Children's Cartoon / Comicbook Concept:
"KITTY - the Kitty Kat !!!"
 
Objective: Teach young children to treat animals (& others) with kindness and care.
Themes:
Caring for and feeding of a pet (subjectively experienced)
Natural rewards for 'being nice' (subjectively experienced)
Natural consequences for 'meanness' (objectively observed)
Animal loyalty  (subjectively experienced)
Friendship  (subjectively experienced)
Helping  (subjectively experienced)
Aging  (subjectively experienced & objectively observed)
Methods:  Song, Story, Kinetics, Stimulating (surreal, "psychedelic") environments, strong character-familiarity through [child's perspective] large-theme agreement, attention-grabbing sound effects and ambient recordings, "Do Togethers"
Antecedents: George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Elsie Segar (Popeye), Fred Rogers, Captain Kangaroo, Zap! Comics, James Herriott, Walt Disney, Scripture, parents' advice...

• she's a cute, fuzzy kitty!
• eats all sorts of things! (gum, broccoli, pictures of food)
• awful friendly!
• purrs a lot!
• really funny-sounding purr! ("like a sick whistle")
• lotsa emotional intelligence!
• really tolerates children! (but expects respect)
• won't fight! (but scares dogs with 'mad-fur effect')
• won't talk! (but 'plays' acoustic guitar and says "MeYow!" sometimes)
• drinks water out of the toilet!
• good "watch-pet" and danger-detector!
• always locates lost coins under furniture! (has over $1,000,000 hidden under the shed)
• musical and non-musical sounds express 'literal' animal-thoughts! 

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  stand-by for sample animation (projected for 2/2002)

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