The Beat reports Matt Groening is launching a new publication company called Bapper Books at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The first book from the company will be “Disenchantment: Untold Tales,” a hardcover comic based on Groening’s animated fantasy series, which debuted on Netflix last year.
“Ultimately, Disenchantment is about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you,” Groening told The Beat. “And before the onslaught of legal merch hits the shelves, we are proud to present ‘Disenchantment: Untold Tales,’ which is a sideways comic – full of your favorite fantasy freaks doing stuff we couldn’t fit into the TV show.”
Bapper Books succeeds Groening’s previous company Bongo Comics, which published books based on The Simpsons and Futurama from 1993 to 2018. Named for the rabbit in Groening’s comic strip “Life in Hell,” Bongo ceased publication after October’s “Simpsons Comics” #245, although the company continues to maintain the Simpsons Store and Futuramaland apps, which regularly adds old issues from their respective series. Former Bongo staff like editor Terry Delegeane are also involved at Bapper.
Bapper Books will be present at San Diego Comic-Con in the same spot as the old Bongo Booth #2519. It is unknown when “Untold Tales” will be available for mass retail, although a digital-first, monthly “Disenchantment” comic was also announced for early 2020. In the meantime, Bean, Elfo, and Luci will return when Netflix releases the remaining ten episodes of Disenchantment season 1 on September 20, 2019.
