{"id":3080,"date":"2017-09-25T16:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/09\/25\/atomic-cartoons-brings-the-last-kids-on-earth-to-television\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:17:53","slug":"atomic-cartoons-brings-the-last-kids-on-earth-to-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/09\/25\/atomic-cartoons-brings-the-last-kids-on-earth-to-television\/","title":{"rendered":"ATOMIC CARTOONS BRINGS &#8220;THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH&#8221; TO TELEVISION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Nicola Pender \/Thunderbird<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 25<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017 \/ VANCOUVER &#8211; Thunderbird Entertainment announced today that its animation studio Atomic Cartoons has optioned the rights to bring Max Brallier\u2019s <em>New York Times <\/em>bestselling book series <strong><em>THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH<\/em><\/strong> to television. Max will write the animated series and Executive Produce alongside Atomic\u2019s Jennifer McCarron and Matthew Berkowitz. Atomic is already at work with Max on bringing\u00a0<em>THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH\u00a0<\/em>to screens everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The comedic book series, created and written by Max Brallier, and illustrated by Doug Holgate follows thirteen year old Jack Sullivan and a band of suburban middle schoolers who live in a decked-out tree house, play video games, gorge themselves on candy, and battle zombies in the aftermath of the monster apocalypse. It\u2019s a hilarious series filled with wisecracking kids, crazy gadgets, and a lifetime supply of zombies and giant-sized monsters that has been described as <em>Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/em>\u00a0meets\u00a0<em>The Walking Dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated third installment <em>THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH and the NIGHTMARE KING<\/em> will be released on September 26<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAX BRALLIER<\/strong> is the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of more than thirty books and games, including the middle-grade series <em>The Last Kids on Earth<\/em>. Under the pen name Jack Chabert, Max is the creator of the Eerie Elementary series for Scholastic Books and author of the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling graphic novel <em>Poptropica: Mystery of the Map<\/em>. He is the creator of <em>Galactic Hot Dogs<\/em>, a middle-grade adventure series, and has written books for properties including <em>LEGO<\/em>, <em>Adventure Time<\/em>, <em>Regular Show<\/em>, and <em>Steven Universe<\/em>. Max has written for adults, including the pick-your-own-path series <em>Can YOU Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?<\/em> and an entry in the zombie anthology <em>Nights of the Living Dead<\/em>. In the olden days, Max was a game designer for the virtual world <em>Poptropica<\/em> and worked in marketing at St. Martin&#8217;s Press. Max lives in New York with his wife, Alyse, and daughter Lila.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2747\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/-\/media\/Max-Brallier-author-photo-Credit-Ruby-Brallier-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicola Pender \/Thunderbird September 25th, 2017 \/ VANCOUVER &#8211; Thunderbird Entertainment announced today that its animation studio Atomic Cartoons has optioned the rights to bring Max Brallier\u2019s New York Times bestselling book series THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH to television. Max will write the animated series and Executive Produce alongside Atomic\u2019s Jennifer McCarron and Matthew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/09\/25\/atomic-cartoons-brings-the-last-kids-on-earth-to-television\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ATOMIC CARTOONS BRINGS &quot;THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH&quot; TO TELEVISION - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2017\/09\/25\/atomic-cartoons-brings-the-last-kids-on-earth-to-television\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ATOMIC CARTOONS BRINGS &quot;THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH&quot; TO TELEVISION - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nicola Pender \/Thunderbird September 25th, 2017 \/ VANCOUVER &#8211; Thunderbird Entertainment announced today that its animation studio Atomic Cartoons has optioned the rights to bring Max Brallier\u2019s New York Times bestselling book series THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH to television. 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