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Kid Inventors, an Educational Adventure Comic Book

A fun educational and inspiring adventure comics for kids to learn sciences and new technologies.

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Kid Inventors, an Educational Adventure Comic Book

Kid Inventors, an Educational Adventure Comic Book

Kid Inventors, an Educational Adventure Comic Book

Kid Inventors, an Educational Adventure Comic Book

Kid Inventors, an Educational Adventure Comic Book

A fun educational and inspiring adventure comics for kids to learn sciences and new technologies.

A fun educational and inspiring adventure comics for kids to learn sciences and new technologies.

A fun educational and inspiring adventure comics for kids to learn sciences and new technologies.

A fun educational and inspiring adventure comics for kids to learn sciences and new technologies.

Ed Shen
Ed Shen
Ed Shen
Ed Shen
1 Campaign |
San Francisco, United States
$1,760 USD by 34 backers
$1,760 USD by 34 backers on Aug 8, 2018
Overview
Kid Inventors comics is a fun educational comic series, and a Fantasy-to-Reality story. It uses a mix of cartoon panels and descriptions, such as hints, ideas, and mentor’s explanations to help readers understand the technical and scientific background of each story. Our next goal is to make it an animation film series and launch it globally. It's a perfect Summer reading material for your kids! **Please take the "Free Shipping" perks. Thanks for your support!

Introduction:

Born in Silicon Valley, California, the first time ever Kid Inventors comics is published to public right here! The Kid Inventors comics will bring you to an amazing adventure with a group of school kids! Inspiring the new technologies today and future, Kid Inventors comic series is a fun educational Comics, and a Fantasy-to-Reality story. Drawn, designed, and written by Ed Shen, Kid Inventors uses a mix of cartoon panels and descriptions, such as hints, ideas, and mentor’s explanations to help readers understand the technical and scientific background of each story. It also gives you ideas and passion to explore your imaginations to Create, Invent, and Start-up!

The Kid Inventors project is a production of comics and episodic animation movie series produced by KidInventor production led by Ed Shen, the author. Your support will make our production to the next level! 

 It’s a book for all ages, especially good for children and teens from 5 to 17 to attractive them to learn something useful in young age.  The Volume 2 and 3 will be available in 3-4 months.

Background:

Since I was a kid, inferred from my parents and grandparents, I’ve liked to make hands-on models, do scientific experiments, and create artworks and “inventions”. After completing my engineering degree, I have been working for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups in Silicon Valley, California as a technologist, engineer, and new product development leader. Also I’m an artist and art/science teacher for kids as my part-time career. In my graduate study, I created a couple of comics in my class presentation materials to demonstrate the research concepts. Then I made some comic strips, after another, and tried them in local children’s science camps and my art/cartoon classes. I received pretty good feedbacks from the professors, classmates, and my students.

My daily life—from the thrill of starting a new idea, to the long and harsh days dedicated to development, and finally to the moments of celebrating a new-product launch—all of them have inspired me to create this story. Therefore, I decided to combine my techno and education experiences, and art skills to make comics and animated film series to give today’s kids a production that’s not only for fun but also for learning something useful for their studies, careers, and future development.

Because I have a busy full-time job at a leading position of a fast-growing Silicon Valley company, plus my part time jobs, I have to devote most of my evenings, weekends and holidays to this creation. Now after several years of dedication, it's the time to start a new journey: making Kid Inventors! Publishing this book is just the beginning!

The Mission:

The mission of Kid Inventor comics and their affiliated productions is to encourage curiosity, learning desire, creativity, teamwork, leadership, and community contribution for today’s young people to create more geniuses like Steve Jobs, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk in the future!

Early-age education is very important for students to attract them to the technical field. Most famous scientists and inventors started their learning and creating practices at early ages. These stories provide fun and interesting ways to attract children to explore their imagination and interests in technical fields.

Today’s youngsters use all kinds of high-tech stuffs, such as smartphones, tablets, computers, tech toys, etc. However, not too many students know about the scientific and technical backgrounds behind these devices.  It's a perfect reading and learning material for your kids in this Summer.  

