Kid Zingo is a the cartoon spokesman for my newest venture: Zingo Maps. I’ll no doubt be posting about Zingo Maps in the future , but for now let’s concentrate on Kid Zingo. I wanted a friendly, wholesome looking character to place on my web pages, possibly animated, and on promotional material for Zingo Maps. I wanted him simply drawn. Complicated characters are a pain to animate. I suppose my influences for him were a bit of Bill Watterson’s Spaceman Spiff and Dick Sprang’s Robin. Two of the greatest cartoonists of all time, by the way. Here is the first version. What do you think?
