KA-BOOMERS!

Ka-Boom! is conformed by several comic book artists: pencillers, writers, colorists, graphic designers, animators, letterers… specialists in the areas of sci-fi and fantasy, dedicated to family subjects and why not, also subjects for teenagers and adults but with the highest quality in its total production.

One of the most important points that we K’s! take into account, is the direct contact we have with our fans, this broadens our vision of the subjects the audience likes or dislikes, because we owe ourselves to them.

As a display of our Studio’s quality; some of its members have collaborated and still collaborate in some Publishing Houses from the United States such as: Bongo Comics, DC Comics, Warner Bros., Right Stuf, Inc., etc.

We have been part of Televisa’s team of Production for Special Projects, making animations for Sesame Street Latin America: directing, designing, creating the ideas and supervising total production of the product.

We have focused our work to the task of promoting the culture of quality comic book by participating as lecturers in Grade Schools, High Schools, Universities and international and national Conventions.

K! MEMBERS

OSCAR GONZÁLEZ LOYO Chief Executive Officer (Artist, writer and colorist).




SUSANA L. ROMERO MEDINA Assistant Director of Editorial Assistance and Scripts ( Writer, bla bla bla girl-I and colorist).




REBECA SORIANO CASTAÑEDA Personal Assistant (Writer and maniatic).




OSCAR GONZÁLEZ GUERRERO Artistic Director (Artist, talkative and witty,writer and colorist).



HORACIO SANDOVAL PÉRAZ Artistic Assistant (Artist, writer, clown and colorist).





TONATIUH ROCHA MIRANDA Design Production Director (Artist, grinch, colorist and designer).




 ALEJANDRO PALOMARES GONZÁLEZ Design Assistant Director (Artist, autistic and colorist).





MARIANA MORENO AYALA Writer, genius girl and artist.





CARLOS VILLAGRANA ROMERO Legal Director and bad guy.





EDGAR ESTRELLA Distribution Director and member of the mafia of distribution in México.





EDUARDO MENDOZA Reader services, smurf and mailing.





NORIHIKO MATSUMOTO RAMOS Web Designer and Pirate Japanese.

MIGUEL ANGEL OSORIO MARTÍNEZ Design Assistant Hard Cord Freaky.

JAVIER RIVERO Dubbing Director and third class singer.

ANGEL SADAY GONZÁLEZ ROMERO Pet of Ka-Boom! and Chef.

K! CONTRIBUTORS: HILDA LOYO DE GONZÁLEZ, AARON SORIANO , OSCAR AND MA. LUISA MENDIOLA, CUAUTLI ARAU, FRANCISCO MORALES, PEDRO MORALES, AND ALL THE FANS AND K! PROMOTERS IN THE WORLD.

THE MEMORY OF A SILENT INSTANT

Have you ever thought…? Or rather… don’t you remember everything that mesmerized you for seconds during your childhood and now as adults you enjoy for some periods, making your mechanical and routine adult life lighter? Something in the
distance of times surely touched you and somehow you use that “something” to act in the present. In Ka-Boom! We name that element “The memory of a silent instant”, an instant that when activated can evoke very positive reactions in people. Evenhough we speak from an entertainment medium point of view, such as a comic, a cartoon or a book can be; it can also encompass real life situations that go unnoticed for mostly everyone.

As an example of this dreaming blindness we can name the great amount of people who left the theater in the middle of “The Lord of the Rings” movie; since they didn’t understand the subject, or since their buttocks got numb because of the length of the film, or so they say. On the other hand; the comics, movies and cartoons fans… who turn into “specialists” and start being so mechanically critical with those things they are followers of, that they lose the flavor of enjoyment of something acceptable just because it doesn´t fulfill their expectations. Not because the material is bad, but because of the lack of the “silent instant” we referred to above. As yet another example we can take a look at the Star Wars fans who hated Episode I. “The memory of a silent instant” is like the memory of Peter Pan’s ship we all saw in some moment in our life.
All this existential gibberish is because within our projects we have varied subjects and for all audiences, humor, fantasy, adventures, sci-fi… for boys and girls 4 to 108 years old.
The creative spark which motivates the Ka-Boomers! is dreaming. Never stop dreaming. To keep that child spirit, which many colleagues try to get rid of at any cost, because they think that being adults it is not transcendental to elevate their perspective towards the very young audience, please note that I am saying elevate it and not lower it.
In our works we try somehow, that at least one reader catches that “Silent Instant” that in the future will help to return a smile to an old person who walks down the street in the middle of the smog and traffic noise.

