HOLY SHIT SHE'S BACK
Life With Kurami: Ana-Thing's Possible
Ryan Taylor
Ian Ortiz
Cool
Jayden Long
TITTY MILK FOR THE TITTY MILK GODS
Jason Cooper
Fat mommy titties is back and his art style has improved
Brayden Anderson
Her name is Chicago?
James Brown
>It's back
What is this OP?
Jayden Rivera
>the breasts are smaller because he's self conscious about how many people told him they wanted to nut on his waifu's gigantic tits
This is why we can't have nice things
Michael Diaz
They seem as big as ever, it may just be a style evolution. It has been two years since the newspaper strip ended, after all.
Jonathan Ortiz
Yeah, seems like a style evolution.
Christ, she was fat, but still cute. It's interesting to see how much he's evolved from the comic strip, though.
Kayden Davis
looks like she kinda lost weight but tits remain the same
Oliver Smith
Naming someone Chicago is begging them to get fucked by blacks
Caleb Rogers
Looks like she went to Calarts
Blake White
It's called Life With Kurami. It's a comic about that big single mom Ana raising her infant daughter. It was originally a daily newspaper comic strip that ended 2 years ago for another comic series but apparently has returned in a comic book format.
It was a comic that was regularly on Yea Forums and usually brought with it some of the most wholesome threads.
Tyler Martin
It's both weird yet so refreshing to see such a dynamic take from a series that was originally a newspaper comic strip.
William Harris
Wait WHAT.
Justin Jones
She still looks plenty fat here . Maybe she loses weight as the new online comic continues?
Wyatt Bailey
>dem tittays up and center
artist knows what they're doing
Daniel Miller
>Comic returns with trips on Yea Forums
What a comeback. Happy to see more LWK. Will it be a gag series like the comic strip was?
Easton Lewis
I hope she doesn't, honestly. Her being fat is a huge part of her charm.
Kayden Cook
This. So she's fat. She's a baker. Everyone knows a chef, or baker in this case, should be at least chubby
plus THICCCC
Landon Ross
Is this a full graphic novel now? Because if so I'll take 20. I missed this fat-tittied wholesomeness and I'll support it however I can.
Jackson Sanchez
Is it just me or is the art worse now?
Camden Cruz
How is it worse? It's much more dynamic than it used to be. Though honestly I do miss the extra pudge she had.
Jeremiah Campbell
Less detail in the shading and in the hair, also the different eye shape makes her look like she has fetal alcohol syndrome.
Landon Reed
I can agree with you on the hair, but the shading overall is a massive improvement over the original.
>also the different eye shape makes her look like she has fetal alcohol syndrome
That's more of a style trend for modern milfs, if anything.
Justin Nguyen
Moms are tired all the time
Benjamin Gonzalez
It's fascinating how she managed to change throughout the years. To think she actually started out skinny.
Connor Ross
T H I I I I C C C
Sebastian Campbell
>that slenderman tier anatomy on the right
Welp, I didn't want to sleep tonight anyway.
Anthony Diaz
Looks pretty good so far. Hopefully this'll get regular updates.
Benjamin Edwards
Apparently the change in hair style is supposed to be a call back to when the LWK comic strip was first going into publication, and the shading in her hair was just an aesthetic to show her hair being dark when being published in black & white
Brody James
It's really interesting to see how much of a subtle style improvement his work got after breaking away from newspaper comic strips.
Nathan Long
>Hopefully this'll get regular updates.
I hope so, though in a post he stated it'll be updated irregularly due to how much his other comic series Pen and Ink has been growing and will be getting priority attention over LWK
Blake Martinez
>Apparently the change in hair style is supposed to be a call back to when the LWK comic strip was first going into publication
Not gonna lie, that's a pretty good callback.
>the shading in her hair was just an aesthetic to show her hair being dark when being published in black & white
That actually makes sense, so there'd be no need for it now since theres no limitation in the color scheme.
Hudson Richardson
>it'll be updated irregularly due to how much his other comic series Pen and Ink has been growing and will be getting priority attention over LWK
Damn. Ah well, glad this is back regrdless.
Landon Wilson
Nice.
Evan Phillips
>oh no ana we're all out of milk here at the bakery
Brody Garcia
I'm genuinely curious, this guy has made 2 successful and culturally accepted comics that are liked by industry professionals enough for them to make fan art for him and it being liked on Yea Forums of all places. Even old threads of the newspaper strip had an air of wholesomeness behind them.
What the heck did he do that other creators can't get right?
David Moore
I also like how the dots in the comic are supposed to give off a comic strip vibe despite no longer being represented in that format
Ethan Walker
Where's the breastfeeding
where is it
Xavier Adams
Put effort into a newspaper comic.
Very, very few artists putting actual effort into newspaper comics these days. Just about every comic in the paper is low-effort these days. Even strips that used to be fun like Sherman's Lagoon or Brewstar Rocket have gotten stale and mostly reuse jokes.
Blake Wood
That and he's just a generally chill dude overall. He's immensely likable, it's no wonder he keeps getting cool stuff.
Jaxson Evans
Pretty much and His works also give off this heartfelt feeling that he really does enjoy what he does and just wants to make what he does, and people latch on to that.
