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Conan, what is best in life? An animated series from Samurai Jack's creator
Genndy Tartakovsky has been trying for nearly 20 years to make a Conan the Barbarian animated series and he's finally getting the chance.
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Genndy Tartakovsky is someone who can try his hand at anything in the animated world and succeed. He’s made Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack, both Cartoon Network icons. He is also the director of the three highest-grossing Adam Sandler movies in the first three Hotel Transylvania movies. Now Tartakovsky is giving us a Conan the Barbarian animated series, and it sounds like a project he’s been wanting to make for almost two decades.
On June 24, 2026, it was announced that Genndy Tartakovsky would be making a Conan the Barbarian animated series for Prime Video. “Cartoon Network Studios reached out to Heroic Signatures about a Conan animated series because Genndy Tartakovsky told them he wanted to make one,” Heroic Signatures said in the announcement. “He’s been trying since 2007, years before Primal even existed.”
The project sounds like it is still in its early days, with script outlines still being produced. They did reveal that the first season would be based on Queen of the Black Coast, one of the best-known and most loved short stories by Robert E. Howard. In it, Conan not only falls in love, but we also get a deeper view into his god and the worldview that drives Conan the Barbarian. That Genndy Tartakovsky chose Queen of the Black Coast for his Conan the Barbarian animated series isn’t unexpected, but it does give us hope that there will be more to it than the brutal action that we love about Primal.
We might have to wait a long time for Genndy Tartakovsky’s Conan the Barbarian animated series, but hopefully it doesn't take him another 20 years to get the show made.
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