Beloved Animated Series Returns With New Stories
Beloved Animated Series Returns With New Stories
The classic animated series Thundarr the Barbarian will return at Dynamite Entertainment with brand-new stories
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The series is now returning with new stories in a comic book series at Dynamite Entertainment from superstar writer Jason Aaron and longtime Dynamite artist Kewber Baal (with covers from Michael Cho, Rob Liefeld, Dan Panosian, Francesco Mattina, Joseph Michael Linsner, Björn Barends, and more!). The new series will launch in January.
A turning point in Jack Kirby's career occurred when he was working at Marvel for a third stint in the late 1970s. He was given the chance to work on the then-new Fantastic Four cartoon for DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (the animation studio that Marvel would later buy in 1981), and his work on the cartoon would satisfy his Marvel contract that required a certain number of pages to be produced. Well, Kirby quickly took to animation, and left Marvel to go work in animation for the rest of his career (while still doing some creator-owned comic books, as well).
Thundarr the Barbarian was likely the most famous series Kirby worked on during his time in animation. The series was created by comic book writer Steve Gerber for Ruby-Spears Productions (and Gerber brought in other notable comic book writers to write for the show, including Martin Pasko, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway). Alex Toth did the main character designs, but Kirby then did the rest of the designs when Toth couldn't move forward with the project, and since Kirby had a strong history with post-apocalyptic stories with his Kamandi comic book series, Kirby did a marvelous job with the series' designs. The stars of the series were the mighty warrior, Thundarr, and his traveling companions, the sorceress, Princess Ariel, and the beastly-looking hero, Ookla the Mok ("Ookla" was a riff by Gerber on if you pronounced the name of the college, UCLA, as an actual word).
