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Hello Kitty Graphic Novels #5
Hello Kitty: Work of Art
The Hello Kitty brand touches every part of a girl’s life with on-trend product, and touches every part of popular culture—from fashion to celebrity to art. It is a true lifestyle brand. VIZ Media’s wordless comic series is the first of its kind.
Hello Kitty and her friends are off on adventures near and far!
Picture this:
Hello Kitty and her friends are making music, producing plays, snapping photos, solving mysteries and...playing with dragons? Art is all around, and Hello Kitty and her friends know exactly where to find it!
And don't miss three lovely pieces by Maite Oz!
Hello Kitty and her friends are off on adventures near and far!
Picture this:
Hello Kitty and her friends are making music, producing plays, snapping photos, solving mysteries and...playing with dragons? Art is all around, and Hello Kitty and her friends know exactly where to find it!
And don't miss three lovely pieces by Maite Oz!
64 pages, Paperback
First published November 4, 2014
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June 12, 2025
Closer to what I was hoping with for the Miffy book I had recently
October 8, 2017
**Spoilers to follow.**
An Unexpected Journey was my favorite. Those dragons are so stinking cute!!
The Doodles
Hello Kitty is out catching butterflies when she finds a large pencil in the forest. The doodles she draws with it come to life, and before long start causing chaos. They go to the art exhibit and all seem to have a good time. Joey draws a mouse friend.
Watercolor
One page. Done in a watercolor-like style, obviously. Hello Kitty paints a rainbow and Mama hangs it up. She uses the brush water to water a plant, and its leaves turn colors.
Surprise Performance
Hello Kitty goes into the costume shop with ideas for a show. The shop worker shows her a snake charming prop which she excitedly buys. She takes her purchases home and puts on the show with/for her friends. When she starts the snake charming, they are all impressed, but then everyone's faces go blank as scarves, toilet paper, a cord, and the water hose rise up behind her too!
Weld Done
Hello Kitty is working on a welding project, then wheels it over to Dear Daniel's house covered with a sheet. He is very pleased; we still do not see what it is. Tracy and Joey get a letter from Hello Kitty to come "defend the kingdom" at 3pm. They show up and are scared to find a fire-breathing dragon! It is Hello Kitty's welding project, with Dear Daniel inside operating the flames. Hello Kitty's doodle of Dear Daniel climbs the tower and draws a picture of Hello Kitty on the flag.
Natural Talent
Hello Kitty is singing and Daniel comes over to play guitar in the yard. HK thinks they are missing drums, and Daniel says Tracy plays. Then she wants a piano, and Thomas comes over. Saxophone? Fifi. But something is still missing; what could it be? The bird in the tree starts singing and Hello Kitty loves it! The bird flies down to perform with them.
Music Dreams
One page. This would have benefited from different placement. It's too similar to Natural Talent to be interesting directly following. Hello Kitty is in bed and wakes up to hear music. A bird is singing. She goes off on her bike to the music store and buys a keyboard. It wakes Thomas and Fifi who also come out to play, and the little yellow bird sings with them. (The bird in the last story was pink.)
Mustache Mystery in the Art Museum
Someone has been painting purple mustaches over all the pieces in the art museum! Hello Kitty and Joey dress up like Holmes and Watson, and HK is on the case with her magnifying glass. She follows a trail of paint drips, but when she ends up at Dear Daniel, she realizes they've just gone in a circle! Joey is hiding the paintbrush behind his back! He swipes a purple mustache on Hello Kitty and runs away!
A little weird with the vandalism and the friend-as-criminal, but still kind of cute.
Pottery Pandemonium
Idk why Joey is the main character of this volume, but anyway. HK and Joey are in the pottery studio. HK is throwing a pot on the wheel as Joey uses the pedal to spin it. He's getting impatient and attaches a machine that makes it go super fast. Then he uses a forklift to drop a huuuuge pile of clay on the wheel! HK is not deterred and grabs the "emergencies only" claw gun (because that's a thing, lol). She rides to the top of the clay and runs down it, shaping it into a giant vase. Joey asks what they should do with it. HK takes it to the art museum, where the doodle creatures (appearing again from "The Doodles") draw all over it.
Sweet Project
One page. HK and Joey are building a popsicle stick house. Jodie says it should be bigger, so HK, Joey, Jodie, Tracy, and Fifi are all eating popsicles to get more sticks. They end up with a fort big enough for all of them!
Paintings
I love the art style on this one. I very much want to visit the little old cottage museum in the countryside!
