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"A functional family...in a dysfunctional world."
— Slogan from a salute comic to Robert Crumb

Bill Holbrook's Kevin And Kell is a Furry comic and one of the longest running webcomics on the net, running without hiatus since September 1995. (Doubly impressive, since Holbrook also does two syndicated newspaper comics which are also Long-Runners: Safe Havens and On the Fastrack.) The series began as a weekday-only black-and-white strip. It went full-color and fully daily in July 2000.

The comic stars the Dewclaw family, a blended family of disparate species:

The comic is mostly a Slice of Life comic, first dealing with the world's (dis)approval of K & K's "mixed" marriage, then moving into dealing with their (increasingly) extended family (assorted inlaws, co-workers, and friends), with occasional forays into special arcs (like the Y2K storyline). While massive plot arcs have largely faded out after 2004, occasional multi-week plots still crop up from time to time.

Technically no longer a Web Comic, as Holbrook's native Atlanta Journal-Constitution picked it up in 2004, though the internet remains its primary form of distribution. It was nearly pulled in 2009, but a massive surge of reader support kept the comic in the paper, with the caveat of Sunday strips changing their format to be shorter and vertical in layout.

Not to be confused with the similarly-named TV show, Kenan & Kel. Talks of an animated Kevin And Kell TV series have been on and off in recent years.

It's also been collected as a series of books, each collecting about a year's worth of content, plus bonus material, and consisting of the following (with the year of the strip content in parenthesis):

    Collected editions 
  • Kevin & Kell #00: Origin of the Species (comic book; shows the title characters' first date and subsequent wedding)
  • Kevin & Kell #01: Quest for Content (1995)
  • Kevin & Kell #02: Seen Anything Unusual? (1996)
  • Kevin & Kell #03: Accepting Domestication (1997)
  • Kevin & Kell #04: Run Free! (1998)
  • Kevin & Kell #05: For the Birds (1999)
  • Kevin & Kell #06: Election Night Fever (2000)
  • Kevin & Kell #07: Booth Bunnies (2001)
  • Kevin & Kell #08: Carrots and Sticks (2002)
  • Kevin & Kell #09: Straight Outta Computers (2003)
  • Kevin & Kell #10: Iron Rabbit (2004)
  • Kevin & Kell #11: Yo Momma! (2005)
  • Kevin & Kell #12: Pregnant Paws (2006)
  • Kevin & Kell #13: Rules of Engagement (2007)
  • Kevin & Kell #14: On Strike! (2008)
  • Kevin & Kell #15: Honeymoon 2.0 (2009)
  • Kevin & Kell #16: Alpha Female (2010)
  • Kevin & Kell #17: Predator Camp (2011)
  • Kevin & Kell #18: Mousecar (2012)
  • Kevin & Kell #19: Sheep Dip (2013)
  • Kevin & Kell #20: Hoofbeats (2014)
  • Kevin & Kell #21: Paper Trained (2015)
  • Kevin & Kell #22: Little Shop of Carnivores (2016)
  • Kevin & Kell #23: Turvy (2017)
  • Kevin & Kell #24: Mouse Mom (2018)
  • Kevin & Kell #25: Revenge Served Wild (2019)
  • Kevin & Kell #26: Masked Romance (2020)

  • Treasury #1: Historic Kevin & Kell (collects books 1-3)
  • Treasury #2: The Great Bird Conspiracy (collects books 4-6)


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