The dude just got back from a trip to New York to visit Frederator and they want to work on a freaking series pitch bible on his Pen & Ink comic.
Joseph Ortiz
That's pretty cool, actually. Good for him.
Mason Martin
Jacob Garcia
>tfw you have those great lewds that were done of Ana a few years ago
>tfw you dare not share them because you don't want to get banned
Nathan Jackson
You cant just say that and not share with the class, user
Gabriel Gonzalez
So just make a thread on /aco/? I guess I could. Some of them aren't even full nudes, they're just sexy and NEARLY nude.
Ayden Mitchell
Remember when he liked the arts some of our drawfags made and sent to him that he framed them in his studio?
Good threads. He made a few happy anons that day.
Jaxson Roberts
>The dude just got back from a trip to New York to visit Frederator and they want to work on a freaking series pitch bible on his Pen & Ink comic
Oh boy, I bet that one dude is seething now.
David Powell
Really? I thought she was drawn by the Penny Arcade artists briefly.
Charles Kelly
It's funny when you realize the creator lives in the middle of nowhere, Indiana.
Charles Stewart
All right, here.
Wyatt Robinson
That was one of my favorite threads on this board.
Ethan Moore
>Style change
Huh... Intriguing
Luke Wright
Nice, we need more art of Anna. Lewd, wholesome, either way we need to show some love for her.
Chase Lopez
Nice.
Carson Gonzalez
I need gossip to sustain me, who are you talking about?
Dylan Gutierrez
An user a few years back decided to make a hate thread of the creator and the comic strip and tried to get anons to circlejerk him but it backfired immensely once Yea Forums found out how sweet the creator is and how wholesome the strip is:
Jaxon Jackson
I wonder how Dee felt about the Savino incident considering how buddy-buddy they were.
Jonathan Perry
What's hilarious is that might not have even been his first attempt. He tried get sympathy in another thread earlier than that:
desuarchive.org
Alexander Walker
>tfw you're suddenly filled with a powerful urge to see art of Rita and Ana together in their underwear
Jason Morris
how pathetic
Isaiah Powell
Oh, that is perfect.
Daniel Flores
I want a night of passionate face to face sex fuckings with the pretty woman. After a lovely date and maybe some alcohol.
Isaiah Hill
He didn't publicly comment this, of course, but he said he was really disappointed by the news and hadn't spoken to him since.
t. someone who asked him
Dominic Scott
Well, that's to be expected, of course.
>t. someone who asked him
Any stories about Dee you're able to share? Considering all LWK threads, he sounds like a cool guy to hang around.
Caleb Sanchez
I can tell you one thing he strongly dislikes about current webcomics and artists is the current trend of glorifying anxiety, depression, self-deprecation, "hurr durr my life sucks" kinda stuff you'd see from Owlturd comics and all of those imitators. He's just very much against the idea of people being sad, cynical, and lazy while also being okay with themselves in that state. Really ironic when you consider how much of an attachment he has to the character Garfield.
Owen Foster
His new style looks a lot like SuperSpoe Coincidence?
Jaxon Mitchell
you've been looking at too much porn
Matthew Howard
despite that cheeky spoiler, i really agree with him about that, and i respect him even more for it.
Tyler Clark
He's been getting into animation since LWK ended, and recently released this.
Think we'll be getting LWK animations next, anons?
William Long
It's crazy how Yea Forums latched onto Kurami after I made the very first thread years ago. I made the thread because her fat fucking body turned me on, and I only knew about it because a fat fetish artist on Tumblr was talking shit about it
Gabriel Mitchell
>That spoiler
How do you manage to talk shit about something not only harmless and wholesome, but also up your alley?
Benjamin Long
If I remember correctly, they were talking about how boring and unfunny the comic was and compared it to a mediocre Sunday newspaper strip.
Landon Edwards
Truthfully I'm just glad to see Ana's friend Bree Kay being brought back for this, I just hope she's not used once and never seen again after it.
Noah Anderson
That's actually pretty legit, anything else?
William Russell
>He's just very much against the idea of people being sad, cynical, and lazy while also being okay with themselves in that state.
I don't think there's anone on Yea Forums that would even disagree with that.
Owen Ramirez
I get that he didn't want her to overshadow the comic, but she hardly even showed up until the very end. Hopefully he gets a bigger role this time around.
Logan Stewart
*Hopefully she
Julian Foster
He had a really rough childhood in regards to not having many people who encouraged him or respecting what he wanted to do (think Dav Pilkey's childhood, another of his inspirations) so that in turn is what leads him to being so supportive of others.
Ryan Morales
What's really cool about this story is that instead of using this as a crutch to get him opportunities and pity points, he uses it as a tool to improve himself first and then support others, too.
He really loves commissioning artists and giving them an extra tip for their work and he told me he does that to show them that their works are always worth a few extra dollars
William Murphy
What's fun about seeing Bree Kay's evolution over the years is the fact that her design changed based on how confident she became in herself.
Justin Butler
Guys, I think we found the reincarnation of Mr. Rogers.
Caleb Lewis
So here's what's been revealed about the new series so far:
>"The entire series has its 4th anniversary on April 6th and I felt that it's time to give them something I was too novice to develop."
