Kid Paddle


Kid Paddle is a Belgian gag-a-day comic series created by Michel Ledent in 1993. It was first published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou until branching out into its own volumed comic albums in 1996.
The series was popular enough to have spawned a French-Canadian-Belgian animated TV series produced by defunct animation studio Spectra Animation; that aired on M6 and Canal J in France, RTBF Television in Belgium and on Teletoon in Canada.

Overview

Both the comic strip and the TV show cover all the passions and interests of 8 to 12-year-old boys. The main character, Kid Paddle, is your typical young boy with a passionate love for video games, comic books, Blorks, and sci-fi television. His two best friends are Big Bang and Horace. Big Bang is more of a kid scientist, who is always creating new gadgets for Kid to try out. He is very intelligent for his age. Horace is more naive compared to the other two, and has a very bizarre appetite. He's always very supportive of Kid and looks up to him. As is typical for young children, Kid often fights with his sister, Carol, who finds her brother to be a :wikt:degenerate|degenerate air-head.
Regular features cover video games, movies and DVDs, technology, and comic books. By the second season some of the story lines revolved around crushes and the differences between boys and girls. Two seasons of 26 half-hour episodes have been produced thus far. It's not clear as of 2006 if a third season will be produced. The show has a huge following in its Belgian homeland, as well as in France.

Voice cast

Originally, four cartoons were developed for television: Then, an additional 48 episodes were ordered.

Series overview

Season 1 (2003)

Season 2 (2005-2006)

Comics

So far, the series has been published into 15 comic albums. The first 11 albums were published by Dupuis, with volume 12 onward being published by Mad Fabrik, Midam's own publishing company.
  1. Jeux des villans , 1996
  2. Carnage total , 1996
  3. Apocalypse boy, 1997
  4. Full metal casquette ,
  5. Alien chantilly, 1999
  6. Rodéo Blork , 2000
  7. Waterminator, 2001
  8. Paddle... My name is Kid Paddle, 2002
  9. Boing ! Boing ! Bunk !, 2005
  10. Dark, j'adore ! , 2005
  11. Le retour de la momie qui pue qui tue , 2007
  12. Panik room, 2011
  13. Slime project, 2012
  14. Serial player, 2014
  15. Men in Blork, 2017

    Video games

Kid Paddle has had three video games that were released on various Nintendo platforms in Belgium and France. These include Kid Paddle for the Game Boy Advance, released in 2005, Kid Paddle: Blorks Invasion for the Nintendo DS, released in 2007, and Kid Paddle: Lost in the Game, released for both the Wii and DS in 2008.
Kid Paddle: Puzzle Monsters is an iPad and iPhone video game based on the comic series and published by Anuman Interactive in 2009.