Celebrity Chef Paula Deen is becoming a comic book character.
After losing her book deal contract and her television cooking show on the Food Network, Deen is set to be a comic book star of female empowerment, a publisher told Reuters on Wednesday.
Bluewater Production, which publishes a series of female celebrity-driven comic books, said the biography comic book is called "Female Force: Paula Deen." The comic book will include Deen's fall from grace.
"She really changed cooking, and Southern cooking for women," Bluewater President Darren G. Davis said.
Davis said Bluewater, reached out for a partnership several months before her fall from grace, but have not received any response from her rep. The partnership would include the company donating money to a charity chosen by Deen. Also running the ads on Deen's behalf. Deen would not receive any money from the comic.
"We're not jumping off the bandwagon," Davis said. "We're moving forward with this 'Female Force' series because she fits in with women like Julia Child and Barbara Walters. We're not going to flambé' her."
The comic book will be about the entrepreneur who turned a home based catering business into a culinary empire. Bluewater has worked with TV host Ellen Degeneres and actor William Shatner.
The comic will be released in October and include Deen's very public legal problems. Deen admitted using a racial slurs. She has lost her partnerships with retailers Target Crop and Wal-mart stores inc.