A few important notes about Life With Kurami: Ana-thing's Possible:
>"It is a continuation of the newspaper comic strip, continuing off from when the strip ended 2 years ago."
>"It will have self contained story arcs, meaning that each of the comic's stories will span over 20+ pages like a comic book. Time for them to break away from the gags of a comic strip!"
>"LWK:AP shares the same comic format as Pen & Ink, so these comics WILL be compiled into books. Single issue comics or a full trade paperback is still under consideration."
The layout does sound interesting, and it's great to hear these will be compiled into comic books issues or a trade paperback.
Ryder White
>"LWK:AP shares the same comic format as Pen & Ink, so these comics WILL be compiled into books. Single issue comics or a full trade paperback is still under consideration."
Alexander Murphy
I like her as a smug blonde, she has pretty good potential as a foil for Anna.
Luis Parker
He managed to publish 4 Pen & Ink books within the time frame of LWK's ending and is coming back to give LWK their own books too while continuing Pen & Ink. That's impressive.
Joshua Bell
I hope Bree Kay keeps her southern-belle dialect.
Asher Gray
>Again
Chase Roberts
>First Pen & Ink book has a forward by the Curtis creator
just how based can one cartoonist be?
Ryder Rodriguez
>he's friends with the Ray Billingsley
No one man should have this much power.
Liam Myers
The madman did an illustration for his book, even one of the cartoonists for Dennis the Menace contributed in the guest artists section.
Combined that with , the dude is unstoppable
>Remembered that Tom fucking Bancroft also did a drawing of Ana
I'm astonished by this dude's network of connections.
Ethan Rodriguez
>that foreword
Jose Evans
>"If Bree Kay was into Smash Ultimate, she'd be a hard K. Rool main. They're both large and in charge, walk with swagger, and fully take on who they are."
>Proceeds to draw her posing as K. Rool
Just how based is Bree Kay? It's been an age and a half since I saw a fat girl written as taking full confidence in themselves in an admirable way.
Angel Brown
Not gonna lie, kinda tempted to commission some Ana art from him now.
Parker Wood
Jackson Perry
>ywn have your OC hang out with motherfuckin' Curtis
John Myers
kek
Jacob Phillips
Noice.
Cameron Butler
Okay, that reaction image is really great.
Lincoln Russell
Do you have more pics of old Bree Kay?
Sebastian Murphy
I dont, in fact all the comparison photos have been taken from either the Life with Kurami Facebook page or Dee's profile.
In fact, all Kurami comics pre-LWK disappeared.
Eli Anderson
Yeah, it's been clear Dee wants to make sure any traces of the prototype comic were scrubbed from the internet. The only reason we found was through sheer luck.
Jaxson Mitchell
>wants to make sure any traces of the prototype comic were scrubbed from the internet.
Just how bad can it be?
>Finds LWK TV Tropes Page
oh nice
>"Conveniently an Orphan: Kurami's parents (Ana's aunt and uncle) died prior to the start of the strip, and Ana dropped out of college in order to raise Kurami herself."
what the literal fuck
>Retcon: The changes between Kurami's incarnations effectively amount to this. The first made her a blind infant who was Ana's cousin, while the second, which came into force in May 2016, made her Ana's sighted daughter, simplifying the strip's premise and eliminating the two aspects that tended to confuse new readers. Ana's job was also retconned from fashion designer to baker, and in the process, her Lethal Chef tendencies were transferred to her Aunt Chicago.
>Kurami was also blind
Ana can't catch a fucking break. This poor woman needs a hug.
Ayden Richardson
After reading that I don't blame him for doing so
Josiah Stewart
>boring and unfunny
If I'm correct, wasn't there a thread explaining that Dee didnt initally make the comic to be funny, but to put smiles on people's faces? Can anyone find what I'm talking about?
Christopher Adams
I wonder how TV tropes of all places manage to find all of this. Were they following this strip that far back?
Mason Turner
It's in but I'll just repost it:
here is a story from the creator:
A few months ago, during one of our lunch meetings, Editor Underwood said this to me:
“I’ve been reading your strip for over a year now, and I got to know: what is your goal with “Life With Kurami?””
I had to sit and think for a second. I told him “To make people smile.”
“Really? Most cartoonists say “To make people laugh.””
“I know, but I’m not that funny of a person, and I know that I never will be. Though, I do know I’m able to give people good vibes and to put a little bit of positivity into their lives, which the comics page is kinda meant to be for, I believe.
I know that LWK can have a much broader friendbase if I focus more on just the happiness and love within the strip rather than just comedy all the time. Friends will come because they want to see Ana, Kurami and Zane, and anyone they meet rather than come for the punchlines.
Plus, it’s a lot easier for me to make someone smile than it is to make them laugh. So whether they smiled because they thought a strip was heartwarming, or actually found a strip funny, or just overall adorable, then that means we’re doing our job. And being able to do something that makes a person’s day a little bit brighter, even by just a little bit, is a dream job to me.”
“Deon, I have to say, you’re doing exactly that.”
Noah Clark
Ana is cute!
Cute!
