You Damn Kid!
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| You Damn Kid! | |
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| Author(s) | Owen Dunne |
| Website | http://www.youdamnkid.com/ |
| Update schedule | Weekly |
| Launch date | 1997 |
You Damn Kid! (or YDK) is a comic strip by cartoonist Owen Dunne. While originally appearing in non-mainstream newspapers, it has run as a webcomic since 1997. The strip is a fictionalized version of Dunne's life as a child in the late 1960s. Much of the humor in the strip comes from the juxtaposition of childlike innocence and nostalgia with the darker or more disturbing realities of life; it explores themes such as death, mental retardation, and sexual abuse by priests. The strip is very critical of the Catholic Church and the hypocrisy of the middle class.
You Damn Kid! is part of the Keenspot webcomics group.
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[edit] Format
The strip is told mainly in the first person; to date, the main character's name, Casey, has only been mentioned once. Casey attends a Catholic grammar school taught by nuns. He has a younger sister named Dot. Their ages are never specified, and appear to change from memory to memory (the entire strip is told in flashback).
The location of the strip is also never mentioned; the presence of snow in the winter, and various cultural traits, imply that it is somewhere in the northern United States. It is possible that it is the creator's home state of Rhode Island, but this is never made explicit. A 2006 strip states that the family lives in Parker County; the only Parker County in the United States is Parker County, Texas. However, in the same strip, Parker County is described as bordering Midland County; while Texas does have a Midland County, it is not near Parker County.
[edit] Other hosted comics
You Damn Kid! used to be the primary and semiregularly updated comic on Dunne's website, but Dunne has been ambitious, launching several different comics on his site: The Beevnicks, Norman P. Function, Those Darn Kids (a spin-off of YDK), Nippleshine Manor, Ed Seriously, Banion (a spin-off of The Beevnicks), Pencil and Ink, Dizzy Dustbin, Tommy Watches TV, Pek, The New Beevnicks, and most recently My New Mommy. All of these comics have discontinued, with the exception of The Beevnicks. Several of the strips, such as Pencil and Ink and Pek, never seemed to progress beyond a single strip.
On 2006-05-01, Dunne announced he was relaunching The Beevnicks, which he would draw in detail, as opposed to his original Beevnicks comics, which were simple copy and paste strips. The Beevnicks, starring the horny Tom Beevnick and his son, large-headed Billy, replaced YDK as Dunne's primary comic.
Currently, The Beevnicks is updated daily, and You Damn Kid! is updated sporadically.
[edit] You Damn Kid! in other media
On May 30, 2004, You Damn Kid - Fun at A.A. Meetings: The Comic Strip for Grownups About Being a Kid, became available for sale at Amazon.com with the followup collection, You Damn Kid: Naked Lady Balloons, becoming available from June 30, 2006.
On September 20, 2005, it was announced that You Damn Kid! was optioned for television by FOX.
