POLITICAL OP-ED JOURNALIST RON CALLARI BRINGS HIS COMICS CREATION, KIDD MILLENNIUM, TO ROBOT COMICS
KIDD MILLENNIUM is the unofficial heir to R.F. Outcault’s 19th century newspaper comic sensation, THE YELLOW KID.
HISTORY
With his jug ears, two buck teeth, beady blue eyes, and yellow nightdress, the Yellow Kid hardly looks like an icon for comic and commercial success, but that’s exactly what he became in late nineteenth-century America. Created by middle-class artist R.F. Outcault, who later went on to draw the even more successful Buster Brown comic strip, the series of images in which the Yellow Kid appeared presented a turn-of-the-century theater of the city, in which class and racial tensions of the new urban, consumerist environment were acted out by a mischievous group of New York City kids from the wrong side of the tracks. READ MORE ABOUT “THE YELLOW KID”
The Yellow Kid has long since passed away, but op-ed journalist Ron Callari believes we once again need YK’s style of off-the-cuff commentary for the next generation. “On January 1, 2001, kidd emerged as a full-blown character and an ongoing, self-proclaimed spokes-kid for the next generation,” Ron states on the kidd millennium Official Website. “Estimated at 3.9 million American children, societal forecasters believe that this new population group (born post 2000) will eclipse the attention of the boomers, the last major bubble to have moved through the population funnel. Based on that premise, kidd millennium comments, with attitude, on his brave new world from a narcissistic and questioning point of view.”
The Creators
Callari has written freelance for the AlterNet, Baltimore Chronicle, Scoop, and the Sacramento News & Review, and is currently a regular Society and Trends blogger for InventorSpot.com. Donohoe’s award-winning illustrations can be found at Illustration Ireland.
We’ll be starting with the KINDLE,” Deputy Director Dave Baxter revealed. “We’ll be putting up a collection of the kidd’s one-panel strips for free download on the ROBOT COMICS website as a DRM-free .mobi file, and as a $0.99 release on the Amazon storefront, for those who will only trust books sold directly through Amazon. Then the GN will be in two editions – one for the Kindle 1 & 2, another specifically for the Kindle DX alone. Then serial adaptations for the Apple and Google markets will be arriving shortly thereafter.Look for the first KIDD MILLENNIUM releases to hit on or around October, 2009.
PRAISE FOR THE KIDD:
“‘kidd Millennium’ distills the issues of the day into one-panel masterpieces. Callari and Pittman’s ‘kidd’ is funny, irreverent, insightful, and necessary.”
Brian K. Mahoney, Editor
Chronogram
“Let me introduce you to Kidd Millennium, who is older than his years, because he has already brought us a deep insight into two terms of George Dubya.”
Sancho, British Journalist
Tilting at Windmills Blog
“kidd Millennium won’t fix your car or cure my achy-breaky heart, but it might just make you forget those things for a minute or so–and get you thinking for a lot longer than that.”
Ted Rall, Editorial Cartoonist
Universal Press Syndicate
“Can the movie be far behind?”
Nathan Cobb, Correspondent
Boston Globe
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