Jackson Wright
This dude is so sweet
Eli Howard
>Uses "Kurami" as an experiment to see what can/cannot work as a newspaper comic strip
>Retcons the whole thing into Life With Kurami, which becomes the identity of the series
>ends the newspaper strip after 3 years to focus on his comic book series Pen & Ink
>Pen & Ink gain triple the amount of attention in its current 2 year run than LWK ever got in its 3 year run
>Uses knowledge and improvements from Pen & Ink to bring back LWK as a graphic novel called Life With Kurami: Ana-thing's Possible, continuing off where the newspaper strip ended 2 years ago.
Is LWK Dee's magnum opus?
Xavier Young
Elijah Lewis
Oh, look, it's that mediocre to terrible thing that Yea Forums loves because of waifus.
Matthew Brown
You seem upset.
Isaiah Adams
they were friends? huh, didn't know that, than again i don't know the artist well at all, i just saw thiccness and clicked. was he and chris like colleagues on a project at one point, was he a fan that got in contact with him, or did they meet each from some psychic link that only comic artists share?
Asher Reyes
Why does the baby have a Japanese name?
Jayden Smith
Second one. Dee seems to be passionate about comics/cartoons in general and goes out of his way to meet people in the industry. He's even friends with Jim Davis.
John Adams
Apparantly there was a miscommunication in making the character's name and it just stuck ever since.
Dylan Sanchez
And what brings this full circle is that Jim Davis was the one who pushed LWK to be in newsprint, even going as far as drawing the baby from the comic. So Dee got one of the biggest and rarest endorsements out there.
I've never heard Jim Davis making fan art for anyone, let alone for the same person twice.
Adam Cooper
>miscommunication
he created the strip by himself, miscommunication with who
Josiah Adams
Kurami was made back in his manga/anime phase in 2011 when she was originally a blind teenager, and wanted her to have a japanese-like name. I can't remember the full details but she was supposed to be named something else but a friend named her "Kurami" and it just stuck ever since. But once he started shifting into cartoons and de-aging Kurami she was already known by the name so he just kept it.
One reason was because his high school had some sort of huge event that used Kurami as the T-Shirt mascot for everyone to wear.
Eli Wright
>And what brings this full circle is that Jim Davis was the one who pushed LWK to be in newsprint, even going as far as drawing the baby from the comic. So Dee got one of the biggest and rarest endorsements out there.
Never thought I'd say this, but Jim Davis is pretty fucking based.
Jace Taylor
>I've never heard Jim Davis making fan art for anyone, let alone for the same person twice.
That's not all, but he had Dee contribute to the Garfield 40th Anniversary book and wanted to play along with the idea that the Pen & Ink characters contributed to it under their name.
Bentley James
"Kurami" as a character goes as far back as the deviantart days of 2011-2012
William Brown
Jim's a pretty cool dude. I heard he gets a kick out of the countless Garfield parodies out there.
Connor Carter
Don't forget Bob Camp of "Ren & Stimpy" fame.
Lincoln Wilson
I want to make this cute fat milf even fatter.
David Parker
Same.
Eli Lewis
I didn't even know about this. It's like every time I hear about Dee he's gotten even more stuff, it's impressive.
Daniel Adams
Parker Wright
Fuck.
Christopher Murphy
I know, but I didn't think it was all that noticeable back then. Are there people that just document every webcomic they can find?
Bentley Jackson
Best girl?
Yeah, best girl
Asher Ramirez
Without question.
Josiah King
I did manage to save this pic to use as an image reaction, and an Ana pic too
Landon Stewart
Julian Cook
Kevin Thompson
Bonus: managed to find an old one from when Kurami was a deviantart webcomic before turning into a newspaper comic strip.
Ana's changed a lot holy shit.
Charles Ward
Woah, that's a nice catch. I guess we can make an actual time line of her designs over the years now.
James Ross
Chicago's highlight here resembles how Ana here used to have it
Cooper Gutierrez
That's great now whip out your milkers
Dylan Harris
>To make people smile
>friendbase
So he's the Mister Rogers of cartoonists?
Hudson Gomez
Gavin Adams
I want to cuddle Ana in her bed until she falls asleep and then hold her close because she deserves love and support for all the hard work she does
Alexander Campbell
Lewd.
Jose Hernandez
Pretty much. He's just a guy that wants to make people feel good, can't help but respect it.
Jackson Collins
Damn son, where'd you find this?
Robert Rogers
He even calls the Pen & Ink fanbase "Pen Pals"
Parker Cook
What's really intriguing about this series is just how much its evolved over the years.
There seems to have been a lot of trial and error and moments in its history that made it look like it was a comic that was completely trash and would go nowhere like here but turned itself around into a series that rivals what comic book publishers are out there trying to make. Just looking at how much personality his poses have here and how dynamic the first page of the comic is here you can really feel the love he has for this series.
It's pretty inspiring, honestly
Sebastian Rodriguez
To continue off this, another thing that makes this series so interesting is actually seeing its evolution. Most Yea Forums comics or animations we talk about already have a cult following or have hit mainstream attention prior to acknowledging it, but LWK's journey seemed still pretty fresh in the eyes of the community by the time we found it. And the same goes for Dee and his career, somehow we're always there rooting for him whenever he makes an accomplishment.
It's like we're seeing a little kid grow up with our very own eyes.