HK and friends are on a field trip to an art and history museum. As everyone is looking around, a little blue ghost comes out and HK tries to run away from him. He snatches her from behind and drags her into a painting! Daniel wonders where HK has gotten to. Ghost boy takes her to a girl who compliments her hairbow. We see HK and the girl in the painting. The teacher, Jodie, and Thomas look at it curiously but don't seem too bothered. In the painting, they hear music and go over to a group in another painting. Daniel sees it and alerts the teacher. Now HK, ghost, and girl are in a wagon going over to a little house--it's the house the museum is in now! The ghost goes into the body of a boy. Meanwhile, all the students in the museum are looking for Hello Kitty. Daniel is very worried now and huddles in the corner. The girl in the painting tells HK that the boy is an artist. They go into his studio--the paintings there are windows to the museum! HK sees Daniel and says she needs to go home. The ghost dashes out of the boy and speeds her back home; she comes flying out of a painting and tackles Daniel. The teacher raises her arms like "Finally! Where have you been?" HK asks Daniel for a crayon and hurriedly draws a red bow just like hers on the girl in the first painting before catching up to get on the bus. The girl notices her bow and is thrilled.
This had sort of a strange vibe for a Hello Kitty story, but I loved the concept and the art style and everything. It felt almost like watching a movie. It was great!
An Unexpected Journey
Hello kitty is sculpting clay while Daniel is sculpting stone. He wants to make a bust of Hello Kitty, but as he chisels into the stone, the block splits open! There's an egg inside, and they wonder if it's like the bird they found in "The Egg" from Hello Kitty: Surprise! It hatches almost immediately, and there's a cute little green dragon inside. He starts to cry and HK gets him a bottle. She looks in a book and finds where the dragons live. She and Daniel set off in a hot air balloon to take the dragon home. A two-page spread shows the maze-like paths they have to cross to get from their landing site to the dragons' home. Luckily they have a map to follow. Eventually they make it to dragon land, where lots of these adorable dragons are flying. The parents are excited to get their baby back, and he tells them how HK and Daniel brought him home. The parent dragons walk them back to the balloon and blow fire to blow it back up.
Again -- the dragons are SO CUTE
Say Cheese
Joey buys a new camera and turns on the flash. The flash startles everyone as he takes their pictures, and all the pictures turn out to be of his friends having accidents with crazy looks on their faces--Tracy tips a bucket over while she's washing the car, Fifi falls into a cake she is decorating, Jodie gets wrapped up in her dog's leash, Daniel gets ice cream dropped on his head, and HK gets jelly all over her face while she was making a sandwich. As Joey is developing the photos (in a dark room photo lab--do people even know what those are anymore?) everyone (including the doodle creatures again) busts in and they all take a photo of him with the flash on! He gets all tangled up in the film rolls.
The dragon family and HK and Daniel in the balloon are the feature on the back flyleaf :)
The endpapers in this one are the watercolor style, a pattern of HK making music and art with stars and hearts and music notes and clouds.
An Unexpected Journey was my favorite. Those dragons are so stinking cute!!
The Doodles
Hello Kitty is out catching butterflies when she finds a large pencil in the forest. The doodles she draws with it come to life, and before long start causing chaos. They go to the art exhibit and all seem to have a good time. Joey draws a mouse friend.
Watercolor
One page. Done in a watercolor-like style, obviously. Hello Kitty paints a rainbow and Mama hangs it up. She uses the brush water to water a plant, and its leaves turn colors.
Surprise Performance
Hello Kitty goes into the costume shop with ideas for a show. The shop worker shows her a snake charming prop which she excitedly buys. She takes her purchases home and puts on the show with/for her friends. When she starts the snake charming, they are all impressed, but then everyone's faces go blank as scarves, toilet paper, a cord, and the water hose rise up behind her too!
Weld Done
Hello Kitty is working on a welding project, then wheels it over to Dear Daniel's house covered with a sheet. He is very pleased; we still do not see what it is. Tracy and Joey get a letter from Hello Kitty to come "defend the kingdom" at 3pm. They show up and are scared to find a fire-breathing dragon! It is Hello Kitty's welding project, with Dear Daniel inside operating the flames. Hello Kitty's doodle of Dear Daniel climbs the tower and draws a picture of Hello Kitty on the flag.
Natural Talent
Hello Kitty is singing and Daniel comes over to play guitar in the yard. HK thinks they are missing drums, and Daniel says Tracy plays. Then she wants a piano, and Thomas comes over. Saxophone? Fifi. But something is still missing; what could it be? The bird in the tree starts singing and Hello Kitty loves it! The bird flies down to perform with them.
Music Dreams
One page. This would have benefited from different placement. It's too similar to Natural Talent to be interesting directly following. Hello Kitty is in bed and wakes up to hear music. A bird is singing. She goes off on her bike to the music store and buys a keyboard. It wakes Thomas and Fifi who also come out to play, and the little yellow bird sings with them. (The bird in the last story was pink.)
Mustache Mystery in the Art Museum
Someone has been painting purple mustaches over all the pieces in the art museum! Hello Kitty and Joey dress up like Holmes and Watson, and HK is on the case with her magnifying glass. She follows a trail of paint drips, but when she ends up at Dear Daniel, she realizes they've just gone in a circle! Joey is hiding the paintbrush behind his back! He swipes a purple mustache on Hello Kitty and runs away!
