Editing Steve Purcell (section)

===Later work===
Purcell joined with story editor Dan Smith from [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] studio [[Nelvana]] to create an animated television series of ''Sam & Max'' in 1996. The result was the 1997 series ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police]]'', broadcast on [[Fox Kids]] in the United States, [[YTV (Canadian TV channel)|YTV]] in Canada and [[Channel 4]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. Purcell wrote the jokes for each installment of the 24-episode series, and wrote the scripts for four episodes. Although violence and profanity common in the ''Sam & Max'' franchise had been toned down due to the target audience of children, Purcell was content that the characters maintained their moral ambiguity. Some groups of parents in the United States attempted to have the series pulled from networks due to content issues; Purcell was pleased that they "had managed to ruffle some feathers along the way".<ref name="Telltale 3"/> Two ''Sam & Max'' comic strips appeared in Fox's ''Totally Fox Kids Magazine'' in 1998 to accompany the series; other ''Sam & Max'' strips appeared in ''[[Wizard (magazine)|Wizard]]'' and ''[[Oni Press|Oni Double Feature]]''. During the development of the television series in 1997, Purcell co-authored and illustrated the ''[[Hellboy Christmas Special]]'' with [[Mike Mignola]] and [[Gary Gianni]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/97-666/Hellboy-Christmas-Special|title=Hellboy Christmas Special profile|publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics]]|access-date=2009-02-10}}</ref> After the conclusion of the ''Sam & Max'' animated series, Purcell was briefly employed by [[Industrial Light & Magic]] to work on digital effects for a film version of ''[[Frankenstein]]''. Despite his work, the project was canceled; Purcell believes that some of the development work morphed into ILM's contributions to ''[[Van Helsing (film)|Van Helsing]]''.<ref name="World of MI"/> While at ILM, he was involved in a project to create an animated film based on ''Monkey Island'';<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scummbar.com/index.php?newssniffer=readcomment&news=808|title=''Monkey Island'' movie art?|work=SCUMM Bar|publisher=LF Network, LLC|date=2005-01-09|access-date=2010-01-21}}</ref> while the project did not reach fruition, Purcell began posting concept art he had produced for the film on his personal blog several years later.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Tales from Monkey Island|year=2009|magazine=[[Retro Gamer]]|publisher=[[Imagine Publishing]]|issue=70|first=Ashley|last=Day|page=35}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldofmi.com/comments.php?type=news&id=1255&action=read|title=Steve Purcell artwork|work=The World of Monkey Island|publisher=LF Network, LLC|date=2007-06-07|access-date=2010-01-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506125629/http://www.worldofmi.com/comments.php?type=news&id=1255&action=read|archive-date=2015-05-06}}</ref>