Taking a novel, multi-platform approach to animated storytelling has been a calling card for Bento Box, a fast-growing animation company that is now a $20 million-plus-a-year business.

Bento Box creative director Ben Jones will serve as the lead creative executive on the projects, which will draw from the network’s upcoming and established talent.

Bento Box Entertainment, the animation studio best known for Fox’s “Bob’s Burgers,” has formed a digital studio division with a slate of millennial-targeted programming including animated ...

Bento boxes date back to Japan’s Edo Period (1603-1868), when travelers would pack rice balls into bamboo pouches carried around the waist, according to Emiko Davies, writing in “ Gohan ...