary dog, Sam is a detective with a nose for sniffing out a mystery even in a small town as uneventful as Woodford. No ordinary girl, Jennie has a special connection with this dog -- Jennie can read Sam In the first book in the Sam and Friends Mystery graphic novel series, , Jennie meets Samantha, the sheepdog belonging to her new next-door neighbors. No ordinary dog, Sam is a detective with a nose for sniffing out a mystery even in a small town as uneventful as Woodford. No ordinary girl, Jennie has a special connection with this dog -- Jennie can read Sam's thoughts. After Jennie and her friend Beth show Sam the creepiest house in town, the dog detective is on the case. The weird owner of the house, McIver, must be ? Dracula. Who else would never go outside and never turn the lights on? Why else would bats be flying around his yard? This McIver definitely has something to hide. But is he really a vampire? Fueled by odd combinations of junk food, Sam's boundless energy and fertile imagination sometimes lead everyone a little astray. But even if the mystery turns out to be something less than mysterious, when Sam and friends are on the case, adventure is never far behind. ...more