Granny Samurai, the Monkey King and I
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Quirky, off-beat comedy about a boy scribe, a kick-ass granny and a primate with a vendetta.
Eccentric young wordsmith Samuel Johnson finds himself home alone while his diplomat uncle is off diverting a crisis in Azerbajan. As Samuel sits penning his memoirs and wondering how to divert the crisis in his own life – namely the big, hairy brute that is Boris Hissocks – he spots the little old lady next door acting very strangely. Is she actually chopping wood with her bare hands? Then the Monkey King comes knocking, and suddenly Samuel's whole world is turned on its head…
John Chambers is a cartoonist and screenwriter who has developed concepts and written scripts for many animated series over the past ten years, including Jasper the Penguin (2002), Lazy Lucy (2003), The Incredible Gnarfs (2004), The Journey of the Fourth King (2005), The School for Little Vampires (2006/2007), Oscar the Balloonist (2008/2009), The Little Knight Trenk (2009/2010) and Molly the Little Monster (2007-10). He also writes and draws the long-running comic strip "The Adventures of Festy O'Semtex" for Phoenix magazine, and has contributed many cartoons to other publications. John is from the west coast of Ireland but now lives in Berlin, Germany, with his partner and their three daughters.