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Friday, February 16, 2007
Jay Stephens News
:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/16/2007 12:01:00 AM via The Beat comes news that Oddville cartoonist Jay Stephens has sold another tv show. The Secret Saturdays will be produced for the U.S.-based Cartoon Network.
Doc, Drew and Zak Saturday are a family of world-saving adventure scientists called The Secret Saturdays. They live in a hidden base and are part of a network of scientists who protect against all the hidden and terrifying things in this world. To The Saturdays, ordinary folktales aren’t just legends—they are real-life mysteries and adventures. Traveling from the hot Gobi Desert to the icy Marianas Trench, they explore ancient temples and bottomless caves and tangle with twisted villains, including the masked madman V.V. Argost and his half-human/half-giant spider.
Stephens has had previous success with Tutenstein, an NBC cartoon based on a comic book characters he created. The retro-monster stylings that Stephens pioneered in his Land of Nod comic book series (Jetcat, Space Ape) have influenced a generation of animators (Craig McCracken, for one, seems stylistically indebted to Stephens) and it's a good sign that the Cartoon Network is catching up.
As well, Stephens is set to produce a series of books for Lark Books beginning with a tome about how to draw monsters.Labels: comics on tv, people, publishing
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