The Story:

Eddy, a school boy, is full of curiosities and imaginations, has a lot of dramatic “Great Ideas”, and always like to do some hands-on “cool” creations. But some people think his ideas are just fantasies!

Dotty is Eddy’s younger sister. She is always the companion of Eddy, but she sometimes likes to challenge his bro, and creates something not technical, but interesting and “meaningful”!

Eddy’s classmates and friends Jenny, Coddy, Webby, and Intty each has different skills, talents, and creative ideas, and they joined with Eddy one after another with their strong desire to learn and great ambitious to invent! 

They are trying to start some interesting projects, but they have no tools, no money, no facilities, and most importantly, no enough knowledge and skills. They are facing a lot of difficulties and challenges…

But they never give up. They keep trying, learning from the mistakes, and finding more resources...

With their persistent efforts, from small to big, they made many creations… the conflicts between their wild innovative “Great Ideas”, and their limited knowledge creates a lot of challenges and a lot of funny stories!

Along the way, you'll find they created many robot characters, such as Shogogo, Smaro, Mr. Unbeatable, Cuoobal, Suparo, and Meearo, etc. with different functions, skills and personalities… 

With their persistent efforts, they talents have been recognized by their school teacher Kaity and an engineer Robby and got some supports from school and industry… They finally formed an invention team in their school’s Technology and Robotics Club… They want to make super advanced inventive projects… They want to participate the International Student Invention Competitions to challenge high school and college students!...Suddenly, disasters happened! Evil robots, virus, and neutral disasters, …to save the planet, they have to fight! They are using their inventions and capabilities, they are taking actions…

The Book:  Features and Uniqueness

Drawn, designed, and written by Ed Shen, Kid Inventors contains a lot of short stories to form many episodes. which is also for the purpose to make animation TV/Internet show series.  It uses a mix of comics and descriptions—including theme, emotion, and technical descriptions such as hints, ideas, notes, and mentor’s explanations—to help readers better understand the background of each story. The book is funny, exciting, scary, sad, happy, mysterious, lighthearted, and family friendly…and hopefully evocative of emotions and experiences you’ve encountered in your daily life or your younger days. It’s good for all ages.

Kid Inventors is not only a comic, but also an educational story that includes some new and future technology, science, engineering, and design knowledge, as well as thinking-learning-doing concepts and processes. It’s the journey of a starters or a start-up company will be experienced from vision, concept, technical feasibility, methodologies, team-up to achieving the goals. It’s a dream that many kids have and many adults had.

The stories emphasize creativity, teamwork, contribution to society, hands-on experience, and learning from mistakes through a thinking-learning-doing process to reach the goal. Kid Inventors tells us to never give up our dreams. If you keep on it, your dream will come true!

It’s good book for you to read. It’s a perfect gift for your kids for this summer 2018!

The comedy, mystery, science, and educational concepts are naturally blend in every story. 

Goal, Plan and Your Supports:  

This book is the first publication, which is a limited edition black and white series. The Book Volume 1 has about 180 pages.  Volume 2 and 3 are on the way to complete the final editing in 3 months.

As planned, in 2018, Ed and his Kid Inventors Production team will start make this comic series an animation film series for children’s TV and Internet shows. 

Your participation and support will help Kid Inventors to be successful to the next level…

The Kid Inventors is not only a comic, but also a concept of learning-by-doing, hands-on, imagination to reality, and start at young for kids and society. Stay tuned with us. I and my team will have more productions in near future!

So your support will be the MOST IMPORTANT thing in Kid Inventors history, and this limited black and white edition will a treasure to keep. It's a perfect Summer learning material for your kids!  

Join us! Join with Kid Inventors! Thank You!

Risks

There is no risk for this project itself.  The 1st book has already been done and formatted with sample books. Our team will try our best to deliver it to you on time rain or shine! We will be working with proven production and fulfillment partners to deliver high-quality items delivered in a timely fashion in July!

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July 2018
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July 2018
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July 2018
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2 signed books, plus a signed original comic character drawing made by the author and artist, Ed!
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