{"id":1377,"date":"2010-07-18T07:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1377"},"modified":"2011-06-25T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:13:26","slug":"kerry-callen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1377","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Callen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/kerrycallen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-215\" title=\"Kerry Callen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/kerrycallen.jpg\" alt=\"Kerry Callen\" width=\"144\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Kerry Callen<\/strong> is the cartoonist behind the whimsical comic book <em>Halo and Sprocket<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By day, Callen works in the licensing department at Hallmark Cards, adapting the drawings of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most popular cartoonists into greeting cards. By night, he creates  <em>Halo and Sprocket<\/em>, one of the most charming and funny comic books you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find.<\/p>\n<p><em>Halo and Sprocket<\/em> is about a young woman (Katie) who lives with an angel (Halo) and a robot (Sprocket). The series is an outlet for Callen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fascination with things that simply don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense when you think about them for too long. No topic is too trivial to be turned into a mind bending farce: burping; why there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a cursive version letters, but not numbers; and the fact that the proverbial glass is neither half full nor half empty no matter what Katie says.<\/p>\n<p>Read a Kansas City Comics interview with Kerry Callen <a title=\"Kerry Callen interview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1240\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<address>Website: <a title=\"Kerry Callen\" href=\"http:\/\/kerrycallen.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">kerrycallen.blogspot.com<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Halo and Sprocket site: <a title=\"Halo and Spocket\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haloandsprocket.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.haloandsprocket.com<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Facebook: <a title=\"Kerry Callen on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=518550660\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=518550660<\/a><\/address>\n<address>Comicbookdb: <a title=\"Kerry Callen on Comicbookdb.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookdb.com\/creator.php?ID=7728\" target=\"_blank\">www.comicbookdb.com\/creator.php?ID=7728<\/a><\/address>\n<address> <\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Kerry Callen is the cartoonist behind the whimsical comic book Halo and Sprocket. By day, Callen works in the licensing department at Hallmark Cards, adapting the drawings of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most popular cartoonists into greeting cards. By night, he creates Halo and Sprocket, one of the most charming and funny comic books you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find. Halo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerry Callen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1381,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}