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Kid Paddle? Do you know it?

It’s a Belgian comic book by Midam that I was more than "fan of" at the time. And for good reason, because Kid and his whole little universe were going to bring the world of video games into the world of comics. And right away, but Jojo, Cedric and Boule & Bill were getting old!

At that time, my brother and I had the idea to create a video game around this character and to send it to Spirou newspaper. While my brother was thinking about how to cut the members of Kid into different sprites to be animated, I was reprogramming my Show me your dreams compo to sound more « video game »! Its concept was perfect: tell the story of a young boy absorbed in his favourite video game! Of course, it’s a bit of a boat, but it would obviously have fitted perfectly with the Kid Paddle universe!

The project won’t evolve much more, Inscene’2K focusing on our shoot’m up, but Midam’s line has always been very inspiring. If the brother Pype, regularly took pleasure in drawing Midam’s Blorks and even made me a magnificent Kid Paddle apron for Saint Nicolas, very modestly, I also liked to try one or the other doodle in the Kid Paddle spirit.

Equipped with Adobe Photoshop since my entrance to the Institute of Diffusion Arts a few years earlier, I was tempted to redraw the future hero of the Game Over series (which will be released in comics in 2004), with the mouse! This little drawing will be my contribution to the GFX Compo of the Inscene’2K and will be the central element of the HTML Quest album cover a few months later.

Left abandoned during the winter of 2000, I would bring out my .IT file simply named « Small Kid » in order to assemble the various little musics imagined for the game to integrate them in the HTML Quest album under the name of « Hey Kid, show me your dreams ! »