Los Angeles-based Neko Productions’ first foray into graphic novel publishing and original animation is available in fall 2023.
Amidst the perfect storm of fan-con, confab and festival season, Los Angeles-based Neko Productions performs extra swimmingly. Riding high is the studio’s debut, original kid-lit graphic novel series entitled 101 REASONS WHY. The broadly humorous tome, created by writer/director/comedian Ofir Lobel (Keshet/Netflix’s BLACKSPACE; A WONDERFUL COUNTRY), edited by Peyton McDavitt, and with comics art direction from Bobbo Andonova (BOBBO DRAWS), is a high-concept comic that’s destined for animated adaptation. Additionally, Neko founder and executive producer Lirit Rosenzweig Topaz has relocated Neko’s former Burbank headquarters into a souped-up facility in Sherman Oaks, California. With this move comes the engagement of graphic novel development guru John Shableski (Myra and the Drawing Drama; Manga Classics; We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story).