Every Comic Eventually Gets Adapted: ‘The Wizard of Id’ and ‘B.C.’
The Johnny Hart comic strips B.C. and The Wizard of Id are being developed for both TV and feature film by the estate of the late Johnny Hart, animation producer Mark Simon, Creators Syndicate’s Jack Newcombe and The Metropolis Talent Agency. Simon is reported as saying they are working on family-targeted movie adaptations of both properties, and tween-targeted animated TV series.
No word if or how the estate of Brant Parker, co-creator of The Wizard of Id, is involved.
(And yes, we are making “Every Comic Eventually Gets Adapted” into a semi-regular feature.)
I'm surprised this wasn't done long ago, actually. B.C. and Wizard of Id have been around for ages and other, less-well done comics were adapted to TV long ago.
Actually, "B.C. the First Thanksgiving" was aired in 1973. Just found it on YouTube.
There was also a BC Christmas cartoon sometime after the Thanksgiving one.The BC characters also appeared in a series of public service ads for ACTION in the early '70s.