Jose Miller
I've been doing my own research, and it seems like I've might've stumbled into Kurami's prototype design through some fanart dating all the way back from 2012.
Adrian Peterson
Brayden Peterson
Julian Morris
needs another panel
Asher Collins
Beautiful edit
Zachary Johnson
Be funny if they took turns sucking her fat tits
Owen Watson
So, I actually went to high school with the guy and let me tell you, Kurami's history as a character is crazy.
Almost EVERYONE in our school knew who Kurami and Dee was, in fact he was nominated in our high school year book as "most unique" and won the "outstanding student of the year" award, among other things. Kurami first appeared as a comic strip in our monthly school newspaper (which for some odd reason people actually READ the paper, but people read it more thanks to Kurami being in it.) You'd see Kurami drawn on teacher's whiteboards and knew Dee was around. It did bring some smiles to people's faces though, it was like playing "Where's Waldo?" but with an entire school and with Kurami.
The biggest and most memorable moment with Kurami was our school had this all day carnival event called SAP Day that let all the students who were genuinely good that year to get out of class and play at the school made carnival (which were fucking huge). They used Kurami as the mascot for that year and everyone wore Kurami-themed shirts and took pictures behind a Kurami-themed mural made by Dee like in pic related. People almost tore each other alive trying to get a shirt, to the point I heard Dee almost didn't get one because they were being taken so quickly. I still have mine too.
The popularity of Kurami was really staggering, and to see the comic get as far as it has now, to seeing it here on Yea Forums of all places makes me feel those awards weren't put to waste.
Carson Peterson
its because he stopped the anime only look and went the cathy sunday strip route.
if anything, its more amazing that fucking davis helped get him promoted. that dude doesn't do anything for just anyone.
Christian Cook
Man, that's neat. I didn't know this comic had such history behind it, it's been a trip digging all of this up.
Xavier Turner
He also still does things with the high school even after he graduated, sometimes going in to be a guest speaker to some of the classes. He even designed the school's art club T-Shirt after being requested to use his Pen & Ink characters for it. He's also teaching comic book workshops for kids during his free time.
We haven't talked much since after high school but I still follow what he does through facebook, it's nice seeing how much he's grown.
Christian Gonzalez
To anyone willing to draw it, I'm stealing this prompt from the drawthread.
It's drawing Ana like the woman in the image on the left.
Zachary Morris
So I've been following this thread for a while and have been wondering: Does Yea Forums like LWK for what it is as a comic, or for what it's accomplished?
Gavin Taylor
For what it is, for sure, but what it's accomplished isn't exactly something to scoff at.
Cooper James
Listen man, a little bush is fine, but this shit where the hair is going up to their fucking bellybutton is pure trash.
It's just ridiculous.
Adam Hernandez
Nah man I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Happy trails are underrated as fuck and I think they're hot.
Jace Scott
I like it for what it is, just a cute, comfy comic.
Carter Brooks
Maybe on men they are. But as a heterosexual man I do not find them attractive at all.
Michael Collins
I'm fine with them on some women but not Ana
Jacob Miller
You don't have to draw that part if you don't want to.
Henry Miller
Zachary Thomas
she big
Ayden Campbell
That's just sweet
Henry Barnes
I'm on board.
I recognized this name immediately. I am a heathen.
Leo Morgan
And how.
Mason Wood
I could relieve some of that weight with my mouth
James Lewis
You'd probably suffocate under those pillowy marshmallows.
Nathaniel Nguyen
Dee is too good for this world.
David White
Yes?
Matthew Rogers
Jayden Cox
Can't think of a better way to go out.
Justin Williams
It's absolutely insane the things he gets.
He invited me over to his studio one day to play Smash Bros. When I showed up he was doing some animating and had some Mighty Magisword thumbnails up on his computer. So when I asked him about it he told me he was learning about puppet animation and that one of his friends from CN sent him the actual rigs of one of the characters used in the show to use for studying (I think it was the blue haired dude who's name escapes me)
Austin Parker
He got a rig of fucking Prohyas!? I almost don't believe that, that is ridiculous. This man is walking proof of how far being nice and having a work ethic can go.
Hudson Roberts
Yeah, I wish I had proof to share but he said his friend could get in big trouble if word got out, so we kinda ended the conversation there and played Smash and ordered pizza. He's a real good Mario main.
Daniel Gray
Yeah, that's fair. That's still cool though.
>He's a real good Mario main.
Huh, I figured he'd be more of a Kirby kind of guy.
Matthew Gomez
When I saw the OP thumbnail I thought this was Handy Jay's.
Wyatt Williams
This is so wholesome. What is it even doing on this site?
Jaxon Perry
John Brooks
This place found it by complete accident.
Ryan White
He would have been but he felt Kirby was too difficult to work with to be taken seriously.
He only really plays as him and a few other characters if we're just goofing around.
Lucas Rogers
Bless the drawanon that made these.
Logan Nelson
I think all of Yea Forums should learn from this. I know some are joking about the rude stuff they say here, but others feel like they're serious about what they say. I know it's Yea Forums, so what can you do.
Kayden Green
is Orihime a milf now?
Brody Ramirez
You seem to have shit taste and let your dick decide what you think is good.
