Dollicious

Dollicious ("Delisie" in Polish) is a comic book series created by Polish artist Magdalena Kania (alias Meago) and the writer Maciej Kur. The series is published by K6 Editions, an independent comic book publisher in Montreal, Quebec. Meago started the series around 2012. She began publishing character designs to web art galleries like DeviantArt and gained a fan following. Based on feedback from fans, Meago refined the designs which are a form of moe anthropomorphism where every character is an anthropomorphic realisation of an dish, food or ingredient. Meago teamed up with the writer Maciej Kur (writer on Kayko and Kokosh) to turn the characters into comic stories. The book series since was published in Poland, Canada and US.

The Dollicious Universe

The Dollicious world is set in Deliland, and populated by feminine anthropomorphised foods and ingredients, known as the Delipals. They all have characteristics of variou foods (for example the Pasta family has pasta for hair). The main character is Ramen, a teen who is the middle sister of The Noodle Sister family. A collection of noodle dishes who run The Pasta Cafe, a popular restaurant in Deliland's capital city, Alacart. Ramen's dream is to become a celebrity chef, like her heroes (the celebrated doyennes of the universe) Milk, Flour, and Sugar.

Ramen's friends come from all over Deliland, from Fruitbowl Island (the home of the Fruities, who represents all fruits), Heavenly Delight (a floating city and the home of the Sweeties who are all represents candy and sweat related foods), the Agrarie Prairies (home of the Veggies), and the Herbacea Jungle (home of the Herbs known as the Herbies, who are presented as amazons like civilsation). Alacart is home to all other foods who didn't fit the above category.

The series is full of multi-layer humor, with plenty of puns, refrences and irony. A lot of characters are base around food-in-jokes refrencing the food they are based on. According to series lore Delliland was founded by demigods like beings Nectar and Ambrosia.

The characters

• The Pasta Family (from the eldest to youngest):
  • Spaghetti - Oldest sister (and only adult one), head of the restaurant. She is very financial-minded, and can come across as money-grabbing and obsessed with Pasta Cafe PR and image, but can also serve as loving figure to her younger siblings. A lot of humor centers around her loosing her cool or looking for new way to make Pasta Cafe more profitable.
  • Pho - A carefree prankster. She and Shelly has a bit of a sibling rivaly going on.
  • Shelly - An painter and artist. She is very responsible and appears to be Spaghetti's second in comand. She is base on Conchiglie.
  • Ramen - The best cook of the family, and the main heroine. She is very nice, helpfull, idealistic and has a passion for cooking, so big she can come across as workaholic). Her main goal is to became master chief.
  • Tagliatelle - she is an restaurant handyman and spends most time fixing things. An talented iventor, who as an absurd joke can build things in split second. She is very introvert (as Ramen descrbies "lives in her own little world") and is socialy akward but very polite and good manered. She has two buns.
  • Bow - Want's to be just like Ramen. She spends most time in the garden. She is based on Farfalle.
  • Lasagna - Fun loving tomboy and loves cast. Comes across as very naive and as a running joke often misinterprate things.
  • Gnocchi - Youngest sibling and a toddler. Can't talk, but make noises. She has a very active imagination. All sisters love her and are shown to be very protective of her.

• Ramen's friends:
  • Ginger B. - Ski instructor and fan of Ramen's cooking and one of closes friends. Named after Ginger Bread. Lives in Heavenly Delight.
  • Cucamelon - She runs fashion boutique at frutibowl island. She is shy and kind, but has her limits.
  • Tiramisu - Foodie and a bit of a snob. She is rearly amused and always has a serious stare. She likes to bring attention to herself while pretending she dosen't care. She also tend to be over-the-top dramatic. Her main trade is obssesed with being orginal and she goes to absurd lengs to showcase how orginal she is, despite the fact others don't seam to care. Her catchprase is "I'm orginal".
  • Gummi - Sweet girl who is obessed with collecting Bears (refrence to gummi bears). She is happy-go-lucky, and despite being Ramen's age acts lie much younger, which is shown to be an eccentricity and living in her own world. Very inocent and naive (often coming of as not very bright), but is shown to be very carrying and well meaning. Lives in Heavenly Delight.
  • Bay Leaf - A young sage from Herbeca jungle. She tends to instrucs others and talks often in long monologes (often quoting encyclopedia definitions), which other Dellipals find annoying. Very strict and serious, but also very spiritual and loves to read books. Has a pet parrot named Sesame, who shares her personality.
  • Bubblegum - Crazy but lazy Delipal, dress in pink.
  • Pumpkin - an enthusiastic horror fan, lives at the farm where she runs paranromal museum and likes to jump-scare others for fun, but also loves to be scared herself. Her spooky-themed nature is a refrence to Jack-O' Lanterns and Halloween in general.
  • Chocdip (short for "Chocolate Covered Strawberry"). A tomboy and a rebel (she is a fruit who wants to be a candy), part of the band "The Wild Ones" (with Blueberry and Rasberry), where she plays the electric guitar. She has darkly pink hair, whears a brown hoodie.
  • Guarana - Over-energetic and crazy girl, who tend to act first think later and misinterpret things. Her hyper-active personality is joke on the fact that guarana fruit has more cofeine then coffy.
  • Banana - a vloger of "Banana Slips", where she spreads gossip and rumors. She can be a bit sleezy.
  • Watermelon - A sports lover, she is the soccer coatch to Bow and Lasagne.
  • Birthday Cake - an illusionist. She has an assistant, a bunny named Mr. Candles. Her catchprase are '"Suprise!" and "Well Hocus my Pocus".
  • Spinach - A farmer who is super strong. She is jolly and well meaning but dosen't know her own straight.

• Other characters:
  • Seafood Del Mar - a pirate and a villain. She has a sidekcik who is a talking Shrimp named Mr. Shrimp.
  • Flour, Milk and Sugar - Three legenadry chefs, who Ramen idolises.
  • Honey - TV host of Yum TV. Speaks with a southern acent.
  • Monstera - vain and spoiled inflancer who tends to annoy Cucamelon.
  • Carrot - a friendly doctor, who lives on the farm. She is close with Pumpkin and Spinach.

Publication

In 2019, at the Annecy Animation Festival the president of K6 Media Group, Laurent M. Abecassis met Kur at a networking event for Canadian businesses. They quickly began exchanging on how K6 Media Group could help bring Dollicious to a wider audience.

In August 2021, K6 Editions published the first volume of Dollicious, Dollicious #1 - Life Tastes Sweet. It was released in French and English in Canada. Egmont Group released the Polish version in March 2022. A second volume, Dollicious #2 - Yum Yum Yum!, came out in Poland in fall of 2022 and volume 3 "Apettite for Succes" in 2023, with more volumes on the way. The Polish publisher is Egmont Poland. One of the stories was also published in Polish magazine "RELAX" (in 2021). A merch including keychains and collector cards came out in Canada.

The book series meet with very positive reception in Poland. In fall 2022 the series was published in USA at Amazon, and since 2023 they are available in Walmart as well Barnes and Noble.. The series also produce a lot merch including trading cards, pillows, keychains and lips balsam.

Books

• Vol 1 - Life taste good (first published in 2021)
• Vol 2 - Yum, yum, yum (first published in 2022)
• Vol 3 - Appetite for Succes (firt published in 2023)
• Vol 4 - Temple of Aroma (set to be published in 2023)

Animated series

Animated series porudced by K6 Media group is in the works, with Kur and Meago involved in the prodcution.

External links

• Official webstie
• Animated series site
• Polish publisher
• Article about series in Polish magazine "Dziennik Bałtycki"

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