Bill Holbrook has an astonishing ability to condense a complex idea into the limited confines of the daily comic strip format. His uncanny knack for blending the world of anthropomorphic animals with computers and life in the 21st century is unmatched by any other working cartoonist today. Add Kevin & Kell: Quest For Content to your bookshelves today! You won't regret it!

Who says a mixed marriage can't work? Since burly six-foot rabbit divorcee Kevin met sweet, widowed wolf Kell online, they've been deeply in love.

Of course, there is the social predjudice against heribvores and carnivores marrying, the inlaws, the problems with the kids whom aren't sure they like their new step parents, but hey, life's not just a bed of roses. If it was, Kell would starve.

If you like humor about computers, school, work pressures, friendships, and the chance of being eaten for dinner, this strip is for you.

I discovered Kevin and Kell a few weeks ago, and can't get enough. Check it out at kevinandkell.com, and you'll probably be buying the books too.

Oh yeah. Showed this book to my wife, and she immediately wanted to know when I was getting the other three. Answer: ASAP.

Kevin and Kell are great.

Kevin and Kell is the greatest comic I have seen in a long time. The main charaters are a loveable inter-spieces family of rabbits, wolves, and a hedgehog. The strip pursues issues such as workplace stress and dating with humor and honesty. Kevin's (the older rabbit) job as a forum sysop provides sharp internet puns. Everyone in this strip is wildly orginal, from Coney, the cute but carnivourus baby rabbit, to Fenton, Lindsfarne the hedgehog's nerdy but loveable bat boyfriend. What can I say? Kevin and Kell rocks my world!

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!

Every now and then my husband would bring me a strip from Bill Holbrook's online comic "Kevin & Kell". I got him this particular volume for his last birthday and I looked at it myself. Not knowing the entire background didn't do much to slow me down, the humor is good and you can catch up quickly. At the end are two other strips by Holbrook -- "Safe Havens" and "On the Fastrack" which I know nothing about except the characters are human not anthropormorphic animals. The very last six pages of this book return to "Kevin & Kell" but in color.

If you haven't read any of the 3 previous books in the series, you may be a little lost. I would still encourage you to take a trip through this original, funny world where a rabbit is married to a wolf, the mega-corporation *really* is made up of predators, and weasals run ad agencies. For those familar with this world, "Run Free!" contains the origin of the Great Bird Conspiracy and the poignant story of Kell dealing with her father's Alzheimer's. Check it out; you won't be disappointed!

I have a lot of interests in things, and I can sum the command for this book up in three words: BUY SAFE HAVENS.
Safe Havens is a great strip about school kids and their offbeat talking animals. There is always a story to the strip and the artwork and timing is great-- you never know what'll happen next!
Anyway, I'm always looking for new Safe Havens books; it pleases me, and I'm difficult to please. The magic of the strip and the awesome characters and situations will totally blow you away. I insist, for the last and final time: BUY SAFE HAVENS!!!!

I first discovered "Safe Havens" on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website, and got addicted pretty quick- and had to get the book.The comic strip's artwork is quite pleasing to view, and the situations of the characters- mostly school age children and their pets- are in a similar vein as the long departed "Bloom County" or "Calvin & Hobbes" strips, although with a more up-to-date twist. Definitely a must for those who like offbeat (yet CLEAN) humor!

Accepting Domestication is the third collection of Kevin and Kell comic strips, covering September 1997 to August 1998. The online comic strip is about the Dewclaws; Kevin, a rabbit, Kell, a wolf and their two children, Rudy, a wolf and Lindesfarne, a hedgehog. In a world where you next door neighbor could be your next meal, this "mixed" marriage subjects the Dewclaws to a number of inconviences: being looked down upon by Rudy's girlfriend Fiona's parents, a pair of foxes (though it doesn't help that Fiona's father, a fennec fox, is mistaken for a rabbit because of his ears), and occasional threats to Kevin's life (though not serious) by Kell's brother Ralph. That is not to mention the usual tribulations of modern life: trips to school hunting championships, predator retraining at Herdthinners, Inc., threats to be downsized, and getting invited to the Jerry Springer-Spaniel Show. Mr. Holbrook is able to create great characters and stories, while balancing the dictates of the familiar yet unfamilar world that his animal characters inhabit. As an added bonus to this collection is a 10-page "pamphlet" covering Domestication, a dreaded condition when wolves are proud to be decended from the Big Bad Wolf.

I discovered Bill Holbrook's daily strip "Safe Heavens" when I moved to Portland and began reading The Oregonian.

It's a sort of suburban fantasy strip: Slightly off-beat teens (currently; when the strip began they were Daycare inmates) and their talking pets, dealing with school, summer camp, growing up, and work. It's generally kid-friendly, but smart enough to merit the attention of at least this adult.

I was intrigued enough by the strange goings-on (How had the family Border Collie been transformed into a campaign worker? Why was one boy dressed as a Palm pilot?) to buy this collection. Fun stuff, suited to reading a few pages at a time.