Aaron Sanchez
>what it's accomplished isn't exactly something to scoff at.
Getting a bunch of NEETs to fap to sub-par landwhale fetish art?
Josiah Adams
Ana is best girl and best mom
Jonathan Bennett
Have you not been paying attention to this thread?
Benjamin Collins
>no one has drawn Ana in a nursing bra
;_;
Colton Sanders
What should they learn, user?
Carter Myers
Isaac Wood
What the fuck
Jason Barnes
Kindness in general.
Leo Brown
This is IRL Ana if she got reaaaaaally drunk
Blake Butler
Yep, she even has a kid and everything.
James Gutierrez
and ugly
no way, user
Justin Ortiz
Zachary Cooper
Xavier Foster
Indeed it has.
Jayden Cox
no it hasn't!
you just posted!
Bentley Martinez
Here's some of the posts about the strip not long after it ended:
"Admittedly, one of my deepest regrets with Life With Kurami was never giving Ana the proper life she deserved. Allowing her to venture out more with her passions like violin playing and cooking/baking. Even toying a bit more in fashion.
Single motherhood is extremely hard. I really commend her for being able to make do and find genuine joy and contentment in the little things in her life, even when the whole world was out to get her.
But deep down, I always felt she'd be happier if she was able to do more."
Wyatt Green
I'll help you contribute to those findings, they're surprisingly insightful:
"In October, Jim Davis invited me to meet him again at PAWS, Inc. to talk about Pen & Ink. What I didn't get to mention was the big thing we talked about was LWK's conclusion at the end of the same month.
He sat with me and told me he's been following the strip since it started and would keep up with it whenever he could (and considering how busy he is, that's a MAJOR honor.) And was impressed with the improvement the strip developed as time went on, and was sad to hear it ended. He told me things he liked, and things he wished I had done in the strip (such as letting Ana go on dates.) However, he told me that there was one LWK strip stood out to him above the rest. We didn't have any of the strips with us, but he spoke of it in great detail.
It was this one. He said this was the PERFECT LWK strip (and he put great emphasis on "perfect"). He said he felt it symbolized everything the strip was going for: Showing off Ana's insecurities, her imperfections, but goodhearted intentions as a mother, and the heartfelt payoff the strip's humor goes for. What really sat with me the most about this strip was it was published a year before our meet up, so for it to stick with him for as long as it did really hit me.
He said when he first wanted to see the comic published in newsprint, he wanted me to understand that this would be a perfect learning experience for me. It would help me learn about meeting deadlines, creating characters and gags and that I would continue to grow off of it. That no matter what happened to LWK, whether it went on forever or ended it, that the comic's job was to be a life changing experience.
After he reviewed some of the Pen & Ink comics I had at the time, he then said LWK did its job."
Thomas Lee
"Ana, as a character, really has grown a lot in Life With Kurami.
Though I admit regrets with not doing much with her, I am however proud of what she taught and the things she did during it's run. She wasn't exactly confident, but she is content with herself. She enjoyed the little things and didn't go out of her way to be anything she isn't. She doesn't have much to her name, isn't financially successful or popular, but she's all heart and passion, and it's what made her special to the ones around her.
She puts the things she love above herself and would prioritize their happiness over her own. Something that sometimes landed her into trouble, but it's always in good intentions. It's also what possibly makes her stand out from other newspaper comic strip moms.
She isn't perfect, and she's okay with that."
Charles Morales
and yet, he won't let fat orange cat die...
fuck davis
Ryan Bailey
fuck me
this is what i am doing for my stuff
i don't get why people can't make imperfect characters that are fine with that.
Benjamin Sanchez
"You guys actually almost had a standalone Bree Kay comic series to make up for her severe absence in LWK, which was absolutely unintentional. But by the time I started seriously thinking about it, I instantly canned the idea.
Bree Kay as a character is strong and is loved by so many because she DOESN'T need to be in the spotlight to know she's a showstopper. She KNOWS she's loved. Bree Kay has nothing to prove to anyone because she's already proved it to herself. To give her the "main" role takes away that entire concept.
She wants Ana to get to that level of confidence, and she knows she may not, Ana's too humble. But she at least wants her to be more open with herself and not think of herself as a failure.
Bree Kay may be one of the most well developed characters I've made, for better or for worse is your call. But she'll always be okay being projected as #2, because she knows she's #1."
Wyatt Thompson
>All the fatshit in this thread
Take it to /trash/ u blob-loving degenerates
Ethan Jones
Sorry you haven't been hugged as a child, user
Xavier Cruz
Better take that back before you get Gek'd, user
Brandon Mitchell
sorry, no can do.
it had a sunday strip, that makes it Yea Forums
Blake Perry
Honestly it's way less fetish-shit than one would expect.
I came to fap, saw very little, bit stayed for a heart warming story.
Try actually reading the thread, its wholesome
Jason Carter
Second one I believe, but good enough friends to get art sent to him
Lucas Gomez
oh look
he got sent art by a pedo!
or whatever people hate him for!
Hudson Foster
and a con artist
Josiah Walker
can we make it a 3 for 3?
