Comic Strip 'Zits' To Get Adapted By Davis

[Tuesday, July 23rd, 2002]
Scribe Adam "Tex" Davis has signed on to adapt 'Zits,' as a Universal Pictures feature to be based on the King Features comicstrip by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, reports Variety.

Project, to which helmer Shawn Levy ('Big Fat Liar') is also attached.

Popular comicstrip, which appears in more than 1,000 newspapers nationwide, won the National Cartoonists Society's comicstrip of the year kudos two years in a row since its debut in the summer of 1997 -- once in 1998 and again in 1999.

Strip follows the life of Jeremy Duncan, a 15-year-old aspiring rock musician, riddled with angst, boredom and resentment of his perfect brother Chad, a painfully good-looking college man. With his best friend Hector, Jeremy flounders around through his awkward high school love affair with Sara, who considers him more of a science project than a boyfriend.

Borgman has drawn editorial cartoons for the Cincinnati Enquirer since he graduated college in 1976 and won the Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1991. "Zits" co-scribe Scott also co-writes the strip "Baby Blues" with Rick Kirkman; it appears in more than 700 newspapers around the world. He was the author of strip "Nancy" from 1983-95 and won the Reuben Award, the National Cartoonists Society's highest honor, for outstanding cartoonist of the year.

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