Vizzion Pictures Retained to Develop Animated Adaptation for Award-Winning Cartoonist Greg Cravens
The studio brings Memphis-made superhero comic Stoned Ninja to animation in its second comic deal of 2026, following Tim Eldred’s Grease Monkey.
Vizzion Pictures has been retained by Stoned Ninja Comics LLC to bring Stoned Ninja, the independent superhero comic created by writer Gabriel DeRanzo and artist Greg Cravens, to animation. Cravens is the syndicated cartoonist behind the comic strip Hubris!, a former art assistant on the nationally syndicated The Buckets, and a recipient of the National Cartoonists Society’s Tim Rosenthal Award.
The deal is Vizzion’s second comic-to-animation engagement of 2026, following its adaptation of Tim Eldred’s sci-fi series Grease Monkey.
Vizzion Pictures was built on a single mission: keep the art human. As AI reshapes animation, the studio has taken a clear position. Every project is human-written and human-directed, and every one is built on the original artwork of the creators who invented it. AI is used as a tool to bring that artwork to life in motion, not to replace the artists behind it.
“AI is coming to animation whether the industry likes it or not, because the bottom line always wins,” said Zach Zuberbuehler, CEO and Creative Director of Vizzion Pictures. “We decided to be the studio that uses it the right way. The story, the direction, the voices and the characters stay in human hands. Teaming up with a cartoonist like Greg Cravens is exactly why we exist: to take an artist’s work and let it move without ever taking the artist out of it.”
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