Netflix docuseries smash hit Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is getting a comic book one-shot from TidalWave Productions called Infamous: Tiger King, written by Michael Frizell and illustrated by Joe Paradise.
"You can’t make this stuff up," Frizell told TidalWave. "I never imagined that I’d be researching a book like this. It was a challenge to find a focus for the comic because there’s so much happening. No wonder Netflix created a limited series as opposed to a Dateline episode."
Tiger King follows the owner of an Oklahoma tiger zoo named Joe Exotic and his imprisonment for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill Carol Baskins an activist for big cats rescue. The series debuted on Netflix amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and that's also the reason publisher Darren G. Davis believes the time is right for the comic book adaptation.
"We wanted to do something that is fun and a good distraction in regard to in the state of the world now," he said. "I am obsessed with everything in this story and wanted to tell it from a different medium. The comic book medium can be used to entertain as well as inform."
TidalWave Productions is known for its biographical and non-fiction comics about figures such as Ozzy Osbourne and The Beetles. However, the company has also tackled timely pop culture stories in series like Infamous: Lindsay Lohan and Infamous: Charlie Sheen.
Infamous: Tiger King, by Michael Frizell and Joe Paradise, goes on sale June 1 from TidalWave Productions.