The "Zoo Key" Story

 

The media franchise you know and love -- Zoo Key, known as Horndog from 2009 to 2023, as well as Bob the Dog briefly, was launched in 2003 as an underground comic written by me, Isaac Baranoff, and drawn by a fella who goes by the name of Bert Schnick, designed as a social satire for mature audiences set on an extraterrestrial planet inhabited by alien beings that resembled anthropomorphic animal people, in an art style reminiscent of 1930s rubber hose inkblot cartoons like Betty Boop, focused around a group of friends including Bob, a canine pot dealer, Charlene, Bob's black cat girlfriend, Leonard, Bob's black cat best friend, Freddy, Bob's rabbit roommate and Tommy, Leonard's rat roommate. Zoo Key was adapted into a graphic novel, also drawn by Bert Schnick, and a reboot was also produced, this time drawn by Pembroke W. Korgi.

Aside from the comic book, there was supposed to be an animated series. I was trying to sell this property to Comedy Central or the Fox Network or [adult swim], all of which decided to instead put their money behind other projects instead, like Greg the Bunny, The Cleveland Show, Sit Down! Shut Up!, Drawn Together, Lil' Bush, Brickleberry, Squidbillies, Final Space, Million Dollar Extreme Presents World Peace... you know, all the long running monster hit shows you currently watch on all of these fucking networks today instead of my show, because these networks put money behind these mega hits instead of my cartoon... 

Anyway, the franchise is going back to it's original title because I'm adapting it into a prose novel, boldly removing all the visuals and replacing them with just the most acclaimed aspect of any media I've ever produced: my writing alone, divorced from the pictures entirely. Maybe the animated series will finally come next. Fingers crossed.