Jonathan Gomez
I'm glad he's giving the series another shot. It's clear he has a ton of ideas for it, he just got burned out by how demanding a comic strip is.
Liam Turner
wow this guy has connections with everybody, makes me wonder if he has any dirt on the shady side of the industry, but honestly i wouldn't expect him to spill the beans if he did know. It would spark a lot off bad blood and conflict.
Grayson Jones
crap i just responded to myself, i meant to respond to also chris isn't a pedo, he sexual harasses adult women. you are thinking of john k who may have possibly sent him fan art at this point.
Brody Sanchez
Same, no shame in creating characters with flaws, be it temperament, vanity, over indulgence, the whole shebang.
Jonathan Hernandez
John K hasn't sent him anything as far as I'm aware of, but Bob Camp has, that's close enough
Brandon Parker
Not just that, but he's also admitted how creatively limiting doing a newspaper comic strip was. There were things he had to change because his editor either got complaints from readers about things in the strip and requested him to deal with it or because some professional cartoonists shat over it because it was "too sweet" or because Ana's design was offensive. He shared that one of the biggest pressures to ending the strip was because the creator of a comic called Between Friends told him he shouldn't make a comic strip about a single mom because HE wasn't a single mom.
Pen & Ink actually came from his creative frustrations with LWK and wanted to make something that allowed him to do whatever he wanted to without people telling him how to make it, which obviously has been working in his favor.
I feel he's brought back LWK to continue that creative freedom of doing what he wants without the meddling of others, which is why i felt this first page gave off a real confident vibe to it.
Daniel Bailey
>He shared that one of the biggest pressures to ending the strip was because the creator of a comic called Between Friends told him he shouldn't make a comic strip about a single mom because HE wasn't a single mom.
I never understood this mentality. What authority do people have to tell one who they can and can not write a story about?
I guess I can't write about a cowgirl because I'M not a cowgirl, right?
God that's annoying.
Zachary Rivera
On one hand I get it, if you never lived the life style, you probably don't know what it's like. BUT, if the story is actually working and can connect to single mothers (I'm pretty sure some of them have seen this) then there shouldn't be a problem. My dad lived a somewhat ghetto life style as a kid, but he would never knock anyone down from telling that type of story.
William Reed
I'm pretty sure I heard that he has a single mom himself (is there an user that can confirm this?), so would that still make him not allowed to make a comic strip about one?
Logan Mitchell
I fucking would
Big tittied, chunky, homely mum type with milky tits yes fucking please!
She'd make a fantastic hucow though her breeding days might be long gone.
Jace Russell
I think it was in the old thread, but yeah he had a single mom growing up. So it's not like he isn't writing it out of experience.
Kayden Wood
Evan Flores
I've always felt that this whole argument is just completely misguided. I get what they're trying to go for, but the simple fact is that writers writing about what they aren't is an inevitability. Sure, they can't be such and such themselves, but that doesn't mean they can't do research and try to do the story justice. Gatekeeping like this is just nonsense.
Camden Evans
So it was supposed to be about a blind weeb teen (hence she goes by Kurami) and then she got turned into a baby so it was safer for kids.
Easton Allen
Basically. Also the whole blind shtick was dropped since it was almost impossible to tell if she was blind as a baby.
Jaxson Taylor
I want to kiss that milf mouth so badly.
Adrian Edwards
But Ana as a character is projected in a positive light, I'd be more understanding if she was made as a mockery to single women, but that isnt the case here. She's just a sweet woman who needs a hug
Jonathan Ward
Hey, is there a place where I can read some of the old strips prior to the reboots?
Owen Young
impossible
positive characters aren't allowed!
especially ones with huge boobs!
Lucas Phillips
Unfortunately the only place to read them is through the Life With Kurami Facebook page.
Daniel Adams
That makes me think on Ana's character.
Was she a lightning in a bottle, character wise? We have to remember that she still is technically a newspaper comic strip character. One would've figured that her designed would've been panned for newsprint because of 1) being fat and 2) having huge tits.
What made her such a catch that she was able to go past those normally taboo censors?
Connor Butler
If you're talking about the "Kurami" era of strips then no, they got wiped out as soon as Life With Kurami replace it.
Carter Peterson
It was for the better
Nolan Reyes
I guess it all just comes down to execution. Also, I'm pretty sure Jim Davis personally pushing the comic had a lot to do with it as well. I doubt there's anyone in the comic's syndicate that's going to say no to that.
Camden Smith
If anything, the strips made by actual women end up being much more of an insulting mockery of single women than this ever was.
Austin Taylor
Cathy in a nutshell. Her character only relies on her complaining about being fat and how men are awful.
Same with Between Friends, found a lot of high strung feminism humor in it.
Jayden Turner
:( same here
Matthew Myers
Ana is TOO PURE
Jonathan Parker
Think we could ever get Dee to come here and do a QnA?
Jonathan Hall
It'd be best if we didn't.
Regardless, this was a wholesome thread, Yea Forums. Hope we'll see more of Ana and Kurami around here again.
Camden Cook
Right, probably better to just support Dee's social media pages and ask him any questions you may have directly there.
Noah Reed
CUTE!
Benjamin Thompson
Hey I'm down for that, we should ask him some questions through that.
