Status: Coming Soon / Medium: Picture Book + Animated Short / Category: Children’s > Adventure / Timeline: March - June 2025 / Job Board: Active

“When a sleepless young boy discovers a monster under his bed, he finds the monster is terrified of a monster under its own bed, which leads to the discovery of a chain of ever smaller monsters lurking under ever-smaller beds.”

— There's a Monster Under the Bed of the Monster Under My Bed

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New concept launch! “Hugo, Seville” by Pablo Seco and Juan Hernaz is greenlit and now in development. The focus group is onboarding, let me know if you’d like to join - it’s a good one. Music, mythology, paella… -Ed.

The Sunday featured submission from GUFF’s Character Issues #7: ‘THE TURNBUCKLE BRIGADE’ by @jasonmbaldwin - a WW2 romp featuring a cast of professional wrestlers saving the world “one suplex at a time”. (Vote to Redligh

A sneak peak at a project in development - “Hugo Seville” by Juan Hernaz. A coming of age epic about a boy, a sort of genie, and a flamenco guitar. This one’s really coming along nicely and I’m excited to share it as we go. So

Since tardigrades are back in the news. Apparently a new species has been found (named Hypsibius henanensis after China’s Henan province). Scientists are currently pummeling the little fellas with doses of radiation many times higher than what

Join the team working to develop The Infinite Monkeys franchise: “When Dr. Theo von Animus discovers a formula that accelerates the evolutionary process and gives animals human consciousness, he goes to the Isle of Id, a small island populated

Artie says one way to tackle the problem of AI ingesting art online and using it to feed its own algorithms is to seed it with reminders like this. I’m not entirely sure I follow his logic, but he’s working on a whole franchise now about

We’re hiring! Macguffin Co. is currently looking for a Script Doctor to help develop the “Infinite Monkeys” franchise. Swipe for the narrated synopsis as it currently stands. If you know anyone who has worked as a Script Doctor, is

A preview of some artwork for the Alexander McZebra children’s book, courtesy of the great @juniemond

Today is Artie and Syd’s 30th anniversary. If they get to 100, we’ll put out a book of all Artie’s anniversary panels. Here are Syd’s top 2… -Ed. #comics

Bad guy character in development: “Humdrumbl” - part magician/part anti-muse, mythological force of creative destruction, or maybe just the embodiment of creative block and artistic doubts & procrastination. #humdrumbl

Exciting news - we’re moving Alexander McZebra into development for an animated pilot. There are a few openings left on the focus group panel, so let me know if you’re interested in signing up as a beta reader for draft scripts, and/or pr

Technically, a 3D rhombus is a rhombohedron. But “rhombohedron” didn’t test as well as “rhombus”. To be fair, neither tested very well. This is why we have focus groups. -Ed. #comics

Caption contest. Winner gets a skunk. -Ed.

Artie sends this from the lovely but mole-ridden gardens at the Imperial War Museum on Lambeth Road, where he just wandered through the free Spies, Lies & Deception exhibit about WW1 espionage and counterintelligence, and then sat outside drinkin

Our legal counsel, Stan, says we’re not allowed to develop a franchise character based on the Face Without Mouth emoji because the rights are controlled by a California based 501c3 called the Unicode Consortium. As the most inscrutable of all e