Holy molé

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Holy Molé
Author(s)	Rick Hotton
Current status / schedule	Running
Genre(s)	Humor, Satire

Holy Molé is a daily cartoon comic strip drawn by Rick Hotton, a Sarasota, FL native and cartoonist. His comic strip Holy Molé first appeared as a mostly unknown comic in small local magazines such as Sarasota Florida's PostiveChange, but has recently started to gain more widespread accessibility and following, being published in a south Florida newspaper The Bradenton Herald^[1]. Holy Molé follows the happenings in the lives of a multitude of animals, most notably the title character himself, and tends to feature a satirical view of the journey of life.^[2]

1 Characters
2 History
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Characters

Holy Molé' - The main character, a small mole who is the archetypal seeker in society. He has no religious overtones, yet like many creatures blessed with the great fortune of being alive, this mole strives to find meaning and purpose (in an always laughable way) in its seemingly complex existence.

Kool Kat - Molé's best friend, a cat who is perfectly content living each day without much introspection. This cat is pragmatic and very much a realist, and his constant misunderstandings of Molé's striving for enlightenment often cause some hilarious blunders.

Other characters - other characters in the series include a wise and very zen turtle (sort of a soft-shell sensei), some whimsical penguins, an unusual chicken named Haiku, and most recently a dysfunctional family of snails, a plethora of capricious kangaroos and a bunch of flippant frogs.^[3]

[edit] History

Comic strip creator Rick Hotton first began his journeys into cartooning as a college Math instructor at Manatee Community College in Bradenton, FL. While teaching, "The Holy Mole cartoon began as a cathartic exercise to protest an overly manufactured world where profit margins take precedence over the intrinsic spirit of things. It also happened to be a great way to kill time when students were taking math tests"^[4]. Most recently, an editor from the newspaper The Bradenton Herald is quoted as saying about creator Rick Hotton, "When Rick Hotton started scribbling on the paper place setting, I admit I had the urge to grab it away from him -- after having him autograph it. You never know when you might be having lunch with the world's next great cartoonist".^[5]