Netflix’s latest original animated feature, The Monkey ... character work for Laika, Blue Sky Studios, Illumination Mac Guff, Sun Creature, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Netflix, and Cartoon ...

Sadayuki Goto/Kyodo News, via Associated Press The cartoon has since been ... said he started using the pseudonym Monkey Punch after an editor compared his characters’ faces to those of monkeys.

This version’s a lot more satisfying if you already know the Monkey King character and the broad arc of his story: Hatched from a stone egg, the ambitious simian (disappointingly voiced by Jimmy O.