Comics News Kellerman's ROCKY launches in METRO By Leroy Douresseaux July 29, 2006 - 14:58 THE DAILY, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMIC STRIP "ROCKY" BY SWEDISH CARTOONIST MARTIN KELLERMAN STARTS UP IN METRO USA On Monday July, 17 the New York and Boston editions of daily free  newspaper Metro -- "The World's Largest Global Newspaper" --  presented a different kind of daily comic strip: Martin Kellerman’s  ROCKY. Kellerman’s Rocky is one of the most acclaimed new comic strips to  emerge in the last decade. Being autobiographical, the themes and  humor of Kellerman’s comic strip are closer to TV series like  "Seinfeld" and "Friends" than the more traditional and bland comic  strips running in most American newspapers. Kellerman has also used his character to do unique comics interviews  with some of the biggest names in the music industry, like 50 Cent,  The Game, and Pharell, and some of Kellerman’s personal favorites  like Slick Rick, M.I.A, and Arctic Monkeys.  A number of these  interviews have been published in American/international magazines  like YRB and Vice. Rocky has been running daily in Europe since 1998. Today the daily  strips, and the weekly and monthly full pages of Rocky run in some 40  newspapers and magazines in 8 countries.  In Sweden and Norway, Rocky also has its own monthly magazine. The first English-language Rocky book The Big Payback was published  by the well-respected Fantagraphics Books in the USA in November  2005, with the second volume scheduled for Spring 2007.  The Rocky  books are also published in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and  Italy; plus France and Spain later this year. This autumn work on a 3-D animated Rocky TV series begins, with a  full length animated film to follow. Kellerman is both writer and  director of these projects. What will probably be amazing to American readers is how similar the  day-to-day experiences of these Seinfeld-watching, Big Mac-eating,  hip-hop-listening Swedes is to theirs. Rocky is a reminder as to how  utterly global our culture has become - and a reminder that laughter  is truly universal. © Copyright 2002-2019 by Toon Doctor Inc. - All rights Reserved. All other texts, images, characters and trademarks are copyright their respective owners. Use of material in this document (including reproduction, modification, distribution, electronic transmission or republication) without prior written permission is strictly prohibited.