Mirka Andolfo, the comic book creator who’s worked on Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn and her own Image Comics series Unnatural and Mercy, announced her foray into animation with her original character, Paprika. is The project tiled, Sweet Paprika, is a new adult animated original now in development.
“I’m extremely excited to finally be able to announce animation on #SweetPaprikaDevil (which we’ve been working on for months with the Grey Ladder and Arancia Studio guys)!” Andolfo posted. “Development is long, so it will still be a long time before we have something to show. But we liked to share this good news about Paprika, a character I’ve been working on — silently — for a long time, on multiple fronts. No, it’s not just the sketches you see online. There will be more surprises!”
According to the post, the project will be developed by Andolfo, Arancia Studio and Davide G.G. Caci, with Gabriele Pennacchioli (Shrek the Third, Kung Fu Panda, Dragon Trainer) on board as executive producer. He is a 2019 Emmy Award winner for acclaimed adult animation anthology Love, Death + Robots. Tomasso Triolo will write the screenplay.
Andolfo’s website describes Sweet Paprika as a sexy comedy described as Bridget Jones’ Diary meets Sex & The City with a little bit of The Devil Wears Prada thrown in — an urban fairytale about sexual liberation. It centers around the relationship between the career-driven Paprika, the chief creative officer at a New York-based publisher and Dill, a delivery boy whose casual naïveté makes him charming and confounding in equal measure to Paprika.
