So how are we feeling about this so far? Seems pretty faithful to the comic's art style, though I'm glad it's not quite as mundane.
Looking forward to it.
>>154355535idk, could be cool
>>154355535I remember liking this comic as a high schooler, and i had a crush on the gumball writer girl. Am excited to see the eventual emmybait Everlasting boy sequence though.
>>154355535Looks alright. I see there was some recent news and promo images released.>“Supermutant Magic Academy,” the upcoming series from Cartoon Network Studios based on the Eisner Award-winning 2015 comic by artist and writer Jillian Tamaki, debuted first footage at a panel discussing the making of the show. The series is set to air on Adult Swim. >A sizzle reel exclusive to a captive Annecy audience, though released at the end of the session, proved a charming introduction to the show’s alchemical blend of fantasy and more mundane teen comedy. >https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/supermutant-magic-academy-cartoon-network-studios-1236788117/
>The project began with fellow producer J.G. Quintel (best known for the creation of “Regular Show”), who later brought Wong on board. “[Quintel] always holds his cards close to the chest,” Wong added, showing his surprise about the show being developed through on-screen illustrations of Quintel bursting into the room during Wong’s retake drawings on “Regular Show.” >Tamaki added that she trusted that Cartoon Network would be the right people to adapt the work and get the “indie comic spirit.” That said, even though directly involved in the adaptation of her own comic book series (to the point of drawing boards for early explorations and pilots), Tamaki later stressed the importance of being able to step back from ownership of the story being adapted. “You have to be a little destructive to the source material,” Tamaki says.
A couple more snippets from that article:>In order to refine this look, the team worked with South Korea-based overseas contributors Studio IAM, who had done support work on series such as DC Studios’s “Creature Commandos.”>Even with the in depth consideration of these visual rules, they allowed for flexibility in the drawings, working to keep what Wong considered a classic Cartoon Network feel. “The buildings gone,” Wong says, referring to the shuttering of the original Cartoon Network Studios in August 2023, “but what could we do to in our production to keep that creator-driven outline, and storyboard-driven anarchic attitude [which comes from] working at the studios for so long?” >The solution was simple, they hired artists they loved for storyboards from across different eras of Cartoon Network, with talent coming from shows such as “Steven Universe,” “Adventure Time,” “OK. KO: Let’s Be Heroes!,” to name a few. Wong says they hoped for drawings which would be immediately identifiable, and also fun. “When a drawing is funny, you can’t really fight against it,” Wong adds.
There are a couple more images floating around if you look around.
>>154355535fluffy ears?
>>154359271Yeah, hoping someone has a little bit of the reel itself recorded tbqh
>>154359208Awesome, I love those shows
