Anthony Bourdain's legacy honored with 'Bourdain Day' and new animated TV series

Anthony Bourdain.
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On the first anniversary of Anthony Bourdain's death, the chef's memory is living on with a new TV show.

On Friday it was announced that Bourdain's posthumous graphic novel in collaboration with Joel Rose, Hungry Ghosts, will be turned into an animated TV series, Vice News reports. The novel, released last October, depicts an unseen side of the food and travel mogul through its freakish world of food-inspired horror.

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