Comic Watch Exclusive: Papercutz Serves Up Just Desserts With The Pun-Tastic Buddy Comedy, Peanut and Jelly

By Chad Burdette

on May 15, 2025

Mad Cave Studios Papercutz imprint is proud to announce the first in a new children’s ogn series from Emmy-award winning writer Max Beaudry and illustrator David Perry. Aw, Nuts!: The Crumbelievable Adventures of Peanut & Jelly

Every morsel falls into place within the Foodtopia Pyramid. Well-peeled fancy folks reign from the toppings, average doughs make up the filling, and at the bottom, the odd-foods-out form the crumbs.

This is where we find Peanut and Jelly. They may be lowly employees at the Crumb Dump for now, but these ride-or-fries are determined to rise to the coveted upper crust. But when they accidentally unleash a Crumb Feeder into the city, their plans look shakier than an uneven

Max Beaudry is an Emmy Award-winning writer of TV, Film, and Books, who was recently a Story Editor for Nickelodeon’s Super Duper Bunny League and has been involved in a number of award-winning projects

Previously, he was a Story Editor for Nickelodeon’s Baby Shark, and a Staff Writer for Disney’s Emmy Award-winning Muppet Babies. In addition to TV, Max co-wrote an original animated film for On Animation and has an original animated film with Major Chord. Max has developed projects for Netflix, Disney, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks, Imagine Entertainment, Spin Master, and Kickstart Entertainment.

Creator Max Beaudry said about the series:

“What started as a collection of my terrible food character doodles, slowly grew into a story of best food dudes trying to climb the Foodtopia social hierarchy, and with David Perry I found the perfect partner to bring this wacky idea to life. We jammed together just like Peanut and Jelly!

Papercutz has been a crumbelievable partner, fully supporting this slapsticky book from the beginning. It’s truly a team effort and this food dude is grateful to all the magnificent morsels that helped make it happen!”

David Perry, a 2D Animation professor and illustrator, writer and series development artist, added:

“Max had told me about this fever dream he had, where he was living in some kind of ‘food world’ with a peanut and a blob of jelly, and despite my best efforts to assure him that it wasn’t any kind of prophecy, he kept sending me photographs of these very crude scrawlings he’d carved in the block walls of his basement. I couldn’t salvage his sanity, but I could at least make the carvings a bit prettier and, well, now we have a publishing deal with Papercutz. I guess the proof really is in the pudding.”

Aw, Nuts!: The Crumbelievable Adventures of Peanut & Jelly