It’s a living.
A big thanks to Tracey Chung for taking my absurdly long strip and bringing it to life so perfectly! Check out her work at http://traceychung.blogspot.com/ most of it is decidedly more cute that what I asked for.
Kevin and Kell is one of the oldest webcomics, running from late 1995 without showing any signs of stopping. Overall it’s pretty harmless, just newspaper level comedy, and the dedication shown by Holbrook to run it for this long is very impressive. That said I’ve always had a question about the society he depicts. He shows a world of intelligent anthropomorphic Predators and Prey (the main divide in the world) that is full of sweetness and normality, a world that is often implied to be a lot better than our ‘human’ world and yet one of the title characters is a wolf who hunts down and slaughters other intelligent beings as her job! She brutally murders her fellow sentient creatures and comes home to a normal life of washing, cleaning and parenting, and this is presented entirely as a normal, happy occurrence.
I’ve never been able to reconcile the world and the atmosphere, which has resulted in the somewhat disturbed depiction of what MUST be happening offscreen!
June 25th, 2010 at 2:53 am
Have you ever read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn? It’s a fictional philosophical book that essentially espouses the idea that that sort of society is best, with humans living in a more naturalistic manner. It’s really stupid and falls apart under a moment’s scrutiny, but it’s still a really good book because it forces you to shift your paradigm regarding environmentalism, if only for a little while.
Enjoy the comic, by the by.
June 28th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Actually you missed a quiet point about K&K.
It took me a while to understand.
In that universe, everything is intelligent.
Most hygienic procedures involve killing huge numbers of intelligent critters.
The whole intelligent kill thing is irrelevant in that universe.
Murder is defined as killing someone for a purpose other than food or hygiene,
especially if you know that person. Kell has gotten away with murder once:
Jerry Springer Spaniel.
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