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Kool Aid Gets Fired

By Timothy Piotrowski, October 23, 2009 4:39 pm


KOOL AID GETS FIRED
is back in stock, and ready for ordering.
Now with an extra story, Son of Kool Aid.

Ordering details below.

spacer Kool Aid Gets Fired follows the misadventures of the Kool Aid Man, after he is fired from his job of 55 years, promoting the kool-aid soft drink. However, years of leading a sheltered life as a corporate spokesperson has left our hero without skills to make it in the bigger world.

Underneath, Kool Aid Gets Fired pokes at large corporations that only look at doing business, not people, and how companies often have more rights then people do.

Kool Aid Gets Fired started out with a simple drawing of the Kool Aid man having a small exestential crisis moment of questioning who he is. From there I wondered what his life would be like if he had to live like a regular person, how would people react to him. Would they think that he was the person they saw in the TV commercials? How would they act around someone who’s been the center of several scandles recently? And how would Kool Aid handle having to deal with the every day issues most of us deal with?

KAGF was written and drawn under the dead line of having it ready for the MoCCA festival. There were parts that I had to leave out, to make it in time. One choice about the comic that I think was particularly effective was the choice to make only the corporate mascots the only ones to have color.

Here are some early sketches and color samples I did.

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Below are pages from KAGF.

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Son of Kool Aid

spacer Originally, the book was self published by running it off on a high end color proofing copier. I lost access to those copiers when I moved to NY, so decided to get the book professionally printed and to mark that occassion, I decided to include a short story about Kool Aids bastard child. I did it full color and as a children book. It’s nine pages long, each page has a full page color illustration.

I’ve been asked a lot if I planned on doing more Kool Aid stories or a sequel. I don’t think a sequel would work, based on the ending of the story. But while writing KAGF, I had ideas that got shortened or left out to get the book done in time for a convention. I also had Kool Aid related ideas, one of them being a story about his offspring. There are a few others as well I have in mind. And I’ve always thought it would be interesting to go back and flesh out the original story, or write short stories that fit within the time frame of the story.

Either way, I’m probably not done with Kool aid, and there are other stories I am working on.

How to Order Kool Aid Gets Fired

You can order KAGF directly from me. Simply send payment of $6.00, (for US residents, out of country extra postage as needed) which includes shipping costs to me via paypal or in the mail. I generally sign and draw a little picture of Kool Aid being vulgar or rude. If you have something specific you want, let me know, or if you want a pristine copy, not all doodled over.

Via Paypal please use the following email:

timpiotr@yahoo.com
Make sure to include your name and mailing address.

I’m a store, and I would like to carry this comic in my store!

Why thanks! I also sell directly to stores. Please email me at timpiotr@yahoo.com, and I will let you know the price I sell to stores, and shipping costs.

And for fun, here is a little animation of Kool Aid walking I did.

9 Responses to “Kool Aid Gets Fired”

  1. spacer Laura Kaczmarek says:
    October 26, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    Love the animation, Tim!

  2. spacer roman says:
    March 18, 2010 at 11:00 am

    thats messed up i love kool-aid

  3. spacer Erick L. says:
    July 31, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    I’ll be picking up this comic aug 4th at Midtown Comics. Being unemployed right now is tough, hopefully this book lightens my mood.

  4. The Old New Mutants Are Back in Action | FrontRow says:
    August 4, 2010 at 1:23 pm

    [...] Kool Aid Gets Fired: This isn’t exactly a new release, but it’s new to me. And the title made me giggle.

  5. spacer BX11 says:
    August 17, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    I got mine at Midtown Comics today. Look forward to reading it on the commute home!

  6. spacer ozwalled says:
    September 25, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    Picked this up recently at my local comics shop. A nice little read. spacer

  7. spacer libhomo says:
    October 11, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    This was the highlight of Comic Con for me.

  8. Five MORE awesome comics from New York Comic Con | 000030.196998.com says:
    October 14, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    [...] more sympathy for the half-empty pitcher.See a preview: Tim has posted a few pages from the book on his official site.Where to buy: glitchworks.com – Return of the Dapper Men by Jim McCann and Janet Lee [...]

  9. spacer ebony frier says:
    October 16, 2010 at 1:34 pm

    I love it!!! I’ve loved Kool Aid since I was a kid and found this while surfing the web @ work (wow…the shame of that statement!) I found myself laughing out loud and realized it wasn’t the best place to read it. But I had to let you know that this was just way too cute. I hope you write more stories about KA. And I am going to order the book so that I can find out what happens to our hero. Keep up the great work!

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