We want to share and return the gift our childhood heroes made us: understand the huge power of dreaming…

Thank's for all!

MEANING AND OBJECTIVES

As many of you know, the onomatopoeia is a basic element in comics, representing sounds in a graphic way to give ambience and flavor to the story, replacing the real sound. In 1994, searching for some name that could identify and represent what we are as a Creative Team in a single word; we chose among many others, the onomatopoeia, KA-BOOM! Universal expression that means: “Explosion”, as our identity color.
KA-BOOM! is conformed by an amalgam of diverse artists, creative people of inexhaustible inspiration who express a great variety of styles and ideas, demonstrating with it a whole “Imagination Explosion”: slogan of our Studio.
Popularly, our friends call us “Los ¡Ka-Boones! (The Ka-Boomers)” or “The ones from studio K!”

As a curious fact, the letter “K” has been very important in the story of our Group. Many of the words we use begin with this letter, a detail that you will see as you read through our different sections.

Among our goals we can find: help (adding our little sand grain) to create a comic book industry in Mexico, introducing new formats and ideas which fulfill the essential requirements to provide a quality that can make us competitive worldwide. Create forums to display the fresh ideas of new values and also the ones from proven artists. To introduce to the new Mexican audience the comic as an art form; leaving behind the disposable comic book concept. The mystic of Ka-boom studio! is that its members need to be professional, up to date and well informed. That they work with a very serious discipline and above it all; that they have a sense of ethics and partnership beyond that which almost every professional of our medium is bound to have.

It is also within our priorities to promote the children and young adult comic. Genres that are undervalued by many of the colleagues who only direct their work towards the comic they call “adult”, “author-made” and “artistic”. In Ka-.Boom! we think that the subjects for children can also be author-made and enjoy of a possibly even superior artistic quality. If we don’t make comics for the new generations and show them this art, in the future, we will be contributing to the disappearance of this genre’s reader, a situation that has already started in a worldwide level. The people who read comics during the 1970’s an 1980’s, now adults, have forgotten Peter Pan’s ship and look at their surroundings according to their age. A very normal situation from a reader’s point of view, but the point of view changes as a creative and a comic maker. Because the author must think about what every kind of reader likes and be up to date not just in the technological novelties and trends, but also in the feelings and fantasies of the new generations, who even though are more sophisticated, keep containing the same spiritual and child essence that many fight to leave behind. Maybe because of the above, Ka-Boom! Studio is more specialized in subjects for children, and its comics are directed to a familiar, not very complex and tricky audience.

Another Ka-Boom! Studio characteristic is that many of its members can, besides working in their own books, work with popular and famous characters maintaining their essence, as if they had been their creators when writing and drawing them. This is not an easy to find ability even in artists considered as geniuses and of a high level. Because of this, not everyone dares to work with already created characters. Nevertheless, as an artist, one has to be capable of solving graphic problems according to the challenges that show up in your professional life. That’s why K! Studio will continue participating in Mexican and international companies’ projects which want to work with their own subjects and characters.

We also have within our goals promoting the creation of advertising as well as entertainment mascots, with a design that can be transcendental and functional, as well as scripts and illustrations for all kinds of printed media such as: stamp albums, trading cards, coloring books, jigsaw puzzles, posters, role playing games, text books, brochures, and enterprises’ informative publications. We also create concepts and image designs for TV production and 2D animation, storyboards, layouts, character, scenery and costume design.

For more information: www.ka-boom.com.mx