TV Special, Graphic Novel Among Latest Adventures for 'Last Kids on Earth'
By Karen Raugust
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Apr 20, 2021
The Last Kids on Earth, the middle-grade series written by Max Brallier, illustrated by Douglas Holgate, and published by Viking, has been making inroads into television, gaming, and licensed products. The latest ventures for the franchise include a new interactive television episode, which premiered on Netflix on April 6, and a graphic novel from Viking released the same day.
The expansion of the book series, which has seven million copies in print, began in 2017 when Thunderbird Entertainment and its kids’ and family division, Atomic Cartoons, approached Brallier to option the rights for a TV series. The show was acquired by Netflix in 2018 and premiered in 2019 with an Emmy-winning special, followed by two seasons of 10 episodes each in April and October 2020. In the new standalone interactive episode,