‘Hägar the Horrible’: King Features & The Jim Henson Company Developing Animated TV Series Based On Comic Strip, Eric Ziobrowski To Write
Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Hägar the Horrible is set to make a raid on the small screen with an animated family sitcom series in development.Fresh Off the Boat writer and producer Eric Ziobrowski is writing the adaptation, which comes from King Features, the Hearst-owned division behind the comic strip and The Jim Henson Company.The series will follow the hardworking Viking family led by a larger than life hero, Hägar, who can’t quite understand how the society he once understood is changing around him.Hägar, who was created by Dik Browne, has been running in newspapers since 1973 and found himself at the center of U.S.