Customer Reviews

Kevin & Kell: Seen Anything Unusual? (Kevin & Kell Series)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The sad truth is, most on-line comic strips are third-rate efforts, shoestring productions by creators who haven't yet reached syndicate-quality levels.

"Kevin and Kell" is a delightful exception. Bill Holbrook -- already a proven syndication strip artist with "On the Fasttrack" and "Safe Havens" -- has created an on-line comic strip with as much depth, sophistication, and high-quality art as the best of the newspaper funnies. In fact, I can easily name a dozen comics out of my daily paper that are paled by K&K.

What really elevates "Kevin and Kell" to five-star status are the characters. No matter how minor their roles are, Bill Holbrook gives everyone an authentic personality, complete with dreams and secrets and motives and desires. The one-shot jokes (often dealing with computers or herbivore/carnivore relationships) may draw the curious to the strip, but what truly makes K&K worth staying with in the long term are the characters and their lives.

For fans of comic strips in general -- and especially for fans of Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, Pogo, and the ilk -- "Kevin and Kell" is definitely worth reading. Odds are good that you will get hooked very quickly...

I've read Bill Holbrooke's 1st K & K book,"Quest For Content", & throughly enjoyed it. His 2nd book continues the adventures of the Dewclaw family and expands on it with more info on Rudy's teacher Ms. Aura and girlfriend Fiona, fun with websites and the corporate environment, & a delightful side trip into X-Files territory. A warmly humorous anthromorphic look at the modern blended family!

Looking for cute animals? Go elsewhere! Looking for extremely intelligent humor, interesting characters, unusual situations and good drawings? Buy this book! Bill Holbrook creates a real-life world with predators and prey and then fills it with humor. If you enjoy Monty Python and similar humor, this book is for you!

Another great book from a great cartoonist! Cyberspace humor, family and office dynamics, teens and adults find online romance! Muldar and Sculley investigate the weird abduction of Rudy's girlfriend, Fiona. For those who like intelligent and contemporary humor, especially computer users and animal lovers!