Adventures of the Kite Family

Adventures of the Kite Family written by Dan Brader with the first issue illustrated by New Zealand artists, Yi Lang Chen & Csaba Mester.

Dan and I have been FB friends since I first was contacted by him a few months back, when he asked me to check out the first issue of Kite Family. Because the series is a Real Life genre book, the issues and situations in it, felt like it was speaking to me personally as an adult male. I felt at one with the character, even though there isn't much revelation about why Donnie is back from where ever he was. The story allowed me to put myself in Donnie's place and think about the shit, for lack of a better adjective, that I had/have been going through after my own split and returning to my parents home to recoup for a while before I decided it was time to stand up.

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"The Adventures Of The Kite Family" is a humorous semi-autobiographical comic book series created by Dan Brader and illustrated by Yi Lang Chen and Csaba Mester. The comic is the story of Donnie Kite, a debt-ridden, struggling comedian in his late twenties who moves back home with his constantly bickering parents. Much of the comedy comes from the fact that Donnie doesn't want to be there but has no choice because he's broke and his parents who are complete opposites. Dorothy Kite is a flighty, scatter brained writer with a drinking problem who is always buying clothes she doesn't need and Jack Kite an uptight executive who needs to control everything and everyone and is stressing like mad about his impending retirement and what to do with his constantly unemployed son. The series is comprised of full length issues and short features. So far issue one is complete along with two short features.

"The Adventures Of The Kite Family" has appeared in "Dunedin Comic Collective" and the arts zine "Pink Noise".

The Kite Family