Skid Kidd
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Skid Kidd is a comic strip by Rod McKie. It appeared in the IPC comic book Buster between 1984 and 1985. [1]
The central character, Mike Kidd, is sitting around one day when out of the blue a large crate, containing a bike, lands in his garden. The bike is actually a secret weapon going under the acronym S.A.M (Super Action Machine) and the bad guys who stole the bike want it back.
The comic began as an ongoing comedy adventure where a group of villains with weird and wonderful devices came up with ever more desperate and zany plans to recover the bike. Over time, the format of the strip changed from continuing cliffhanger-style story to the preferred IPC format of a gag-a-page.
During its run, Mike Kidd's adventures were used by the Raleigh Bicycle Company to promote a competition for their Vektar bike, which was given as a prize to the reader who solved Skid Kidd's villain problem in a special two-part episode.[citation needed]
McKie made it clear from the start that he wanted the character to look like "key" scenes from an animation storyboard rather than a conventional comic page.[citation needed] The character and the backgrounds were drawn flat, with a rigid, inflexible nib, in order that the eye of the reader should not be distracted by thick and thin lines.[citation needed]
Sources
- ^ "In Memoriam: Cartoonist, Comic Artist and Illustrator Rod McKie". 30 March 2021.
- Wikipedia articles needing reorganization from July 2023
- Articles needing additional references from July 2023
- All articles needing additional references
- Articles with multiple maintenance issues
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from May 2021
- British comic strips
- 1984 comics debuts
- 1985 comics endings
- Science fiction comics
- Comics about children
- Comics set in the United Kingdom
- Fleetway and IPC Comics strips
- Comics characters introduced in 1984
- All stub articles
- Comic strip stubs