“‘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

KIDD MILLENNIUM is the unofficial heir to R.F. Outcault’s 19th century newspaper comic sensation, THE YELLOW KID.  In this epic Graphic Novel sized outing, the kidd goes after the “War on Terror”, Energy Committee, the no-bid contracts, the PSAs (Production Sharing Agreements), Government-employed mercenaries, outing a CIA Agent, the firing of U.S. Justices, the relinquishment of Civil Liberties the failings of the US’ 43rd President and the continuous havoc wreaked by his nefarious VP..  The denouement actually unveils the creators’ best guess for the next president of the United States to be elected in 2008 (and which, now, after you read this Graphic Novel, you’ll know if their prediction came true or not!).

Since this is a parody, some identifiable real life celebre-du-jours are interwoven into this tale. Any resemblance to a White House intern, an Iraqi stand up comedian and a Left Coast teen gone Mullah…is purely intentional. While the creators doubt that these micro-celebs had any direct relationship to the history that unfolds in CRUDE BEHAVIOR, they embedded them into the story for pure comic relief and as architects in moving the plot along.

CRUDE BEHAVIOR is one of the first books to expose the current geo-political scene in vibrant color (or in this Kindle edition’s case, in 16 slick shades of gray).  Satire that takes prisoners and asks questions later! Other treatments have been done, but none that slice through the clash of fundamentalist beliefs and the pursuit of oil with as much vigor and humor.

• Title: Crude Behavior: A Fundamental Tale as Told by kidd mullennium #Complete Graphic Novel
• Credits:
  • Written by Ron Callari
    
  • Art by Jon Donohoe
  • Adapted by Chris Northrop and Dave Baxter
    
• Publisher: Robot Comics
• Price: $4.99
• Screens: 128 Pages

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Crude Behavior: A Fundamental Tale as Told by kidd mullennium #Complete Graphic Novel is available for download on the following platforms:

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The Kindle edition of Crude Behavior: A Fundamental Tale as Told by kidd mullennium #Complete Graphic Novel is optimized only for Kindle 1 and 2.

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At long last!  The third and FINAL part to our Kindle Tutorial Trilogy of Terror! (no, seriously, try it, it’s terrifying…*shiver*…)

You can read PART 1: OPTIMIZING THE IMAGES by CLICKING HERE

You can read PART 2: THE HTML DOC by CLICKING HERE

So now you’ve put together your images, your text, and wrapped it all up in a nice HTML bow.  Time to put this puppy up and online for Amazon shoppers everywhere to buy it!  How best to go about it?  Are there any tips you should know about?  And, heck, how exactly does publishing content on the Kindle store work?

Digital Text Platform

You’ll need to sign up for a “DTP” account – the DIGITAL TEXT PLATFORM is Amazon’s special platform for publishers (independent or otherwise).

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UPDATE: We’ve updated the info below to better reflect the current Amazon/Kindle marketplace.

LAST UPDATED 10/28/09

Time for Part 2 (of 3) of our vundubar CREATING COMICS FOR THE KINDLE tutorial series!

You can read PART 1: OPTIMIZING THE IMAGES by CLICKING HERE.

You’ve got your images all squared away. It’s yea many pages in length and they’re all lined up in the proper reading order. Not that they have to be, but I recommend making the next part easy on yourself and make sure to call all the images something simple and obvious, like “page1.png”, “page2.png”, etc.

What next? Next it’s time to create the dreaded HTML Document that acts as the actual layout for your Kindle comic. All you need to do is have all your images in a single folder on your computer, then add an HTML doc titled “index.html”. So long as the images and HTML doc are all within the same folder, the link to the images can be relative and so all you need to use are the image files’ names.

For those unfamiliar with HTML, here’s a sample:

<img src=”page1.png”><img src=”page2.png”><img src=”page3.png”>, etc, etc. This puts all the images in the proper order when read on the Kindle when you upload the folder as a single ZIP file.
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UPDATE: We’ve updated the info below to better reflect the current Amazon/Kindle marketplace.

LAST UPDATED 10/26/09

Time for a handy-dandy tutorial on adapting comics for the Kindle!

The Lowdown

Anyone can sign up to publish books on the Kindle. Just register an account at Amazon’s Digital Text Platform site, and then you’re ready to begin uploading your finished Kindle-adapted product!

Er…whoops, how does someone adapt a comic for the Kindle? Just resize some pages and submit?

Wouldn’t that be nice. No, alas, there’s lots to know, and a plethora of misinformation bread-crumbed across the internet to confuse the issue as much as it possibly could be. But here’s the full skinny as it currently stands with optimizing for the Kindle 2 device, and we’ll additionally touch upon the possibilities of adapting for the DX and First Generation devices as we go.

Zip file with HTML

The final file for uploading to Amazon should be a ZIP file, containing all the images/pages of the comic, alongside an HTML document included inside the zip, informing Amazon the order and style in which the contents will be displayed.

We’ll go over the HTML in detail in part 2 of this tutorial series, but for now, let’s focus on optimizing the images.

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Get’cher Free Desert Peach Kindle Screensavers Right Here!

FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON UPLOADING CUSTOM SCREENSAVERS TO YOUR KINDLE 1, KINDLE DX or KINDLE 2, click on the respective links.

DOWNLOAD THE ZIP FILE OF DESERT PEACH SCREEN SAVERS

Here are some samples (click for larger image):

The Desert Peach (Kindle Ed.) #1	The Desert Peach #2 cover	The Desert Peach #3 cover
The Desert Peach #1 Page 1	The Desert Peach #10 cover	The Desert Peach #25 cover

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61 Kindle-sized pages of story! 83 pages in all (including extras)! Robot Comics and A Fine Line Press are proud to bring the entire award-winning Desert Peach Series to modern e-reading audiences with The Desert Peach #1. Titled “Who Is This Man?”, the issue introduces the Peach himself; his aide, Udo; the entire motley crew of the Halftrack 469th Support and Grave-Digging Battalion, and ushers readers into the exotic, harsh climate of 1940’s North Africa. It’s history and humor with not just a dash of true-to-life dramatics. Extras include a new author introduction to the series by Donna Barr, a new “Der Kauz” letters page with never-before-published letters, and a preview for The Desert Peach #2. And don’t forget to download your free custom Kindle 2 Desert Peach screensavers. And non-Kindle users can read the PEACH anytime online by visiting WWW.DESERT-PEACH.COM. One new page every single day!

• Title: The Desert Peach #1 of 30
• Credits: Written and illustrated by Donna Barr .
• Publisher: A Fine Line Press
• Price: $1.99
• Screens: 81

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The Desert Peach #1 is available for download on the following platforms:

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The Kindle edition of The Desert Peach #1 is optimized only for Kindle 1 and 2.