 "Spawn", while critically panned, was a modest box office success, earning $54.8 million domestically, and almost $33 million worldwide, against a $40 million budget.Todd McFarlane Entertainment also produced the animated series "Todd McFarlane's Spawn", (featuring voice work by actor Keith David) which aired on HBO from 1997 until 1999.Ed Bark of "The Dallas Morning News" called the series a "very unpleasant viewing experience" and asked "why anyone would want to subject themselves to such a relentlessly grim, gruesome dehumanizing experience."