A little weird with the vandalism and the friend-as-criminal, but still kind of cute.
Pottery Pandemonium
Idk why Joey is the main character of this volume, but anyway. HK and Joey are in the pottery studio. HK is throwing a pot on the wheel as Joey uses the pedal to spin it. He's getting impatient and attaches a machine that makes it go super fast. Then he uses a forklift to drop a huuuuge pile of clay on the wheel! HK is not deterred and grabs the "emergencies only" claw gun (because that's a thing, lol). She rides to the top of the clay and runs down it, shaping it into a giant vase. Joey asks what they should do with it. HK takes it to the art museum, where the doodle creatures (appearing again from "The Doodles") draw all over it.
Sweet Project
One page. HK and Joey are building a popsicle stick house. Jodie says it should be bigger, so HK, Joey, Jodie, Tracy, and Fifi are all eating popsicles to get more sticks. They end up with a fort big enough for all of them!
Paintings
I love the art style on this one. I very much want to visit the little old cottage museum in the countryside!
HK and friends are on a field trip to an art and history museum. As everyone is looking around, a little blue ghost comes out and HK tries to run away from him. He snatches her from behind and drags her into a painting! Daniel wonders where HK has gotten to. Ghost boy takes her to a girl who compliments her hairbow. We see HK and the girl in the painting. The teacher, Jodie, and Thomas look at it curiously but don't seem too bothered. In the painting, they hear music and go over to a group in another painting. Daniel sees it and alerts the teacher. Now HK, ghost, and girl are in a wagon going over to a little house--it's the house the museum is in now! The ghost goes into the body of a boy. Meanwhile, all the students in the museum are looking for Hello Kitty. Daniel is very worried now and huddles in the corner. The girl in the painting tells HK that the boy is an artist. They go into his studio--the paintings there are windows to the museum! HK sees Daniel and says she needs to go home. The ghost dashes out of the boy and speeds her back home; she comes flying out of a painting and tackles Daniel. The teacher raises her arms like "Finally! Where have you been?" HK asks Daniel for a crayon and hurriedly draws a red bow just like hers on the girl in the first painting before catching up to get on the bus. The girl notices her bow and is thrilled.
This had sort of a strange vibe for a Hello Kitty story, but I loved the concept and the art style and everything. It felt almost like watching a movie. It was great!
An Unexpected Journey
Hello kitty is sculpting clay while Daniel is sculpting stone. He wants to make a bust of Hello Kitty, but as he chisels into the stone, the block splits open! There's an egg inside, and they wonder if it's like the bird they found in "The Egg" from Hello Kitty: Surprise! It hatches almost immediately, and there's a cute little green dragon inside. He starts to cry and HK gets him a bottle. She looks in a book and finds where the dragons live. She and Daniel set off in a hot air balloon to take the dragon home. A two-page spread shows the maze-like paths they have to cross to get from their landing site to the dragons' home. Luckily they have a map to follow. Eventually they make it to dragon land, where lots of these adorable dragons are flying. The parents are excited to get their baby back, and he tells them how HK and Daniel brought him home. The parent dragons walk them back to the balloon and blow fire to blow it back up.
Again -- the dragons are SO CUTE
Say Cheese
Joey buys a new camera and turns on the flash. The flash startles everyone as he takes their pictures, and all the pictures turn out to be of his friends having accidents with crazy looks on their faces--Tracy tips a bucket over while she's washing the car, Fifi falls into a cake she is decorating, Jodie gets wrapped up in her dog's leash, Daniel gets ice cream dropped on his head, and HK gets jelly all over her face while she was making a sandwich. As Joey is developing the photos (in a dark room photo lab--do people even know what those are anymore?) everyone (including the doodle creatures again) busts in and they all take a photo of him with the flash on! He gets all tangled up in the film rolls.
The dragon family and HK and Daniel in the balloon are the feature on the back flyleaf :)
The endpapers in this one are the watercolor style, a pattern of HK making music and art with stars and hearts and music notes and clouds.
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April 24, 2016What a remarkable and inventive little book!
June 16, 2021
The different art styles really complement each other here, especially as the characters travel in different mediums.
January 7, 2015
This cute little comic for kids would be a great tool for showing how comics can clearly communicate conversation without the use of words. Kitty-chan and co. create art in a variety of media (including welding a giant metal dragon!), visit an art museum, start a band, and put on a play. The images are crisp and clear, and the stories are short and simple. There is not a continuous plot, just cute little snippets of Ktty + art-making.
August 15, 2014
In this wordless graphic novel, kids will fall in love with the different short stories within this book. I'll be honest and say that I don't know enough about Hello Kitty to know if all of the books are wordless or not, but I loved how the illustrations would change from story to story!
August 28, 2015
The Hello Kitty GN series is a cute "next-to-wordless" series with nice art and fun stories. I love them.
June 24, 2017
Super cute and charming. A few in here I genuinely laughed and was touched by. So fun. A little spot of happy.
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