Jacob Brooks
>Between Friends
I honestly didnt even know that was an actual comic, I only know of Area's fanfic with the same name. Doesn't even look all that good from what I've seen.
Dominic Powell
This is why any entertainment made my women will always be doomed to fail. Single Women like Sarah Silverman, Cathy and all the other Feminists types are just terrible to like because it's filled with unlikable characters.
Life with Kurami thrived because Ana doesn't give into the temptation to dump Kurami like many of these selfish bitches would. She puts aside her own needs to find joy in the child. It's this special bond between parent and child, which is missing in modern entertainment that makes Life with Kurami so good damn good.
Hudson Hall
I get where you're coming from, but I still somewhat disagree with it. Lauren Faust is my favorite modern cartoonist, and she's a staunch feminist. But the thing is, she's also much more rational about it and it's never the crux of her work. She just wants to make cartoons everyone can enjoy and it really shines.
The main problem a lot of women tend to fall into the same writing pitfalls; being afraid to give characters legitimate flaws, lack of self-awareness, don't really try to make characters actually endearing to the audience, etc.
Dylan Ortiz
>This is the series that ended LWK
I'm mad
Robert Wright
>The main problem a lot of women tend to fall into the same writing pitfalls; being afraid to give characters legitimate flaws, lack of self-awareness, don't really try to make characters actually endearing to the audience, etc.
That's not even something exclusive to women either, a lot of people in general struggle with that for some reason. Just look at people like Buckley or Dobson.
Charles Ortiz
So what flaws do Ana show?
Grayson White
Fuck that. Being kind has gotten me hurt too many times. I'm tired of being hurt. So I'll hurt others, and I'll convince myself that makes me happy. And I'll just hope that the rest of the world progresses past my anger and vitriol, and that I'll die old and alone in a world filled with happiness.
Jordan Ramirez
oh shit i remember that
Carson Brown
Dee himself went over it here She's not very confident with herself, and she doesn't have much to her name, only really working at a bakery. But what makes her endearing is that that doesn't stop her from doing what she can anyways to help others over herself. She's a good person despite everything.
Tyler Barnes
The comic makes it clear she has no friends or social life outside of her kid and her job.
Caleb Murphy
that is sad
i mean, she should at least have friends.
having a child and being a single mom shouldn't stop you.
i know this because i grew up with a single mom.
John Moore
She has Bree and her Aunt, but that's pretty much it. Ana trying to balance a social life could be an interesting, with Bree trying to help her come out of her shell in the new comic.
Carson Carter
Evan Gray
Wow, it's like anti-thesis to LWK. No wonder she didn't like it, it goes against everything her comic stands for; being miserable, petty, cynical, and frustratingly self-absorbed like 99 percent of webcomics.
Lucas Wright
>It's this special bond between parent and child, which is missing in modern entertainment that makes Life with Kurami so good damn good.
Fuck, you're not even wrong here. I can't even remember the last time we've even had something like that.
Blake Stewart
If she bleeds, she breeds.
Ryder Foster
The more I look into it, the worse it gets
Jose Clark
It does say in OP's post that everyone but her friend (assumingly bree) and her aunt abandoned her, so she may have had more friends but they probably stopped caring about her, especially with Kurami being in her life now.
Luis Hill
It was something that went all the way to the literal end of the strip, I'm looking forward to seeing it again.
Nathaniel Johnson
>expecting ANYTHING from an ex
>let alone a greeting card/gift
>all in the most passive-aggressive way imaginable as the cherry on top
I'm actually a bit angry, good lord. It's surprising this place hasn't found this comic sooner, it is prime bait material.
Dominic Stewart
this is today's comic
>tfw this strip has been syndicated for 25 years
Aaron White
This entire arc is a trainwreck.
>both her husband and last fiance cheated on her
>she currently has a boyfriend
>apparently regularly hangs out with her ex for no other reason other than "it's complicated"
>like a bad sitcom, both guys meet through some wacky coincidence!
>she tells off the ex
>boyfriend gets reasonably upset at her seeing her ex like this
>he doesn't want her seeing the ex
>she tells him off as well
>and now she's crawling back to the ex anyway
Just mindless, contrived drama for the sake of it, and you can see from a mile away where this shit is going. It's doing nothing but recycling tropes from every single Lifetime soap opera/tv movie out there.
Noah Allen
The dialogue is natural, but the execution doesn't work. The woman in this comic comes of as selfish and just plain unlikable because she can't read the mood. If anything, Between Friends is an accurate depiction of why women aren't successful. They don't know how to separate their home life from work. It's kinda why the number one problem in most offices is mostly baby mama drama among female employees and male co workers.
Elijah Anderson
Sounds like Ana got the better deal being a loner and working a family owned business, no other bullshit to deal with, especially with having Kurami around.
Cooper Rivera
Hell, one of the reasons I like LWK so much is because it explicitly avoids this kind of bullshit. It's just a mother taking care of her kid, no convoluted nonsensical drama or poorly done romances. Reading BF just gives me a headache.
Daniel Phillips
Jack Clark
Got more of these? These are hilarious in all the worst ways.
Oliver Jenkins
>
What's wrong with that one? It's a sweet ending.
Asher Flores
Ayden Walker
Stahp