Kevin and Kell

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Kevin and Kell
The Dewclaws, protagonists of Kevin and Kell. Clockwise from upper left: Kevin (né Kindle) and Kell, Lindesfarne, Coney, Rudy.
The Dewclaws, protagonists of Kevin and Kell. Clockwise from upper left: Kevin (né Kindle) and Kell, Lindesfarne, Coney, Rudy.
Author(s) Bill Holbrook
Website http://www.kevinandkell.com/
Current status Updating daily
Launch date September 3, 1995 [1]
Genre(s) Furry

Kevin and Kell is an anthropomorphic animal comic strip, by syndicated cartoonist Bill Holbrook. It is reputedly the first comic strip syndicated exclusively via the Internet (although not the first comic strip online), and is the oldest continuously-running webcomic. The strip began on September 3, 1995. The strip centers on the marriage of Kevin, the rabbit, to Kell, the wolf.

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[edit] About the strip

Kevin and Kell takes place in a town known as Domain, populated entirely by animals. Despite their human society (a democracy, with animals working at jobs, using technology, wearing clothing, and living in houses, among other features), they have many animal features, such as identifying one another by scent, being divided into "predators" and "prey," and there is even a "Wild" where animals can leave civilization and act like animals, walking on all fours and not wearing clothing. Predation is central to strips, and many jokes are made about it being extremely commonplace. Apparently, a human world exists as well, and humans passing into the animal world turn into animals, and animals passing into the human world turn into humans (some exceptions exist, such as travelling in lead-lined barrels). Humans are somewhat scorned in Domain, as Rudy mades fun of them, particularly their irresponsibility towards the environment on his webcomic (however, a recent series indicates that the more environmentally conscious Domain is not immune from the problem of global warming), and they are referred to as creatures with no natural defenses. Most people believe that they are fictional creatures, but Ralph and Martha Dewclaw, and then some of the other cast, discover they are, in fact, real. Two characters are also originally from the human world themselves. The series features jokes on a wide variety of topics. Many draw humorous parallels between its world and ours; for example, in a recent storyline, a professor is found to have falsified his cloning research. In addition to some sports, society, school and office-related jokes, it features many technological jokes.

In 2000, the strip began running in color. It is coloured by husband and wife team Terrence Marks and Isabel Marks, also online cartoonists, with features titled Spare Parts, Namir Deiter and You Say It First.

Kevin and Kell is still being considered for an animated television series.[citation needed] A tabletop role-playing game was released in July of 2005.[citation needed] The series is also available in printed editions published by Plan 9 Publishing (which was in fact founded in 1997 to publish the first Kevin and Kell book, "Quest for Content").[citation needed]

After winning a contest where several new comics were considered (both syndicated and on-line) and voted on by readers, Kevin and Kell appears daily in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

[edit] Characters

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The strip's main cast focuses on the Dewclaws, a blended family as a result of an interspecies marriage.

[edit] Places of note

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This comic is set in a world of animals, who despite being civilized, act out their roles as predator and prey. Kevin, Kell, and most of the other major characters live in the city of “Domain”, which is roughly analogous to Atlanta, where Bill Holbrook lives. The exact address of the family (8888 Nail Dr., Domain, BH 30655) has a ZIP code which is analogous with the real-life town of Monroe, Georgia, 30 miles east of Atlanta. [2] In addition, Dorothy Kindle's location in The Wild was listed as 84.16°W, 34.02°N, which is the exact location of the intersection of Peachtree Industrial Blvd. NW and Abbotts Bridge Blvd. in Duluth, Georgia, to the northeast of Atlanta. [3]

[edit] Storyline

Main article: Storyline of Kevin and Kell

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[edit] Kevin and Kell comics online

Kevin and Kell is published in three primary locations. All contain an archive of the entire strip:

  • Herd Thinners Inc. — Referring to the fictional company. The first Internet site to syndicate Kevin and Kell (original updates were via a CompuServe forum), this site also was the original host of the mailing list and IRC channel (now moved to other sites). It updates at about 11:00 EST every night.
  • Kevin and Kell.com — The "pretty" site for Kevin and Kell, it features several "extras" such as additional images (Sunday strips once run in Boardwatch Magazine) and related material, such as what happened on the current day in the early series (typically up to 1998). It updates shortly after midnight, EST, every night. This is usually given as the official site of the comic strip.
  • Kevin und Kell.de — A German translation of Kevin and Kell. The site went on-line in 1999, beginning with the very first strips. Kevinundkell.de has been playing catch-up ever since. It features daily updates from Monday to Friday. Currently, the site is serializing the 2005 strips.

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