There’s no word on whether Adamson will direct, though it’s more likely he’ll just help guide the eventual movie through the dark forests of development. Adamson is working with indie production company Reel FX, which nabbed the rights and intends to make a CG ‘toon from the story. Evan Dorkin is a multiple Eisner Awardwinning comic book writer, creator, artist, penciller, and cover artist. The story was launched in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, Witchcraft, the Dead and Monsters, and scored the creators an Eisner award. Cats and dogs working together? One step away from them living together and then mass hysteria, surely!

It falls to a gang of the town’s dogs (and a cat) to team up in order to keep their owners and everyone else safe. Dark Horse Comics announced Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory, a new four-issue miniseries written by Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer, drawn by Benjamin Dewey and lettered by Nate Piekos. He not only consults on other DreamWorks films, but he’s also started picking up new projects, including his latest, an adaptation of Dark Horse Comics’ title Beasts of Burden.Ĭreated Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson, Beasts finds the community of Burden Hill troubled by supernatural events.

But though he’s currently making Mister Pip with Hugh Laurie, he hasn’t completely left his animated past behind. Sure, the cover logo features a skull and. BEASTS BURDEN OCCUPIED TERRITORY Written by EVAN DORKIN and SARAH DYER Art by BENJAMIN DEWEY + Lettered by NATE PIEKOS of Blambot Flats by JASON LUSK Cover.

After he launched the Shrek franchise for DreamWorks, directing the first two outings and helping out with the others, Andrew Adamson moved on to specialise in big live-action films, including two Narnia entries. Its hard to pass Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompsons Beasts of Burden off as a simple supernatural horror comic.

Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin