Paul Scheer misses the thrill of a Sunday comic.

“I loved getting the paper,” the 39-year-old actor/comedian says about growing up on “Calvin and Hobbes” and “The Far Side.” “You’d go right to the comic section, they were four panels and you were done.”

Scheer, known for his roles in FX’s “The League,” ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat” and his popular film podcast “How Did This Get Made?” is venturing into new territory as the voice of White Ninja, a cult web comic that ran online from 2002 to 2012. Now, it’s being turned into an animated series for the social video platform Vine. The comic follows a ninja decked out in white who isn’t fighting bad guys, but instead, just wanders through life, interacting with mundane people like the rest of us. At times, he’s a jerk, but mostly tries to be a good human being.

Resurrecting this old web comic for a new medium became a passion project for 27-year-old Canadian filmmaker Tyler Funk. He secured the rights from creators Scott Bevan and Kent Earle in January 2015 and soon after, met with Scheer to see if he would be the voice of the titular character.

“He just seemed like a guy that would be down to be a part of a project like this,” Funk says.