The Story Behind Kevin and Kell

Kevin and Kell holiding the logo

The Comic Strip

Years ago, Kevin Kindle the rabbit and Kell Dewclaw the wolf met in an online chat room. After falling head over heels for each other, they decided to meet in person. It wasn't until then that they realized they were from separate ends of the food chain.

However, the relationship they'd developed online overcame Kevin's instinct for self-preservation, and Kell's heart melted from such a demonstration of trust. Kell was energetic and vivacious, qualities Kevin had found lacking in herbivores. Such a relationship between predator and prey was certainly doomed to fail but these two opposites were determined to make things work.

They eventually married knowing good and well they would be outcasts in their own society.

Along for the ride was Kevin's adopted hedgehog daughter Lindesfarne from his previous marriage and Kell's wolf cub son Rudy from hers. A year later, Kell gave birth to Coney, the carnivorous baby bunny who inherited Kevin's big ears and Kell's meaty appetite.

They all live in a treehouse in the Township of Domain, just north of the vast uncivilized region known simply as The Wild.

Other than their taboo marriage, these woodland Bradys are not that unlike any typical American family. Kell works at the corporate headquarters of Herd Thinners Inc., the world'Äôs primary supplier of grocery meat by-products. Kevin runs a local Internet Service Provider called Hare-Link from the basement of their home. Lindesfarne & Rudy both attend Caliban Academy, the local public high school. Rudy goes during the day and Lindesfarne attends at night being a nocturnal species after all.

The world in which they live makes everything we would consider mundane have a unique and humorous spin. It's a place inhabited solely by intelligent animals who drive cars, use computers, pay taxes and yet still cling firmly to their instincts and the circle of life.

Unofficial Kevin and Kell FAQ By: John Reynolds - Last Updated 9.6.2007

The Web Site

This website is an officially sanctioned K&K mirror owned and operated by long time reader, Chris Kohler. His goal was to create a comprehensive, professional looking, fun website to help popularize his favorite online comic strip. Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Marks, the creators of the online comic strips Spare Parts and Namir Deiter, have partnered with K&K's creator to colorize the Kevin and Kell strips which now appear in color seven days a week. Finally, there is of course Bill Holbrook the talented comic strip artist and creator of Kevin and Kell who has been drawing the strip since September 1995. Bill also has two King Feature syndicated comic strips (On The FastTrack and Safe Havens) that appear daily in newspapers nationwide.