![]() Gradually the little trashcan shaped robot started suggesting that there was a larger story to tell. ![]() I made 30 Little Robot comics in all, and through those comics the robot’s personality developed. It was a very simple gag, that first comic but before long, and almost without thinking, I found myself drawing another Little Robot comic. Where did this little robot character come from?Ībout four years ago I drew a short, silent, five panel comic about a little robot. Robots, in stories, work really well as being “us.” The robot in this story is activated for the first time and is very much like a child. I think robots are, in some stories, almost an anti-alien. and Lilo & Stitch vibes, and yet the lost creature here is a robot. After she fixes him up, the two explore cats, flowers and frogs-until the factory where the robot belongs sends a bigger, scarier robot to retrieve him.Ĭonsidering the popularity of your Zita the Spacegirl series, it’s no surprise that this new story has some major E.T. A little girl, armed with a tool belt, gumption and lots of independence, discovers a lost blue robot. ![]() ![]() Ben Hatke, author of the popular Zita the Spacegirl series, brings readers a junkyard tale of friendship with his new book, Little Robot. ![]()
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