Fantasy comic Bone coming to Netflix as an animated series

Netflix will develop an animated series based on Jeff Smith’s award-winning fantasy comic Bone.

Bone follows the adventures of the three Bone cousins after they’re driven out of their hometown. After traversing through a desert, the three are separated and must make their way through a fantasy land, where they collide with humans and creatures.

“I’ve waited a long time for this,” Smith said in a press release. “Netflix is the perfect home for BONE. Fans of the books know that the story develops chapter by chapter and book by book. An animated series is exactly the way to do this!”

This marks another move by Netflix to invest in animation. With plenty of original series, partnerships with DreamWorks and other studios, and a new in-house animated studio, Netflix is setting itself up to be an animation powerhouse. The streaming service submitted two of its animated features, Santa origin story Klaus and French indie movie I Lost My Body, for Oscar contention.